I haven’t read the article yet but a writer has put all of Televised Trek into a blender and ranked all the episodes from worst to best. The link seems SFW but I have ad blocker software so I can’t vouch for any ads that may be on the page. Link is here.
I do not for a second believe that there are 421 episodes of Star Trek worse than “Spock’s Brain”, even if you consider it on a kitsch level. Admittedly, I stopped watching Voyager after the first season, so maybe it’s possible.
Fascinating - that he made one list of all the incarnations. I also gave up on Voyager after the first season, was only occasional with DS9 and skipped Enterprise. It’s also been too long since seeing any of the animated.
That said, the top 100 or so ranking of Classic and TNG seems about right. I’ll have to give some of those other incarnations in the top 100 a chance if I have time.
He ranked “Skin of Evil” #122. I would have put it somewhere in the 600s.
I don’t have time to go through the entire list right now, but I wonder if they included “The Cage,” the complete first pilot (as distinct from the two-parter “The Menagerie”). I’ve seen that episode, and I’m surprised it’s not at least in the Top 100 (if it is, I skipped over it).
The “rules” -
Great music. Nice camera-work. I enjoyed Picard’s sit-down with Armus. I liked the funeral scene. It gets an undeserved bad rap.
Without looking, I’m going to try and guess the top ten. In no particular order
The Visitor
City on the Edge of Forever
Best of Both Worlds
Balance of Terror
The Inner Light
In the Pale Moonlight
Yesteryear
Yesterday’s Enterprise
Trials and Tribbleations
What You Leave Behind
As I go to check, I wonder if the list-makers felt compelled to include an Enterprise and Voyager ep in the top 10. Or if they included that one where Sisko thought he was in the 1950s.
In The Pale Moonlight is #54 
My list would look more like yours, since I thought DS9 was the best of the series, but no accounting for taste.
Noted and logged! 
How “The First Duty” got all the way up to #48 is bewildering to me. I thought that episode was all kinds of dumb.
Just based on the subject line, my thought was, “Who in the frakk could possibly care?”
What next, Road & Track’s ranking of every Simpsons episode?
“The Alternative Factor” is only 466? It should have been the first one listed. (i.e., worst)
Playboy has published a lot of SF over the years by folks like Asimov, Clarke, Pohl, etc. so I’m not completely surprised to see them publish an article about Star Trek.
I don’t get it. How could they exclude “The Cage,” the one that basically set the pattern for everything to come? :dubious: 
:mad:
It was never broadcast.
Fifty years ago it was never broadcast. Nowadays, I challenge you to find a Trek watcher who hasn’t seen it. :dubious:
I haven’t finished the list yet and I don’t agree with all his choices, but the writer clearly knows his Trek. Also, as someone else wrote, Playboy has always been a top shelf publisher of fiction. Especially Science fiction.
Yanno, I could give you a third warning from me in about a month, but instead I’ll tell you to knock it the fuck off. Merry Christmas.
If you don’t care about the topic of a thread, you should not post in the thread to announce that fact. That is the textbook example of threadshitting. Don’t do it.
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I haven’t watched much beyond the first series but this list might make me watch more of the later series.
Amazing that a low rated 60s TV show led to 695 episodes and 12 movies (so far).