8.6/104,991 votes#1 - Amok Time
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1967
First Officer Spock returns to his home world for a brutal Vulcan mating ritual.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
7.1/104,234 votes#2 - Who Mourns for Adonais?
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1967
The crew of the Enterprise are held captive by an alien who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene L. Coon, Gilbert Ralston
7.5/103,858 votes#3 - The Changeling
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1967
The crew of the USS Enterprise deals with an indestructible planet-destroying space probe.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
9.0/105,400 votes#4 - Mirror, Mirror
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1967
A transporter mishap swaps Captain Kirk and his companions with their evil counterparts in a parallel universe. In the so-called Mirror Universe, the Enterprise is a ship of the Terran Empire, an organization as evil as the United Federation of Planets is benevolent.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jerome Bixby
6.4/103,633 votes#5 - The Apple
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1967
The crew of the Enterprise visits a mysterious paradisical planet controlled by a computer that is served by the local inhabitants.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Gene L. Coon, Max Simon Ehrlich
8.6/104,752 votes#6 - The Doomsday Machine
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1967
The starship Enterprise and its heavily-damaged sister ship, the USS Constellation, must work together to stop an alien planet-killing machine headed for the heart of Federation territory.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Norman Spinrad
6.2/103,787 votes#7 - Catspaw
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1967
Two powerful aliens threaten the well-being of the Enterprise and her crew.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: D.C. Fontana, Robert Bloch
7.3/103,949 votes#8 - I, Mudd
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1967
Captain Kirk has a second run-in with the conman, Harry Mudd. Mudd is now the supreme ruler of a planet of androids who cater to his every whim.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, David Gerrold
7.2/103,832 votes#9 - Metamorphosis
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1967
A shuttle crew from the USS Enterprise encounters a man out of history and his mysterious alien companion.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene L. Coon
8.5/104,248 votes#10 - Journey to Babel
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1967
The Enterprise must transport dignitaries to a peace conference, with an assassin on the loose.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.7/103,582 votes#11 - Friday's Child
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1967
The crew of the Enterprise become entangled in a planet's tribal power struggle.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.3/103,623 votes#12 - The Deadly Years
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1967
Strange radiation exposes the command crew of the Enterprise to the effects of rapid aging.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: David P. Harmon
7.2/103,469 votes#13 - Obsession
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1967
Captain James T. Kirk becomes obsessed with destroying a deadly entity he once encountered in his youth.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Art Wallace
7.2/103,535 votes#14 - Wolf in the Fold
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1967
A series of bizarre murders points to Mr. Scott as the prime suspect.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Robert Bloch
8.7/105,176 votes#15 - The Trouble With Tribbles
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1967
The Enterprise must protect a very important shipment of grain from both Klingons and some adorable creatures called tribbles.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: David Gerrold
7.0/103,688 votes#16 - The Gamesters of Triskelion
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1968
Captain Kirk and his companions are abducted into slavery and trained to fight as gladiators for the gambling entertainment of three disembodied beings.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Margaret Armen
7.7/104,019 votes#17 - A Piece of the Action
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1968
The Enterprise visits a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture.
Director: James Komack
Writer: Gene L. Coon, David P. Harmon
7.5/103,462 votes#18 - The Immunity Syndrome
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1968
The crew of the Enterprise encounters an energy-draining field which may be able to destroy the galaxy.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Robert Sabaroff
6.8/103,451 votes#19 - A Private Little War
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1968
The crew of the Enterprise discovers Klingon interference in the development of a formerly peaceful planet and is forced to help maintain a balance of power.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Don Ingalls
7.4/103,481 votes#20 - Return to Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1968
Ancient alien minds are given control of Captain Kirk's and First Officer Spock's bodies.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: John T. Dugan
7.5/103,650 votes#21 - Patterns of Force
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1968
The crew of the Enterprise tracks down a Federation observer on a planet dominated by a "Naziesque" regime.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
7.5/103,572 votes#22 - By Any Other Name
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1968
Beings from another galaxy commandeer the Enterprise in an attempt to return home.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: D.C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby
6.1/103,615 votes#23 - The Omega Glory
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1968
Captain Kirk must find the cure to a deadly disease and put an end to another Starfleet captain's cultural interference.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
8.0/103,658 votes#24 - The Ultimate Computer
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1968
A skeleton Enterprise crew are assigned to test a revolutionary computer system that is given total control of the ship.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: D.C. Fontana, Laurence N. Wolfe
7.0/103,455 votes#25 - Bread and Circuses
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/15/1968
The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon, John Kneubuhl
The Best Episodes of Star Trek Season 2
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Amok Time" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 4991 votes. Directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Theodore Sturgeon, it aired on 9/15/1967. This episode is rated 1.5 points higher than the second-best, "Who Mourns for Adonais?".