Boldly Go: The Essential Star Trek
by Matthias_B | created - 11 months ago | updated - 5 months ago | PublicFrom the Pike to Kirk, to the feature films, this is the very best of the original Star Trek.
- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Cage
(1966)
TV-PG | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett
Votes: 7,171
the original pilot, starring Jeffery Hunter as Pike (who also played Jesus), Leonard Nimoy as Spock (the only character to appear in both pilots), and Majel Barrett as Number One (the first lady of Star Trek & voice of Starfleet's computers)
2.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Where No Man Has Gone Before
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror--a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Gary Lockwood, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 6,427
the 2nd & actual pilot for the Original Series. Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy, and Majel Barrett recast as Nurse Chapel
3.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Naked Time
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Stewart Moss, Majel Barrett
Votes: 5,192
this episode would be revisited in the S1 Star Trek TNG episode "The Naked Now"
4.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Michael Strong, Sherry Jackson
Votes: 4,642
one of the few featured spots for Nurse Chapel in TOS, she would later become more of an secondary character after entering a relationship with ST creator Gene Roddenberry
5.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Corbomite Maneuver
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After the Enterprise is forced to destroy a dangerous marker buoy, a gigantic alien ship arrives to capture and condemn the crew as trespassers.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Anthony D. Call, Clint Howard
Votes: 4,884
the art of bluffing would become a frequently used tactic with Star Trek's various shows...
6.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Menagerie: Part I
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.
Directors: Marc Daniels, Robert Butler | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver
Votes: 4,862
a re-working of the original ST pilot with a different actor cast as Pike.
7.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Menagerie: Part II
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.
Directors: Robert Butler, Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver
Votes: 4,658
for years, fans had wondered & wrote about what kind of Enterprise Captain Pike might have been. This would be answered in Star Trek Discovery & Strange New Worlds.
8.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Balance of Terror
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Paul Comi
Votes: 5,699
in the 1960's, the threat of nuclear war was still a very real thing. Here, a version of the Cold War was brought television audiences in full color.
9.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Arena
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
For bringing hostility into their solar system, a superior alien race brings Captain Kirk into mortal combat against the reptilian captain of an alien ship he was pursuing.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 4,512
once you hear the fight theme between Kirk & the Gorn, you'll never forget it.
10.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger Perry, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,307
the first American show to use time travel as a plot device. This method of time travel would establish strict restriction within Starfleet, but would be revisited in the motion picture Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
11.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Court Martial
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk draws a court martial in the negligent death of a crewman.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Percy Rodrigues, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 3,980
the 1st mention of the concept of Starfleet, and also set the precedent for future "Law & Order in Space" episodes
12.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Space Seed
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue
Votes: 5,413
13.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
A Taste of Armageddon
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are all declared killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Opatoshu, Gene Lyons
Votes: 4,194
14.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
This Side of Paradise
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise investigates a planet whose colonists should be dead, but are not.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jill Ireland, Frank Overton
Votes: 4,065
15.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Errand of Mercy
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With a war with Klingons raging, Kirk and Spock attempt to resist an occupation of a planet with incomprehensibly placid natives.
Director: John Newland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, John Abbott, John Colicos
Votes: 4,052
16.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The City on the Edge of Forever
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Joan Collins, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 6,577
17.
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: 4,746
18.
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: 3,665
19.
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: 5,140
20.
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: 4,501
21.
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: 4,029
22.
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: 4,931
23.
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: 3,294
24.
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: 3,309
25.
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: 3,466
26.
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: 3,389
27.
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: 3,479
28.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Enterprise Incident
(1968)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An apparently insane Capt. Kirk has the Enterprise deliberately enter the Romulan Neutral Zone where the ship is immediately captured by the enemy.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Joanne Linville
Votes: 3,901
29.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Day of the Dove
(1968)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Both humans and Klingons have been lured to a planet by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Michael Ansara
Votes: 3,367
30.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Tholian Web
(1968)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With Capt. Kirk and the derelict USS Defiant apparently lost, the Enterprise grapples with an insanity causing plague and an attack by the Tholians.
Directors: Herb Wallerstein, Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 3,425
31.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
(1969)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Frank Gorshin
Votes: 3,252
32.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Requiem for Methuselah
(1969)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
On a planet, looking for an urgent medicinal cure, Kirk, Spock and McCoy come across a dignified recluse living privately but in splendor with his sheltered ward and a very protective robot servant.
Director: Murray Golden | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Daly
Votes: 3,243
33.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Cloud Minders
(1969)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Jeff Corey
Votes: 3,031
34.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Savage Curtain
(1969)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk, Spock, Abraham Lincoln and Vulcan legend Surak are pitted in battle against notorious villains from history for the purpose of helping a conscious rock creature's understanding of a concept he does not understand, "good vs. evil".
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Lee Bergere
Votes: 3,069
35.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
All Our Yesterdays
(1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 3,392
36. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
PG | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 129,212 | Gross: $78.91M
37. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 86,163 | Gross: $76.47M
38. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 91,473 | Gross: $109.71M
39. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.
Director: William Shatner | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 64,201 | Gross: $52.21M
40. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 80,898 | Gross: $74.89M
Tell Your Friends