Favourite Star Trek TOS episodes?

[such_heights]

It's a very exciting time here at at Purple Heights Manor - after gradually making our way through Buffy over the past year, it is nearly time for me to start showing purplefringe Star Trek. \o/

I want to start at the beginning, but I'm not sure we're going to want to watch the whole of the original series (though there's a distinct possibility we will be compelled to watch Spock's Brain, with alcohol). As I haven't watched the whole series myself, I come to the internet for aid.

So! Which TOS episodes are your favourites? Which ones do you rate as the most significant in pop culture or fandom? My list from my limited viewing would include:

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Enemy Within
Balance of Terror
Arena
The City of the Edge of Forever
Amok Time
Mirror, Mirror
The Trouble With Tribbles
Turnabout Intruder

What am I missing?

Comments

[carmilla]

My list is very similar to yours!

I'd second 'For the World is Hollow...', 'Journey to Babel' and especially 'The Enterprise Incident', which is one of my favourites and has (IMO) the best-realised female character in the show.

I'm also fond of 'Dagger of the Mind' for its unusually well-executed plot, 'Bread and Circuses' for a particularly interesting Spock/McCoy conversation, 'The Empath' for its ridiculous idtasticness, and 'Is There In Truth No Beauty?' for another interesting female character and allowing Leonard Nimoy to stretch his acting muscles a little bit.

One of my very favourite writers did a complete set of TOS reviews that might be worth having a scan through.