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Top Ten Episodes; Original Series
(in no particular order)

  • Space Seed #24
    Writer: Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur.
    Guest Cast: Ricard Montalban, Madlyn Rhue, Blaisdell Makee, Mark Tobin.
    First aired February 16, 1967.
    The Enterprise runs across a "sleeper ship" full of supermen fleeing their defeat in the Eugenics Wars.

  • Arena #19
    Writer: Gene L. Coon (from a story by Fredric Brown)
    Guest Cast: Carole Shelyne, Jerry Ayres, Grant Woods, Tom Troupe, James Farley, Sean Kenney
    First aired January 19, 1967.
    Kirk and a reptilian alien must duel to the death to determine whose ship will survive.

  • Devil in the Dark #26
    Writer: Gene L. Coon.
    Guest Cast: Ken Lynch, Janos Prohaska, Barry Russo, Brad Weston, Biff Elliott.
    First aired March 9, 1967.
    A mining operation is ravaged by a monster that dissolves men's bodies.

  • The Menagerie (Parts 1&2) #16/17
    Writer: Gene Roddenberry
    Guest Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Malachi Throne, Julie Parrish, Hagan Beggs, Peter Duryea, Meg Wylie, John Hoyt, Majel Barrett.
    First part aired November 17, 1966; second part aired November 24, 1966.
    Spock risks the death penalty by hijacking his old commander, Captain Pike, to Talos IV. Court-martial testimony (actually scenes taken from "The Cage", Star Trek's original pilot episode) recreates the story of Pike's earlier encounter with the Talosians.

  • Mirror, Mirror #39
    Writer: Jerome Bixby
    Guest Cast: Barbara Luna, Vic Perrin
    First aired October 6, 1967.
    Kirk, McCoy, Scott, and Uhura are accidentally exchanged with their counterparts in a parallel universe, where instead of the Federation they find a violent, dictatorial Empire.

  • The Way to Eden #76
    Writer: Arthur Heinemann.
    Guest Cast: Skip Homeier, Charles napier, Maryu Linda Rapelye, Victor Brandt, Deborah Downey, Phyllis Douglas.
    A group of space hippies are searching for the legendary planet of Eden.

  • I, Mudd #41
    Writer: Stephen Kandel.
    Guest Cast: Roger C. Carmel, Richard Tatro, Mike Howden, Michael zaslow, Kay Elliott, Rhae Andrece, Alice Andrece, Tom LeGarde, Ted LeGarde, Maureen Thornton, Colleen Thornton, Tamara Wilson, Starr Wilson.
    First aired November 3, 1967.
    The Enterprise is forced to a planet populated by androids and ruled by their old nemesis, Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

  • Assignment: Earth #55
    Writer: Art Wallace
    Guest Cast: Robert Lansing, Terri Garr, Jim Keefer, Morgan Jones, Lincoln Demyan.
    First aired March 29, 1968.
    On a historical fact-finding mission to 1969, the Enterprise accidentally intercepts an interplanetary agent out to sabotage an orbiting nuclear platform.

  • Doomsday Machine #35
    Writer: Norman Spinrad
    Guest Cast: William Windom, Elizabeth Rogers, John Copage, Richard Compton, John Winston, Tim Burns.
    First aired October 20, 1967.
    The starships Enterprise and Constellation battle an enormous machine that destroys planets and consumes them for fuel.

  • The City on the Edge of Tommorow #28
    Writer:" Harlan Ellison.
    Guest Cast: Joan Collins, Bartell LaRue, John Harmon.
    First aired April 6, 1967.
    McCoy, suffering from an overdose of cordrazine, vanishes through a time portal and somehow changes the past. Kirk and Spock follow in an effort to rectify whatever it is that McCoy has done.

Note: Gene Roddenbury was the Executive Producer
and all round "Mr. Star Trek".

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