Episode
Number
Title
Production
Number
Rating
Description
1
The Cage
1

Captain Christopher Pike discovers a colony of Humans shipwrecked twenty years before on Talos IV. But in fact, he and his crew are being manipulated by the Talosians with a view to producing a race of Human slaves.
 
Writer(s) :
Gene Roddenberry
Director :
Robert Butler
Episode
Number
Title
Production
Number
Rating
Description
2
Where no Man has Gone Before
2
When the Enterprise discovers a log recorder from the Valiant, lost decades before, they discover that it was deliberately destroyed by its captain because a crew member had developed mysterious mental powers. Then, after the ship has passed through the barrier at the edge of the galaxy, two Enterprise crew members begin to undergo the same transformation.
 
Writer(s) :
Samuel A. Peeples
Director :
James Goldstone
3
The Corbomite Maneuver
3

Kirk must face an invincible alien bent on destroying the Enterprise - and the only weapon that might work is imaginary. A great effort for such an early episode.
 
Writer(s) :
Jerry Sohl
Director :
Joseph Sargeant
4
Mudd's Women
4
Kirk must deal with a group of sex starved miners when the Enterprise's lithium crystals are damaged. Fortunately, Harcourt Fenton Mudd has just what they want.
 
Writer(s) :
Gene Roddenberry
Director :
Harvey Hart
5
The Enemy Within
5
A transporter accident splits Kirk into his 'good' and 'bad' halves. The senior staff must find the evil Kirk to reunite their captain and solve the transporter problem before a landing party freezes to death on the planet below. Shuttles? What shuttles...
 
Writer(s) :
Richard Metheson
Director :
Leo Penn
6
The Man Trap
6
A routine stop at an isolate outpost turns bad when a salt-devouring monster who can assume any form starts murdering the Enterprise crew one by one.
 
Writer(s) :
George Clayton Johnstone
Director :
Marc Daniels
7
The Naked Time
7
The Enterprise crew battle the effects of a mysterious intoxication while near by a planet begins to disintegrate. Not a great episode, but at least it's original...
 
Writer(s) :
John D.F. Black
Director :
Marc Daniels
8
Charlie X
8
Kirk must play father to a teenage boy raised by aliens and given super powers.
 
Writer(s) :
Gene Roddenberry
Director :
Lawrence Dobkin
9
Balance of Terror
9

When the Romulans launch an attack across the Neutral Zone using an invisible ship with horrifying firepower, Kirk must engage in a battle of wits with its commander to prevent all out war.
 
Writer(s) :
Paul Schneider
Director :
Vincent McEveety
10
What are Little Girls Made of?
10

The Enterprise investigates the fate of Dr Roger Korby, fiance of Nurse Chapel. But Korby is not the man he used to be, and his companions may bring destruction to mankind.
 
Writer(s) :
Robert Bloch
Director :
James Goldstone
11
Dagger of the Mind
11
Kirk must investigate a mental hospital where a crazed doctor is subjecting the patients to inhumane treatments.
 
Writer(s) :
S. Bar-David
Director :
Vincent McEveety
12
Miri
12
On a planet identical to Earth, a group of children are infected by a virus that makes them age incredibly slowly - and die on reaching puberty.
 
Writer(s) :
Adrian Spies
Director :
Vincent McEveety
13
The Conscience of the King
13
Is Shakespearean actor Anton Karidian really the infamous Kodos the Executioner? Only two witnesses remain who can identify him, but a killer is stalking them.
 
Writer(s) :
Barry Trivers
Director :
Gerd Osward
Episode
Number
Title
Production
Number
Rating
Description
14
The Galileo Seven
14


Marooned on a planet of huge, savage monsters, Spock is faced with his first command. But is logic enough to hold his crew together in the face of near certain death?
 
Writer(s) :
Oliver Crawford
Director :
Robert Gist
15
Court Martial
15
After loosing a man during an ion storm, Kirk is court martialled for negligence. Facing the destruction of his career, his hopes rest on one Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law...
 
Writer(s) :
Don M. Mankiewicz
Director :
Marc Daniels
16
The Menagerie,
Part 1
16

The Enterprise diverts to a Starbase where Spocks' first commanding officer, Captain Pike, is crippled in hospital. But the orders were faked by Spock, who hijacks the ship and takes his Captain to a deadly rendezvous...
 
Writer(s) :
Gene Roddenberry
Director :
Marc Daniels
The Menagerie,
Part 2
16

With the Enterprise locked on course to Talos IV, Spock must explain his actions in a trial that may find him facing the death penalty.
 
Writer(s) :
Gene Roddenberry
Director :
Marc Daniels
17
Shore Leave
17

Kirk and his officers investigate an apparently uninhabited planet prior to authorizing shore leave for the crew. But Bones is seeing giant rabbits claiming to be late and little girls called Alice, and from there it just gets stranger. A classic.
 
Writer(s) :
Theodore Sturgeon
Director :
Robert Sparr
18
The Squire of Gothos
18


Kirk must fight against an apparently omnipotent being with limitless powers and all too little self control.
 
Writer(s) :
Paul Schneider
Director :
Don McDougall
19
Arena
19

After a deadly ambush on a destroyed Federation base, Kirk must take on an alien with a hundred times his strength in a fight to the death.
 
Writer(s) :
Frederic Brown
Director :
Joseph Pevney
20
The Alternative Factor
20
A crazed madman from an alternate universe seeks to kill his alter ego - but the battle may destroy both universes as well.
 
Writer(s) :
Don Ingalls
Director :
Gerd Oswald
21
Tomorrow is Yesterday
21


When the Enterprise is catapulted into the year 1969, the Enterprise becomes the subject of a UFO hunt - and Kirk must struggle to restore history.
 
Writer(s) :
D.C. Fontana
Director :
Michael O'Herlihy
22
Return of the Archons
22
Investigating the loss of the USS Archon, the Enterprise discovers an entire civilization under the control of a supercomputer.
 
Writer(s) :
Gene Roddenberry
Director :
Joseph Pevney
23
A Taste of Armageddon
23

Faced with an interplanetary war fought by computers, Kirk resolves the situation by threatening to destroy both planets unless they make peace. What a guy.
 
Writer(s) :
Robert Hamner
Director :
Joseph Pevney
24
Space Seed
24

Rescuing a sleeper ship lost in space since 1996, Kirk unwittingly releases a group of genetically engineered supermen on the galaxy. Now he must take on a the deadly Khan in a battle that will have profound repercussions for him.
 
Writer(s) :
Carey Wilber
Director :
Marc Daniels
25
This Side of Paradise
25
Investigating a planet where Humans live despite lethal radiation levels, the Enterprise crew are brainwashed by a group of plants.
 
Writer(s) :
Nathan Butler
D.C. Fontana
Director :
Ralph Senensky
26
The Devil in the Dark
26


A monster that can eat through rock is killing miners on Janus VI. But as the death toll mounts, Spock suspects that the monster may be justified in its actions.
 
Writer(s) :
Gene L. Coon
Director :
Joseph Pevney
27
Errand of Mercy
27

When the Federation and Klingons go to war, Kirk and Spock are stranded on a planet whose' primitive inhabitants seem remarkably unconcerned by a Klingon occupation.
 
Writer(s) :
Gene L. Coon
Director :
John Newland
28
The City on the Edge of Forever
28

Accidentally injected with cordrazine, a crazed McCoy jumps through a time portal into Earths past and inadvertently prevents the creation of Federation. Now Kirk and Spock must set things right, but at a terrible cost to the Captain. Probably the finest Star Trek episode ever made.
 
Writer(s) :
Harland Ellison
Director :
Joseph Pevney
29
Operation : Annihilate
29
The Enterprise must stop a swarm of invincible parasites who kill their victims with incredible pain. But in finding a defence, Spock must pay a high price.
 
Writer(s) :
Steven W. Carabatsos
Director :
Herschel Doaugherty


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