What is your favorite episode of Star Trek: The OriginalSeries, and why is that one your favorite?
My favorite is Balance of Terror from season 1. In my opinion it is still the greatest space battle of all time. Space battles aren't about little fighter crafts that zoom around like jets and fire tiny partial beams of energy at each other. Space battles are battles where two captains with ships at great distances engage in psychological combat, predicting what the other will do next and getting into each others' minds, using what you think they think you are thinking against them.
The episode basically tackles how automation is taking not only jobs away. But in some cases some of mans scene of purpose away. This is coming from a nut that lives on a side of a mountain chopping his own wood for fire. And making his own furniture and food. I love computers and automation just as much as anyone else. But I find it interesting how this episodes message is even more relevant today then it was in the late 60's. Also its about a computer so ya.
I'm afraid it was much too long since I saw an episode of the original series to remember any by name, but any one where Kirk gets slapped in the face would do.
Agreed. Balance of Terror. Wrath of Khan was heavily influenced by that episode, for good reason. They treated space battles more like submarine battles, instead of just pew pew. Much more tension and drama.
Rewatched a good one. Mirror, Mirror. (S2E4) It has its flaws but the premise is bold, Spock and Zulu plays great roles with their characters modified by being from an alternative universe. And Kirk is slapped in the face several times!
They also popped into the mirror universe in DS9 and Enterprise (maybe Voyager? I haven't seen many of those, so I'm not sure). They're usually fun episodes. Just for reference lol.