8.6/1054 votes#1 - The City on the Edge of Forever
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1967
Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: D.C. Fontana
8.3/103 votes#2 - Miracle
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1997
Boone encounters Julie, a suicidal young woman with artificial limbs as hands, who is being used by a religious leader as a miracle when her hands are regenerated by taelon technology.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: D.C. Fontana
8.1/1040 votes#3 - 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
8.0/109 votes#4 - Yesteryear
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1973
Spock travels back in time to prevent his death as a young Vulcan.
Director: Hal Sutherland
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.8/1036 votes#5 - 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
7.7/1040 votes#6 - This Side of Paradise
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1967
The Enterprise crew try to rescue colonists from deadly radiation, but instead encounter strange alien spores that seem to offer paradise.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.7/1036 votes#7 - The Enterprise Incident
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1968
The crew of the Enterprise are on a secret mission to steal a Romulan cloaking device.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.6/1033 votes#8 - 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
7.4/1041 votes#9 - Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1967
In a freak accident the Enterprise is sent back to 20th century Earth, and must find their way back without changing history.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.2/1010 votes#10 - A Distant Star
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/1994
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".
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.8/1010 votes#11 - Legacies
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/20/1994
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.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.7/1058 votes#12 - Charlie X
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1966
Charlie Evans, the sole survivor of a transport crash, is transferred to the Enterprise from a different ship. Why are they so eager to rid themselves of him, though? There's more to Charlie than meets the eye...
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.7/1035 votes#13 - 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
6.6/1012 votes#14 - The War Prayer
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1994
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.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.5/1067 votes#15 - Encounter at Farpoint
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1987
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.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.4/1030 votes#16 - That Which Survives
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1969
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.
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.3/1054 votes#17 - The Naked Now
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1987
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.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.2/1035 votes#18 - 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
6.2/1049 votes#19 - Too Short a Season
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1988
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.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.0/101 votes#20 - Carousel
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1978
Logan is shot with a dart that erases his memory by men hiding behind a tree. He then is captured by Francis and another sandman who return him to the City of Domes so that he can go to Carousel and testify before the people that there is no sanctuary. Rem and Jessica are captured by a man from an unamed city who explains that Logan has been placed in transit. transit is a way of neutralizing potential enemies without using violence by a temporary loss of memory. Rem and Jessica must find a way to save Logan from the City of Domes before it is too late.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.0/101 votes#21 - Planet of the Amazon Women
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/1979
Kidnapped to the planet Zantia, Buck finds himself auctioned off to Ariela, the daughter of the planet's Prime Minister. Through her, Buck learns that the planet's male population are being held as prisoners of war of a people called the Ruathans. Buck agrees to help the women free their men in return for his own freedom.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.0/102 votes#22 - Shield of Honor
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1973
Internal affairs suspects that something is amiss when a witness under police protection is killed. Someone in the Department is a Syndicate informer--and everyone is under suspicion, even Stone and Keller.
Director: Eric Till
Writer: D.C. Fontana
5.9/1049 votes#23 - Lonely Among Us
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1987
Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: D.C. Fontana
5.6/1028 votes#24 - The Way to Eden
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1969
The Enterprise picks up a group of space "hippies" looking for Eden.
Director: David Alexander
Writer: D.C. Fontana
5.0/102 votes#25 - Ten Dollar Murder
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1975
A policewoman's son has an unusual hobby -- he holds up taxicabs. Eventually this results in the murder of an undercover cop.
Director: N/A
Writer: D.C. Fontana
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"The City on the Edge of Forever" is the best rated episode written by D.C. Fontana. It scored 8.6/10 based on 54 votes. It was directed by Joseph Pevney. It aired on 4/6/1967 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Miracle".