5 best Star Trek episodes ever?

[lone wolf]

Dead simple one this. Like the Subject says which are the 5 all-time best episodes of Star Trek ever.



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[lone wolf]

Okay then, this is gonna be more difficult than choosing the worst 5 episodes but here goes anyway (once again, in no particular order).

5) His Way. Okay, this is probably a little bit controversial but I really like the Vic Fontaine episodes of DS9.

4) Best of Both Worlds Part I. Unbeleivably stunning episode. It's a shame that it commences the great tradition of Star Trek two parters consisting of a great Part I and a lousy part II.

3) The Doomsday Machine. The BBC just showed this and I was very surprised how good it is. Great script and a good plot.

2) The Cage. I saw this recently and it only convinced me more that it was a shame that Jeffrey Hunter was replaced by that ham actor Shatner.

1) Tinker, tenor, doctor, spy. Another controversial decision but I like Doctor episodes of Voyager (mostly because Robert Picardo is a far better actor than everyone else in Voyager combined) and this episode is the (intentionally) funniest episode of Voyager ever.

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Robbert Raets]

>2) The Best Of Both Worlds Part Two
>The aftermath of WOLF359... Took the "mighty" Starfleet down a notch.

I specially like the part where Locutus says 'Number_One'....
-shiver-

And also in 'parallels' we find out the Federation didn't get so lucky in some of the other universes. I'd've liked to see Captain Riker and Lieutenant Crusher take on the Borg without Picard in 'First Contact'...

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[Aldaron]

Okay...top 5.
I'm gonna copycat Cochrane and do 5 for each series - then I'm gonna add my fave characters from each series as well, just to hog bandwidth!

(Note these aren't in any particular order)
TOS
City on the Edge of Forever
The Doomsday Machine
The Paradise Syndrome
The Devil in the Dark
Trouble with Tribbles

TNG
Yesterday's Enterprise
Who Watches the Watchers
Darmok
Best of Both Worlds (I & II)
Parallels

DS9
Duet
Trials & Tribble-ations
The Visitor
What You Leave Behind
Siege of AR-557

VOY
Tuvix
The one where they find the 21st century Mars explorer (and its dead pilot).
Year of Hell
The one with the planet where time is moving millions of times faster than normal.
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

Favourite Characters
TOS: Spock
TNG: Picard or Data - not sure which
DS9: Sisko
VOY: Seven or the Doctor...again, not sure which.

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[Cochrane]

Allow me to make ammends.

Tos:
Guardian
Tholians
Bread
Where No Man
Mirror, mirror

DS9:
Tribbles
Leave Behind
Descendants
Shapeshifting Object
All the DS9 Mirror episodes

By the way, were the Tholians ever on The Animated Series?

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[Cochrane]

Top 5 honorable mentions:
Who Watches the Watchers
Darmok
The Visitor
Tuvix
In The Blink of an Eye

[Perrryyy]

TOS: Trouble with Tribbles
TNG: Masterpience Society
DS9: Melora
VOY: Doctor, Tailor, Tinker, Spy

Hon. Mention:
TOS: Space Seed
TNG: Who Watches the Watchers
DS9: Sanctuary
VOY: Emanations

[qerlin]

None of this break it into show cop-out for me...

1) City on the Edge of Froever. And I hate time travel stories, but hoo boy! And the original script was BETTER!

2) Trouble with Tribbles

3) Best of Both Worlds, PT 1

4) Who Mourns for Adonis?

5) Can't remember the name...the one with Data's sentiency trial...wait, move this one to number one.

[Robert Lai]

TOS
1. City on the Edge of Forever
2. Doomsday Machine
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. Amok Time
5. Court Martial

TNG
1. Inner Light
2. Darmok
3. Yesterday's Enterprise
4. The First Duty
5. Hollow Pursuits

DS9
- I had put DS9 on the low-priority list after the first season, and never returned to being a 'regular viewer'. However, some episodes do recommend themselves.

1. First mirror universe episode.
2. Vic Fontaine having to win back the casino.
3. Trials & Tribble-ations (even though that smacked of Voyager-style time paradoxes)
4. The series finale.

VOY
- No entries. I stopped watching after the first season for a number of reasons. The few times I tuned in to see if things had improved ... they hadn't.

[Kaiddin]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by qerlin:
5) Can't remember the name...the one with Data's sentiency trial...wait, move this one to number one.</font>

The Measure of a Man

[Cochrane]

Add Masterpiece Society, Space Seed, Amok Time, and Inner Light to my honorable mention list.

Was Emanations really that good?

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[Evan van Eyk]

Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy, probably the best doctor episode: COmputer activate the ECS - Tuvok fire the Photonic Cannon -- simply great

The Tribble Episode of DS9: All watching Worf after recognizing that he looks very odd compared to the other Klingons - we do not talk about it, that was really a funny episode

What you leave behind Part I and End of Part II, I did not like the whole Bajor Stuff with the Pah-Wraiths but nevertheless the Battle was great and also the whole farrewell

The TNG Episode where all develop back, while Data nd Picard are on a away mission. Barclay is a spider, Work some strange monster and Picards starts to become a monkey.

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[Phantom]

Hmm, lets see:

no particular order

TOS
Balance of Terror (one word....Romulans)
Patterns of Force
Doomsday Machine
Who Mourns for Adonis
Squire of Gothos
The Cage
Wolf in the Fold
Court Martial

TNG
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Wounded
Lower Decks
The 2 parter with Capt. Jellico

Voyager (sorry can't remember any titles)
-The one with that War Memorial that made them play out that battle.
The Raven (Holy Sh** I did remember a title)
The Year in Hell
-the one where they stole the transwarp coil from the Borg sphere.

DS9
-the whole "shooting" War arc.

[Phantom]

OOPS forgot Space Seed from TOS list.