The Best Episodes Written By David Gerrold

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(50 votes)

   #1 - The Trouble With Tribbles

   S2:E1512/29/1967

   The Enterprise must protect a very important shipment of grain from both Klingons and some adorable creatures called tribbles.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Adventures in Slime and Space

   S2:E29/15/1987

   When Slimer passes through Egon's latest invention, he is broken up into thousands of tiny Slimers that coat the city in a layer of green goo. However, the Ghostbusters' solution to the problem only results in a large – and angrier – Slimer.

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   7.3/10(40 votes)

   #3 - I, Mudd

   S2:E811/3/1967

   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.

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   7.0/10(34 votes)

   #4 - The Cloud Minders

   S3:E212/28/1969

   Captain Kirk races against time to acquire plague-fighting minerals from a world in the midst of a civil uprising against a grievous social class disparity.

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   6.9/10(13 votes)

   #5 - Believers

   S1:E104/27/1994

   An alien couple comes to Dr. Franklin with their fatally ill son. The child could be cured by a simple operation, but the parents' religion specifically forbids it. Meanwhile, Ivanova escorts a damaged star liner through raider territory.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - A Day in Beaumont / The Last Defender of Camelot

   S1:E244/11/1986

   In the 1950s a flying saucer crashes on Earth. The crash is seen by a couple. They run into town, but no one believes them. "The Last Defender of Camelot" takes place in 1986 in London and, eventually, Cornwall. An extension of the story by Sir Thomas Mallory, a mid-50's man is drawn toward Cornwall with a sense of urgency. He is jumped by 3 young men, who are thrown aside like playthings. The old man forces one of the younger ones to take him to the boss. The boss is a late-30's woman, who reveals herself as Morgana. Lancelot is quested by her to see Merlin, who is asleep in a cave in Cornwall. Lancelot finds Merlin awakened. Merlin has different plans to resurrect a new king. What does the world's oldest magician have up his sleeve? Who can save mankind? Perhaps the Last Defender of Camelot?

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   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #7 - The Once and Future King / A Saucer of Loneliness

   S2:E19/27/1986

   An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother. A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, which gives her a message that everyone wants to know. She refuses to reveal exactly what the message is.

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   5.5/10(2 votes)

   #8 - New Gods for Old

   S5:E57/16/1999

   Just before sliding out and escaping a small army, Mallory is shot with a laser beam and paralyzed. His only chance of walking again lies in a group of spiritual healers, but their cure could be much worse than being paralyzed.

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