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The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time

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100) Bride of Chaotica! (Star Trek: Voyager) - A hilarious pastiche of old-school science fiction serials, this story puts the Voyager crew in the middle of a space-opera fantasy gone very, very wrong.

99) Day of the Dove (Star Trek) - An alien entity wants the Enterprise crew and some Klingons to slaughter each other, and Kirk has nearly as much trouble with his own crew as with the "enemy."

98) Paradise (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Sisko and O'Brien find themselves in a "perfect" society where no technology functions, and the society's matriarch tests Sisko's will with some pretty brutal treatment.

97) Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments (Enterprise) - In this three-part episode, we delve into the past of Khan Noonien Singh's genetically augmented crew, and also meet the ancestor of Data's creator. And connecting those two dots allows the story to get into some weird questions about the nature of "superior" people.

96) Lineage (Star Trek: Voyager) - B'Elanna and Tom are expecting a baby... but maybe they can genetically engineer it to be more human and less Klingon? More than any episode about Khan's people, this episode digs into the thorny ethics of eugenics.
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Great to see Balance of Terror on the list, didn't reckon on it being top of the list. Quite possibly my fave episode ever.
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kostmayer wrote:Great to see Balance of Terror on the list, didn't reckon on it being top of the list. Quite possibly my fave episode ever.
Yep. Usually City on the Edge of Forever is on top of these lists.
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kostmayer wrote:Great to see Balance of Terror on the list, didn't reckon on it being top of the list. Quite possibly my fave episode ever.
Definitely in top three in TOS ranking IMO.
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The list seems haphazard with no real rational. It has a lot of good episodes that any list would have. The only real thought to it seems to be given to the top 10-13, of which most of the episodes are interchangeable on a top ten.
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Black Jesus wrote:The list seems haphazard with no real rational. It has a lot of good episodes that any list would have. The only real thought to it seems to be given to the top 10-13, of which most of the episodes are interchangeable on a top ten.
Yeah, this. I mean I love Balance of Terror, but number one? I just can't see it.
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