{"id":65488,"date":"2025-01-04T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T10:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=65488"},"modified":"2025-01-04T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T10:47:14","slug":"a-quickie-greatest-hits-for-star-trek-tos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/a-quickie-greatest-hits-for-star-trek-tos\/","title":{"rendered":"A quickie ‘greatest hits’ for Star Trek (TOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few readers may be interested in my recent revisiting of Star Trek<\/em> (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<\/em>-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.<\/p>\n

__Series 1__<\/p>\n

1×10 The Corbomite Maneuver<\/p>\n

1×14 Balance of Terror<\/p>\n

1×22 Space Seed (Origin of Khan, useful as backstory for the later movie)<\/em><\/p>\n

1×25 The Devil in the Dark<\/p>\n

1×26 Errand of Mercy (Klingon Empire)<\/em><\/p>\n

__Series 2__<\/p>\n

2×01 Amok Time<\/p>\n

2×10 Journey to Babel<\/p>\n

2×15 The Trouble With Tribbles (not as good as I recall it, but fun)<\/em><\/p>\n

__Series 3__<\/p>\n

3×02 The Enterprise Incident<\/p>\n

3×07 Day of the Dove (Kang)<\/em><\/p>\n

3×09 The Tholian Web<\/p>\n

3×16 The Mark of Gideon <\/p>\n

THEN –> 1st Movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> (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<\/em> and finally The Search for Spock<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few readers may be interested in my recent revisiting of Star Trek (Original Series, Kirk and Spock etc). My …<\/p>\n

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