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What is your all-time favorite episode of star trek? (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It can be from any series, and if you want to pick a favorite from each show go ahead.

Picture very much related.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So hard to choose. I can tell you what isn't my favorite is Darmok. I didn't mind the episode..but when you think about it, it makes no logical sense. A lot of people like to hype that episode up, but the reality is society could never function that way.

But but, if I post a meme gif everyone understands it! Sure, but try to explain to someone how to make a semiconductor using only memes. It doesn't work. A species could communicate on a casual level like that, but they'd all still have to understand normal language.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Now I kind of want to try, start with an "I hate sand" then a ... I don't know how to make the wafer, heat? "This is fine". Then shadow puppets? with a laser light show?

Profit.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Voyager Counterpoint, where Janeway and the Inspector flirt tactically, and she beats him with science in the end. It very narrowly beats of Year of Hell.

I also really like Old Friends, New Planets, the season finale of the most recent season of Lower Decks. I don't think it beats the other two, but it came damn close

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

DS9 Q-Less. Sisko punches Q.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Always a classic.

Why bother debating, look where that gets Picard on the regular.

It's on par with flat out saying "NO, WE ARE DONE WITH YOUR BULLSHIT, GO AWAY" And refusing to engage

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

TOS 1x28 The City on the Edge of Forever

TNG 2x09 The Measure of a Man

DS9 2x19 Blood Oath

VOY 4x12 Mortal Coil

ENT 2x03 Minefield

SNW 2x02 Ad Astra per Aspera

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

TOS S02 E14 - Wolf in the Fold

Scotty’s been drinking and kills a hooker, but it’s totally not his fault.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

It's great how much they really leaned into that feeling of "modern navy" for a lot of things.

Stories you'd expect to hear from sailors... when they shot certain scenes they tried to capture the feeling of submarine life...

Also ~~rats~~ tribbles

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I used to go "Redjac! Redjac! Redjac! Rejac! Hahahahahahahaha!" when I was a kid and no one at school knew what the hell I was doing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This seems like a cliché answer, but my favorite overall is The Measure of a Man. Granted, there is a lot I haven't seen (only pieces of DS9 and Voy, and none of the new stuff other than Lower Decks).

I just really like how it raises one specific issue without trying to skirt around it while dealing with it directly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Measure of a Man

DATA IS NOT PROPERTY

He is a fully living sentient being. Full stop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Why couldn't they leave Data alone? He just wanted to feel!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I don't think that's cliche at all. It's an amazing episode and a great example of how science fiction is a mirror on humanity.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

One of my absolute favorites of all time is S5E18 [I think] of Voyager where the Doctor has to make a Sophie's choice and has a logic breakdown every time he tries to rationalize his decision and how his only course is to just push through to the next issue and not dwell on the past.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (8 children)

They loved their ethical dilemmas.

In my opinion, such information should be brutally opposed in the "planning to do bad thing for science" stages, but once the deed is done, the perpetrators are dealt with, and the information is just sitting there, destroying the information at that point feels wrong.

The people who were harmed or died should never have been in that situation in the first place, but personally if it were me, I would rather the information be used to help whoever it can, and the person who tortured or killed me to obtain the information is disrupted. slowly.

Torres is within her rights to not want the treatment.

Doctor is within his rights to use the information he himself ethically obtained, since he had no knowledge of the crimes of a cardassian.

Captain is within her rights to order the life of her crew be saved.

Torres is still right to be extremely pissed at everyone involved for going against her wishes.

Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead if honor matters.

The silence is your answer

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

That is definitely one of those "I'm not crying, you're crying!" episodes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hard to pick just one but probably TNG 4x19 "The Nth Degree". Love a good Barclay episode.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I love when Sci fi shows do the "person gets super duper smart" episodes.

Star trek and Stargate are my two favorites with this trope.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's not necessarily my favorite episode but it pops up always when I think of ST

It's voyagers episode where they observe the planet which is in its own time pocket, so the whole evolution of the society happens in days from voys perspective

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Your comment would please the Ground Shaker

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a good one, and I can't wait to see it again since I'm going through the shows with my wife (her first viewing of any of them)

The doctor beaming down for "just a minute" and being there for some ridiculous amount of time, I can't remember exactly how long.

Great episode.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

3 years. He was down there long enough to become a fan of a local sports team and chats up the astronaut about it when he gets back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When I think of TNG, the first episode I think of is Yesterday's Enterprise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine having Guinan look at you and say "your entire existence is just.... wrong"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The first time I saw it, I came in a couple of minutes late, so I missed everything changing into an alternate timeline. I saw Tasha and thought, "is this a repeat?" And I thought, "no, the uniform is wrong." I still think it would work better that way. Start it with the Enterprise C coming through the rift and the timeline already changed.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would have to be "Chain of Command". there are FOUR lights

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Also up there for me. Easily top "handful" since I can't pick an actual order.

When he admits he really did think he saw five.... I'm not crying, you're crying.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I liked the ds9 episode where they were playing baseball. "Take Me Out to the Holosuite"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (6 children)

It's a really good episode in terms of a basic story and really good acting, but if you think about it, its both a really bad way of memorializing a civilization and a horrible thing to do to a person. They could have put the entire library of their civilization into that probe, but instead they decided to make a device to make a person live an imaginary life and then have to live with the loss of a family that he never actually met in the real world and it all felt far more real than anything the holodeck could do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about it a lot, and I think it's the kind of technology that would change a civilization. They probably had games where you could spend weeks in a fantasy world in only the blink of an eye. It would be awesome. And probably normal enough eventually that they wouldn't think it weird to chronicle the end of the world that way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They did not make that clear in the episode and I am a firm believer that if you have to spend time thinking about an explanation for why something is the way it is in a TV episode when the writers didn't seem to come up with a reason shows the episode is flawed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I strongly disagree. I think half the fun of watching a sci-fi show is thinking about the rest of the world, and what it would be like based on the little snapshot we get as viewers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

That's not the same thing though. That's imagining more worldbuilding. That is not the sign of a flaw. It's when you have to use that imagination to explain something crucial to the episode that is left unexplained where the problem lies for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

You make good points, and even bring up a point I hadn't really considered fully. But did they not put their knowledge base and other things into the probe? I vaguely remember the people in the Memory World saying they did, and the flute was a personal touch added near the end.

If they had the means to, they could have sent out dozensof probes (not likely, resources didn't seem to be abundant) in all directions, some broadcasting low signals with their story, some just deep storage info crypts. That way they maximized their potential for discovery.

It's also possible the only reason Picard had physical issues with the exchange due to incompatible biology, but without that being stated in the show directly.... Its a reach.

Still my favorite though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Okay but.. life is pain, and they all died, every single last one of them, so they gave him the "gift" of their particular pain, I guess? :-P And speaking of pain, that other image (shudder), I'm going to have nightmares tonight I suppose:-P.