Favorite Star Trek episode from ANY series....

[TZ]

I have always been much more of a TNG fan than any of the other series, so without a doubt its "The Best of Both Worlds". Although for sheer humor I have always enjoyed many of the Q episodes with my favorite being "Q-Pid" (the Robin Hood one)

[tkmorris]

1. "The trouble with Tribbles"

Old-school I know, but that is the one that I will never forget.

[baby_mouse]

2. I like anything with 7 of 9 in it.

I also like the Spider Queen of something or other wotsit from Voyager.

I'm really enthused, can you tell?

[Cannikin]

3. Voyagers 'Timeless' and 'Living Witness'

[Kutjara]

4. "The Inner Light"

Fantastic TNG episode that gave Patrick Stewart a chance to really show what he can do.

[sarge43]

8. Yup. The final scene was beautiful.

The contrast of the song and the thrum of the ship's engines - Picard's two lives.

Two others where Patrick strutted his stuff: The Measure of a Man and Yesterday's Enterprise.

[Swede]

11. That's the one.

[quip]

15. Definitely top 5!

:hi:

[racaulk]

29. Oh yes, I love that episode!

:hi:

[laconicsax]

38. I couldn't suspend my disbelief for that one

A culture whose crowning achievement is getting a rocket off the ground is able to incorporate sophisticated technology capable of penetrating the Enterprise's shields and creating a mental link with Picard to share with him the life of someone on their planet. Other than that, it was very well acted.

[Love Bug]

41. Ditto, that!

Brilliant episode and a real tour de force for Patrick Stewart.

[CGowen]

5. I watched TNG Enterprise and a bit of DS9 and very little Voyager

But I caught the Voyager episodes "The Year of Hell Part I & II" and I thought it was good

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Year_of_Hell

[Orsino]

6. TNG "Yesterday's Enterprise"

The episode throws you into an alternate time-line with little or no warning.

"I, Borg" makes you look the old enemy in the eye, and after years of terror, asks you whether you can still hate. It's wonderful.

TOS "Requiem for Methuselah" is standard cheesy Trek until the very end, when the heart-broken and exhausted Kirk falls asleep. McCoy's hateful little speech to Spock about his Vulcan lack of emotion sets up a beautiful final moment.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Best of Both Worlds Pt. 2 is a disappointing hack job of story telling

Pt. 1 was so very good. It's like they spent 90% of their time on Part 1 and then said, "Oh, fuck, we only have 40 minutes left to write the second part."

[TZ]

56. lol,, you are probably exactly right on that

but I still enjoyed it. First time I ever remember being impatient for summer to end and fall to start (I was in college at the time)

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. City on the Edge of Forever; Inner Light; A Taste of Armegeddon; Who Watches the Watchers

[sarge43]

10. DS9: Far Beyond the Stars

Mind stretching ideas, fun to watch the cast play against their characters, excellent attention to detail in the clothing and sets, including the lighting, and a reminder just how wretched and demeaning the de facto racial segregation was. In many ways, what Trek did best.

[SaveElmer]

57. That's the one...was wondering if anyone else would remembe rthis one...

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[PVnRT]

12. A Mirror, Darkly from Enterprise

:waits for the flaming:

[Snarkturian Clone]

60. no flames here

that ep was butt-ass awesome!!

[DarkTirade]

13. Just about any episode where we get to see T'pal in some state of undress. :P

Why else would I watch that series? :P

I keed, I keed. Enterprise was actually pretty interesting.

[Cabcere]

58. I think you mean

"Why else would I watch that???? SERIES!!!!1!!11!!!"

;) :rofl:

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :hi:


Edited to add that I watched it a few times over the summer w/my dad, and I didn't think it was all that bad. :) What can I say, I'm a total sucker for beagles, and the captain's dog is adorable! :loveya:







...and yeah, OK, so maybe I wouldn't exactly kick Cmdr. Tucker out of bed, either. *cough* :blush:

[Orrex]

14. I actually can't stand Q-Pid...

In large measure because I never for a second believed that Picard would be the slightest bit interested in Vash, must less totally ga-ga for her. Since that's pretty much the centerpoint of the episode, it all kind of falls apart for me.

ST: TNG The Most Toys

ST: DS9 The Forsaken

ST: VOY Drone

ST: ENT Twilight

[quip]

16. Just for this line alone:

I AM NOT A MERRY MAN! :rofl:

[Orrex]

17. It's also cool when he smashes Geordi's mandolin

Or is it a lute? I'm not up on super strings theory.

[quip]

21. à la Animal House.

Brilliant.

[Dr. Strange]

18. That is a freakin' awesome quote!

Another Worf quote: I do not smirk. But if I did, this would be a good opportunity.


I'm really fond of the episode "Tapestry," even though I'm not terribly fond of Q.

[quip]

20. Q is just an excuse for the writers to pen zingers!

And DeLancia delivers them with such panache! :hi:

[TZ]

27. Yeah, he might be an excuse

but they were great zingers. And yes I like Q-Pid for the "I am NOT a merry man quote"..In fact got that as a b-day card a couple of years ago.:)

[NewJeffCT]

24. I remember Worf being pro-choice

Troi had some alien baby growing in her stomach and Worf is there, vehemently arguing, "It (the baby) must be terminated!"

[quip]

26. That was because he saw the alien as a threat to the ship (head of security mode)

That was an awesome episode, BTW.

[TZ]

32. Someone needs to check the tips of your ears for pointiness

because that's an utterly too logical take down of a very whimsical episode!
Live long and prosper, Orrex!:D

[Orrex]

34. Okay then...

I'm annoyed that Troi and Crusher can take out two armored and helmeted knights by smashing terra cotta pots over their heads.

Overall I'd say that I found it ineffectively whimsical, much like A Fistful of Datas which was both ill-conceived and polluted by Alexander's presence. The Trouble with Tribbles, though not my favorite episode, was much more effective in its whimsy IMO.

[quip]

19. How to choose?

There literally are so many:

Captain Proton episodes are killer,

Q episodes are highlarious

Do you all remember Famke Janssen as "Kamala", or the Bynars "Minuet"?

Inner Light was brilliant.

The last episode of ST:V was very satisfying, I must say.

[MilesColtrane]

22. Voyager "Year of Hell" and "Equinox", both two parters, were very good.

Nice and dark, something you didn't see too often in some of the other series.

[baby_mouse]

42. Year of Hell was Cool!

Very adventurous. And I liked that they took a good time to tell the story...

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

49. It's hard watching re-runs of "Year of Hell" now...

After seeing "That 70's Show" I fully expect the main villain (played by Kurtwood Smith) to call Captain Janeway a "dumbass". :D

[billyskank]

52. Equinox is a good pair of episodes.

First time I watched it, it made me feel funny.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. City on the Edge of Forever -nt

[EstimatedProphet]

25. A Piece of the Action

[Va Lefty]

36. How 'bout a hand of Fizzbin, pallie?

[EstimatedProphet]

40. Is that Jerry Orbach?

[Va Lefty]

45. No , at least he 's not listed in credits on wikipedia

[Flaxbee]

28. "The Drum Head" from Next Gen --

when Picard is being persecuted by an admiral because someone on board is found to have a Romulan grandparent... Picard uses her father's words against her (the admiral, that is) and she has a melt down. But what Picard says is so appropriate today.

[Bake]

30. You beat me to it. Drumhead was a great episode.

Also the one where Picard is tortured, "There are four lights!"

Bake

[AngryAmish]

31. Wesly Crusher ODs on pills

[Love Bug]

43. Don't be dissin' on Wesley!

Wil Wheaton is a great guy and quite the liberal. Here's his blog: www.wilwheaton.net

[Orrex]

50. Wil is great. Wesley, not so much

I wouldn't say that he was the worst thing about the early episodes of ST:TNG, but he's definitely in the running.

[racaulk]

33. ST: Voyager episodes

Torres was always my favorite character in that series, so I usually liked the episodes where she had a prominent role. Especially episodes where she was forced to come to terms with her Klingon half. Some of my favorites are "Barge of the Dead," "Lineage," "Prophecy," and "Faces."

Other good Voyager episodes were "Year of Hell," "Fury," "Equinox" (both halves), "Scorpion" (both halves), and "The Thaw."

[Dukkha]

35. DS9: "The Sacrifice of Angels"

part of the dominion war arc when Sisko lead the campaign to successfully retake Deep Space nine from the Dominion occupation.

second being TNG's "Best of Both Worlds"

[Orsino]

37. I liked DS9's "Blood Oath"...

...that brought back three TOS Klingon villains, effectively rehabilitating them as tragic heroes. Turns out Klingons need love, too. Kor, IIRC, got another last episode of his own.

[laconicsax]

39. Trials and Tribble-ations

No contest.

[Auggie]

44. The Measure of a Man

Picard defends Data against being disassembled.

Voyager:

Year Of Hell
Future's End
Equinox
The Void

[geardaddy]

46. "Miri" and "The Naked Time" n/t

[geardaddy]

48. Oh and "The Menagerie, Part I & Part II" n/t

[cloudbase]

47. My choices are

"The Trouble With Tribbles," just for the way Scotty justified getting into the fight to Kirk.
For TNG, I thought "Frame of Mind" was outstanding for both acting and story line.

[Akoto]

51. My picks, with summaries ...

TAPESTRY

In "Tapestry," Picard is shot, and the wound is worsened by the fact that he has an artificial heart. This is always something he's regretted having, as he earned it in a fight when he was a more foolish youth. After he's "dead," Picard is visited by Q, who offers him an opportunity to go back in time and avoid the fight/injury which necessitated his heart replacement. In the end, Picard finds that his new self is bereft of any joy or passion, always unwilling to take risks. Picard begs Q to put things back the way they were, saying that he'd rather die as who he was than live as the man he'd just seen. Q does as asked, and Picard ends up surviving anyhow. Q was trying to teach Picard that he shouldn't resent the untidy parts of his past, as they're an important part of the whole person he is.

That's probably my favorite episode, hands down.

CHAIN OF COMMAND, PARTS I AND II

In "Chain of Command," Picard is sent on a covert mission to stop what seems to be Cardassian development of a terrible weapon. It's a trap, and he is caught. In what's probably one of the most gut-wrenching episodes I can remember, Picard is tortured, all the while trading barbs with the Cardassian who's carrying it out. In the end, the Cardassian gives Picard a choice: he can continue to suffer in agony, or he can live a life of pleasure and scholarly pursuit. All he has to do is to say that he can see five lights in the ceiling, when there were really only four. Picard refuses to break for the Cardassian, but at the end, he privately admits to Troi that he was on the verge of doing so. He would've said anything to make the torture stop.

That episode, obviously, is well ahead of its time in addressing issues of our day.

[Guava Jelly]

53. The Best of Both Worlds is my favorite as well

It was better than any of the sttng movies.

[LanternWaste]

54. Wait... that wasn't Lucy and Ethel

There one where Lucy and Ethel are on the chocolate machine that's going too fast for them and they start stuffing their clothes with candy. No... wait... I'm wrong

...that wasn't Lucy and Ethel, that was the pointy-eared elf (Gimli?) who talks monotone, and the hot chick with the short, red skirt and high heels (but they're all hot chicks with a short red skirts and high heels. That could be a problem...)

:hide:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

55. Boy, tough choices

Particularly among DS9 (which was my favorite Trek) episodes but I guess that I would have to say the 5th season episode "Call To Arms" where Sisko and the Federation crew has to abandon DS9 to the Dominion/Cardassians but not without mining the wormhole and masterfully sabotaging the command center. It was a bold move on the part of the writers to really "shake up" the series. The subsequent 6 episode "Dominion occupation arc" was well done but the 5th season finale really left my jaw on the ground.

[Snarkturian Clone]

59. DS9 The Visitor NT