The BEST episodes of Star Trek season 1
Every episode of Star Trek season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek season 1!
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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Balance of Terror
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1966
Kirk pits the Enterprise against an invisible spaceship testing the Federation's defenses.
#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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Corbomite Maneuver
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/1966
The Enterprise encounters a vast alien ship that sets out to test them.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Naked Time
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1966
A strange alien substance causes the crew to act out their deepest inhibitions, while the ship plummets out of orbit.
#16 - What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1966
Nurse Christine Chapel is reunited with her old fiance on Exo III, but the scientist has plans for Captain Kirk and the Federation.
#17 - Operation -- Annihilate!
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/13/1967
Kirk and the Enterprise must combat parasitic aliens.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Enemy Within
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1966
A transporter malfunction causes Captain Kirk to split into his "good" and "evil" selves, and a landing party will freeze to death if they don't merge the two back together.
#20 - The Galileo Seven
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1967
Spock commands a stranded away team when their shuttlecraft is stranded on a planet with hostile natives.
#21 - Charlie X
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1966
Stardate 1533.6: The Enterprise picks up Charlie Evans, a young man who is the sole survivor of a transport crash. Little do they know he possesses extraordinary mental powers which will come to pose a threat to the ship and its crew.
#22 - The Man Trap
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1966
Kirk and his crew are at deadly risk from an alien creature that feeds on the salt in a human body and can take on any form.
#23 - Shore Leave
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1966
The Enterprise crew take shore leave on a peaceful, pastoral planet... where their dreams and fantasies come to life.
#24 - Dagger of the Mind
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1966
Kirk investigates an experimental facility for holding prisoners and finds a sinister scheme.
#25 - The Squire of Gothos
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1967
The Enterprise finds itself at the mercy of a seemingly omnipotent being who fancies himself a 18th century Englishman.