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1966 WEEK: All the episodes that just didn’t get enough votes in our Star Trek 60th Anniversary Poll — or any at all!
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Welcome to 1966 WEEK — a 60th anniversary celebration of an extraordinary, landmark year in popular culture. For seven days, we’re bringing you a whole host of features on everything from Star Trek, to Batman, to the Beatles, to the Monkees, and much, much more. (Just check out Walt Grogan’s latest fab banner, above!) Click here for more of the far out fun! — Dan
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For 1966 WEEK and the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, which first aired Sept, 8, 1966, we’ve posted our poll of the TOP 13 EPISODES — RANKED.
You can find that list, the names of the voters, how the weighted ballot worked, and how this came together, by clicking here.
But I also wanted to show off how the rest of the episodes fared, the ones that may be favorites to some, but just didn’t make the cut.
So here’s the BEST OF THE REST — the second 13 vote leaders, plus the also-rans and the episodes that didn’t get even a single vote!
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BEST OF THE REST
Shore Leave (27 Points). Picked No. 1 by not one, but TWO voters — Jim Beard and James Cawley. Beard: “The perfect episode: bright and cheerful moments of honest, heartfelt character emotions, balanced with the real threat of death among the flora and fauna. Beyond that, the possibilities the planet offers are food for further thought beyond this story. I look forward to seeing this one every single time.” Cawley: “This is my all time favorite. It’s the first episode I ever saw, and I love the adventure, fun and action. It drew me in as a kid and never let me go.”
Spectre of the Gun (26)
The Naked Time (21)
All Our Yesterdays (19)
The Conscience of the King (18)
The Enterprise Incident (17)
Assignment: Earth (15). Peter Bosch had this at the top: “It’s a suspenseful episode, sure, but I like the casting of Robert Lansing and Teri Garr. Oh, yes, and Isis (played in human form by April Tatro but the vocal cat sounds were by the wonderful Barbara Babcock). Too bad this never went to its own series.”
(Tie) A Taste of Armageddon/I, Mudd/The Tholian Web (14)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (13)
(Tie) The Changeling/Metamorphosis (12)
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THE ALSO-RANS
11 Points
The Corbomite Manuever
Where No Man Has Gone Before
10 Points
Errand of Mercy
The Menagerie
The Squire of Gothos
Wink of an Eye
9 Points
Wolf in the Fold
8 Points
Day of the Dove
The Immunity Syndrome
Plato’s Stepchildren
6 Points
The Galileo Seven
Miri
4 Points
The Paradise Syndrome
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
3 Points
Operation – Annihilate!
Patterns of Force
2 Points
The Empath
Requiem for Methuselah
Return to Tomorrow
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
The Ultimate Computer
Whom Gods Destroy
1 Point
The Apple
The Way to Eden
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ZERO VOTES
The Man Trap
Charlie X
Mudd’s Women
Dagger of the Mind
Court Martial
The Return of the Archons
This Side of Paradise
The Alternative Factor
Who Mourns for Adonais?
Catspaw
Friday’s Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
The Gamesters of Triskelion
A Private Little War
By Any Other Name
The Omega Glory
Bread and Circuses
Spock’s Brain
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Elaan of Troyus
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
Turnabout Intruder
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MORE
— The Complete 1966 WEEK INDEX of Features. Click here.
— The TOP 13 STAR TREK Episodes — RANKED. Click here.
— COMIC BOOK DEATH MATCH: Gold Key’s STAR TREK vs. Marvel’s STAR TREK vs. DC’s STAR TREK. Click here.
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