Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2 | Episodes Ranked from Best to Worst
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1.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Mirror, Mirror
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A transporter accident places Captain Kirk's landing party in an alternate universe, where the Enterprise is in the service of a barbarically brutal empire.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, BarBara Luna
Votes: 5,147
2.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Journey to Babel
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Jane Wyatt
Votes: 4,033
3.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Amok Time
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Celia Lovsky
Votes: 4,754
4.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Doomsday Machine
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The USS Enterprise encounters the wrecked USS Constellation and its distraught commodore who's determined to stop the giant planet-destroying robot ship that killed his crew.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Windom
Votes: 4,507
5.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Ultimate Computer
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and a sub-skeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially intelligent control system - the M-5 Multitronic system, which could potentially render them all redundant.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Marshall
Votes: 3,484
6.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Trouble with Tribbles
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
To protect a space station with a vital grain shipment, Kirk must deal with Federation bureaucrats, a Klingon battle cruiser and a peddler who sells furry, purring, hungry little creatures as pets.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Schallert
Votes: 4,936
7.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Changeling
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A powerful artificially intelligent Earth probe, with a murderously twisted imperative, comes aboard the Enterprise and mistakes Capt. Kirk for its creator.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 3,671
8.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
A Piece of the Action
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.
Director: James Komack | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Anthony Caruso
Votes: 3,823
9.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
By Any Other Name
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Galactic alien scouts capture the Enterprise for a return voyage and a prelude to invasion. Kirk's one advantage - they're not used to their adopted human form.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Warren Stevens
Votes: 3,392
10.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Immunity Syndrome
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise encounters a gigantic energy draining space organism that threatens the galaxy.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 3,299
11.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Return to Tomorrow
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is guided to a distant, long-dead world where survivors of an extremely ancient race - existing only as disembodied energy - desiring the bodies of Kirk, Spock and astro-biologist Ann Mulhall so that they may live again.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Diana Muldaur
Votes: 3,312
12.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Assignment: Earth
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Robert Lansing
Votes: 3,706
13.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Patterns of Force
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Looking for a missing Federation cultural observer, Kirk and Spock find themselves on a planet whose culture has been completely patterned after Nazi Germany.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Richard Evans
Votes: 3,471
14.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Obsession
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Capt. Kirk obsessively hunts for a mysterious cloud creature he encountered in his youth.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Stephen Brooks
Votes: 3,290
15.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
I, Mudd
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Roger C. Carmel
Votes: 3,744
16.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Deadly Years
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A landing party from the Enterprise is exposed to strange form of radiation which rapidly ages them.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Charles Drake
Votes: 3,433
17.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Wolf in the Fold
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and the Enterprise computer become detectives after Scotty is accused of murdering women on a pleasure planet.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, John Fiedler
Votes: 3,365
18.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Metamorphosis
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While returning to the Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a seriously ill Federation diplomat find themselves kidnapped by an energized cloud.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Glenn Corbett
Votes: 3,628
19.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Bread and Circuses
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Smithers
Votes: 3,281
20.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Gamesters of Triskelion
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are trapped on a planet where abducted aliens are enslaved and trained to perform as gladiators for the amusement of bored, faceless aliens.
Director: Gene Nelson | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Joseph Ruskin
Votes: 3,505
21.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Who Mourns for Adonais?
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Michael Forest
Votes: 4,033
22.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Apple
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Primitive inhabitants of Gamma Trianguli VI worship a god who orders them to kill visitors from the Enterprise.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Keith Andes
Votes: 3,451
23.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
A Private Little War
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nancy Kovack
Votes: 3,282
24.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Friday's Child
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Federation clashes with the Klingon Empire over mining rights to Capella IV. A sudden coup between its warrior-minded inhabitants forces Kirk's party to flee with the now dead leader's pregnant wife.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Julie Newmar
Votes: 3,394
25.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Omega Glory
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Morgan Woodward
Votes: 3,441
26.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Catspaw
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Antoinette Bower
Votes: 3,591
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