# What's your favorite TYPE of Star Trek episode?

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**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-type-of-star-trek-episode/821349 "2018-09-14T17:44:08Z")\
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**What’s your favorite TYPE of Star Trek episode?**

Tribbles

Think about it, Tribble episodes have aliens of the week, Klingons, time travel and character development. I would have loved an episode where the Tribbles wind up on the Borg Cube.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
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Character development, first and foremost, but I’m not averse to a mysterious passenger, a space battle or a spatial anomaly (as long as it’s original, and isn’t fixed in the last five minutes by some unconvincing Treknobabble).

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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-type-of-star-trek-episode/821349/83 "2018-10-27T06:20:39Z")

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Something else - moral dilemmas.

I like the DS9 episodes where Sisko had to decide on his part in the wars that he helped to continue.

I like the episode where Picard had to decide (with the help of Q) whether he wanted to go back in time to undo the action that led to his needing a new heart. It turned out he would have been a very different person.

I like the defection storylines where people have to decide between a moral stance and leaving their loved ones behind.

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