The City on the Edge of Forever, definitely, but it's better watched once you have some grounding in the characters. Amok Time, very important Spock episode, as is Journey to Babel. Mirror Mirror is a classic AU episode.
A Piece of the Action is silly but funny. Trouble With Tribbles, definitely. Devil in the Dark is a solid plotty episode.
I've seen "The City on the Edge of Forever," but I'll watch it again after seeing some more episodes. Thanks!
There's only three seasons of classic Trek, P-C. Seeing all of them really isn't that much of a committment.
That's still 80 episodes. That's a lot. I have no real desire to watch them all, but I want to see enough to get the cultural context.
Taraljc on LJ also had a post recently for Trek noobs, including recommended episodes.
Oh yeah, I've seen that post.
P-C, you should see The Way to Eden. You should also remember the thing where I'm evil.
Ha! Uh oh. "The
Enterprise
is hijacked by an insane doctor and his fanatical, hippy-like followers, in an attempt to find paradise." Really?
(Srsly. TOS contains much cheese. CHEESE MADE OF CRACK.)
Are you suggesting that I'm gay for Ernest Borgnine?
Why would I suggest such a thing? When I can make a bold bald accusation!
I think Cockfighter is sorta romantic.
Yes. The special love between a man and his chicken.
Incidentally two of your seventeen would make my top ten. Three of them would make my top fifteen.
That summary leaves out the song. It's all about the song.
Yea, brother!
See?
...Oh no, now it's in my head. And it's my own fault. Crap.
I am so spending my summer TV hiatus on TOS rewatch.
Saw Trek again today. Still madly in love, like a little kid.
For all time TOS cheese, it's hard to beat Spock's Brain.
I guess there was once or twice that all power was diverted to the forward shields or something, which kind of counts as changing channels and turning up the volume, but I can ignore that since it's not overcoming a plot point - it's blocking a punch.
Is there fanfic where guys from Engineering get together in pubs to drink and complain about why the fuck Starfleet isn't building vessels with more power already IN the forward sheilds? Because really, it seems like having more power there would solve an awful lot of Starfleet's problems.
Saw the movie again last night with my sisters and it does hold up. To answer Pete's quibble -
they do toss off one-line explanations as to why there are all these new people on the ship. It takes an awful lot of handwaving to believe that the battlefield promotions would stick once they're back on Earth, but once you get to Kirk as Captain, I'm okay with him picking his own crew.
I HAVE SUCH A CRUSH ON THIS MOVIE OMG.
And yes, it's making me want to rewatch TOS all summer too.
Incidentally two of your seventeen would make my top ten. Three of them would make my top fifteen.
Sounds like the beginning of an annoying logic puzzle....
