Every TOS fan compiles their own ordered list of episodes; each, I imagine, headed by a dozen or so "must see" titles that epitomize classic Trek. These lists may sort "Primo Trek" in more or less different orders but most inevitably do appear near the top - they're just that good and one never grows tired of watching them, unedited whenever possible! (Many prefer "City" but it's hard not to give "Seed" sufficient credit for breathing new life into the enterprise.)

Then come about twice as many "very fine" episodes that can in no way be called inferior except in deference to the superb panoply coming before. At the bottom are another dozen "turkeys," so nominated only relative to the rest of the original series since they might otherwise pass for better episodes in the oeuvre of the later series. Who knows, maybe "T'Pol's Brain" - or choose other organ(s) - will highlight ENT's next season!

Space Seed
Amok Time
Mirror, Mirror
The Changeling
Journey to Babel
The Ultimate Computer
The Menagerie (both parts, and "The Cage" would go about here too)
The Doomsday Machine
The Immunity Syndrome
The Trouble With Tribbles
Arena
A Taste of Armageddon
The Devil in the Dark
The Enterprise Incident
Errand of Mercy
Bread and Circuses
The City on the Edge of Forever
Friday's Child
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Tholian Web
A Private Little War
Court Martial
The Paradise Syndrome
Requiem for Methuselah
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Balance of Terror
Miri
A Piece of the Action
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
The Squire of Gothos
The Apple
Operation: Annihilate!
The Galileo Seven
Shore Leave
The Return of the Archons
The Gamesters of Triskelion
Return to Tomorrow
The Corbomite Maneuver
Day of the Dove
The Savage Curtain
I, Mudd
Spectre of the Gun
The Mark of Gideon
This Side of Paradise
The Deadly Years
Wolf in the Fold
The Enemy Within
The Man Trap
The Naked Time
Dagger of the Mind
The Cloud Minders
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Charlie X
Plato's Stepchildren
By Any Other Name
Whom Gods Destroy
The Conscience of the King
Mudd's Women
All Our Yesterdays
Obsession
Turnabout Intruder
Elaan of Troyius
Metamorphosis
Assignment: Earth
The Way to Eden
The Omega Glory
That Which Survives
Spock's Brain
Patterns of Force
Is There In Truth No Beauty?
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Empath
Catspaw
The Alternative Factor
Wink of an Eye
The Lights of Zetar
And the Children Shall Lead


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