Favorite moments and favorite lines:
TOS: “Study, study, study. Or bonk bonk, bad kid!”
(Should I try that one out on my college students? 
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From the same ep: “No more blah blah blah!”
ENT: “A poop question, sir?!”–Trip
“Balance of Terror” - the whole episode. From dealing with the ensign’s prejudice against Vulcans to Mark Lenard’s brilliant performance as the Romulan captain. Pound for pound, Mark Lenard is/was THE greatest guest star of any Trek show.
From “The Cage” (and subsequently, “Menagerie”), Spock and the away team are going down to the big-headed alien’s planet to rescue Pike, but the men are left on the transporter platform. Spock, in a brilliant bit of physical acting, yells, “THE WOMEN!”
Voyager (yes, Voyager) when Janeway slams what’s left of the ship into Kurtwood Smith’s time vessel. You gotta love any episode or movie where Smith plays a villian.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ep #706 - “Laserblast” - the SOL is nearing a black hole and Mike thinks he’s Capt. Janeway. Funny and disturbing.
Any DS9 ep where you get to Garek at his evil best. Andrew Robinson really owned this character.
From The Cage. After Capt. Pike has been captured the senior officers discuss how to rescue him, after they all give their opinions the group stops and waits for Number One the female second in command to make the decision on how to proceed, she gives her orders stands up and they follow. I think this was revolutionary thinking in 1964.
“Bonk, bonk, on the head.”
I may be weird, but The Undiscovered Country was the only Trek movie I’ve seen that I could sit through without getting distracted by the lint on the seat in front of me.
Kirk: But, we haven’t fired.
Spock: According to the computer, Captain, we have.
I loved every minute of “Amok Time.”
I know nothing of the later series. I gave The Next Generation a chance, but I was thoroughly disappointed within the first half-hour of the pilot episode. The very first command decision Picard makes is to surrender. I couldn’t watch it after that.
James Tiberius Kirk would never have surrendered.
Another Voyager one. Another in the Year of Hell 2 parter.
Voyager, badly damaged, has to go to warp speed to escape being blown to bits. Because of the lack of structural integrity, huge chunks of the ship go flying off into space. It just looked cool.
It was so revolutionary that the studio execs made Roddenbery change it for the show. Number One’s lack of emotion became part of Spock’s character and no woman held a command-level post. <sigh>
One of my favorite special effect moments: The Dyson Sphere
VOY: Message In A Bottle has already been mentioned–virtually the whole episode.
One of the first few episodes: The scene in which Kes and Neelix are trying to explain why the Doctor doesn’t have their records.
Latent Image (one of my favourite episodes):
- When the Doctor finds out it was Janeway who was messing with his program
- The Doctor cracks up in the mess hall
TNG: Remember Me (the episode in which everyone but Dr Crusher ‘disappear’):
Beverley arguing with Picard that surely the ship couldn’t run with just a captain and a doctor.
Beverley trying to reason with the ship’s computer
That’s all I can think of for now.
TNG - The Offspring: Where the Admiral comes out of the operating room where he and Data have been trying to save Lal. He says something like, “His hands were moving so fast…”
That did it for me right there.
[sub]psst: He surrendered in ST6![/sub]
I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the end of DS9-“The Ship”, where Sisko is talking to Dax about the four crew-members who died to hold the Dominion ship. I found that very emotional.
I also thought it was emotional in DS9-“The Siege of AR-558”. The entire thing is a testament to the fact that war is hell, no matter what century you are in, especially when Nog looses his leg.
Its already been mentioned, but DS9-“The Visitor” is one of my favorite eps ever.
I agree that DS9 really dosn’t get the love that it deserves. It seems to have gotten lost between TNG and VOY, but I enjoy it more than any of the other series. Sure, it started off sort of slowly, but all the other series do, too. They really brought depth to the characters, and made them much more three-dimentional than in the other series, where the characters were often very predictable and two-dimentional (ie, Riker was often portrayed as a womaniser who would pork anything that moved, Picard was often dry and stuffy, Wesley was a huge dork, etc.) The DS9 characters are the only ones that leave me wondering about where they come from, where they are going, and such.
I completely agree with BellaVoce, DS-9 is by far the deepest and most interesting series. But, as to great moments…
Don’t remember the season or ep title, but Sisko and the whole Federation gang have been kicked out of Tarak Nor; Gul Dukat and his merry band of henchmen are taking back possesion. Sisko’s beloved baseball is still resting on the desk in the comander’s office. Someone asks Dukat “what does it mean?”
I don’t remember if Dukat actually said it, or if the voice merely rang out in my head. But it was obvious what the baseball meant. It means “he’ll be back!”…Timmy
The very begining of Tapestry: Welcome to the after-life, Jean-Luc. You’re dead.
Sisko’s rant to Kira about stupid Starfleet policies: You know what the problem is, Kira? The problem is Earth! On Earth there is no poverty, no disease, no war. It’s a paradise. Well it’s easy to be a saint in paradise!
Odo being posessed by Kurzon: Oh, do come in. I’ve just been oozing around the room!
I get heartbroken at the end of the TOS episode This Side of Paradise. Spock, after recovering from the spores, realizes that he is back to his old, emotion-suppressing self, and admits to Kirk that for the first time in his life, he’d been happy.
TNG, when O’Brien, Troi, and Data are possessed by criminals. Ro is giving transporter control over to O’Brien in 10 Forward. Possessed O’Brien orders her to turn over all the controls, even the ones in the shuttle bay. Cut to Ro slamming her fist down on the console in frustration that he figured out her trick.
Troi, getting drunk in First Contact.
Undiscovered Country, when the crewman tells Captain Sulu, “Sir, I can confirm the location of Praxis, but…”
“What?”
“I cannot confirm the existence of Praxis.”
Very chilling.
My favorite moment:
In The Most Toys, Data faces off against Kivas Fajo, who is really an uber bastard. Data levels a particularly painful and murderous banned Varon-T disrupter at Fajo. Fajo mocks Data, telling him that he can’t shoot an unarmed man, since he’s only an android. Just at that moment, O’Brien locks onto Data and beams him out while Data is in the act of trying to shoot Fajo dead.
When Data is questioned about discharging a disrupter in the transport beam, he says “Perhaps something occurred during transport, Commander.”
I also find the “There…are…FOUR…LIGHTS!” moment very memorable, and the entire death of LAL sequence was pretty wrenching.
I love Geordi; I think he could be very heroic if given the chance. Whenever there’s a warp core breach, he’s throwing together emergency procedures, advising the bridge over the comm, and putting out people who are on fire. And he runs under the closing door like Indiana Jones. 
You know Scotty would be lamenting his precious engines; Geordi is there saving people’s lives.
Funny moment: Deja Q, with Q in Ten-Forward, ordering chocolate sundaes. “Well, I’m in a very bad mood, and since I’ve never eaten before, I must be very hungry.”
Tuvix made me weep.
Geordi is also my favorite TNG. He sort of had “chekov* syndrome” in that he was used when they needed someone to be abducted/hurt and very little otherwise. He really dosn’t get the love he deserves. One of the cut-scenes that was to go at the end of Nemesis (it’s on the DVD) shows that the Enterprise is geting a new XO. Why not Geordi?
*I think that I misspelled this, and I really don’t care.
Best of Both Worlds, pt 1: “Mr. Worf”…camera whirls around…“Fire.”
Best of Both Worlds, pt 2: “Processing…processing…fascinating.” One of the most explicit Data-Spock allusions, in a completely unexpected place.
Hugh: “Locutus?” The change in Picard’s face is astonishing.
“Captain Kirk, I shall consider it!”
The Tholian Web: Uhura’s Kirk/ghost sighting scared the dilithium out of me when I was 9 and every time since.
By the way, whenever I think of TOS I can still recall the strange plastic smell of the Meco action figures. Anyone else?
Because Data was the second officer, and outranks Geordi. I could see Geordi becoming the new second officer, though, or maybe Worf.
Speaking of Nemesis, I wish there’d been some interaction between Riker, Worf, and Troi. There was a triangle there at one point, and even though Worf moved on and married Jadzia, there should have been some revelation of his feelings toward their marriage.
And why wasn’t he on DS9 again?
TOS:
“Brain, Brain *AND BRAIN!!! What *IS Brain???”
I hope you saved those figures. They’re worth some dough these days.