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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Apr 8, 2017 0:48:44 GMT
1) Squire of Gorthos
2) Court Martial
3) City On The Edge of Forever
4) A Piece of the Action
5) Patterns of Force
What are yours?
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Post by bigvanray on Apr 9, 2017 23:20:20 GMT
1. The Doomsday Machine
2. The Menagerie
3. Amok Time
4. The Deadly Years
5. Requiem For Methuselah
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Post by sigasahab on Apr 17, 2017 11:28:54 GMT
The Cage (love the Pike era, clunky transporter, phaser cannon, shouty Spock, "who wants a warm martini?")
The Devil in the Dark (spooky & sentimental)
The City on the Edge of Forever ("Let me be your gateway" vs "Let's get the hell out of here")
Mirror, Mirror (classic, classic)
Journey to Babel (something oddly sympathetic about the 'Andorian' Orion spy)
Wolf in the Fold (redjac, redjac, redjac, redjac!)
The Trouble with Tribbles (makes me smile. & classic DS9 crossover later)
A Piece of the Action (makes me smile)
By Any Other Name (okay, mostly for Barbara Bouchet, but I like the drinking contest as well)
Turnabout Intruder (Just a brilliant under-rated performance from Sandra Smith as Kirk)
I might bold a different five of these ten on another occasion!
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Post by beren44 on Apr 17, 2017 12:21:08 GMT
Its been forever since I have reviewed TOS, and don't know/can't remember most of the episodes by name. Although, Doomsday Machine, and Amok Time do stick out in my memory. Also, the humorous one with the plant spores, when Spock falls in love (was that Shore Leave?) OK, that's 3. Lets see... In light of current world affairs, I would say the episode where all wars were fought by proxy, and people just herded themselves into the death chambers, was an incredibly insightful view into the future. (Cyber wars, N. Korea missiles failing 'at random', etc.) OH and yes, the episode with Gary Seven (Sevn?).. and the cat. With a typewriter that could translate your words and type them out. Definitely impressed me as a young kid. Honorable mention goes to Nomad. Admiral Pike and the forbidden planet. And, the original first episode aired (I think). with the salt monster. Oh and then there is Charlie...geez, can I just pick one more and call it 10 instead of 5 ? I'll borrow from sigasahab 's memory, and say A Piece of the Action...very funny stuff! The other side of the coin: The children chanting witchcraft-type stuff had to be the dumbest episode they ever made...more fitting for Lost In Space rather than Star Trek. [ edit: along with the Gorn dinosaur monster episode... pffft.] |
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Post by sigasahab on Apr 17, 2017 12:33:20 GMT
Its been forever since I have reviewed TOS, and don't know/can't remember most of the episodes by name. Although, Doomsday Machine, and Amok Time do stick out in my memory. Also, the humorous one with the plant spores, when Spock falls in love (was that Shore Leave?) OK, that's 3. Lets see... In light of current world affairs, I would say the episode where all wars were fought by proxy, and people just herded themselves into the death chambers, was an incredibly insightful view into the future. OH and yes, the episode with Gary Seven (Sevn?).. and the cat. With a typewriter that could translate your words and type them out. Definitely impressed me as a young kid. Honorable mention goes to Nomad. Plant spores episodes was This Side of Paradise with the lovely Jill Ireland (wife of David McCallum and then Charles Bronson). Not entirely humorous, it gets a bit grim at times!
The computer-calculated war between two planets was A Taste of Armageddon. I have to admit, that one left me cold.
I overlooked both The Doomsday Machine and Amok Time, even after copying-and-pasting an episode list to work from, so maybe trying to whittle down even to ten episodes was too ambitious for me. Truth is that the original Star Trek fully deserves its classic status, even in the weaker third season,
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Post by beren44 on Apr 17, 2017 12:46:35 GMT
taking a slight detour down a dirt road, from the OP's original question, I just stumbled across this. The lady actually has quite a good voice  |
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