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| ''[[The Enterprise Incident]]'' (TOS) || September 27, 1968 || style="text-align:right" | 3
| ''[[The Enterprise Incident]]'' (TOS) || September 27, 1968 || style="text-align:right" | 3
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=== ''The Animated Series'' ===
From 1973-1974, ''Star Trek: The Animated Series'' aired on NBC, which ran for two seasons, consisting of 22 episodes. The series was meant to finish the five-year mission established in the original series, the original cast came back to reprise their roles from the show, except for Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov, who's absence is unexplained in the series. The show was infamous for a low budget, and low ratings, and even considered by creator gene Roddenberry to be non-canon.
====''The Magicks of Megas-Tu'' ====
The eighth episode of Season 1, ''The Magicks of Megas-Tu'' had the Enterprise travel to the center of the Universe where the Big Bang supposedly happened, but due to the conditions of the outside, the Enterprise lost all power, but a saytr-like alien named Lucien (voiced by James Doohan) saved the crew, by using magic to turn the life-support back on. Lucien takes Kirk, Spock, and McCoy to his planet of Megas-Tu, and explains that he and his people are Megans, and are from a dimension where magic is real, and that his people know of Earth, as they visited there centuries ago. However, he transports the trio back to the Enterprise before the other Megans discover them. Learning that they can music magic, Spock draws a Pentagram, and attempts to use magic, and succeeds, which later causes the crew to practice it, but after Sulu tries it, Lucien appears, and warns them that practicing magic would draw unwanted attention, but it was too late, as Lucien and the Enterprise's crew appeared to be transported to Salem, Massachusetts in 1691, and put into pillories. The Megan court judging them took the shape of Puritans, and revealed that they came to Earth in peace, but many were killed for their magic, and left the Earth altogether following the Salem Witch Trials, and would send the crew to death to avenge their people. Kirk argued that humanity has changed a lot since the late 17th century, and the Megans check the Enterprise's records, showing that their arrival to Megas-Tu was an accident, and would set Kirk and co. free. However, due to Lucien showing outsiders their home, he would be sentenced to eternal isolation. Kirk argued it was cruel, as all Lucien wanted human companionship, as he was alone among the Megans, but the Megans say Lucien is actually Lucifer, which Kirk scoffs at, as religion is mainly obsolete in the 23rd century. The Megans say that Lucien's punishment was a test to see if humanity really did change since the Salem Witch Trials, which sent Kirk and co. back to the Enterprise, and would welcome visiting humans to the planet. The episode ends with Spock wondering if Lucien really was Lucifer, saying it would have been the second time he was cast out, but Kirk would be the first to save him.
With an IMDb score of 5.9/10, ''The Magicks of Megas-Tu'' is considered to be the worst episode of the series, heavily regarding the use of magic and Lucifer, as ''Star Trek'' usually doesn't involve Christianity or its figures that much, as well as its treatment of Lucifer at the end. Some say had the animated series been more popular, this episode could have killed the franchise, seeing that Americans were much more religious in the early 1970s.
=== ''The Next Generation'' ===
=== ''The Next Generation'' ===