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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(63 votes)

   #1 - The City on the Edge of Forever

   S1:E284/6/1967

   Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.

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   8.1/10(45 votes)

   #2 - Journey to Babel

   S2:E1011/17/1967

   The Enterprise must transport dignitaries to a peace conference, with an assassin on the loose.

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   8.0/10(42 votes)

   #3 - The Ultimate Computer

   S2:E243/8/1968

   A skeleton Enterprise crew are assigned to test a revolutionary computer system that is given total control of the ship.

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   7.9/10(41 votes)

   #4 - The Enterprise Incident

   S3:E29/27/1968

   The crew of the Enterprise are on a secret mission to steal a Romulan cloaking device.

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   7.7/10(50 votes)

   #5 - This Side of Paradise

   S1:E243/2/1967

   The Enterprise crew try to rescue colonists from deadly radiation, but instead encounter strange alien spores that seem to offer paradise.

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   7.6/10(38 votes)

   #6 - By Any Other Name

   S2:E222/23/1968

   Beings from another galaxy commandeer the Enterprise in an attempt to return home.

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   7.4/10(52 votes)

   #7 - Tomorrow Is Yesterday

   S1:E191/26/1967

   In a freak accident the Enterprise is sent back to 20th century Earth, and must find their way back without changing history.

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   7.2/10(13 votes)

   #8 - A Distant Star

   S2:E411/23/1994

   A giant explorer class ship comes to Babylon 5 for re-supply - its captain an old friend of Sheridan. Dr. Franklin gets on the command staff's nerves when he starts handing out "food plans".

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   7.0/10(13 votes)

   #9 - Legacies

   S1:E177/20/1994

   A Minbari war cruiser comes to Babylon 5 to display the body of a recently dead Minbari leader, while Ivanova and Talia battle for the fate of a young girl with newly discovered telepathic powers.

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    6.9/10(59 votes)

    #10 - Heart of Glory

    S1:E193/21/1988

    Stardate: 41503.7. Two Klingons, rescued by the Enterprise, try to take over the ship.

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    6.8/10(41 votes)

    #11 - Friday's Child

    S2:E1112/1/1967

    The crew of the Enterprise become entangled in a planet's tribal power struggle.

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12. 

    6.7/10(71 votes)

    #12 - Charlie X

    S1:E29/15/1966

    Raised from boyhood by non-corporeal beings, 17 year old Charles Evans is picked up and transferred to the Enterprise. On board the ship, the teenager proves dangerously unable to wield his enormous psionic powers with maturity.

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    6.7/10(88 votes)

    #13 - Encounter at Farpoint

    S1:E19/28/1987

    Stardate: 41153.7. The new commander of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC1701-D), Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes the crew on their first mission to discover the secret of Farpoint Station. During their journey, they encounter an omnipotent being known as Q. Q accuses humanity of barbarism, and places humanity on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise or the human race will be annihilated.

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    6.6/10(35 votes)

    #14 - That Which Survives

    S3:E171/24/1969

    Kirk, McCoy, and Sulu are stranded on a barren planet where a mysterious woman attempts to kill them one at a time, while the Enterprise must travel halfway across the galaxy to rescue them.

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    6.5/10(44 votes)

    #15 - Dax

    S1:E72/14/1993

    Stardate: 46910.1. Jadzia Dax is charged with a murder that her symbiont's previous host Curzon allegedly committed. Now an extradition hearing may decide whether Jadzia can be held responsible for the actions of a previous life.

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    6.4/10(17 votes)

    #16 - The War Prayer

    S1:E73/9/1994

    A racist group is terrorizing non-humans on Babylon 5. Meanwhile Londo has trouble with two young Centauri who want to break with tradition by ignoring their arranged marriages, and instead marry for love.

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    6.4/10(69 votes)

    #17 - The Naked Now

    S1:E210/5/1987

    Stardate: 41209.2. The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus contracted by the away team while they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the entire crew of the Starship Tsilkovsky.

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    6.3/10(60 votes)

    #18 - Too Short a Season

    S1:E152/8/1988

    Stardate: 41309.5. The aging and terminally ill Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, who is negotiating the release of hostages, suddenly begins growing younger through an unexplained phenomenon.

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    6.3/10(41 votes)

    #19 - Catspaw

    S2:E710/27/1967

    Two powerful aliens threaten the well-being of the Enterprise and her crew.

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    6.1/10(35 votes)

    #20 - The Way to Eden

    S3:E202/21/1969

    The Enterprise picks up a group of space "hippies" looking for Eden.

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    6.0/10(60 votes)

    #21 - Lonely Among Us

    S1:E611/2/1987

    Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

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