First, let’s be clear: Ranking the best “Star Trek” episodes is a silly thing to do. To date, the longest-running American TV franchise has aired a gargantuan 890 episodes and counting ...

"Arena" is a particularly iconic episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, thanks to the memorable battle between Captain Kirk and the Gorn Captain. The episode follows Kirk and his crew as they ...

"Arena," while not exactly reinventing ... If not for this gripping first season episode there would never have been Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, widely considered the best Trek film to ...

Though "Star Trek" has often employed a chess motif ... whereas the first season episode "Arena" places Kirk in the thick of the action. After walking into a Gorn ambush at a border starbase ...

If an intergalactic godlike being arrived and erased from existence all but one episode of Star Trek from existence, “Arena” might be the one to save. Obviously, “Arena” isn’t the all ...

“Star Trek” has become known as a series ... Welcome to the Trekkie spin on the Summer of Love. “Arena” — This episode is considered to be one of the original series’ classics, and ...

Everyone knows Captain Kirk first fought the Gorn in the classic Star Trek episode “Arena,” which aired on January 19, 1967. But when you do a deep dive into the origins of this episode ...