DS9: The Collaborator, when Winn walks through the door as Bajor’s new Kai. I was kerflumoxed!
TNG: The Best of Both Worlds, when the captured Picard turns towards the viewscreen and reveals he is now a BORG!!! Who wasn’t blow away the first time they saw that!?
DS9: Necessary Evil, when Odo works out that Kira was the killer all along. Kira asks him, “Will you ever trust me again?”. Odo can’t answer; he just looks down at the floor. A shattering moment between two of the best character in Trek.
TNG: I, Borg, when Picard confronts Hugh in character as Locutus, and realises how wrong he might have been in his prejudices.
DS9: Whispers, when the door opens and O’Brien finds the answers to all his questions. One of the best plot-twists I’ve ever seen, and I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen.
TNG: Parallels, when Worf freaks out that Troi seems to think she is his wife. That episode was full of classic moments, like when the Riker from a universe where the Borg had won screams “We’re not going back! You don’t know what it’s like in our reality!”
>What is your name?
>Commander Checkov, Starfleet, United Federation of Planets, serviec number blah blah.
>All right. Let’s take this from the top.
>From the top of what?
>Name.
>My name?
>No, MY name.
>But I don’t know your name.
>Listen mister, you play any games with me and you’re through.
>I am? [relieved look] May I go now?
Someone berated the “Klingon Bastards” scene in STIII… I liked it. I know he wasn’t close to David but he knew of him and kept away for years, he finally gets to know his son and the boy is murdered. His reaction is that of a man who has taken a strong emotional blow, even the stumble works. It makes a tough man seem more fragile, he actually loses his composure on the bridge.
His quiet “goodbye David” is also quite a sad moment.
Another nod to STII “Kirk to Spock its been two hours…” I always get a rush from that scene as it is pure Kirk.
TOS Charlie X pleading to stay… chilling and sad at the same time. (Charlie X)
TOS: “We have the right…” “The right to kill to destroy?” Kirk being corrected by the Organians when he protests their involvement. Great piece of writing and Kirk gets to suddenly step back and realize he’s being a chunderhead. (Errand of Mercy)
TOS Kirk asking Gary Mitchel to forgive him as he is about to brain him with a rock. (Where No Man has Gone Before)
TOS: “Really Doctor” (Bread And Circuses)
STV: Bones scene with his father… Deforest Kelly’s acting in that scene really tugged my heart string… even if the rest of the movie was Chum.
STVI: Kirk confronting Spock on the Mission… it reminds me of Errand of Mercy in that even the brave an noble Kirk can be an asshead at times.
STNG: Lal dying… Picard playing the flute (Inner Light) Picard laughing on the operating table at the end of Tapestry. The dynamic of the Crew in the alternate time line, there is the disputes between Riker and Picard… “I didn’t call this meeting for your imput number 1” Picard seems more isolated in that time line and when he reveals the status of the War it seems like something he wanted to get of his chest for a while
Generations: “Oh My…” Though I hated teh death scene those lines worked for me because I interpreted it as Kirk’s shock at his own death. He had prided himself on his ability to cheat death and I believe he actually thought himself immortal… When the final moment came it was a complete shock to him. At least in my interpretation.
DS9: Sisko being dragged off of the ship leaving his dead wife behind (The Emmisary) All of Duet… All of The Visitor The Speech at the end of In The Pale Moonlight. Far Beyond the Stars.
The creators would think we don’t know what a microphone looks like. McCoy looks embarrased puting the mike to peoples hearts… lamest prop in Star trek history…
From “The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise” skit from the first season of Saturday Night Live, where after the crew gets tossed back and forth around the bridge Spock says to Capt. Belushi, I mean Capt. Kirk, “Frankly, Captain I can’t take much more of this.”
Ah, but even better…after the little speech, when he has told them they will be assimilated, he concludes with “Number One” in that flat yet questioning tone. Perfect.
Oh, yeah!!! Mirror, Mirror is one of the best TOS eps. Gotta nitpick just a tiny bit, only because I agree that the way Spock says it is perfect, and this only adds to it…he actually says: “Captain Kirk, I shall consider it!”
One of my favorite moments is in ST:III, at the end where Spock turns around and says, “Jim…your name…is Jim” Cut to Dr. McCoy who smiles his big smile and taps his temple. That’s how I always remember DeForrest Kelly…smiling that big smile of his.
Also love when he shows up on STTNG at the end of “FarPoint Station”.
McCoy: “Are you a Vulcan, boy?”
Data: “No, I am an android”
McCoy: “…Just as bad”
I was speaking with Palikia about this thread today, and she pointed out no one has mentioned “The Devil in the Dark.”
Spock’s mind-meld with the Horta (or Mother-thing, as Palikia called it,) where we suddenly understand that humans have been mining/destroying her children!
If you’re going to mention Trek and Saturday Night Live, how could you forget William Shatner talking to a group at a Star Trek convention. “Get a life you people!”
That scene made TV guide’s 100 greatest moments of television.
Also, from the same episode but a different skit. The Enterprise has been turned into a restaurant. A man starts choking.
Kirk: Bones, do something.
McCoy: Damn it Jim, I’m a doctor, not a… oh yea…