The Best Episodes Written By Gene L. coon

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(63 votes)

   #1 - Space Seed

   S1:E222/16/1967

   The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century... and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - The Fifth Man

   S2:E365/30/1959

   Ben Talman, who has murdered 12 men, escaped from jail. He kills four men in Yucca Bend within one week. Paladin is hired to bring him in.

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   7.9/10(57 votes)

   #3 - Errand of Mercy

   S1:E263/23/1967

   The Federation and the Klingon Empire teeter on the brink of war as Kirk investigates Organia, a humble planet, inhabited by pacifists, that is unwittingly caught in the middle.

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   7.9/10(61 votes)

   #4 - The Devil in the Dark

   S1:E253/9/1967

   Kirk investigates a series of grisly murders on a mining planet that are the work of a seemingly hostile alien creature.

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   7.8/10(55 votes)

   #5 - A Taste of Armageddon

   S1:E232/23/1967

   The Enterprise arrives at a planet to establish diplomatic relations and finds itself in the middle of a "peaceful" war that threatens to destroy the ship.

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   7.5/10(46 votes)

   #6 - A Piece of the Action

   S2:E171/12/1968

   The Enterprise visits a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture.

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   7.4/10(40 votes)

   #7 - Wink of an Eye

   S3:E1111/29/1968

   Invisible "time-accelerated" aliens take over the Enterprise and attempt to abduct the crew for use as "genetic stock".

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   7.3/10(40 votes)

   #8 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

   S3:E151/10/1969

   The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.

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   7.3/10(62 votes)

   #9 - Arena

   S1:E181/19/1967

   With both their ships held captive by powerful beings, Kirk and the captain of the alien vessel are placed on an asteroid to fight for their lives and the lives of their crews.

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    7.1/10(55 votes)

    #10 - Metamorphosis

    S2:E911/10/1967

    A shuttle crew from the USS Enterprise encounters a man out of history and his mysterious alien companion.

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    7.0/10(44 votes)

    #11 - Bread and Circuses

    S2:E253/15/1968

    The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.

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    6.7/10(45 votes)

    #12 - Spectre of the Gun

    S3:E610/25/1968

    Having been found trespassers into Melkotian space, Captain Kirk and his companions are sent to die in a re-enactment of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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    6.7/10(53 votes)

    #13 - Who Mourns for Adonais?

    S2:E29/22/1967

    The crew of the Enterprise are held captive by an alien who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo.

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    6.6/10(48 votes)

    #14 - The Apple

    S2:E510/13/1967

    The crew of the Enterprise visits a mysterious paradisical planet controlled by a computer that is served by the local inhabitants.

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    6.0/10(45 votes)

    #15 - Spock's Brain

    S3:E19/20/1968

    An alien female beams aboard the ship and, after incapacitating the rest of the crew, surgically removes Spock's brain. Kirk and the crew have just hours to locate and replace it before Spock's body dies.

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