After having watched it, I think I can say the whole third season is excellent (plus BOTBW part 2 ), with only a handful of boring episodes (I don't think I even saw a really bad episode in this season).
After having watched it, I think I can say the whole third season is excellent (plus BOTBW part 2 ), with only a handful of boring episodes (I don't think I even saw a really bad episode in this season).
"The main difference between Trekkies and Manchester United fans is that Trekkies never trashed a train carriage. So why are the Trekkies the social outcasts?"
Terry Pratchett
Cause and Effect was interresting.
Best of Both Worlds 1&2 still take the cake however.
Phoenix...
"I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity,
but maybe we should just remove all the safety lables and let nature take it's course"
"A Place For Everything & Nothing In It's Place"
Already mentioned:
The Hunted
The Defector (my vote for episode with best dialog, perhaps in the entire series; just listen to Picard and Jarok arguing on the nature of defection)
Yesterday's Enterprise
Best of Both Worlds (a given in my opinion)
And then there's:
Parallels (7th season ed where Worf jumps quantum realities, "Sir, there are 256,000 Enterprises. . .)
Relics (despite, to coin a phrase, , clinky dialog).
Darmok (yeah, me too!)
Sins of the Father
Cause and Effect (See the Enterprise blow up five times!)
Oh, there are probably a few others too. . .
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In approximate order of the ones mentioned:
The Inner Light
Who Watches the Watchers
The Offspring
Parallels
Face of the Enemy
The Defector
Yesterday's Enterprise
Cause and Effect
The Pegasus
Relics
Darmok
Ones mentioned that I dislike, worst first:
Genesis
In Theory
A Fisfful of Datas
Legacy
My list kind of echoes everyone else's:
Yesterday's Enterprise (how could you not like this one)
The Defector
Best of Both Worlds 1 & 2
Parallels
And a few others that might not have been mentioned:
The Measure of a Man (well acted by the cast)
Reunification ( SPOCK !!) 1 & 2
Sins of the Father
Redemption 1 & 2
The First Duty (hate Wesley,but it was a good story,Picard gave a good speech)
The Offspring-I hate to admit it but this one seriously choked me up the first couple of times I watched it.
"I am not a Merry Man!"-Worf
Any of the Jellico (Ronny COx) episodes. MEasure of a Man was probably the best of the bunch; they could have done more with the "is a machine really life" issue throughout the series, but just sorta let it drop.
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill
Here's my list of "must haves" (some have already been mentioned, but I'm too lazy to go back through the thread and remove them all from the list! )
Skin of Evil
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone
Loud as a Whisper
The Measure of a Man
Q Who
The Emissary
Who Watches the Watchers?
The Defector
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Sins of the Father
Sarek
Transfigurations
Best of Both Worlds I
Best of Both Worlds II
Suddenly Human
Data's Day
The Wounded
The Drumhead
Redemption I
Redemption II
Darmok
Unification I
Unification II
Cause and Effect
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Inner Light
Relics
Chain of Command I
Chain of Command II
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Starship Mine
The Chase
Rightful Heir
Descent I
Descent II
Dark Page
Attached
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
All Good Things
Starting off with a quote from Maurice Hurley, the writer of "Shades of Grey", I'll go into my "Must Avoid At All Costs" list (the only reason I have any of them is I'm getting the series sets - what can I say? I'm obsessive compulsive! )
Re: "Shades of Grey" - according to Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, even the script writer, Maurice Hurley, described his own work as "terrible; just terrible".
Episodes to avoid...
Code of Honour
Justice
The Royale
Shades of Grey
Aquiel
Hmm...being fair, there's not that many "for God's sake, don't watch it!" episodes. There's a lot more I'm not particularly fond of (Emergence, Genesis, When the Bough Breaks, etc), but they've either got interesting background stuff or some saving grace.
I do think the title of "Worst TNG Episode Ever" belongs to either "Justice" or "Code of Honour" - I'm not sure which...
When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for others.
It's the same when you are stupid...
I decided to go by season and restrict myself to ONE ep per season. You'll note that there are many political/military/'major races' themed eps but I also really like eps like 'The Most Toys'.
S1: Conspiracy
S2: The Measure of a Man
S3: The Defector
S4: The Wounded
S5: Redemption part2
S6: Face of the Enemy
S7: Preemptive Strike
as a side note... I really don't get why Yesterday's Enterprise and BOBW 1&2 are so revered; to me they are great episodes but as I said I don't understand their 'cult' status. Explanations?
"No captain kicked ass, took names, outsmarted the machines, and then scored the babes like the Kirkmeister" -Liquidator Queeg
Add the following to my list of good ones:
Sarek
Unification
Dark Page
To answer Snake, I love Yesterday's Enterprise because I love all alternate universe and time travel episodes. I hate to admit it, but I also like YE because it is dark. I like the alternate uniforms.
Best of Both Worlds is not one of my real favorites. Its events don't stand out in my mind. I'm not much into the warfare type stuff. The Wrath of Khan is not one of my real favorites either.
Hmmmmm.
Well.
Lets see now.
Errrrrrrm.
Well Best of Both Worlds Pts 1 and 2 of course.
But then there's Yesterdays Enterprise.
But what about Pre-emptive Strike (sets up nicely the Maquis).
Or you could say The Enemy and also The Defector.
You can't leave out Gambit Pts 1 and 2 either.
Then there's also All Good Things.
But what about The Pegasus I hear you cry.
Or Relics.
Or Reunification Pts 1 and 2.
Or The Drumhead.
Oh the choices....
Okaaaaaaay.
If you insist: Yesterday's Enterprise.
IMHO.
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I decided that unrealistic episodes like the Deevolution one and the Masaka one are good because they're entertaining, and that that really is what matters most. I still say they didn't happen, though. Maybe Data dreamed them.
Jona, how could you?... you forgot to mention Shades of Grey.
"No captain kicked ass, took names, outsmarted the machines, and then scored the babes like the Kirkmeister" -Liquidator Queeg
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