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What is your favorite ST:TOS episode?(times out in 2 weeks)

The City on the Edge of Forever
4 (30.8%)
The Doomsday Machine
5 (38.5%)
Balance of Terror
2 (15.4%)
Miri
0 (0%)
Other(please list)
2 (15.4%)

Total Members Voted: 10

Voting closed: February 26, 2004, 02:25:37 pm

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Offline Liberator

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Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
Well?

Mine's "The Doomsday Machine", it has the best space battles.
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Offline diamondgeezer

Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
Bin a while since I saw any TOS. Squire of Gothos, perhaps?

 

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I've actually seen very few TOS episodes, although I have read all the James Blish adaptations. From those, my favorite was The Doomsday Machine (and let's not forget the Next Generation novel continuing that storyline, Peter David's most excellent Vendetta. One of the only books I read so many times that my dad decided to pick up a fresh copy of it. :p).
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Offline Grey Wolf

Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
Mirror Mirror, of course. What could be cooler than Spock with a beard?
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Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
The one where they steal a cloaking device, that was Balance of Terror, right? Whatever it was called, that's a fun episode. Or was Balance of Terror the one where the ship literally got nuked?
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Offline Grey Wolf

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I think what you're thinking of Ace is the Enterprise Incident. I think the Balance of Terror is when they first encounter a cloaking device.
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Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
Tribbles! :D
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Originally posted by karajorma
Tribbles! :D


Best.Episode.Ever.

 

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ROFLOL

thats probably the most weirdest thing I'v seen in my entire being here at HLP... lol

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Unfortunately the picture doesn't capture the sheer joy of watching them to continue falling on Kirk's head even after he's buried :D
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rofl

ill have to hire it out from the vid store lol...

 

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The Doomsday Machine and Trouble with Tribbles  where the best episodes ever. :)
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the one where they come to a planet, beams down, meets a girl, gets in trouble, solves problem and then leaves for next planet.

oh, that's almost every ep, isn't it?
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Offline diamondgeezer

Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
Well yes. Except for the Tribble one. And the Doomsday Machine. And Mirror Mirror. And most of the others mentioned in this thread

 

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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
I think what you're thinking of Ace is the Enterprise Incident. I think the Balance of Terror is when they first encounter a cloaking device.


Now I remember, Enterprise Incident was the one where they had orders to steal the cloaking device and Spock seduces the Romulan captain.
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Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
1. Tribbles!!
2. The one where M-5 took over the Enterprise.
3. Squire of Gothos
4. The doomsday machine

I REALLY loved the Vendetta book - one of Peter David's best works, second only to Q-squared and the one where Data becomes human (quite literally), but i forgot the name of the novel since its been so long since i saw it....
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Originally posted by Singh
1. Tribbles!!
2. The one where M-5 took over the Enterprise.
3. Squire of Gothos
4. The doomsday machine

I REALLY loved the Vendetta book - one of Peter David's best works, second only to Q-squared and the one where Data becomes human (quite literally), but i forgot the name of the novel since its been so long since i saw it....


Q-Squared was also very good, true. I'm just a little soft when it comes to the pre-Voyager Borg (in Vendetta). :D

Metamorphosis, by Jean Lorrah. Also a good read, especially if you've already read the other book with the extra characters in it - Survivors, also by Jean Lorrah.

Other Trek books I thought were outstanding were:

My Enemy, My Ally - by Diane Duane (TOS)
Dreadnaught - by Diane Carey (TOS)
Strangers in the Sky - by Margaret Wander Bonanno (TOS)
Probe - by Margaret Wander Bonanno (TOS)
Prime Directive - by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (TOS)
Black Fire - by Sonni Cooper (TOS) (one of the oldest TOS novels)
Death Count - by L.A. Graf (TOS)
Q-In-Law - by Peter David (TNG) (some of the most hilarious scenes ever)
Imzadi - by Peter David (TNG)
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Offline magatsu1

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Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
any episode from the cartoon series.
So bad it's good etc....
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Offline Singh

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Those are all good books Sandwich - I've read quite a bit of them, but some seem a little unknown to me (no offense is meant). This is My own list, in no particular orders:
Doctor's Orders (TOS - the doctor finally gets to take over the enterprise!)
Ghost Ship (the very first TNG book, after farpoint, a real classic)
Q-in-law (TNG - quite good and humourous)
Intellivore (TNG - another good one)
The Devil's Heart (TNG - all i can say is WOW.)
Metamorphisis (TNG - features my favourite character, read it to death and beyond)
Vendetta (TNG - got to read this only once before i lost it...loved it)
Q^2 (TNG - rather confusing, but profound)
The New Earth Series (At least, upto the flaming arrow - haven't read past that - good space battles in there!)
Chain Of Attack (TOS - pretty good at that)

Have a lot more, but I'd rather not clutter up the thread.
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Offline diamondgeezer

Favorite Star Trek: TOS episode
Prime Dirctive... that the one with where Kirk and co get sacked for almost killing a pre-contact planet? I liked that one. Also, Vendetta, or whatever it was called, with Guinan's sister :nod: