Your Favorite Star Trek: the Next Generation.

[Taomist]

Anything with Q. Bought a set of Q-episodes put out on DVD, because apparantly I’m not the only one who likes them THAT much

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

Without reading the thread (or checking that I have the titles right):

1. “Change of Command” (possibly “Chain”), with Picard being tortured, Jellicoe in command, and Riker getting his comeupance for being a feckless wanker. Admittedly more comeupance would have been nice.
2. “Inner Light,” when Picard lives a lifetime in an hour.
3. The one when Picard gets involved with the lieutenant commander in astrocartography or whatever the hell it was. Spiritual sequel to IL, I always thought.
4. The two-parter in which Riker & Picard both get captured by pirates and Data has to take command of the ship for several days at a minimum. I had been waiting to see what Data being in charge would be like for years, and I wasn’t disappointed by that part of the story, though the Picard-Riker part of the story was a bit lame.
5. The Starfleet Academy story in which Wesley gets his comeupance.
6. The episode in which Riker & Wesley are captured by the space ants and eaten alive. Admittedly that one only exists in my head.

[aceplace57]

I always liked the lighthearted, humorous episodes. Captains Holiday is a favorite for that reason. Plus Picard gets a love interest in Vash on Risa the pleasure planet of love.

I like the Q episode where Picard and crew play robin hood. Worf’s line, “I’m not a merry man” is hilarious.

[Cartoonacy]

My favorites are “The Ensigns of Command” (though I’ve never understood the significance of the title) and “Darmok” (I’d love to know what a Tamarian technical manual looks like).

Edit: I never thought to check Wikipedia until now:

The title of the episode is taken from John Quincy Adams poem The Wants of Man.

I want the seals of power and place,
The ensigns of command,
Charged by the people's unbought grace,
To rule my native land.
Nor crown nor sceptre would I ask,
But from my country's will,
By day, by night, to ply the task
Her cup of bliss to fill.

[carnivorousplant]

@Skald_the_Rhymer

6. The episode in which Riker & Wesley are captured by the space ants and eaten alive. Admittedly that one only exists in my head.

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[beowulff]

Because no one has mentioned it:
Remember Me.

The universe is a spheroid region, 705 meters in diameter

[jayjay]

@aceplace57

I like the Q episode where Picard and crew play robin hood. Worf’s line, “I’m not a merry man” is hilarious.

Even better, the full line is “Captain, I MUST protest! I am NOT a merry man!” It brings out the full strength of how offended Worf is.

[Snooooopy]

@Drum_God

I’ve always been fond of Yesterday’s Enterprise, even though I’m not fond of time-travel episodes.

I love the moment where Picard admits to the other captain, in hushed tones, that the Federation will likely have to surrender to the Klingons in a matter of months. He really sells how desperate the situation is.

[BrotherCadfael]

@Mr.Excellent

I also quite liked “The Perfect Mate”, for the same reason: it could have been a very silly episode, but Stewart manages to sell Picard as a guy who’s genuinely wrestling with it.

Plus, it was the first appearance of Famke Janssen, a major win in itself.

[cochrane]

@jayjay

Featuring Tim Russ as one of the would-be hijackers, who also plays Tuvok on Voyager and a Klingon thug on DS9 (Invasive Procedures).

Russ was also on the bridge of the Enterprise-B in Generations.

[jayjay]

@cochrane

Russ was also on the bridge of the Enterprise-B in Generations.

I think Tim Russ and Jeffrey Combs are almost neck-and-neck for “Most Roles Played In Star Trek” (excluding stuntpeople). Combs is a little ahead, though.

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@cochrane

Russ was also on the bridge of the Enterprise-B in Generations.

Mightn’t he have been Tuvok? We know that Tuvok served under Sulu on the Stan Lee’s Silly Catchphrase.

[jayjay]

Tuvok’s Memory Alpha entry has nothing about serving on the Enterprise-B. And if there were ANY record of it in anything out of Paramount, it would be there. There might be some fanwanking about it, though. Considering that Generations came out in 1994 and Voyager didn’t come out until a year later, I don’t think anyone really intended it to be Tuvok.

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@jayjay

Tuvok’s Memory Alpha entry has nothing about serving on the Enterprise-B. And if there were ANY record of it in anything out of Paramount, it would be there. There might be some fanwanking about it, though. Considering that Generations came out in 1994 and Voyager didn’t come out until a year later, I don’t think anyone really intended it to be Tuvok.

Oh, I realize that. I’m just saying that I perfer to assume it was Tuvok rather than his twin brother, clone, or other doppleganger. (Assuming he was a black Vulcan in that scene; I don’t recall.)

[mlees]

@Skald_the_Rhymer

Mightn’t he have been Tuvok? We know that Tuvok served under Sulu on the Stan Lee’s Silly Catchphrase.

Note the rounded ears.

[jayjay]

His ears look human here.

ETA: Good catch, mlees!

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@mlees

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) personnel | Memory Alpha | Fandom

Note the rounded ears.

That proves nothing. Federation plastic surgery is quite up to depointing and repointing Vulcan ears, and everyone knows that Tuvok went through a self-loathing Vulcan stage in his youth. He slept with a lot of white Christian girls in those days. There’s little Tuvoks roaming all over 24th-century Knoxville.

[Dr.Rieux]

Darmok
The Lonely

[cochrane]

@Skald_the_Rhymer

That proves nothing. Federation plastic surgery is quite up to depointing and repointing Vulcan ears, and everyone knows that Tuvok went through a self-loathing Vulcan stage in his youth. He slept with a lot of white Christian girls in those days. There’s little Tuvoks roaming all over 24th-century Knoxville.

And don’t forget, McCoy surgically altered Kirk to pass for Romulan, then back to human in “The Enterprise Incident.”

[Baker]

After the first season of ST-TNG I was a little disappointed because so much of it seemed to be a rehash of ideas from TOS. But in the second season the episode “Loud as a Whisper”, with the negotiator who was a deaf-mute, gave me hope. The way in which he communicated, through his “chorus” of associates, seemed quite original. And his frustration when he was cut off from them mad me wonder how I’d feel if I suddenly lost my ability to talk.

Plus I loved one line Worf had. Worf was looking over Data’s shoulder at the computer screen that was showing Data hand sign language. Worf tends to think of everythin in military terms, so he said " Hmm, a method of communication that is both silent and covert. It could be useful."