San Francisco Giants Reveal Their Surprising Top Star Trek Episodes—You Won’t Believe Their Picks!

Is it actually good? Yes. On the podcast, we are trying to prove if the fan theory that 40% of episodes are fine to good, 30% are stinkers and 30% are excellent is an accurate assessment of the franchise 60 years later. It was a ratio that fans came up with in the 70s, when all there really was was TOS. Given that, you’d say that 23-24 episodes of TOS’s 79 episodes are excellent, and I think this one would just sneak into that group.

How about the Giants? Tom Haller hit a walk-off home run against Pittsburgh’s Al McBean, who had pitched all 8 innings to that point. Against him? Ray Sadecki, who pitched 9 shutout innings and struck out 7 while walking 3.

10. “The Enterprise Incident” (9/27/68) | Giants 3, Reds 2 (+1) (15)

Season three of The Original Series was hampered by severe budget cuts because both the studio (Lucille Ball’s Desilu Studios had been sold to Paramount) and the network wanted to kill it. For the studio, it cost too much (Paramount was notoriously cheap) and for the network, Gene Roddenberry was a huge headache. But before the brain drain really went down, one of the few women writers working in TV at the time, Dorothy Fontana, wrote a strong episode based on the USS Pueblo Incident.

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Summary: The Enterprise violates the Neutral Zone with the Romulan Star Empire and is captured by a Romulan Commander and her unit. Their ships look like Klingon ships now not for any story reason but because the production had lost the model of the Romulan warbird built in season one (or somebody had stolen it). Anyway, Spock tries to free the crew by claiming Kirk has lost his mind and seems to kill his captain with a Vulcan death grip. But rather than buy that story and release the crew, the Romulan Commander takes to Spock and hopes to seduce him into defecting to her side with the Enterprise becoming a trophy. Soon, we learn that Kirk and Spock are doing a little bit of acting to distract the Romulans long enough for them to steal the Romulan cloaking device for examination.