Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 | Episodes Ranked from Best to Worst
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1.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Menagerie: Part I
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.
Directors: Marc Daniels, Robert Butler | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver
Votes: 4,862
2.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Menagerie: Part II
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.
Directors: Robert Butler, Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver
Votes: 4,658
3.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Devil in the Dark
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Ken Lynch
Votes: 4,299
4.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The City on the Edge of Forever
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Joan Collins, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 6,578
5.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Space Seed
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue
Votes: 5,411
6.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Errand of Mercy
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With a war with Klingons raging, Kirk and Spock attempt to resist an occupation of a planet with incomprehensibly placid natives.
Director: John Newland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, John Abbott, John Colicos
Votes: 4,052
7.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Balance of Terror
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Paul Comi
Votes: 5,699
8.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Corbomite Maneuver
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After the Enterprise is forced to destroy a dangerous marker buoy, a gigantic alien ship arrives to capture and condemn the crew as trespassers.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Anthony D. Call, Clint Howard
Votes: 4,884
9.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Naked Time
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Stewart Moss, Majel Barrett
Votes: 5,192
10.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Galileo Seven
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Galileo, under Spock's command, crash-lands on a hostile planet. As the Enterprise races against time to find the shuttlecraft, Spock's strictly logical leadership clashes with the fear and resentment of his crew.
Director: Robert Gist | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Don Marshall, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,240
11.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
A Taste of Armageddon
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are all declared killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Opatoshu, Gene Lyons
Votes: 4,194
12.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Enemy Within
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew members stranded on the planet cannot be beamed up to the ship until a problem is fixed.
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney
Votes: 4,921
13.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Arena
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
For bringing hostility into their solar system, a superior alien race brings Captain Kirk into mortal combat against the reptilian captain of an alien ship he was pursuing.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 4,512
14.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Return of the Archons
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Seeking the answer to a century-old mystery, Kirk and crew encounter a vacantly peaceful society under a 6000-year autocratic rule that kills all those it can't absorb.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Harry Townes, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 3,866
15.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger Perry, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,306
16.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Where No Man Has Gone Before
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror--a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Gary Lockwood, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 6,427
17.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
This Side of Paradise
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise investigates a planet whose colonists should be dead, but are not.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jill Ireland, Frank Overton
Votes: 4,065
18.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Michael Strong, Sherry Jackson
Votes: 4,642
19.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Dagger of the Mind
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan mind-meld to find a way to save them.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Gregory, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,352
20.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Operation -- Annihilate!
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 3,687
21.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Court Martial
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk draws a court martial in the negligent death of a crewman.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Percy Rodrigues, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 3,979
22.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Man Trap
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Dr. McCoy discovers his old flame is not what she seems after crew members begin dying from a sudden lack of salt in their bodies.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeanne Bal, Alfred Ryder
Votes: 5,867
23.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Conscience of the King
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While Captain Kirk investigates whether an actor is actually a presumed dead mass murderer, a mysterious assailant is killing the people who could identify the fugitive.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Arnold Moss, Barbara Anderson
Votes: 4,214
24.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Squire of Gothos
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A being that controls matter and creates planets wants to play with the Enterprise crew.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, William Campbell, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,155
25.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Miri
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Kim Darby, Michael J. Pollard
Votes: 4,473
26.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Charlie X
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Captain Kirk must learn the limits to the power of a 17-year-old boy with the psionic ability to create anything and destroy anyone.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Walker Jr., DeForest Kelley
Votes: 5,483
27.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Shore Leave
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankster who plagued his days at Starfleet Academy?
Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Emily Banks, Oliver McGowan
Votes: 4,431
28.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Mudd's Women
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all the male crew members.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger C. Carmel, Karen Steele
Votes: 4,806
29.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Alternative Factor
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Existence itself comes under threat from a man's power-struggle with his alternate self, with the Enterprise's strained dilithium crystals presenting his key to a final solution.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Brown, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 3,882
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