ST:TOS episode guide by u/SiliconGold

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1	Star Trek: The Original Series					Sources for Rank/Rating:
2	BEST AND/OR ESSENTIAL EPISODES TO WATCH					IMDB, avclub, exastris, penksy, tv.com, trakt, trekranks, r/DaystromInstitute, r/startrek
3	Best episodes are "Watch", good non-essential episodes are "Optional", and decent, potentially essential episodes are "Consider watch".					Sources for Essential vs. Non-Essential:
4	"Essential" refers to episodes that are critical to the main plot, or (for less serialized shows) feature major events (e.g. new characters, enemies, etc.)					u/kraetos
5	Episode		Title	Watch?	Why?

6	S0	E01	The Cage	Optional	Highly ranked but non-essential
7			SEASON 1
8	S1	E01	Where No Man Has Gone Before	Watch	Highly ranked
9	S1	E02	The Corbomite Maneuver	Watch	Highly ranked
10	S1	E03	Mudd's Women	Skip
11	S1	E04	The Enemy Within	Watch	Highly ranked
12	S1	E05	The Man Trap	Optional	Above average but non-essential
13	S1	E06	The Naked Time	Watch	Highly ranked
14	S1	E07	Charlie X	Skip
15	S1	E08	Balance of Terror	Watch	Highly ranked
16	S1	E09	What Are Little Girls Made Of?	Optional	Above average but non-essential
17	S1	E10	Dagger of the Mind	Skip
18	S1	E11	Miri	Optional	Above average but non-essential
19	S1	E12	The Conscience of the King	Skip
20	S1	E13	The Galileo Seven	Watch	Highly ranked
21	S1	E14	Court Martial	Skip
22	S1	E15	The Menagerie: Parts 1 & 2	Watch	Above average and essential
23	S1	E17	Shore Leave	Optional	Above average but non-essential
24	S1	E18	The Squire of Gothos	Optional	Highly ranked but non-essential
25	S1	E19	Arena	Watch	Highly ranked
26	S1	E20	The Alternative Factor	Skip
27	S1	E21	Tomorrow is Yesterday	Watch	Above average and essential
28	S1	E22	The Return of the Archons	Skip
29	S1	E23	A Taste of Armageddon	Optional	Highly ranked but non-essential
30	S1	E24	Space Seed	Watch	Highly ranked
31	S1	E25	This Side of Paradise	Watch	Highly ranked
32	S1	E26	The Devil in the Dark	Watch	Highly ranked
33	S1	E27	Errand of Mercy	Watch	Highly ranked
34	S1	E28	The City on the Edge of Forever	Watch	Highly ranked
35	S1	E29	Operation -- Annihilate!	Optional	Above average but non-essential
36			SEASON 2
37	S2	E01	Catspaw	Skip
38	S2	E02	Metamorphosis	Skip
39	S2	E03	Friday's Child	Skip
40	S2	E04	Who Mourns for Adonais?	Skip
41	S2	E05	Amok Time	Watch	Highly ranked
42	S2	E06	The Doomsday Machine	Watch	Highly ranked
43	S2	E07	Wolf in the Fold	Skip
44	S2	E08	The Changeling	Watch	Highly ranked
45	S2	E09	The Apple	Skip
46	S2	E10	Mirror, Mirror	Watch	Highly ranked
47	S2	E11	The Deadly Years	Skip
48	S2	E12	I, Mudd	Optional	Highly ranked but non-essential
49	S2	E13	The Trouble with Tribbles	Watch	Highly ranked
50	S2	E14	Bread and Circuses	Skip
51	S2	E15	Journey to Babel	Watch	Highly ranked
52	S2	E16	A Private Little War	Optional	Above average but non-essential
53	S2	E17	The Gamesters of Triskelion	Skip
54	S2	E18	Obsession	Optional	Above average but non-essential
55	S2	E19	The Immunity Syndrome	Optional	Highly ranked but non-essential
56	S2	E20	A Piece of the Action	Optional	Highly ranked but non-essential
57	S2	E21	By Any Other Name	Optional	Above average but non-essential
58	S2	E22	Return to Tomorrow	Optional	Above average but non-essential
59	S2	E23	Patterns of Force	Skip
60	S2	E24	The Ultimate Computer	Watch	Highly ranked
61	S2	E25	The Omega Glory	Skip
62	S2	E26	Assignment: Earth	Skip
63			SEASON 3
64	S3	E01	Spectre of the Gun	Optional	Highly ranked but non-essential
65	S3	E02	Elaan of Troyius	Skip
66	S3	E03	The Paradise Syndrome	Skip
67	S3	E04	The Enterprise Incident	Watch	Highly ranked
68	S3	E05	And the Children Shall Lead	Skip
69	S3	E06	Spock's Brain	Skip
70	S3	E07	Is There in Truth No Beauty?	Skip
71	S3	E08	The Empath	Skip
72	S3	E09	The Tholian Web	Watch	Highly ranked
73	S3	E10	For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky	Skip
74	S3	E11	Day of the Dove	Watch	Highly ranked
75	S3	E12	Plato's Stepchildren	Skip
76	S3	E13	Wink of an Eye	Optional	Above average but non-essential
77	S3	E14	That Which Survives	Skip
78	S3	E15	Let That Be Your Last Battlefield	Skip
79	S3	E16	Whom Gods Destroy	Skip
80	S3	E17	The Mark of Gideon	Skip
81	S3	E18	The Lights of Zetar	Skip
82	S3	E19	The Cloud Minders	Skip
83	S3	E20	The Way to Eden	Skip
84	S3	E21	Requiem for Methuselah	Skip
85	S3	E22	The Savage Curtain	Skip
86	S3	E23	All Our Yesterdays	Watch	Highly ranked
87	S3	E24	Turnabout Intruder	Skip
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