Since my favourite was already nominated, I can’t think of any others that spring to mind. I think the following were nominated on another thread of the same topic;
Data reminding Worf how to praise Spot, how he’s a pretty cat
Or (another Data related line) Dr Crusher letting Data know that the two boys in sickbay will forgive each other because they’re brothers, right after Lore has killed Soong and made off with the emotion chip.
And of course Spock’s line in The Cage, “The Women!”, to be enjoyed with his sudden recoil in surprise
I also liked at the end of “Redemption II” after the plot has been foiled and the pretender to the throne is hauled before the Klingon High Council. He of course is full of bravado, swearing that one day his side will rule the Empire. Gowron, bristling with confidence, smiles and replies, “Perhaps … but NOT TODAY!”
That episode is the best one ever. Suddenly, Star Trek is not this antiseptic-diplomacy-will-always-work-universe. It’s messy, it’s bloody, there are shades of grey, and sometimes the good guys have to do bad things in order to win.
Must have taken you a long time to quit–the boxing episode was in the first season, and the drunken Garibaldi episodes were in the final (fifth) season.
Er, there’s a first season episode (“Survivors”) in which Garibaldi falling off the wagon (after being framed for sabotage) is a major subplot. He pulled himself together and stayed sober until the middle of the fifth season.
Space, the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise
Her five year mission, to seek out new life, new civilzations
To bodly go where no man has gone before.
I rewatched that episode a few months ago, after having seen it as a kid. I remembered Picard defiantly refusing to cave in, being of iron will and character.
And then I rewatched it.
It’s not a victory of will, of character - it’s a victory of circumstance. He knew he was going to be rescued when he said that. It renders it meaningless.
The first season is pretty rough in spots, and mostly unlike the rest of the series, but from late season 2 to the end of 4 is some really good stuff. In some ways quite flawed, but easily, easily far better than even the best of trek.
