The BEST episodes of Star Trek

Every episode of Star Trek ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek!

Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, who is assisted by First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonien Singh. Their mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

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Balance of Terror
star
8.08
542 votes

#1 - Balance of Terror

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1966

Kirk pits the Enterprise against an invisible spaceship testing the Federation's defenses.

Directors: Vincent McEveety
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The City on the Edge of Forever
star
8.00
687 votes

#2 - The City on the Edge of Forever

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1967

Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.

Directors: Joseph Pevney
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Space Seed
star
7.83
569 votes

#3 - Space Seed

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1967

The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century... and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.

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The Trouble with Tribbles
star
7.71
514 votes

#4 - The Trouble with Tribbles

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1967

Kirk must defuse a Klingon scheme to destroy a grain shipment... and cope with a seemingly benign creature known as a tribble, which reproduces at amazing speed.

Directors: Joseph Pevney
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Amok Time
star
7.68
628 votes

#5 - Amok Time

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1967

Spock must go to Vulcan in order to perform the Vulcan mating ritual.

Directors: Joseph Pevney
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Tomorrow is Yesterday
star
7.66
510 votes

#6 - Tomorrow is Yesterday

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1967

The Enterprise collides with a black hole and is thrown back to Earth in the 20th century, where they must find a way back and erase any trace of their presence. Matters become complicated when they rescue an Air Force pilot and cannot return him without changing history... but if he disappears that will change history as well.

Writer: D.C. Fontana
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This Side of Paradise
star
7.63
506 votes

#7 - This Side of Paradise

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1967

The Enterprise crew is trapped in paradise when they come to rescue colonists who have fallen to pacifying alien spores and become infected themselves.

Writer: D.C. Fontana
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Assignment: Earth
star
7.62
474 votes

#8 - Assignment: Earth

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1968

The Enterprise is sent on a mission back to Earth in the year 1968, where the crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven, who claims to have been sent by advanced beings to save the planet.

Writer: Art Wallace
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The Ultimate Computer
star
7.61
539 votes

#9 - The Ultimate Computer

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1968

The Enterprise is used to test a new super-sophisticated computer, but it soon develops a mind of its own.

Writer: D.C. Fontana
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Mirror, Mirror
star
7.60
627 votes

#10 - Mirror, Mirror

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1967

Kirk and three of his officers are accidentally transported into a parallel "mirror" universe where violence, greed, and evil are commonplace.

Directors: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jerome Bixby
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The Paradise Syndrome
star
7.58
559 votes

#11 - The Paradise Syndrome

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1968

Spock and the Enterprise crew race to destroy an asteroid threatening a primitive world where an amnesiac Kirk is proclaimed a god by its indigenous people.

Directors: Jud Taylor
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A Taste of Armageddon
star
7.55
569 votes

#12 - A Taste of Armageddon

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1967

The Enterprise arrives at a planet to establish diplomatic relations and finds itself in the middle of a "peaceful" war that threatens to destroy the ship.

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Errand of Mercy
star
7.55
509 votes

#13 - Errand of Mercy

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/23/1967

The Federation and the Klingon Empire teeter on the brink of war as Kirk investigates Organia, a humble planet inhabited by pacifists that is unwittingly caught in the middle.

Directors: John Newland
Writer: Gene L. Coon
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The Menagerie (1)
star
7.52
543 votes

#14 - The Menagerie (1)

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1966

Spock kidnaps his former captain, the crippled Christopher Pike, and heads for a quarantined planet, putting his career and Kirk's life on the line.

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The Return of the Archons
star
7.51
506 votes

#15 - The Return of the Archons

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1967

The Enterprise encounters a seemingly peaceful civilization run by a "benevolent" being named Landru... who intends for them to join his people.

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The Devil in the Dark
star
7.51
510 votes

#16 - The Devil in the Dark

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1967

Kirk investigates a series of grisly murders on a mining planet that are the work of a seemingly hostile alien creature.

Directors: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Gene L. Coon
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The Menagerie (2)
star
7.49
659 votes

#17 - The Menagerie (2)

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1966

Spock's court-martial continues as he attempts to justify his abduction of Pike, the theft of the Enterprise, and his heading for a planet declared forbidden by Starfleet.

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Journey to Babel
star
7.47
395 votes

#18 - Journey to Babel

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1967

Spock meets his estranged father when the Enterprise escorts a group of ambassadors to a conference on the planet Babel.

Directors: Joseph Pevney
Writer: D.C. Fontana
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Court Martial
star
7.45
539 votes

#19 - Court Martial

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1967

Captain Kirk's career is at stake when he is put on trial for the loss of a crewman during an ion storm.

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The Enterprise Incident
star
7.44
682 votes

#20 - The Enterprise Incident

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1968

An unusually tense and irritable Kirk orders his ship into the Romulan Neutral Zone, where it is promptly surrounded. Beamed to a Romulan ship, Kirk lies about the intrusion, then attacks Spock, who responds with a Vulcan death grip. While the female Romulan commander courts Spock, a secret mission unfolds.

Writer: D.C. Fontana
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All Our Yesterdays
star
7.42
477 votes

#21 - All Our Yesterdays

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1969

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy become trapped in the past of another world.

Directors: Marvin Chomsky
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Where No Man Has Gone Before
star
7.41
999 votes

#22 - Where No Man Has Gone Before

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1966

While exploring the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise encounters an energy barrier that gives two crewmen godlike powers.

Directors: James Goldstone
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The Changeling
star
7.41
682 votes

#23 - The Changeling

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1967

The Enterprise encounters an ancient Earth probe bent on the sterilization of all life.

Directors: Marc Daniels
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The Doomsday Machine
star
7.37
687 votes

#24 - The Doomsday Machine

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1967

The Enterprise must stop an ancient doomsday weapon that is capable of destroying entire worlds... and has already totalled one Constellation-class cruiser.

Directors: Marc Daniels
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Arena
star
7.37
502 votes

#25 - Arena

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1967

When a mysterious alien race destroy an Earth colony, the Enterprise pursues but Kirk and the alien captain are forced to fight each other by powerful aliens.

Writer: Gene L. Coon
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