Star Trek Titles
When I call this post "Star Trek Titles," I mean Star Trek titles. The following is a list of the best 15 episode titles of the original series. In other words, if I knew nothing about the shows except what they're called, these are the ones I'd watch first.
I was looking for titles that promised fun, action and excitement. The more evocative the better. Points off for Shakespeare quotes.
15. A Piece Of The Action
14. Space Seed
13. This Side Of Paradise
12. Who Mourns For Adonais?
11. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
10. Spectre Of The Gun
9. The Tholian Web
8. Where No Man Has Gone Before
7. The Cloud Minders
6. Wink Of An Eye
5. That Which Survives
4. Balance Of Terror
3. Amok Time
2. The Savage Curtain
1. Operation: Annihilate!
posted by LAGuy @ 1:22 AM
6 Comments:
They sound like titles from the cheap drugstore paperbacks of my youth (Nos. 14 and 15 sound like porn titles ) and yes, they did (along with a cover picture of a partially disrobed & buxom lass in distress) encourage me to at least thumb thorough the book.
And what about Nos. 13, 8, and 2, 3 and 4?
SWMBCg, etc.
Huh? Sorry, I can't bother to answer questions from someone who doesn't even have the energy to sign into his Google account.
Hmm, freed from the constraints of having to identify myself, I can be snarky: Listen, nimrod, I was talking about porn titles.
SWMBCg, etc.
You forgot (or more likely, chose not to include) one of my favorites:
"For the World Is Hollow, And I Have Touched The Sky".
Also "Is There In Truth No Beauty", another episode with a title much better than the rest of the show. But I've never been sure how to parse it.... does it mean "is there, truly, no beauty?" or does it mean "is there any beauty in Truth itself?"?
If you include the animated series (which had the original actors and many of the original writers), you should also include
* "Beyond the Farthest Star"
* "One of Our Planets Is Missing"
* "The Eye of the Beholder"
* "How Sharper Than a Serpents's Tooth"
Of course, the last would be eliminated by your no-Shakespeare rule.
I didn't pick "For The World Is Hollow, And I Have Touched The Sky" because it sounds like a cheap Harlan Ellison knockoff.
As for "Is There In Truth No Beauty," I'm looking for action, not Keats.
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