Captain Kirk’s Essential Star Trek Episodes, Ranked

We’ve written earlier than about what a incredible Kirk episode that is, so, we’ll preserve it transient: that is about extra than simply Star Trek’s loveably dodgy combat scene between a two-fist-swinging William Shatner and a man in a lizard-alien rubber go well with. “Arena” is about Kirk and humanity at massive’s fixed wrestle with its primal, violent self, even within the idealized way forward for Star Trek—and the way individuals and societies don’t merely simply turn out to be “good” and keep that means, however must continually reckon with, and acknowledge, these inherent struggles.

The two-fist slam is fairly goddamn nice although.