The BEST episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series season 2
Every episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series season 2!
This is the further adventures of the Star Trek series in a half-hour animated form. This show basically continues the adventures of the original series (presumably in the fourth year of the five-year mission), but takes advantage of the unlimited special effects provided by animation to introduce more alien crewmen (the felinoid M'Ress and the tripedal Arex) as well as introduce more elaborate adventures like an underwater adventure, the miniaturization of the crew to 1 cm., and the appearance of a giant fire-breathing two-headed dragon. The show is currently not considered "canon" by Paramount and the folks associated with the various subsequent TV shows. However, elements of the animated series have been used in subsequent shows (Sarek refers to the events of "Yesteryear" in TNG's "Reunification Pt. 1") and the Enterprise-D's holodeck seems to have been in part inspired by the holodeck we see in "Practical Joker". Also, writers such as Peter David have used some elements from t
#1 - Albatross
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1974
Dr. McCoy is arrested and held responsible for causing a plague that ravaged the planet Dramia Two, where he performed a mass-innoculation 19 years earlier.
#2 - The Counter-Clock Incident
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1974
With Commodore Robert April (the first commander of the Enterprise) on board, Kirk pursues a ship plunging into a supernova, and enters a universe where time runs backwards.
#3 - The Practical Joker
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1974
After avoiding a Romulan ambush by three of their warships, the U.S.S. Enterprise enters a strange energy cloud. The gaseous cloud affects the ship's computer turning it insane. With the crew at the mercy of the Enterprise's computer, it indulges in a series of increasingly aggressive practical jokes.
#4 - The Pirates of Orion
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1974
When Spock is stricken down by a disease fatal to Vulcans, the Enterprise is to meet a freighter with a load of drugs that provides the only cure, but Orion pirates attack the ship and Kirk must track down the Orions and the drug before it is too late.
#5 - Bem
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1974
The U.S.S. Enterprise hosts Commander Ari bn Bem, an arrogant member of a neutral race from the newly-contacted planet Pandro. However, Bem endangers all of their lives when he conducts a test of suitability upon Kirk and Spock during an exploratory mission. This occurs on a planet of primitive natives under the guardianship of a noncorporeal being.
#6 - How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1974
Backtracking a mysterious alien probe, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a ship in the shape of a giant feathered serpent, which turns out to be Kukulkan, a god of ancient Mayan-Aztec legend. Its captain, Kukulkan, is actually a very long-lived benevolent entity who wants the humans to worship him just as the Mayans and Aztecs did. He insists on putting Kirk and others through a test to determine if they have grown sufficiently to receive his wisdom.