"The Corbomite Maneuver" (season one, episode ten; 10 November 1966): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: "The Corbomite Maneuver" is another banger, a tense character study with a peaceful resolution. The Original Series was great right out of the gate, in contrast to the series in the Golden Age, which typically took a few seasons to ripen. Sure, the continuity of the early episodes is a mess (Captain Kirk identifies the Enterprise as a "United Earth" ship & the adversary is an ambassador from the First Federation), but that's because episodic television of the 1960s was a whole different animal than the ultra-serialized, world-building television of today.
My D.V.D. boxsets have the original visual effects, though someday I really should acquire a set of the show with the remastered effects from the Aughts. Below is the remastered First Federation flagship, the Fesarius, which is described as a sphere more than a mile in diameter.
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