I can’t remember the name, but it was TNG, the first time the Enterprise D meets the Romulans, there were two Warbirds against the enterprise and the Romulan commander is getting ready to blow away the enterprise. Picard makes a gesture to Worf, Worf hits a button and 3 Klingon Birds of Prey de-cloak surrounding the Romulans.
I first saw it in college with a bunch of friends, and we actually jumped up and cheered!
Well, if I had to choose one from each series:
TOS - Balance of Terror. Great acting and really got under the skin of the enemies.
TNG - Brothers. Picard goes home after being assimilated and recovered and has to deal with the psychological damage of being basically mind-raped. Great performances by Stewart and the group portraying his sister-in-law, nephew and, especially effective, his gruff brother. I cried a little when the brother and nephew died in a fire at the beginning of Generations.
DS9 - Tie. Either The House of Quark, where Quark has to save a Klingon house, or the episode where is Sisko is hallucinating that he is a science fiction writer in the late 40s. Great acting, and great fun to see everybody out of costume and makeup (you can play “which character is that guy?”) I personally really liked seeing Michael Dorn as an arrogant baseball player and Armin Shimmerman as an annoying Socialist.
VOY - Year in Hell. I don’t usually go for “it never happened” stories, but this was surprisingly effective. I also, as a former theater person, especially liked that they had to opportunity to just *trash[/] the sets and the models of Voyager.
TOS:
City on the Edge of Forever (Met the writer, Harlan Ellison, a few times.)
The Trouble With Tribbles (Met David Gerrold a few times too.)
A Taste of Armageddon
The Cage
The Corbomite Maneuver
The Doomsday Machine
Arena
Devil in the Dark
Journey to Babel (Also met D. C. Fontana.)
Mudd’s Women
TNG:
The Best of Both Worlds
The Inner Light
The one where Q introduces the Borg.
The first Barclay episode.
The one where the Traveler soups up the Enterprise’s engines and they visit the edge of the universe. (The only good first season episode.)
DS9:
When Sisko becomes a struggling 1950’s sci-fi writer.
Quark, Rom, Nog and Odo crashland in Roswell, NM.
The one where Chief O’Brien thinks the rest of the crew are aliens and are out to get him.
Most DS9 episodes sorta merge together in my mind as one long “DS9 vs. the Dominion” show.
VOYAGER:
Most Voyager episodes sorta merge together in my mind as one long “Well, we’re not getting home today” show.
I used to watch TNG a lot, but I can’t remember any specific episodes.
My favorite series was DS9. My favorite episodes were the last ones (I don’t know the name) with the huge battles with the Dominion.
Voyager: I have to agree that though it never happened, Year in Hell was my favorite. It just goes to show that’s the condition Voyager really should be in after all that time and battles with only makeshift repairs.
TOS
Mirror Mirror
The Immunity Syndrome
Tholian Web
Squire of Gothos
Conscience of the King
TNG
Frame of Mind
Cause and Effect
Yesterday’s Enterprise
Sins of the Father
Innerlight
DS9
The Wire
Way of the Warrior
Little Green Men
Duet
Call to Arms
VOY
Year of Hell
Scorpion
Someone to Watch Over Me
Think Tank
Dreadnought
TAS
Beyond the farthest Star
The Slaver Weapon
More Tribbles More Troubles
How Sharpen than a Serpent’s Tooth
Loreli Signal
A couple of good Voyager episodes:
A Year In Hell was pretty good, despite the reality check already mentioned (For that matter, I don’t see how Voyager is still running after all these years with out the regularly scheduled maintanance. In MY Voyager show, the ship would barely be recognizable because of all the jury rigged attachments that would be added every few months.)
I also liked the episode where they found the planet that was in a subspace field where time ran faster on the magnitude of one second=one year. Voyager was stuck in orbit, and its presense cause regular earthquakes to occur throughout the planet. At the show’s beginning, the natives were at the Stone Age, and their attempts to communicate with the Star City helped spur their society’s developement:
1)One world government formed early to deal with the problem of “the gods”
2)Radio invented to communicate with the space city
Manned space flight to the City to investigate. This led to a subplot where one of the astronauts had to deal wit the fact that in the two or so hours he was on board, everyone he knew back on his homeworld had already died of old age, several centuries ago.
Weapons developed to destroy the unresponsive “gods”, eventually leading to bombs more powerful the photon torpedoes.
5)The ability to set up subspace fields that let the inhabitants enter the “universla time”.
IMO, this is one of the best ST episodes ever.
I also enjoy most of the Borg episodes.
DSN had a pretty good run overall, especially the last couple of seasons.
Overall, the third and fourth seasons of NG were the best of all the ST franchises.
I never watch DS9 or Voyager (and I’m a bit vague on TNG), but here are my picks:
TOS–
The Trouble with Tribbles (My brother muted this one because he was on the phone–I just started doing the dialogue myself.)
City on the Edge of Forever (well-written time travel, McCoy as badass paranoid, and the immortal words “stone knives and bearskins”)
Balance of Power ('nuff said)
The Corbomite Maneuver (“Not chess…Mr. Spock…poker!” Balor had a bluff going, too–I found the irony amusing.)
TNG–
The Inner Light (Most original plot in the series)
Best of Both Worlds (The action-packed side of Star Trek. The Borg renaming Picard “Locutus” was a nice touch.)
JosephFinn wrote:
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That episode was titled “Family”, not “Brothers.”
“Brothers” was the episode where Data’s mind gets taken over and he hijacks the enterprise to go and search out Lore.
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My favorite episode is “Severed Dreams.”
That’s the one where President Clark declares martial law, and Sheridan responds by declaring independence from the Earth Alliance, so the Earth Alliance sends four Hyperion-class heavy cruisers to pound Sheridan into submission, and they almost succeed but Delenn shows up at the last minute with a fleet of Minbari cruisers and scares them away.
No, wait … that was from a good TV series.
Did you ever see the guy who played Wesley Chrusher and Bill Mumy together at the same time?
Hey tracer, Go fuck yourself with a '58 Desoto. What series is that? I hope it’s one that has endured for 35 years in many different inacandations, one that still inspires IN SPITE of the many week episodes, one that people will probobly still be talking about in 100 years, if only for it’s laughable prognostications about the future. Is that Babble-on 9? or another one? Jerk.;););)
And IMHO, the DS9 episode The Visitoris as good or better than any other Trek ever filmed. Hell, it’s as good as any TV ever filmed.
From Classic Trek: Any episode where Nichelle Nichols hiked her skirt. Yes, she admitted that she did. It is an indicatior of a whether or not it is great episode. “The Ciy on the Edge of Forever” is a prime example. It’s true, it’s true.
From TNG: The episodes with Jonathan Frakes sporting a beard and with Dr. Crusher on the ship are good ones.
Episodes focusing on the talents of Patrick Stewart or Brent Spiner are good ones, too.
From DS9: When Hawk was called in by Spenser. Oh, I mean the episodes in which Avery Brooks sported the Patrick Stewart hairstyle (Now, let’s imagine William Shatner and Kate Mulgrew without their locks).
Voyager: hmm…would you believe clowns? The one great episode I saw featured a Pierrot-Lunaire-type clown.
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Of course, you mean, “Die, and not come back” (ie, Spock, and, of course, several characters in the original series–Scotty at least twice)
Guess the geek patrol is going to coming to take me away, too.
Yep, another good one. For two more, see my post in this thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37839
Then there was Korax’s dialogue in baiting the Enterprise crewman in “The Trouble With Tribbles” bar scene. Anyone else notice his subtle mockery of Scotty’s accent when he replies “You’re right, I should”, to Scotty’s suggestion that he rephrase that. Followed of course by that classic line:
“I didn’t mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away (sticks head right in Scotty’s face) AS garbage!” 
Oh, God. I have GOT to talk about this.
I loved the Classic Trek fight scenes. First of all, there are the stunt doubles that bear little resemblence to the actors. :eek:
While a few of the fight scenes are pretty decent (Kirk’s fight with Gary Mitchell in Where No Man Has Gone Before comes to mind), others are just unbelievable (Check out some of the pulled punches in the “Tribbles” bar fight: Scotty throws at least one punch that must be a good foot short, to say nothing of Chekov’s fake punches to the Klingon’s stomach. Then there’s the fight between Decker and the crewman in “The Doomsday Machine”. Check out the scuff marks all over the floor–they must have rehearsed that scene A LOT!)
My all time favorite fight is the one between Kirk and the Orion spy in Journey to Babel–this one is worth a rental!
As detailed in the Nitpicker’s Guide to Star Trek, the scene opens with Kirk trying some bizarre attack move that basically looks like he’s trying to jump sideways onto a wall. He lands with his back to the Orion spy–basically sticking his ass in the Orion’s general direction, as if he’s trying to fart on him. (Not particularly smart when the spy is wielding a knife!) The Orion stabs him in the side (as opposed to the ass or genitals). After more fighting, the bad guy gains the upper hand, but, before landing a blow that will likely incapacitate Kirk, he takes a moment to ADJUST HIS UNIFORM, giving Kirk enough time to knock the Orion out.
This whole scene has to be seen to be believed!
I haven’t seen a lot of TOS, but I thought that “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” did an excellent job addressing racial hatred.
It’s hard to pick a single TNG episode. But, since I have a special place in my heart for "What If … " - style storytelling, I’ll go with “Yesterday’s Enterprise” and “Tapestry.”
Thanks for reminding me about The Animated Series. I also agree with your choices, though I’d also add the “City” sequel (“Yesteryear”) where Spock uses the Guardian to go back in time to Vulcan and save himself as a child. This the ONLY Animated episode considered part of Official Trek.
TRIVIA: Many Animated spisodes were written by veterans of TOS. D.C. Fontana wrote “Yesteryear.” David Gerrold wrote the “Tribbles” sequel and “BEM,” and did a voice for “Jihad.” “Jihad,” in turn, was written by the same man who wrote the Harry Mudd episodes and he wrote the Animated Mudd show as well. (Wish I could remember his name.) Samuel Peeples wrote “Beyond.” The only screenplay novelist Larry Niven has written in his entire career is “Slaver Weapon,” an adaptation of his Known Space short story, “The Soft Weapon.” (I met Larry one time, too.)
James Doohan did most of the male character voices, Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett did most of the female voices.
I wrote:
… to which weirddave replied:
No, it’s a series that actually maintained some consistency from episode to episode, one that single-handedly served as a model for inexpensive special effects production that the rest of Hollywood soon followed, one that didn’t solve all of its problems with technobabble, one that didn’t introduce magic technology one week only to forget it existed the next, and most importantly, one that wasn’t a complete rip-off of a series pitched to Rick Berman and “rejected” a year earlier and touted by Rick Berman as, quote, “A more accessible version of Babylon 5.” 
Hey hey hey! Calm down, everyone! Why fight amonst ourselves, when there are shows much more worthy of our common contempt, like Xena,First Wave and Lexx?
Even now, a horrible looking show called Dark Horizon is lurking just beyond our borders, waiting for a moment of weakness to strike!
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“And now Worf is going to come out, and there’ll be a space-time thing . . .”
I wish that they’d put Lt. M’ress from the Animated Star Trek into a series. With modern make-up, this could be practical.