Best Trek Episodes

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-02-09 05:49pm

Since we appear to have a trend of the bad Trek episodes, lets list the good Trek episodes from each series.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2005-02-09 05:55pm

City on the Edge of Forever best Trek episode EVER.

TNG: Yesterday's Enterprise followed closely by Best of Both Worlds

DS9: The DOminion War arc in general had some very good episodes (in the Pale Moonlight, Sacrifice of Angels, The episode where Gul Dukat and Sisko are trapped on a world together) but nothing stands out to me as a truly great episode like the others. Generally I liked most of the DS9 episodes.

Voy: Scorpion

Ent: The Pilot

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-02-09 05:58pm

I rather liked TNG: Chain of Command. I know they portrated Jellico as a sort of bad guy, but it was very nice at showing the other side of Starfleet -- that is, the side not dominated by the wishy-washy touchy-feely types.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-02-09 06:04pm

TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles

TNG: Relics

DS9: The one where the Klingons attack the station, Way of The Warrior i think

Voy: none honestly come to mind

Ent: can't say i ever watched a whole episode

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-02-09 06:07pm

DS9 had two episodes that really stood out.

"In the Pale Moonlight". This episode was really a Garrak episode. It showed who Garrak really was. He isn't evil, he just does evil to get things done. This is one of those episodes that shows that whether or not you like it, you have to ignore your morals from time to time in order to get important jobs done. Sisko was dragged into a mess of his making. Garrak created one hell of a plan that the viewer couldn't even predict, but its simplicity meant it had a near perfect success prediction.

"The Sound of Her Voice" This episode has you getting to know a Starfleet officer who is trapped and trying to get help from someone. The members of the Defiant get to know her as she needs reassurance and friendship while she sits alone on the planet. The ending was totaly heart breaking because you realize there was absolutely nothing they could do to save the woman. The consulation is she died knowing she was going to be rescued. The crew of the Defiant retrieved the corps and gave her a proper funeral and wake.

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2005-02-09 06:32pm

TOS: "Balance of Terror" (haven't seen "City on the Edge of Forever")

TNG: "Chain of Command" or "Yesterday's Enterprise"

DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight" or "The Die is Cast"

VOY: "Message in a Bottle"

ENT: The Vulcan Arc ("The Forge", "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara")

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-02-09 06:50pm

Hmmmm...

Darmok
Doomsday Machine
BOBW
Space Seed
The Inner Light
City on the Edge of Forever
Balance of Terror

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2005-02-09 07:54pm

TOS:
City on the Edge of Forever, Trouble with Tribbles, Squire of Gothos, Balance of Terror

TNG: Yesterday's Enterprise, Deja Q, Best of Both Worlds, Chain of Command, All Good Things...

DS9:
Valiant, The Sound of her Voice, Rocks and Shoals, Time's Orphan, In the Pale Moonlight, Sacrifice of Angels (all except the very end), You are Cordially Invited.... (don't tell me you didn't crack up with Julian and Miles had the vision of them killing Worf...), the Maginificent Ferengi (The only Ferengi episode worth mentioning), As you can see, most of my favrotie DS9 Episodes come from Season 6. Oh, and The Die is Cast also must be mentioned.

Voyager and Ent: never watched them.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-02-09 08:03pm

The Magnificent Ferengi: I know the premise was... questionable, but overall it made for a damn fun episode. Those are often my favourite types, just when it's the fun adventures around the galaxy.

Treachery, Faith and The Great River. An episode with a good A-plot and a fun B-plot. The A-Plot gave some fun insights into the Dominion and the Vorta especially. The B-plot was just fun.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2005-02-09 08:10pm

"True Q" is my favorite. Period.

Not for any particular reason, I just did.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-02-09 10:30pm

For TNG, I still say "Heart of Glory" was the best TNG episode I've ever seen.

Since I'm the only Voyager fan on the entire board, the very best were "Latent Image", "Message In A Bottle", The Captain Proton episodes, "Eye of the Needle", "Deadlock", "Flashback", "Living Witness",
"Timeless", "Course: Oblivion", "Blink of an Eye", "Life Line", "Shattered",
"Endgame, Part I &2"

I'd put them up against any TNG or DS9 episode.

The Silence and I · Post by **The Silence and I** » 2005-02-09 11:10pm

TOS: Not sure, I haven't watched enough often enough to get into the mood of it. City On the Edge of Forever did strike me as very powerful though, and Trouble With Tribbles is simply classic.

TNG: Yesterday's Enterprise. Period. It felt like I had just watched Gladiator or some other hugely powerful movie, it is nothing I have ever experienced from a television episode before or since.
Runners up are many, Deja Q, Best of Both Worlds, The Offspring, Who Watches the Watchers, The Chain of Command, The Inner Light, Darmok , All Good Things (a touching end which redeems season 7 for lacking much else). I could think of more I'm sure, there are dozens and dozens of episodes!

DS9: Trying to catch it through classes and homework...not working...cannot say with comprehensive knowledge, but I liked the one where Jake loses his father and tells the story from the perspective of an old man. A nice story IMO.

VOY: There was a best?

ENT: Ohh hard. Some of the Zindi episodes, towards the end, were good, nothing stands out though as "OMG that was a masterpiece!".

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-02-10 12:55am

TOS: The Doomsday Machine. I loved it when I was a kid and still do. Great tension.

TNG: Redemption. Very well written--until the technobabble end which is my only complaint.

DS9: I actually thought "Troubles and Tribulations" was funny as hell. I laughed my ass off at seeing Quark piled high in Tribbles.

VOY: Scorpion pt 1. Very tense. Loved the idea of the borg "being over a barrel"

ENT: haven't seen any since early season 1.

Skylon · Post by **Skylon** » 2005-02-10 01:12am

TOS: Balance of Terror...no, City on the Edge of Forever...no, Where No Man Has Gone Before...bah...just some classics in the series.

TNG: The Inner Light

DS9: "By the Pale Moonlight" I think was the title, it was Sisko trying to get the Romulans in the war on the UFP's side and him re-telling the events through a Log entry.

VOY: "Death Wish"...only episode I relaly enjoyed frankly...

ENT: Haven't watched enough.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-02-10 01:28am

TOS
The Cage, Where No Man Has Gone Before. I liked them because they were the start of the whole damn show, and because it showed the hero as a man not a superhero (Pike escaped out of dogged determination, Kirk defeated Mitchell only because Dehner intervened). Balance of Terror. Arena. Errand of Mercy. All three episodes introduced an alien menace to face the Federation. They were the first appearance of Trek's most enduring villains, the Romulans and Klingons, and a stunning one episode wonder who, unfortunately, never got a reappearance in later Trek. (I for one think that the Gorn are the best one-episode wonder in all of Trek) I am partial to Amok Time, Journey to Babel, This Side of Paradise, Devil in the Dark, Mirror Mirror... there were quite a few episodes of TOS that were enjoyable.

[edit]I'm gonna buck the trend and say that City on the Edge of Forever was a letdown. It was already boring to begin with, but once you read Harlan Ellison's original script... my god, what COULD have been...!

Now that would have been an awesome show.

TNG
From season one I would say Datalore rises above the rest. Lore was a great character to introduce and Spiner played him convincingly. He was chilling when he told Wes matter-of-factly whilst grinning: "You've earned yourself a slow death, little man."

Fuckin' a! Too bad Data lobotomised him.

What a shit way for a villain to go out.

From season two QWho stands out, obviously. The introduction of the borg, Q actually saying something IMPORTANT as opposed to annoying: "If you can't take a bloody nose then go home and crawl under your bed! It's not safe out here, Picard. It has wonders both fantastic and sublime... but it's not for the timid."

From season three: The Defector - finally a Romulan episode in TNG that doesn't suck. Yesterday's Enterprise - a 'mirror' episode that was awesome; it was perfect, down to Stewarts grim and hardened face at the very start of the episode. Best of Both Worlds part one - this was the episode that TNG jumped the shark. After this point, there would never be a episode which reached it's heights. IMO seasons five, six and seven are all but unwatchable. Even the concluding episode, part two, left a lot to be desired. Simply put, this was the pinnacle of TNG.

DS9
The Emissary was a pretty good way to start the series.

The Circle trilogy that premiered season two was good. I still like watching it. The Maquis is also somewhat watchable as well. I liked The Wire, as it gave Garak and Andrew Robinson a moment to shine.

It's hard to tell when DS9 jumped the shark, but I think it was either The JemHadar or The Die Is Cast. Probably the latter. TDIC was dramatic and cool, but flawed as well. But in any case, I'm convinced that DS9 got significantly worse with the premiere of Way of the Warrior, almost to the point where I didn't want to watch it at all. I missed most of season five, it just got boring. The Dominion War was a let down. Season seven I find completely unwatchable. Most of the actors look like they're just going through the motions. However, out of the last two seasons there were two diamonds in the rough: In the Pale Moonlight, and Inter Arma Enem Silent Leges. Two stunning episodes.

VOY
If I absolutely must pick an episode, I pick Meld in season two; just because it shows Tuvok strangling Neelix, ST's answer to JarJar Binks.

ENT
Probably the pilot episode. I haven't seen enough of this show to really offer a complete opinion, but the pilot wasn't bad it was the immediate episodes that seemed as though they were written by an infantile mind (Trip getting pregnant? Jesus...)

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-02-10 02:07am

for ToS i'm going to have to echo sentiments on trouble with tribbles, a piece of the action and city on the edge of forever. those were all classic trek at its best.

TnG: hrm. can't think of any particular episodes off the top of my head. was an enjoyable series overall but no single episodes really seem to stand out.

Ds9: pretty much any garak episode. the episode where the ferengi got together to rescue quark's mother was pretty good. can't remember its name offhand.

Voyager: erm. erm. erm. okay, can't think of one here.

Ent: haven't really seen enough of it to say.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 2005-02-10 02:56am

TOS - Space seed, Trouble with Tribbles, Mirror Mirror, A taste of Armorgeddon (sp?), where no man has gone before.

TNG - I dunno. they were all kinda blah. At a push, Best of both worlds.

DS9 - The way of the warrior, Starship down, Rocks and Shoals, the Die is Cast, The sound of her voice, the one where sisko hunts down endington, the one with Tom Riker in, our Man Bashir and - please nobody lynch me for this - budda-bing budda-bang.

Voy - The pilot episode was awesome. After that, none jump to attention

Ent - I really, really like the end credit music ~ that is all. [/i]

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2005-02-10 03:01am

TOS: Assignment Earth. Trouble with Tribbles, the one with the neural braincells who tortured the victims with pain to control them, Devil in the dark. The cage, the mengarie.

TNG: too many but standouts would be Time Squared, Best of Both Worlds, most of season 3, most of season 4, most of season 5, Frame of Mind, Chain of Command..

DS9: The Search, any ep with the dominion. Just too many to name..

Voyager: Timeless, Scorpion, Dragons Teeth, The Void, Prey, Endgame.

ENT: HELL NO, this series isnt canon..

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-02-10 03:17am

Darth_Zod wrote:Ds9: pretty much any garak episode. the episode where the ferengi got together to rescue quark's mother was pretty good. can't remember its name offhand.

The Magnificent Ferengi.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-02-10 03:17am

A Piece of the Action is my absolute favorite Trek episode of all time; however, I think "Balance of Terror" or "Mirror Mirror" is the best.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-02-10 11:36am

TOS: Balance of Terror

TNG: Yesterday's Enterprise

DS9: Way of the Warrior, though the last episode was really good, too.

VOY: Didn't watch most of the series, but I found the Nazi holodeck episode to be amusing, if absurd.

ENT: Does it even matter what their best episode was?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-02-10 01:15pm

TOS : The Doomsday Machine. Commodore Decker was a terrific character, and the guy who played him put in enough little touches to show how unstable he was. Plus we get a real space battle, the wreck of the Constellation coming back to life, and a shuttle launch

TNG : Yesterday's Enterprise, The Inner Light, and All Good Things - especially for the Uber-fanwank-Enterprise. I know it's silly, but damn...

DS9 : The Sound Of Her Voice.

Voyager : Future's End, Message In A Bottle (USS Prometheus !) - hell, any epsiode that isn't about a forehead mutant-of-the-week in need of a peptalk.

Enterrpise : Observer Effect.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2005-02-10 01:21pm

TOS: Doomsday Machine

TNG: Best of Both Worlds I + II

DS9: House of Quark

VOY: The one where Chakotay and the Maquis committ mutiny and shove Janeway's corpse out an airlock

ENT: The one where the dog was sick

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-02-10 02:08pm

Darth Fanboy wrote:VOY: The one where Chakotay and the Maquis committ mutiny and shove Janeway's corpse out an airlock

Was there such an episode? <does the happy dance> I'm thinking this was either a joke or the Voy writers used their lovable reset button.

ENT: The one where the dog was sick

As opposed to the entire show you mean?

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2005-02-10 03:20pm

They did, Servo. The whole "Maquis take over the ship and maroon Janeway" thing was quickly shown to be a holodeck program created by Tuvok to train his security people. When I saw the mutiny happen I was thinking "Yes! Finally!" then they threw cold water all over it. Not so much a "reset button" cheat as an "it was all a dream" cheat.