Pick the episodes that are in the top 5.

Requiem for Methuselah: The old man and his robot
The Cage: The unaired original pilot
Journey to Babel: Spock has issues with his father
Balance of Terror: Run Silent, Run Deep in deep space
Devil in the Dark: Boulders on the hunt

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Keeper of the Jabberwock

I think of "Devil in the Dark" and "Doomsday Machine" in the same sort of way - both are personal favorites

Wayne

Devil in the Dark, just for the non-anthromorphic alien...a giant chicago pizza on wheels...just like the later character Pizza the Hut...

Dale

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"Ad astra per aspera"

A non-humanoid, is-it-even-alive lifeform we can't communicate with beats guys-in-makeup aliens any day.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Any last minute voters?

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Keeper of the Jabberwock

Kudos to Janos Prohaska, who was the "wheels" inside the Horta.

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