The Best Episodes of Star Trek Season 2
Every episode of Star Trek Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Star Trek Season 2!
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Star Trek" season 2 is "Amok Time", rated 8.6/10 from 4920 user votes. It was directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Theodore Sturgeon. "Amok Time" aired on 9/15/1967 and is rated 1.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Who Mourns for Adonais?".
8.6/10 4,920 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
7.1/10 4,175 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
7.6/10 3,805 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
9.0/10 5,329 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
6.4/10 3,581 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: Max Simon Ehrlich, Gene L. Coon
8.7/10 4,687 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
6.2/10 3,738 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: Robert Bloch, D.C. Fontana
7.3/10 3,890 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
7.2/10 3,776 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
8.5/10 4,188 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
6.7/10 3,531 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
7.3/10 3,565 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
7.2/10 3,414 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
7.2/10 3,483 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
8.8/10 5,102 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
7.0/10 3,636 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
7.7/10 3,967 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
7.5/10 3,419 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
6.8/10 3,410 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
7.4/10 3,434 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
7.5/10 3,601 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
7.5/10 3,524 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: Jerome Bixby, D.C. Fontana
6.1/10 3,564 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
8.0/10 3,599 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: Laurence N. Wolfe, D.C. Fontana
7.0/10 3,402 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