The episodes are being presented in order of numbering. The airdates are in a slightly different order.

Episode Title: 'Tomorrow is Yesterday'
Synopsis: "When a black hole sends the Enterprise back in time to the 20th century, an air force pilot who spots the "U.F.O." is beamed aboard when the Enterprise must destroy his ship and its weapons. Kirk must return the pilot to his own century, yet find a way not to disrupt the timeline, before he can try to return to his own era."

Episode Title: 'The Return of the Archons'
Synopsis: "The Enterprise pursues a missing starship's crew on a planet ruled by a being named Landru, which takes over their minds to make them part of a passive, complacent society."

Episode Title: 'A Taste of Armageddon'
Synopsis: "An arrogant ambassador places the Enterprise in the midst of a civil war between two planets fought entirely by computer, which reports the casualties so that people can voluntarily report to disintegration chambers without their societies risking physical destriction."

Episode Title: 'Space Seed'
Synopsis: "Kirk and his crew find a "sleeper ship" of genetically bred superhumans, led by the ruthless 20th century dictator Khan Noonian Singh, who tries to take over the ship with the help of a 23rd century archaeologist who falls in love with him."

Episode Title: 'This Side of Paradise'
Synopsis: "Humans are kept safe on a planet bombarded with deadly radiation by a spore which has the side effect of making people blissfully content. Spock is reunited with an old friend who uses the spores to make him fall in love with her, but when Kirk realizes that the price for paradise is an end to exploration, he determines to recover his crew from the spores."

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Keeper of the Jabberwock

I'm curious where you got this synopsis? As I recall, they (almost) ran into a "black star." The episode was aired some time before John Wheeler used the term "black hole" and it started to get attention.

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The Leif Ericson Cruiser

Trek Nation. I'll admit that their synopses is a bit short, but all I wanted was a reminder of the basic plot. That and the short synopses tend to more content neutral.

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Keeper of the Jabberwock

TiY is not a favorite. I think the problem is that Trek tech should be more advanced and the plot is handicapped by that problem.
I really thought Armageddon was an interesting projection of virtual wars. The fact that technology has advanced to make that more real (although the social aspect is hard to come by) keeps this an interesting episode.
I liked Space Seed as a stand-alone episode, but its continuation in the movie series does give it a bit of a boost.
Paradise is an interesting take on mind-altering drugs. . .

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Keeper of the Jabberwock

I always found The Return of the Archons to be a fine counterbalance to the unsubtle main theme of Bread and Circuses.

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Khaaaaaaan!

Actually, I haven't seen any of these in years. It's interesting for me to find out which ones I still remember.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Heh. I haven't seen most of them in years either, but over the years I saw them so many times they're deeply imprinted on my memory.

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The Leif Ericson Cruiser

I used to be able to identify the title of an episode before it flashed on the screen. Now I needed the synopsis -- the title wasn't enough.

Too many years, too many brain cells.

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Observatorio de la Ballona

My memory of all the episodes is very uneven. I've seen some just within the past few months. I've been watching the episodes that have been digatally enhanced recently. The are many that I probably haven't seen in decades and possibly one or two since they were originally broadcast. I'm afraid my choices might be biased toward the new improved versions.

I never was that good with the titles, and need the synopsis as well for most (with exceptions like "Doomsday Machine," "The Trouble With Tribbles" and maybe ten others). During the seventies, Star Trek would go off the air for a year or two, then a station would run them again, and it would be long enough that I would find them interesting to watch another time (keep in mind too just how few science fiction series were around then). I remember counting the seconds at the start of an episode before I could recognize the story, not the name, but just the plot. Often I could do it in under a second, sometimes it might take as long as five to ten seconds. Recently when I saw an episode after a long, long break it took me fully thirty seconds before I was sure which one I was seeing.

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The local channel that played 'em in syndication did so at 11 at night; I didn't get to stay up to watch them much.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

"A Taste of Armageddon" was one of my all-time favorites.

A taste of Meggidos hill was really neat, first, they had the coolest actor for the part, David Opatashu, looked like Vladimr Illich for sure...This was the only episode of Trek TOS that was done right, IMHO....this one they did not mess up the script or add surpluflurous dialogue.....The cardboard sets in the first beam down were cheesy, but nonetheless this episode was very good...

Dale

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