16) “Court Martial” – Star Trek
Star Trek’s first crack at the trial format—in which Captain Kirk is accused of criminal negligence for jettisoning an occupied research pod during an emergency, only for it to emerge Kirk had history with the lost crewman—is not the most riveting take on the format, especially under the limitations that the show was never going to actually find its protagonist fallible. But it’s still an interesting bit of insight into who James T. Kirk is as a person, and his history before the Enterprise.
