I could do an all TOS list probably if I wanted too. They’re just so bright. Nimoy and Shatner are great. The themes are kinda ham-fisted. Love it…
I don’t have any Next Gen faves, I’ve never seen Voyager (can’t stand Mulgrew), and Enterprise and DS9 are just OK, so:
No particular order
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
Arena
Q-Pid
I, Mudd
Voyager, Enterprise and Discovery are all shite, and I never was fond of DS:9 because I hate Avery Brooks.
In no order
The Doomsday Machine
Balance of Terror
The Corbomite Maneuver
The Trouble with Tribbles
The City on the Edge of Forever
TOS
The City on the Edge of Forever
A Piece of the Action
Spectre of the Gun
Dagger of the Mind
The Tholian Web
A Taste of Armageddon
TNG is my favorite TV science fiction. I can’t narrow a list to only 5 or 6.
The Wounded (Stunning episode on PTSD and Cardassian/Federation intrigue) Sets up DS9!
Inner Light (Patrick Stewart’s best performance in this series)
The Measure Of A Man (human rights and dignity extend to AI)
Q Who (we meet the Borg!)
Best of Both Worlds (parts 1 and 2. Borg invasion)
Tapestry (another great job by Patrick Stewart)
The Klingon Episodes are among my favorites and are almost like a different series within TNG)
The Emissary (Worf reunites with Ambassador K’Ehleyr)
Sins of the Father (pivotal moment in Klingon history and for Worf)
Reunion (Worf and K’Ehleyr reunite for the final time. Another pivotal moment in Klingon and the series history)
Redemption (Klingon civil war. Setup by events in Sins of the Father and Reunion)
I find it very hard to choose between Babylon 5 and ** DS9**. They are both great thrillers based on space intrigue.)
Crossover (my favorite Mirror Universe episode within Star Trek)
The Maquis (rebel cause shows not everything in the Federation is perfect)
The Jem’Hadar (It’s the first indication that a very powerful enemy is out there.)
Improbable Cause/The Die Is Cast (2 parter, Odo and Garak’s unique series story arc begins here)
Way of the Warrior (shit gets real as DS9 is weaponized) Worf is back!
Little Green Men (Trek’s take on Roswell NM and UFO’s)
Our Man Bashir (The Doctor and Garak’s best adventure)
Trials And Tribbleations (well done crossover between TOS and DS9)
Call to Arms (the beginning of the Dominion War)
The Siege Of AR-558 (a rare and well done Infantry combat episode) A reminder that close quarters combat is brutal no matter what time period in history it’s fought.
It’s Only A Paper Moon (another fantastic PTSD episode from Nog’s perspective)
I could easily list a dozen more great episodes from the Dominion War arc.
The Dominion War story arc spanned several seasons. It’s far too expansive for a short board post.
Many of the pivotal episodes are listed here. Most of them are very well done.
I appreciate this article because it connects so many loose threads as the story progresses. It was hard keeping it all straight watching the series live.
I need to up my nerd game. IDK any titles.
1.) “It’s a fake!!” DS9
2.) Season finale season 2 DS9
3.)" Year in hell" ST Voyager (Yea! I remembered one)
4.) Data on trial for his personhood STNG
5) T’Pol talks about the REAL first contact. Enterprise
In the Pale Moonlight has the pivotal line It’s A Fake!
This episode is one of DS9’s absolute best. The Federation & Klingon alliance is reeling and about to be defeated by The Dominion and Cardassians.
Sisko and Garak hatch a desperate plan to bring The Romulians into the war.
It’s unusual for tv from that time period to feature a strong character like Sisko abandon his most basic principles to save the Alpha Quadrant.
It made me think seriously about character and what makes someone a good person.
Because I CAN live with it.
I’m not sure I could. Does that make me or Sisko the better person?
My eps:
The Ultimate Computer
A Matter of Honor
The Emissary
The Doomsday Machine
In A Mirror Darkly (the only Enterprise I can watch more than once)
There are a bunch but I will pick one from each series for this list:
TOS: City on the Edge of Forever
TNG: Yesterday’s Enteprise
DS9: Children of Time
VOY: Shattered
ENT: Twilight
“Tacking Into the Wind” is one of, if not MY FAVORITE all-time Trek ep. It’s sort of a random ep to hold that distinction, but I love it cause:
It cuts the Gordian Knot of the Klingons. That convo between Ezri and Worf about the matter of 'Klingon Honor" is great.
Being near the end of the series, I felt ANYTHING could happen. How fun to watch a series and have that feeling of you don’t know what is going to happen. I thought they were going to off Odo right frigging there.
That ep also sealed Damar as one of my fave characters.
Went last night to watch The Big Goodbye cause that’s an odd one to list.
Man…you keep just the premise, and cut out the B-story…and you’ve got a really good Twilight Zone episode. Including the title. Just run the credits when Picard leaves and the Holodeck doors shut and everything goes black.
To be clear to those who don’t remember the episode…the focus of this if it were a TZ episode would be what happens to the holographs when the lights go out?
“When you you’ve gone…will my wife and kids still be waiting for me at home?”
“I honestly don’t know.”
I’m continuously surprised how beloved The Trouble with Tribbles is. Not my cup of tea at all, but to each his own. Mine in no order are:
City on the Edge of Forever
Balance of Terror
Yesterday’s Enterprise
Cause and Effect
The Inner Light
I like the season 5/season 6 story arc of Deep Space Nine in which the heroes are (mostly) forced from the station. The arc really begins with “In the Cards” and ends with “You Are Cordially Invited”. “In the Cards” is hilarious. I also love “Rocks and Shoals” from that arc.
Balance of Terror
In a Mirror, Darkly
Darmok
A Piece of the Action
The Inner Light. I loved this episode but how many ordeals can Picard go through before Star Fleet wakes up and says, “Hey, maybe this guy’s brain could be compromised. Perhaps he shouldn’t be commanding a star ship.” Not to mention what the Borg implants could have done.
Miles O’Brien had a lot of bad stuff happens in DS9.
Starts with a vacation in season 1 and his shuttle is boarded by the Cardassians. Charged with Weapons smuggling. Sisko has to defend him in court.
Seems like every season something really bad happens to Miles.
He even dies and swaps places with his future self.