Your Top 4 or More Favorite Episodes from ...

THE ORIGINAL SERIES

1. The Doomsday Machine
2. Balance of Terror
3. The Trouble with Tribbles
4. The Ultimate Computer
5. Space Seed

THE NEXT GENERATION

1. The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1
2. The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2
3. Starship Mine
4. Genesis
5. Schisms

DEEP SPACE NINE

1. Trials and Tribble-ations
2. The Adversary
3. Homefront
4. Paradise Lost
5. The Darkness and The Light

VOYAGER

1. Pathfinder
2. Equinox, Part 2
3. Equinox, Part 1
4. Future's End, Part 2
5. Future's End, Part 1

ENTERPRISE

1. Regeneration
2. In a Mirror Darkly, Part 1
3. In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2
4. Twilight
5. Strange New World

Hi, mszanadu

For better or worse, I’m mostly unfamiliar with Star Trek and completely unfamiliar with the franchise outside of the original series. Nevertheless, I’ve seen a few episodes, and they’re good, goofy fun (though I just can’t fathom for the life of me why so many people are so taken with them! Fun, but—ehh—that’s it for me. Then again, I’ve never really gotten into sci-fi):

“The Cage” (pilot episode, without Shatner!)

“Wolf in the Fold”

“The Devil in the Dark”

“The Return of the Archons”

When I first saw Star Trek, I was rather surprised by how dull I found so many of the episodes, in spite of the over-the-top scenery-chewing of Shatner and the restrained stoicism of Nimoy. (My favorite character on the show has to be Bones, though—poor guy.)

It simply has none of the surreal colors and Baroque plotting of, say, Batman, The Avengers, The Wild Wild West, and Gilligan’s Island, or the seriousness of purpose and intelligent writing of The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents. (Two shows that seem to succeed at both elements, unusually enough: The Prisoner and Mission: Impossible. Also some early Avengers episodes.)

And there’s so much that Star Trek’s concept could do, too—travelling from planet to planet and discovering unique, unusual cultures that could explored in depth! Ah, well… Still, as I wrote, it can be fun.

Original series :

1. Balance of Terror
2. The City on the Edge of Forever
3. Amok Time
4. The Trouble With Tribbles
5. A Private Little War

Next Generation :

1. The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1
2. Darmok
3. The Inner Light
4. Lower Decks
5. All Good Things

Deep Space Nine :

1. Duet
2. The Visitor
3. Trials and Tribble-ations
4. For the Uniform
5. Call to Arms

Voyager :

1. Faces
2. Jetrel
3. Tuvix
4. Year of Hell, Part 1
5. Latent Image

Enterprise :

1. Twilight
2. Similitude
3. Zero Hour
4. In A Mirror, Darkly
5. In A Mirror, Darkly, Part 2

DS9 is my favorite so it was hardest to pick just 5 from that so... but this was really fun,


TOS:

1: A Taste Of Armageddon
2: Balance Of Terror
3: The Trouble With Tribbles
4: The Immunity Syndrome
5: Court Martial

TNG:

1: Q-Who
2: Timescape
3: The Defector
4: Clues
5: Yesterday's Enterprise

DS9:

1: The Way Of The Warrior
2: Inter Arma Enim Silent Legas
3: For The Uniform
4: Civil Defence
5: Trials & Tribble-ations

Voyager:

1: Living Witness
2: Relativity
3: Prototype
4: Message In A Bottle
5: Worst Case Scenario

Enterprise:

1: Fight Or Flight
2: In A Mirror Darkly
3: Sleeping Dogs
4: Catwalk
5: Twilight

Discovery: (from the pilot to the episode 'What's Past Is Prologue')

1: Context Is For Kings
2: Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Wild
3: Despite Yourself
4: Into The Forest I Go
5: Choose Your Pain

Must admit, I'm surprised to find the ep Twilight included by a few people, I don't recall that ep being any special - although I've not re-watched Enterprise.

TNG:

1: Cause and Effect
2: Conundrum
3: Timescape
4: Clues
5: The Drumhead

DS9:

1: In The Pale Moonlight
2: Children of Time
3: One Little Ship
4: Past Tense
5: Trials & Tribble-ations

Voyager:

1: Blink of an Eye
2: Relativity
3: Distant Origin
4: Worst Case Scenario
5: Waking Moments

Even though I have already given my Answers for All of the Other "STAR TREK" Shows, I unfortunately can't give even 1 Answer when it comes to "STAR TREK: DISCOVERY" mainly because I actually haven't watched all of it's current Episodes yet.