good/favorite Star Trek eps

The ones with the styrofoam rocks were pretty good. :madgrin:

 

My fav has to be The Devil in the Dark episode; [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Dark]The Devil in the Dark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Had an affect on me when I first saw it when I was about 8 as it contains many morals.

 

I grew up with TOS and TNG: I caught a few episodes of Enterprise...got tired of its formula really quickly...and so gave up on it. One of my friends told me they got new writers and actually developed plots in season 4: so I did catch a few episodes (and wondered why they didn't have good writing at the begining: it was obvious they restructured way too late). I should sit down and watch all season 4 episodes of Enterprise. Anywho, some of my favs:

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Is_Yesterday]Tomorrow Is Yesterday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] (first to have Star Trek crew travel back to contemporary time and then have some humor about it).

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royale]The Royale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

I also liked reading Sherlock Holmes, so of course: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Elementary,_Dear_Data_(episode)

I tend to gravitate towards time travel episodes:noidea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time's_Arrow_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Lastly, since I was a teenage boy when it premiered, I liked the gross out factor of this episode:
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(episode)

 

I like all of the alternate universe episodes, even Enterprise's tie in to TOS.

The Ultimate Computer is a particular favorite.

Here's to Captain Dunsel.

 

I dont think I have a favorite episode. More like favorite series.

I like them in this order.

TNG - I grew up watching this.
Voyager - Because its like TNG.
TOS - I just like it.
DS9 - Did not like it too much since it was mostly based on a space station and mostly dealt with religion. Not that I have anything against religion but it just was not very interesting to me.
Enterprise - Horrible! The last few episodes of the last season were just starting to get good. The last episode sucked big time. The whole series just did not looked polished. It did not feel like "Star Trek".


I think they need to bring back a new series based around or near the Voyager time line.

 

I'd put the series in that order too, Force.

I think I liked the 'Nth Degree' episode of TNG the best, the one where Broccoli melds with the computer and takes the crew to meet the Cythereans. 'Tin Man' was good, too.

 

Well I don't think Star Trek was the first to introduce women having empowerment. I'm starting to catch the reboot of Elvira's Movie Macabre now....I think it's really funny to catch B movies from the 50s and 60s. I notice there were quite a few B movies in the 60s that had themes of cultures dominated by women. I tended to like that episode more when I was a kid: after med school (and learning how absurd the medical science behind that episode)...well that kind of killed that for me....though seeing Leonard Nimoy act like a remote control entity is funny

Different strokes for different folks! I don't think its our slight difference in age (I looked up the dates for TNG...looks like it ended right before I hit college), so much as the diversity in sci-fi. I do think sci-fi is one of the most diverse genres. Blade Runner, for example: even though it's set in the future....the format is very film noir. While I was growing up, I started with TOS at a very young age...I liked seeing space ships and the variety of the writing. While I watched TNG, I did recognize some episodes that were derivatives of the original...but I also saw plenty that were from a wide range of different writers. I occasionally liked a DS9 episode...and began seeing "formula" with Voyager episodes. I also liked Quantum Leap while I was growing up, so I did have hopes for Enterprise (Scott Bakula...Sam...who wouldn't want to see how that would translate to captain of the Enterprise). I found quite a bit of dissapointment with its first season....the episodes seemed so formulaic, that I could actually look at my watch and time when "the setup" was happening...when they would "encounter" their conflict...and then when they'd have resolution with their current encounter. When I saw what episodes I did of season 4...they did such a better job of having sub-plots and less formula! If they had started off that way, I think we wouldn't need "a reboot" from JJ Abrams

 

TNG S5 EP25 The Inner Light.

Best episode of the whole TNG series hands down IMO.

 

I agree.

For the original series, its "city on the edge of forever" for me.

 

I think many of us cat lovers enjoyed The Trouble with Tribbles.

Noticed how the Vulcans liked cats, and Klingons HATED them? And Worf was the watchdog of the Enterprise in more ways than one?

 

Yes, I saw that DS9 episode and Worf said the Klingons had a "Final Solution" to the Tribbles.

If I had a German Shepard, I'd name him Worf, but he would think his real name was "HONORABLE"

 

Now for a tangent

 

As an afterthought, Britney Spears never played a space babe, but Jessica Simpson was on Star Trek: Enterprise.

 

Really? Is there some correlation with the birth rate of tribbles and cats or something? I've never been much of a cat person. We did have one when I was growing up: I am an animal person, so cats still like me. Its just that more recently I've noticed I'm a lot more alergic towards cats. I don't think it's so much a sign of intelligence what pet you gravitate towards. My grandfather was one of the most intelligent people I have known...and he couldn't be in the same room as a cat just because of his allergies. I personally grew to like a dogs personality (before I learned I'm now also quite allergic to cats)....and I know that then goes into the endless debate about what is a better/ more intelligent breed...those that can understand and comply with us: vs those that can understand and "adopt" us

 

There was a STNG episode where Data asked Worf to take care of Spot, Data's cat. Data had an entire list of requests to Worf on how to take care of Spot. Worf was very reluctant to do so but did agree, saying only "I will feed him."

Klingons despised tribbles more than any other animal, something we found out in the original series "The Trouble with Tribbles" (show #44).