And the opening credits were magnificent.
Except that “Year of Hell” is what the whole series should have been.
After rewatching every non CBS all access Trek ep ever, I can honestly say there were some great eps and some stinkers in every series.
Mine are the alternate universe episodes.
Does Alien of the Week include them being the aliens on a newly discovered planet?
I beg to differ. It is one of TNG’s best episodes. If you think the language makes no sense, I submit that if you read nearly every web forum besides this one, the primary form of communication is in Gifs and Emojis.
Going back to my previous post. I love the Alternate Universe episodes but that is mostly because they stand on the shoulders of dozens of “Meat and Potatoes” explore Strange New Worlds type stuff and hundreds of hours of character development so that really should be my favorite.
Hated the Q episodes. Got tired of the thinly veiled social commentary ones. I guess I’d pick Borg or Klingon, especially if there were battles involved.
What was silly is the premise that a language based on metaphor is fundamentally different from any other language and would give difficulty to a universal translator.
All language is ultimately arbitrary and a lot of the vocabulary we use in English for example is either metaphorical or euphemistic in origin. But if you use it enough, they’re just words.
For the universal translator, the metaphors in Darmok were just words. If the universal translator works at all it should have simply worked in Darmok.
If you dismiss as poor all episodes of Star Trek series that have a hole in the basic plot conceit, you would dismiss 99% of all episodes, including some very, very good episodes. All your complaint really does is point out that there should have been other episodes where the Universal Translator didn’t work perfectly.
Well, in ST-VI:TUC, we see that using the UT is easy to spot, so they had to actually speak Klingon.
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I picked time travel because “City on the edge of Forever” was the best ST episode ever. But many other time travel tales were pretty lame.
If I was to pick a “worst ST episode type”, I’d easily pick time travel/interference episodes, especially the idiotic Enterprise “temporal cold war” episodes. It’s very, very difficult to avoid the inherent pitfalls in dealing with time travel issues. Usually, Star Trek series sucked at it. Star Trek itself didn’t do too badly with them, though for the life of me, I never even as a kid understood why the Enterprise was moving backward in time as they attempted the slingshot maneuver. :dubious:
Voted for Borg. Sorry. I know some people think they were over-used, but practically every Borg episode was solid gold.
I hope you mean “practically every NextGen Borg episode”. They underwent serious Villain Decayby the time Voyager finished.
ST IV: The Voyage Home was a good movie, and a time-travel movie, but it wasn’t a good time-travel movie.
“If you… ever need…” someone… like a… grandfather…
“Hey, could you bring out the compressor and the small nail gun and put two nails each in the top and bottom of these posts. like this [demonstrates]. When you’re done with that can you check George’s work with the caulking. He’s a good worker so don’t be rude, but I just want to make sure he did it right. Thanks!”
Say that, only use bible verses.
In The Naked Time, Spock’s cold mix solution had time travel implications. 71 hrs. I guess writers built off of that idea.
I’ll take you home again, Kathleen!
One More TIME! 
“For God’s sake, get that door open!”
-Kirk to Scotty.