Jul. 14th, 2008 01:52 am
It's the Star Trek TOS Challenge!
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i_calql8First, and most importantly, my Cubbies have a 4 1/2 game lead going to the All-Star Break! YESSS!!! Even if we go .500 the rest of the season, we'll have 90 wins, hopefully at least enough for a wild card berth. We're on the way to repeating as NL Central champs, though. We play 10 of the next 13 on the road, though...four of them against the evil Brewers. Things are looking pretty exciting in Wrigleyville for the next couple of months.
Okay, I really enjoyed the Trek discussions with my friends a while back, so here is a challenge: Name your favorite original Trek episodes. Minimum of 5, no more than 10.
And the catch: you cannot include any on the Top 10 list as culled from Entertainment Weekly:
1. The City on the Edge of Forever
2. Space Seed
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. The Doomsday Machine
5. Amok Time
6. The Devil in the Dark
7. The Trouble with Tribbles
8. This Side of Paradise
9. The Enterprise Incident
10. Journey to Babel
Personally, #6, 8, 9, or 10 wouldn't make my second string list, much less my top 10. My list:
11. Balance of Terror (Romulans, with a seemingly superior weapon--suspenseful episode. Mark Lenard's first on-screen Trek death)
12. I, Mudd ("Harcourrrrrrrt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!")
13. Arena (Starts slowly, but Kirk v. Gorn, with the crew forced to look on, more than makes up)
14. A Piece of the Action (One word: Fizzbin. Kirk goes gangster, with Spock uttering the immortal line "I'd advise yaz ta keep dialin', Oxmyx.")
15. The Gamesters of Triskelion (One of my favorite "Oh, s**t, how are they getting out of *this* one?" eps)
16. Operation: Annihilate (Spock goes blind...oh noes!)
17. The Menagerie, parts 1 and 2 (So enjoyable, you forget Spock's hide is on the line here)
18. Where No Man Has Gone Before (You'll believe an omnipotent being can be crushed by rocks!)
19. The Corbomite Maneuver (The first evidence that Clint Howard will never lack for an acting job)
20. The Immunity Syndrome (You could seriously feel the fatigue and despair among the crew in this episode)
I look forward to any and all entries. :-)
Okay, I really enjoyed the Trek discussions with my friends a while back, so here is a challenge: Name your favorite original Trek episodes. Minimum of 5, no more than 10.
And the catch: you cannot include any on the Top 10 list as culled from Entertainment Weekly:
1. The City on the Edge of Forever
2. Space Seed
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. The Doomsday Machine
5. Amok Time
6. The Devil in the Dark
7. The Trouble with Tribbles
8. This Side of Paradise
9. The Enterprise Incident
10. Journey to Babel
Personally, #6, 8, 9, or 10 wouldn't make my second string list, much less my top 10. My list:
11. Balance of Terror (Romulans, with a seemingly superior weapon--suspenseful episode. Mark Lenard's first on-screen Trek death)
12. I, Mudd ("Harcourrrrrrrt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!")
13. Arena (Starts slowly, but Kirk v. Gorn, with the crew forced to look on, more than makes up)
14. A Piece of the Action (One word: Fizzbin. Kirk goes gangster, with Spock uttering the immortal line "I'd advise yaz ta keep dialin', Oxmyx.")
15. The Gamesters of Triskelion (One of my favorite "Oh, s**t, how are they getting out of *this* one?" eps)
16. Operation: Annihilate (Spock goes blind...oh noes!)
17. The Menagerie, parts 1 and 2 (So enjoyable, you forget Spock's hide is on the line here)
18. Where No Man Has Gone Before (You'll believe an omnipotent being can be crushed by rocks!)
19. The Corbomite Maneuver (The first evidence that Clint Howard will never lack for an acting job)
20. The Immunity Syndrome (You could seriously feel the fatigue and despair among the crew in this episode)
I look forward to any and all entries. :-)
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I look forward to the final draft of your list, but I have to comment on 'Conscience'. I loved the Shakespeare, and I would have had the episode on my list, except the daughter was so over-the-top psycho that it was almost laughable.
I still think Riley is one of the unluckiest Enterpsie crewmen ever--first he almost destroys the ship, then he gets poisoned by the daughter of a criminal. The only bigger loser in the whole Trek mythos that I can think of would be Reg Barclay. Just sayin'.