Top Star Trek episodes

Here’s my list of top Star Trek episodes, for each of the series in the 1st and 2nd generation. I allowed for 4 episodes per season. I also allowed for 1 runner up, for an episode that’s not quite as good but still important. I also allowed for 1 “just for fun” episode, one that’s very funny but was tough to include in the main list. I made sure that, for the 2nd generation shows, I had at least 1 great episode that focused on each main character. 

The Original Series

Top 12

  • The Menagerie
  • The City on the Edge of Forever
  • Amok Time
  • Mirror, Mirror
  • The Corbomite Maneuver
  • The Devil in the Dark
  • The Enterprise Incident
  • Day of the Dove
  • All Our Yesterdays
  • Balance of Terror
  • Arena
  • Journey to Babel

Runner up

  • Space Seed

Just for fun

  • This Side of Paradise

The Next Generation

Top 28

  • The Measure of a Man
  • Who Watches the Watchers
  • Sins of the Father
  • The Most Toys
  • Yesterday’s Enterprise
  • The Offspring
  • Sarek
  • The Best of Both Worlds
  • Brothers
  • Remember Me
  • Future Imperfect
  • The Wounded
  • The Next Phase
  • Darmok
  • Conundrum
  • Cause and Effect
  • The First Duty
  • I, Borg
  • The Inner Light
  • Face of the Enemy
  • Relics
  • Ship in a Bottle
  • Tapestry
  • Timescape
  • Dark Page
  • Parallels
  • Lower Decks
  • All Good Things…

Runner up

  • Unification

Just for fun

  • Samaritan Snare

Deep Space Nine

Top 28

  • Emissary
  • Duet
  • In the Hands of the Prophets
  • Necessary Evil
  • Whispers
  • Shadowplay
  • The Maquis
  • Past Tense
  • Visionary
  • Improbable Cause / The Die is Cast
  • The Way of the Warrior
  • The Visitor
  • Indiscretion
  • Rejoined
  • Nor the Battle to the Strong
  • The Assignment
  • Things Past
  • Trials and Tribble-ations
  • Children of Time
  • Statistical Probabilities
  • Honor Among Thieves
  • The Sound of Her Voice
  • Far Beyond the Stars
  • The Magnificent Ferengi
  • In the Pale Moonlight
  • It’s Only a Paper Moon
  • Field of Fire
  • What You Leave Behind

Runner up

  • Blood Oath

Just for fun

  • Badda-Bing Badda-Bang

Voyager

Top 28

  • Caretaker
  • Eye of the Needle
  • Jetrel
  • Prototype
  • Meld
  • Dreadnought
  • Death Wish
  • Lifesigns
  • Resolutions
  • The Chute
  • Distant Origin
  • The Q and the Grey
  • Unity
  • Year of Hell
  • Message in a Bottle
  • Living Witness
  • Timeless
  • Dark Frontier
  • Course: Oblivion
  • Relativity
  • Equinox
  • Fury
  • Unimatrix Zero
  • Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
  • Ashes to Ashes
  • Shattered
  • Workforce
  • Endgame

Runner up

  • Flashback

Just for fun

  • Body and Soul

Enterprise

Top 16

  • Broken Bow
  • The Andorian Incident
  • Shuttlepod One
  • The Catwalk
  • Cease Fire
  • Horizon
  • Twilight
  • Similitude
  • Zero Hour
  • Borderland / Cold Station 12 / The Augments
  • The Forge / Awakening / Kir’Shara
  • Observer Effect
  • Babel One / United / The Aenar
  • Affliction / Divergence
  • Demons / Terra Prime

Runner up

  • These Are the Voyages…

Just for fun

  • In a Mirror, Darkly

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