The Cringe of Star Trek: The Original Series

by ar-32526 | created - 14 Jan 2023 | updated - 11 months ago | Public

Some of these episodes are very bad.

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1. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Paradise Syndrome (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Trapped on a planet whose inhabitants are descended from Northwestern Native Americans, Kirk loses his memory and is proclaimed a God while the crippled Enterprise races back to the planet before it is destroyed by an asteroid.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Sabrina Scharf

Votes: 3,288

2. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise discovers an apparent asteroid that is on a collision course with a planet is actually an ancient populated generation ship.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Katherine Woodville

Votes: 3,124

3. 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: 3,312

4. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Omega Glory (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Morgan Woodward

Votes: 3,441

5. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Gamesters of Triskelion (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are trapped on a planet where abducted aliens are enslaved and trained to perform as gladiators for the amusement of bored, faceless aliens.

Director: Gene Nelson | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Joseph Ruskin

Votes: 3,504

6. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: A Private Little War (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nancy Kovack

Votes: 3,281

7. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: And the Children Shall Lead (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Craig Huxley

Votes: 3,409

8. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Lovely telepath Miranda is aide to Ambassador Kollos, in a box to stop insanity when humans see Medusans. She rejects Larry, a designer of Enterprise, and senses murderous intent nearby.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Diana Muldaur

Votes: 3,208

9. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Spock's Brain (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew of the Enterprise pursues a mysterious woman who has abducted Spock's brain.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Marj Dusay

Votes: 3,624

10. 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: 3,392

11. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: A Piece of the Action (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.

Director: James Komack | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Anthony Caruso

Votes: 3,823

12. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Bread and Circuses (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Smithers

Votes: 3,279

13. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Assignment: Earth (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Robert Lansing

Votes: 3,704

14. 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: 3,371

15. 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: 3,471

16. 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: 3,299

17. 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: 3,904



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