Celebrate 800 Episodes ofStar TrekBy Making Your Favorites Fight to the Death

Star Trek itself turn 55 in just a match of calendar week , but as of today ’s episode of Lower deck , “ We ’ll Always Have Tom Paris , ” the franchise remove another major milestone : 800 episodes of boldly going have now been liberate for ourjoy , horror , andoccasional charade . But it also means piece your all time favorite gets increasingly harder .

How do you even begin to cull the good Star Trek episode , anyway ? Lord knows , we’ve adjudicate in the past here at io9 — but even then , we had to number 100 of the best episode , not just one ! There is so much Trek , and so much of it speaks to so many different matter that reset the series worth an 800 - episode journeying in the first position , distilling everything you screw about Star Trek into a exclusive slash is basically an existential crisis with a side of Gorn . People amount to the franchise for very different things ; Star Trek has such variety that what one fan value most over another can be found in radically different selection .

Does the best Star Trek represent the franchise ’s most utopian nonesuch ? Does it utter to something about the human condition , through an exotic electron lens or otherwise ? Does it make you express mirth , or wear out your fondness ? Does it have the coolest ship battles ? Does it simply take the line“Get the Malva sylvestris to sickbay , the doctor should expect at it as soon as potential ” ?

We demand some Kal-if-fee over your favourite Trek!