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Thank you for your votes Dannat. Mirror, Mirror and The City on the Edge of Forever definitely rate among my favorites episodes. Thanks for visiting Love to Know Sci Fi!

-- Contributed by: HVLong

My top 10: 1. The City on the Edge of Forever 2. Mirror, Mirror 3. The Trouble with Tribbles 4. The Naked Time 5. The Doomsday Machine 6. This Side of Paradise 7. Balance of Terror 8. The Tholian Web 9. The Menagerie 10. The Deadly Years

About 6 of these episodes that I have stated are from season 2, making it the most highly acclaimed season filled with sci-fi, humor and drama. How do you feel about my choices?

-- Contributed by: Dannat

LOL - Gail -- that's an excellent point. What's great about many of the original episodes is that they are exactly that -- original! Thanks for visiting Love To Know Science Fiction.

-- Contributed by: HVLong

The best episode is "The Doomsday Machine." How else would we have known that Vulcans never bluff?

-- Contributed by: gail

Justiceman, thanks for stopping by Love To Know's Science Fiction channel. I have to agree that Metamorphisis and Balance of Terror are two vastly underrated, but brilliant episodes from a series typically remembered for the over the top camp at times. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

-- Contributed by: HVLong

I agree with the above episodes, but I think there is one underrated episode that deserves some attention: Gene Coon's "Metamorphosis."

It's an unusually personal story, with only a few scenes taking place on the Enterprise or even in space. But it does a fantastic job of conveying the loneliness that comes with the vastness of space, and the importance of finding joy in the tenuous connections between people - for it is all we really have in the end.

Throw in a beautiful musical score that verges on Impressionism, and some fine guest stars, and we have a fine jewel in the Star Trek crown.

-- Contributed by: Justiceman

I can watch this one over and over and never get sick of it. It's such a good cat and mouse game that the 2 captains play with each other. Neither one wants war yet here they are on the brink of one. It translates well to todays world. That makes it timeless and one of the best by far.

-- Contributed by: Balance of Terror

 "Friday's Child" is the episode which always seems to miss these "best of" Trek lists.
 Dymanic trio beams down to a planet with large (what else?) dilithium deposits to negotiate treaty with IP's.  They land right in the middle of a tribal war.  Flee to the mountains with the dead chiefs wife and infant heir.  One of the best uses of tension between McCoy/Spock in the whole series. 
 Ok, if nothing else, its got Julie Newmar in it ferkristsake!

-- Contributed by: Leonard James Achkahar
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