What were your favorite episodes from Season Two?

What were your favorite episodes from Season Two? Top six? This is going to be hard for me–I don’t know if the second season episodes are less distinctive, or they’re just too many to keep them straight, but I’m getting them jumbled up. A list of episodes is below:

2.1 –  “Amok Time”

2.2 – “Who Mourns for Adonais?”

2.3 – “The Changeling”

2.4 — “Mirror, Mirror”

2.5 – “The Apple”

2.6 – “The Doomsday Machine”

2.7 – “Catspaw”

2.8 – “I, Mudd”

2.9 – “Metamorphosis”

2.10 – “Journey to Babel”

2.11 – “Friday’s Child”

2.12 – “The Deadly Years”

2.13 – “Obsession”

2.14 – “Wolf in the Fold”

2.15 – “The Trouble with Tribbles”

2.16 – “The Gamesters of Triskelion”

2.17 – “A Piece of the Action”

2.18 – “The Immunity Syndrome”

2.19 – “A Private Little War”

2.20 – “Return to Tomorrow”

2.21 – “Patterns of Force”

2.22 – “By Any Other Name”

2.23 – “The Omega Glory”

2.24 – “The Ultimate Computer”

2.25 – “Bread and Circuses”

2.26 – “Assignment: Earth”


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12 responses to “What were your favorite episodes from Season Two?”

  1. Randi Cohen Avatar

    Amok Time

    Trouble with Tribbles

    Piece of the Action

    assignment:Earth

    mirror, mirror

    journey to babel

  2. Kevin Black Avatar

    Choosing six is almost too easy–maybe I should have made it eight.  In alpha order:

    “Amok Time.” So good. “Live long and prosper, Spock.” “I shall do neither. I have killed my captain, and my friend.”

    “A Private Little War.” Sorry, I just love this one to pieces.

    “Journey to Babel.” Quintessential Star Trek. The fountain of so much inspiration.

    “Metamorphosis.” Yes, I’m a sucker for weird, twisted love stories. That seems to be the common thread.

    “The Doomsday Machine.” So dramatic, and cinematic. Best directed episode, except for maybe…

    “The Trouble With Tribbles.” In a class by itself.

  3. Randi Cohen Avatar

    How you can leave out Mirror Mirror in favor of Metamorphosis is beyond me… I’ll take Evil Spock and Marlena over Zepfram Cochrane and a bunch of 

    colored lights anytime…

  4. Kevin Black Avatar

    My honorable mentions: “Mirror, Mirror,” “Return to Tomorrow,” “The Changeling,” “The Deadly Years,” “A Piece of the Action,” “I, Mudd.”

  5. Kevin Black Avatar

    ….but I didn’t like Marlena… (ducks)

  6. Randi Cohen Avatar

    Really?  You liked Witchy Woman from Private Little War, but not Marlena?  

  7. Kevin Black Avatar

    In terms of being an interesting character, yes…

  8. Randi Cohen Avatar

    Marlena seems much more thoughtful and morally centered than WW.  I am curious what leads you to like WW better.  WW seems capricious and overconfident as well as having the capacity for cruelty… of all the male characters in Star Trek, she reminds me most of Khan (except of course she does not have super-strength and super-intelligence to back up her super-ego, just crazy plant powers).  

  9. Kevin Black Avatar

    Yes, but Nona’s relationship with Tyree is really interesting. You never see Marlena in relationship to Mirror Kirk.

  10. Randi Cohen Avatar

    True.  I am actually curious about what that scene would be like… 

    I found myself quite uncomfortable watching the relationship between Nona and Tyree.  She seemed pretty unconcerned about his personhood or feelings.  What did you like or find interesting about their relationship?  

  11. Kevin Black Avatar

    They have a real conflict, driven by two irreconcilable value systems, that feels very authentic to me. Tyree is an idealist; Nona wants him to live in the real world and use the opportunities open to him to seek material advantage. Kirk is caught between them, and sees, as Nona very likely does, that Tyree’s adherence to his principles is likely to lead to his demise. A very organic, unsolvable, heartrending situation that feels quite familiar to me, and I’m sure was deeply felt by Gene Roddenberry.

  12. Robert Balmer Avatar

    Counting down to my favorite:

    6) “A Piece of the Action”

    5) “The Doomsday Machine”

    4) “Mirror, Mirror”

    3) “Amok Time”

    2) “Journey to Babel”

    1) “The Trouble with Tribbles”

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