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Originally Posted by mardigras
Absolutely. I always loved it when that episode came on. I always cracked up at the part when Kirk tried to explain Spock's ears by saying, "My friend is obviously Chinese" and that as a child he had gotten his head caught in a mechanical rice picker 
The episode also featured one of my all-time favorite actresses 
Some other STTOS episodes that quickly come to mind that for me shine as brightly:
Shore Leave (predecessor to the holodeck  )
I, Mudd (Harcourt!!! You good for nothing...thing...thing..thing.thing  )
A Piece of the Action ("gangster" episode)
Assignment Earth (1968 Earth)
The Savage Curtain (Kirk met Abraham Lincoln)
...and of course, The Trouble with Tribbles  |
Star Trek works best when it plays off the actor's charm, comedy, and drama. When it turns into a video game it sucks.
DS9 had the Ferengi. Some of the best drama and comedy I've seen on tv came from some of the Ferengi episodes.
The Grand Nagus is a fucking riot. In the episode "Siege of AR 15" when Quark's nephew had his leg blown off and he lamented and turned around and blew one of the Jem H'adar away was classic.
When Quark's mom Noogie was kidnapped and Quark had to band together a bunch of Ferengi like the Magnificent Seven to rescue her was a freakin' scream.
Voyager had more Q episodes that were great. Voyage is a favorite because the crew really had to do Trek stuff to stay alive. They couldn't rely on the Federation. Episode where B'elanna Torres had a hallucination that her mother was dying and they went into the Klingon religion was my favorite.
I'm pissed they dropped everything after Star Trek 10 which was weak. They had better tv episodes than the last two Star Trek flicks.
Bring it back to the 24th Century or 25th Century and keep rolling.