{"id":20657,"date":"2023-02-18T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T18:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=20657"},"modified":"2023-02-18T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T18:19:46","slug":"top-star-trek-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/top-star-trek-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Star Trek episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my list of top <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> 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&#8217;s not quite as good but still important. I also allowed for 1 &#8220;just for fun&#8221; episode, one that&#8217;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Original Series<\/h2>\n<p>Top 12<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Menagerie<\/li>\n<li>The City on the Edge of Forever<\/li>\n<li>Amok Time<\/li>\n<li>Mirror, Mirror<\/li>\n<li>The Corbomite Maneuver<\/li>\n<li>The Devil in the Dark<\/li>\n<li>The Enterprise Incident<\/li>\n<li>Day of the Dove<\/li>\n<li>All Our Yesterdays<\/li>\n<li>Balance of Terror<\/li>\n<li>Arena<\/li>\n<li>Journey to Babel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space Seed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just for fun<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This Side of Paradise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Next Generation<\/h2>\n<p>Top 28<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Measure of a Man<\/li>\n<li>Who Watches the Watchers<\/li>\n<li>Sins of the Father<\/li>\n<li>The Most Toys<\/li>\n<li>Yesterday\u2019s Enterprise<\/li>\n<li>The Offspring<\/li>\n<li>Sarek<\/li>\n<li>The Best of Both Worlds<\/li>\n<li>Brothers<\/li>\n<li>Remember Me<\/li>\n<li>Future Imperfect<\/li>\n<li>The Wounded<\/li>\n<li>The Next Phase<\/li>\n<li>Darmok<\/li>\n<li>Conundrum<\/li>\n<li>Cause and Effect<\/li>\n<li>The First Duty<\/li>\n<li>I, Borg<\/li>\n<li>The Inner Light<\/li>\n<li>Face of the Enemy<\/li>\n<li>Relics<\/li>\n<li>Ship in a Bottle<\/li>\n<li>Tapestry<\/li>\n<li>Timescape<\/li>\n<li>Dark Page<\/li>\n<li>Parallels<\/li>\n<li>Lower Decks<\/li>\n<li>All Good Things\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unification<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just for fun<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samaritan Snare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Deep Space Nine<\/h2>\n<p>Top 28<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emissary<\/li>\n<li>Duet<\/li>\n<li>In the Hands of the Prophets<\/li>\n<li>Necessary Evil<\/li>\n<li>Whispers<\/li>\n<li>Shadowplay<\/li>\n<li>The Maquis<\/li>\n<li>Past Tense<\/li>\n<li>Visionary<\/li>\n<li>Improbable Cause \/ The Die is Cast<\/li>\n<li>The Way of the Warrior<\/li>\n<li>The Visitor<\/li>\n<li>Indiscretion<\/li>\n<li>Rejoined<\/li>\n<li>Nor the Battle to the Strong<\/li>\n<li>The Assignment<\/li>\n<li>Things Past<\/li>\n<li>Trials and Tribble-ations<\/li>\n<li>Children of Time<\/li>\n<li>Statistical Probabilities<\/li>\n<li>Honor Among Thieves<\/li>\n<li>The Sound of Her Voice<\/li>\n<li>Far Beyond the Stars<\/li>\n<li>The Magnificent Ferengi<\/li>\n<li>In the Pale Moonlight<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s Only a Paper Moon<\/li>\n<li>Field of Fire<\/li>\n<li>What You Leave Behind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blood Oath<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just for fun<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Badda-Bing Badda-Bang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Voyager<\/h2>\n<p>Top 28<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caretaker<\/li>\n<li>Eye of the Needle<\/li>\n<li>Jetrel<\/li>\n<li>Prototype<\/li>\n<li>Meld<\/li>\n<li>Dreadnought<\/li>\n<li>Death Wish<\/li>\n<li>Lifesigns<\/li>\n<li>Resolutions<\/li>\n<li>The Chute<\/li>\n<li>Distant Origin<\/li>\n<li>The Q and the Grey<\/li>\n<li>Unity<\/li>\n<li>Year of Hell<\/li>\n<li>Message in a Bottle<\/li>\n<li>Living Witness<\/li>\n<li>Timeless<\/li>\n<li>Dark Frontier<\/li>\n<li>Course: Oblivion<\/li>\n<li>Relativity<\/li>\n<li>Equinox<\/li>\n<li>Fury<\/li>\n<li>Unimatrix Zero<\/li>\n<li>Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy<\/li>\n<li>Ashes to Ashes<\/li>\n<li>Shattered<\/li>\n<li>Workforce<\/li>\n<li>Endgame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flashback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just for fun<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Body and Soul<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Enterprise<\/h2>\n<p>Top 16<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broken Bow<\/li>\n<li>The Andorian Incident<\/li>\n<li>Shuttlepod One<\/li>\n<li>The Catwalk<\/li>\n<li>Cease Fire<\/li>\n<li>Horizon<\/li>\n<li>Twilight<\/li>\n<li>Similitude<\/li>\n<li>E\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>Zero Hour<\/li>\n<li>Borderland \/ Cold Station 12 \/ The Augments<\/li>\n<li>The Forge \/ Awakening \/ Kir&#8217;Shara<\/li>\n<li>Observer Effect<\/li>\n<li>Babel One \/ United \/ The Aenar<\/li>\n<li>Affliction \/ Divergence<\/li>\n<li>Demons \/ Terra Prime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These Are the Voyages\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just for fun<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a Mirror, Darkly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;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&#8217;s not quite as good but still important. I also allowed for 1 &#8220;just for fun&#8221; episode, one that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,8,59,11],"class_list":["post-20657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20660,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20657\/revisions\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}