A few readers may be interested in my recent revisiting of Star Trek (Original Series, Kirk and Spock etc). My viewing was only a sampling of the best, as I didn’t want to slog through it all. I also avoided those ‘make the characters act out-of-character’ and ‘time travel to the Earth in the past’ episodes that you tend to get in long TV sci-fi series. Anyway, here’s my final list for a quickie Enterprise-focused ‘greatest hits’ tour of the Original Series (fans call it ‘TOS’), plus the follow-on cinema movies. You should be able to get through it in three or four evenings.

__Series 1__

1×10 The Corbomite Maneuver

1×14 Balance of Terror

1×22 Space Seed (Origin of Khan, useful as backstory for the later movie)

1×25 The Devil in the Dark

1×26 Errand of Mercy (Klingon Empire)

__Series 2__

2×01 Amok Time

2×10 Journey to Babel

2×15 The Trouble With Tribbles (not as good as I recall it, but fun)

__Series 3__

3×02 The Enterprise Incident

3×07 Day of the Dove (Kang)

3×09 The Tholian Web

3×16 The Mark of Gideon

THEN –> 1st Movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Director’s Edition, aka Director’s Cut) which has a creaky start but is much better after the first 30 minutes. Then Wrath of Khan and finally The Search for Spock.