I second the rec of Diane Duane Star Trek novels. *swoons*
Def. watch "Amok Time," of course, and also "The Naked Time" and "This Side of Paradise" (canon sex pollen ftw! Spock goes on vacation). For me, when I really want good Spock, I go back to the films, particularly II (Wrath of Khan, blub!) and IV (The Voyage Home, lol whales). There's also some seriously slashy stuff going on in "Star Trek V: Captain Kirk Is Climbing A Mountain Why Is He Climbing A Mountain," but it's kind of bad (Shatner wrote and directed it), so you takes your chances.
Oh, and Spock and Kirk wear gold lame loinclothes in "Who Mourns for Adonais," which endears it to me particularly. And "Spock's Brain," though probably the worst written episode of television in history, is hilarious and contains cyber-robo-remote-control Spock. Let's see, what else . . . in "I, Mudd," Spock goes head to head with other robots and rocks pretty hard, which I love, though there is some of the usual background "men want robot women to serve their every whim, heh heh heh" stuff that you unfortunately see in a lot of TOS episodes.
I'd advise you not to watch "The Galileo 7" - the writer decides they don't like Spock and basically spends an episode making fun of him and taking him down a peg. >:( Also, watch out for "The Enemy Within" - the premise of it sounds amazing when you look at an episode summary (Kirk gets split into his evil Id-like half and his gentle puppy-loving sweetheart half - literally he pets alien puppies in this episode) but it also has this whole rape plot that absolutely freaks me out, and reveals some pretty icky gender politics.
Similarly, be on your guard for Plato's Stepchildren . . . it's basically where the "aliens make them do it" trope comes from, and reveals that trope as pretty horrifying and rapetastic. I do treasure the part where aliens make Kirk neigh like a pony while a small person rides on his back, but then there's a scene later where the aliens force the crew to have sex with each other (almost), which is where the famed interracial Kirk/Uhura kiss comes from, and I honestly can't watch that scene it's so squicky to me on race/gender fronts.
man, it's been way too long since I watched TOS! I can't remember hardly any of my favourites. I'll have to watch this post. :)
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Def. watch "Amok Time," of course, and also "The Naked Time" and "This Side of Paradise" (canon sex pollen ftw! Spock goes on vacation). For me, when I really want good Spock, I go back to the films, particularly II (Wrath of Khan, blub!) and IV (The Voyage Home, lol whales). There's also some seriously slashy stuff going on in "Star Trek V: Captain Kirk Is Climbing A Mountain Why Is He Climbing A Mountain," but it's kind of bad (Shatner wrote and directed it), so you takes your chances.
Oh, and Spock and Kirk wear gold lame loinclothes in "Who Mourns for Adonais," which endears it to me particularly. And "Spock's Brain," though probably the worst written episode of television in history, is hilarious and contains cyber-robo-remote-control Spock. Let's see, what else . . . in "I, Mudd," Spock goes head to head with other robots and rocks pretty hard, which I love, though there is some of the usual background "men want robot women to serve their every whim, heh heh heh" stuff that you unfortunately see in a lot of TOS episodes.
I'd advise you not to watch "The Galileo 7" - the writer decides they don't like Spock and basically spends an episode making fun of him and taking him down a peg. >:( Also, watch out for "The Enemy Within" - the premise of it sounds amazing when you look at an episode summary (Kirk gets split into his evil Id-like half and his gentle puppy-loving sweetheart half - literally he pets alien puppies in this episode) but it also has this whole rape plot that absolutely freaks me out, and reveals some pretty icky gender politics.
Similarly, be on your guard for Plato's Stepchildren . . . it's basically where the "aliens make them do it" trope comes from, and reveals that trope as pretty horrifying and rapetastic. I do treasure the part where aliens make Kirk neigh like a pony while a small person rides on his back, but then there's a scene later where the aliens force the crew to have sex with each other (almost), which is where the famed interracial Kirk/Uhura kiss comes from, and I honestly can't watch that scene it's so squicky to me on race/gender fronts.
man, it's been way too long since I watched TOS! I can't remember hardly any of my favourites. I'll have to watch this post. :)