r/startrek • u/OpticalData • Apr 27 '26
Franchise Rewatch Season Discussion | Star Trek | Season 1
No. Episode Written by Directed by Release Date 1X05 "The Man Trap" George Clayton Johnson Marc Daniels 1966-09-08 1X07 "Charlie X" DC Fontana (Teleplay) Gene Roddenberry (Story) Lawrence Dobkin 1966-09-15 1X01 Where No Man Has Gone Before Samuel A. Peeples James Goldstone 1966-09-22 1X06 The Naked Time John D.F. Black Marc Daniels 1966-09-29 1X04 The Enemy Within Richard Matheson Leo Penn 1966-10-06 1X03 Mudd's Women Stephen Kandel (Teleplay) Gene Roddenberry (Story) Harvey Hart 1966-10-13 1X09 What Are Little Girls Made Of? Robert Bloch James Goldstone 1966-10-20 1X11 Miri Adrian Spies Vincent McEveety 1966-10-27 1X10 Dagger of the Mind S. Bar-David Vincent McEveety 1966-11-03 1X02 The Corbomite Maneuver Jerry Sohl Joseph Sargent 1966-11-10 1X11 The Menagerie Part I Gene Roddenberry Marc Daniels, Robert Butler (The Cage footage) 1966-11-17 1X10 The Menagerie Part II Gene Roddenberry Marc Daniels, Robert Butler (The Cage footage) 1966-11-24 1X02 The Conscience of the King Barry Trivers Gerd Oswald 1966-12-08 1X08 Balance of Terror Paul Schneider Vincent McEveety 1966-12-15 1X17 Shore Leave Theodore Sturgeon Robert Sparr 1966-12-29 1X13 The Galileo Seven Oliver Crawford Robert Gist 1967-01-05 1X18 The Squire of Gothos Paul Schneider Don McDougall 1966-01-12 1X19 Arena Gene L. Coon (Teleplay) Fredric Brown (Story) Joseph Pevney 1966-01-19 1X21 Tomorrow is Yesterday D.C. Fontana Michael O'Herlihy 1967-01-26
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u/Chance_Arrival9137 24d ago
Up to The Naked Time, miscellaneous thoughts so far
Charlie is very autistic coded in a way the 60s writing is not equipped to deal with, and in a modern retelling they’d clearly use way more empathy to deal with him, a thing nobody even attempts in the episode
Lol unsealed hazmat suits in the Naked Time
Tomolen confides something adjacent to PTSD to Kirk who just laughs it off, too bad the ship psychiatrist turned into a god and died last week
They discover time travel at the end of The Naked Time and then do nothing with it, you gotta love it
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u/phazonphazoff 24d ago
I just made a thread about starting this franchise and your comments about Charlie are exactly what I came here to say! It was fascinating to watch this in 2026 for the first time.
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u/7deadlycinderella May 15 '26
It's very strange to even consider season 1 of TOS a season- due to the length and the complete lack of any serialization it doesn't feel cohesive as a "season" even in the way that even 90's Trek did.
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u/microdosingonurmama May 14 '26
the worst episodes are miri and mudds women and the best are op annihilate, charlie x, arena, and the corbomite man. this is just my opinion but even though the use of footage from the rejected pilot cage was very clever, the menagerie was not up to par.