# Which Original Star Trek Eps are 'must watch'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052 "2013-05-22T18:52:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/181 "2013-06-01T05:32:47Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Ahh, [But did he write the lyrics?](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/trek.asp) > > –shudder– I think the lyrics were the title; in his interview on YouTube, he says he was specifically ordered to make the theme about “ **Judd!** Judd for the Defense!” If you’ve ever listened to it, you know he did just that. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky_the_Wonder_Spirit)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/182 "2013-06-13T19:08:37Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > … The episode summaries on Netflix are not super-helpful (one of them just says ‘Scotty gets accused of murdering a belly dancer.’ LOLWUT). Sorry to resurrect my geriatric thread but I finally got around to this episode (“The Wolf in the Fold”) and it turns out that Jack the Ripper is an incorporeal planet-hopping space serial killer. This show is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/183 "2013-06-13T19:17:32Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > Sorry to resurrect my geriatric thread but I finally got around to this episode (“The Wolf in the Fold”) and it turns out that Jack the Ripper is an incorporeal planet-hopping space serial killer. This show is amazing. OMFG I forgot this episode existed. And I _loved_ it when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/184 "2013-06-13T19:21:31Z")
Resurrect away! as long as there’s still episodes you haven’t commented on. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/185 "2013-06-13T19:38:54Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > Sorry to resurrect my geriatric thread but I finally got around to this episode (“The Wolf in the Fold”) and it turns out that Jack the Ripper is an incorporeal planet-hopping space serial killer. This show is amazing. Written by Robert Bloch and a continuation of one of his most famous stories, “Yours Truly Jack the Ripper.” So even more amazing and astounding than you think. When I was writing my on-line ST preview column on PLATO back in 1975-77 I got very good at figuring out which show it was from the TV Guide blurb. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/186 "2013-06-13T19:42:26Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > Sorry to resurrect my geriatric thread but I finally got around to this episode (“The Wolf in the Fold”) and it turns out that Jack the Ripper is an incorporeal planet-hopping space serial killer. This show is amazing. Love that one! “No, die, make you suffer!” “Kill, kill, kill you all…” ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/187 "2013-06-13T20:58:29Z")
I guess quotes aren’t working now either? My favorite line from Wolf in the Fold in when McCoy sedates everyone and says the most violent thing they’ll do now is take up knitting. I was also a little bothered that milquetoast guy ends up getting beamed into space. He was still a person wasn’t he, just possessed by an evil murdering space spirit? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/188 "2013-06-13T21:19:46Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I guess quotes aren’t working now either? Sometimes they do; sometimes they don’t. The way the board’s working now, about half the time it doesn’t remember anything that happened after 6-10-2013 at about 7:00 pm Central, so if you’re trying to quote something that was posted more recently than that, it might not show up. Re-trying sometimes works. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/189 "2013-06-14T00:39:37Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > “The Corbomite Maneuver” was also pretty good - although I didn’t find it particularly believable that Spock hadn’t heard of poker. Also, that little kid at the end was absolutely the scariest thing I’ve seen on this show so far. You realize, of course, that that little kid is a fairly accomplished supporting actor, right? He has been in several movies his famous brother has directed. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky_the_Wonder_Spirit)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/190 "2013-06-14T01:07:35Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I was also a little bothered that milquetoast guy ends up getting beamed into space. He was still a person wasn’t he, just possessed by an evil murdering space spirit? I think he was dead already? Maybe? > [@For You](#): > > You realize, of course, that that little kid is a fairly accomplished supporting actor, right? He has been in several movies his famous brother has directed. Yes, I know who Clint Howard is. I just watched GIANT SPACE AMOEBA OF DOOM. It was fun. There was a giant space amoeba. I also watched “Plato’s Stepchildren”. I can’t decide if I hated it because it was ridiculous, or loved it because Spock was wearing a glittery toga and singing. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/191 "2013-06-14T19:00:18Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > I think he was dead already? Maybe? Evidently. By his own admission, Kirk didn’t hit him that hard. :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > I also watched “Plato’s Stepchildren”. I can’t decide if I hated it because it was ridiculous, or loved it because Spock was wearing a glittery toga and singing. Nothing beats Shatner whinnying like a horse while down on all fours. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/192 "2013-06-20T16:44:06Z")
We finally ditched DirecTV, signed on with Netflix, and belatedly got an HDTV. Netflix has the entire run of TOS and the picture quality is better than I’ve ever seen it. Amazing, really, since back then nobody had TVs anywhere near as good. It almost brings a tear to the eye. BTW I do remember now that the bonk-bonk kid appears in “Miri”, not “And The Children Shall Lead” featuring Melvin Belli as Gorgon the evil space angel. But all rolled into one they would indeed have made great bizarre rp. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/193 "2013-06-20T17:34:40Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Love that one! > > “No, die, make you suffer!” > “Kill, kill, kill you all…” Whover you are, you sure talk gloomy. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/194 "2013-06-20T19:41:07Z")
With a shot of this stuff in my arm, I wouldn’t be afraid of a supernova! ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/195 "2013-06-21T06:57:51Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > We finally ditched DirecTV, signed on with Netflix, and belatedly got an HDTV. Netflix has the entire run of TOS and the picture quality is better than I’ve ever seen it. Amazing, really, since back then nobody had TVs anywhere near as good. It almost brings a tear to the eye. > > BTW I do remember now that the bonk-bonk kid appears in “Miri”, not “And The Children Shall Lead” featuring Melvin Belli as Gorgon the evil space angel. But all rolled into one they would indeed have made great bizarre rp. Slight problem that in the fight scenes modern HD TVs make it clear that Kirk isn’t being played by Shatner. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/196 "2013-06-21T07:06:46Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > Slight problem that in the fight scenes modern HD TVs make it clear that Kirk isn’t being played by Shatner. Next time you watch “Arena,” take a good look at his feet. He isn’t wearing Starfleet boots, he’s wearing black knee socks (or hose) and what look like wrestling/boxing boots. I guess the outdoor stunt work for that episode was a little too rough for his regular wardrobe. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/197 "2013-06-21T07:27:26Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Interesting. Googling, I am unable to turn up the details of the story I vaguely remember, but it looks like Roddenberry was largely uninvolved. I think perhaps the focus of the story was not Roddenberry, but whomever was helming the show at that time. I found this clip from the Sci-Fi Trek Marathon on YouTube the other night. According to Shatner, Coon thought the series was taking itself a bit too seriously and did indeed churn out the worst script he could write just to show Roddenberry how low it could sink. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/198 "2013-06-21T07:36:16Z")
Shatner’s comments start at 14:50: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgza_prlViA) ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/199 "2013-06-21T07:46:56Z")
Ricardo Montalban as guest star, Spock’s mother describing his fanged pet, The Organians, Hortas, Computerized war games (and real deaths), Lord Mudd, Swords aboard the enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052/200 "2013-06-21T12:38:32Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Ricardo Montalban as guest star, > Spock’s mother describing his fanged pet, > The Organians, > Hortas, > Computerized war games (and real deaths), > Lord Mudd, > Swords aboard the enterprise. “Space Seed” “Journey to Babel” “Errand of Mercy” “Devil in the Dark” “A Taste of Armageddon” “I, Mudd” “Day of the Dove” Now gimme my piece of candy! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-original-star-trek-eps-are-must-watch/659052.md?page=11)