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Add my voice to those who chose Doomsday Machine. I've loved it since I was a kid, AMT model kit and all. I also really enjoy the new, CGI souped up version. It adds a new layer of excitement to it (but there are some preventable flaws I won't go into). Everything about the production is first class, from script, to performances, to music and the design of the planet killer. Really great stuff.
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I love so many, but I have to cite Trouble with Tribbles for sentimental reasons.
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1-Doomsday Machine. Best action episode, terrific pulse-pounding score, great sense of dark foreboding atmosphere.
2-Trouble With Tribbles. Best "light" episode.
3-Mirror, Mirror.
4-All Our Yesterdays (Mariette Hartley, enough said!)
5-Balance Of Terror
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I should do the adult thing and say "Balance of Terror" or "The City on the Edge of Forever", but truth be told, my favorite episode is "Shore Leave".
It's a very unique episode, it gives insight into the characters' more private sides (and thoughts), it has loads of humor, McCoy has a bit of romance, Sulu gets to do something besides pilot the ship, and we learn that the great and stalwart Captain Kirk was a victim of bullying in his youth (a revelation that really impacts Trek-loving nerds who similarly endure such hazing). And not only that we get to watch him "beat the tar" out of his tormentor after all these years (in a fight which is unusually gritty by 60s TV standards). And capping it off is a swell Gerald Fried score, with that priceless "Finnegan" jig!
"Come-on, lay one on me 'cause that's what ya always wanted!"
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I think we came up with some good suggestions in this other thread from a few months ago, when we were trying to convince Thor to give the original series a try . . .
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=72178&forumID=7&archive=0&pageID=1&r=524#bottom
Just wanted to add that I have fond memories of viewing "The Menagerie" with a sold-out audience, digitally projected at a movie theater. I thought it held up very well as sci-fi entertainment, and retained much of the magic and wonder I recalled experiencing upon first seeing it as a child.
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My all-time favorite is "A Piece of the Action". You know, the one with the 1920's gangsters. It could've been just a lame comedy episode, without its subtext about how goofy fundamentalists are.
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, Nimoy is just so good in this that it's heartbreaking at the end; he most definitely deserved those Emmy nods.