What season one Star Trek episodes are best as an introduction to Star Trek?
I have a friend who has never seen Star Trek, and in order to prepare him for the upcoming movie, I’d like to show him a few episodes from the original series. I have the remastered first season, and am trying to decide which to show. Which would be best? I might show him three or four.
Wow! Tough one. I would have to say that City on the Edge of Forever Is a must.
After that I would say Balance of Terror (because it will likely be most similar to the movie, The Galileo Seven ( a great one for understanding characters and one of the few in Season one with a lot of Scotty) and then I think “Devil in the Dark”
The 3 points mentioned above by marc are unimportant and never mentioned in the series itself.
I will say that one’s I would avoid are Charlie X, The Menagerie, Court Martial, Miri, The Man Trap, The Enemy Within, Conscience of the King. I was going to also exclude “where no man has gone before” but that one could be interesting since it is a very early one and Spock is fairly emotional but it depends on how he is played in the movie. I would probably avoid “Mudd’s Women” since the comedic episodes probably are not good as an introduction.
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