10 Greatest Star Trek Feel Good Moments

10. Spock Hearts Kirk

In picking a feel-good moment from The Original Series to be elected 'the greatest,' we certainly weren’t lacking options. A number of TOS episodes finished in a hearty belly laugh that rapidly spread amongst the bridge crew before the credits rolled. Who could forget the last second rescue of the Galileo seven, Scotty's drink by any other name that would still be as green, or, evidently, those troublesome tribbles!

There could only really be one choice amongst them all, however, and it's from an episode regularly voted as one of the best of Trek – various moments of which have gone down in legend and entered the collective consciousness. We're talking about the brilliant, character and culture-defining season two opener Amok Time.

Spock is going through the pon farr (hormones are raging, synapses blazing) and so is forced to return to Vulcan to mate or he will die. Promised for marriage to a certain T'Pring since a young age, the pair meet on the planet for the wedding ceremony, but the latter declares the kal-if-fee – a fight-to-the-death ritual challenge with Kirk as her combatant. Spock and Kirk then battle it out with the now famous lirpa and, by the duel's end, Spock is left thinking that he has killed his captain.

When Spock beams back aboard the Enterprise, he is expecting court martial for murder but instead gets the shock of his life; Kirk is alive thanks to some McCoy medical magic fake-outery (neuro-paralyser not tri-ox). Spock's immediate reaction to seeing his captain and friend again reveals his human side after an episode of pure 'Vulcanness'. "Captain! Jim!" he cries, beaming from ear to pointed ear. We were all smiling along with him.

Can I get a peace and long life up in here?