Your favourite...title...

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  1. Warped9

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    Favourite character? Done.
    Favourite ship? Ditto.
    Favourite guest character? Also done.
    Favourite episode(s)? Done to death. :)

    But...what is your favorite...episode title?

    Candidly I find it hard to choose because TOS seemed to have a knack for evocative and even somewhat poetic episode titles. And it needn't have anything to do with whether you actually like the episode itself or not.

    Some of my favourites:
    "A Taste Of Armageddon"
    "The City On The Edge Of Forever"
    "A Private Little War"
    "Spectre Of The Gun"
    "Is There In Truth No Beauty"
    "The Way To Eden"


    Anyone else?
     
  2. BillJ

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  3. RAMA

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    Without a doubt one area where TOS has no peer in the ST universe. Even bad episodes have good titles. "Requiem for Methuselah" is one of my faves.

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    "For The World Is Hollow And I have Touched The Sky"
     
  5. Admiral Shran

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    The Conscience of the King (great episode as well)

    The Devil in the Dark
    (great episode as well)

    For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (below average episode, but great title)

    All Our Yesterdays (good episode, with a very poetic and emotive title)
     
  6. xortex

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    Return of the Archons, for it's mythological kind of misnomer. For the World is Hollow sort of suggests that their asteroid is a holographic generator making the outside seem normal enough until you reach a perameter wall. Spectre of the gun is nice for it's duel meaning. The best titles were the ones I'm still trying to figure out today what their meaning is.
     
  7. toonloon

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    I was going to pick "For the World...", but seeing as it's already gone, how about "All Our Yesterdays". The speech that the title comes from is among some of Shakespeare's finest work, IMHO.
     
  8. JonnyQuest037

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    Probably "The City On The Edge of Forever." Harlan Ellison is GREAT at poetic, memorable titles. You'll notice that it's one of the few things that never changed in all the rewrites.
     
  9. Tora Ziyal

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    Yes!
     
  10. Esteban

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    Agreed. Too bad they made the set "ruins" instead of "runes" (as written), with appropriate backdrop, i.e., a City.

    Consult your local Ellison if this makes little sense.
     
  11. Gary7

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    I like most of them. I think TOS came up with some of the best episode titles across the Star Trek franchise.
     
  12. Doug Otte

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    That's my favorite, too.

    The titles in subsequent series were usually so bland, e.g. "The Battle," "The Enemy," etc.

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  13. A beaker full of death

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    Who Mourns for Adonais. It just has so many layers. I wrote a short essay on it here on the board at some point.



    That's because many of the later writers, and certainly both Berman and Braga, are illiterate.
     
  14. BillJ

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    Seasons one and two of TNG had some nice titles like Too Short a Season, We'll Always Have Paris and Where Silence Has Lease.
     
  15. Alienesse

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    Yes, TOS has a lot of candidates for "favorite episode title". I think in general TOS was more poetic both in the choice of episode titles and in the content of the scripts themselves. That's one of the things I was most impressed with when it comes to the Original Series, the highly literary quality of the language they used.

    I think my favorite title right now is "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". I also love "For The World Is Hollow And I have Touched The Sky", "The Devil in the Dark", "Dagger of the Mind", "The Cloud Minders" and "Operation: Annihilate!".
     
  16. MHT1138

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    Spock's Brain: Bad title=bad episode You knew it was going to suck goin' in. :lol:

    DS9 has some great titles as well, but that's a thought for another forum ;)

    I like
    Balance of Terror
    A Piece of the Action
    Conscience of the King
    Spectre of the Gun

    And you got to love the alliteration of The Trouble with Tribbles :) Its fun to say.
     
  17. lurok

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    Agree TOS had the most imaginative ep titles, though are some great DS9 ones too (Inter Arma..., In The Pale Moonlight, etc).

    'FTWIH...' must be one of the best ever but personal faves are 'What Are Little Girls Made Of' and 'Is There In Truth No Beauty?'.

    From Memory Alpha:
    The episode title is from a poem by the 17th century English poet and clergyman George Herbert, from his poem "Jordan (I)", line 2: "Who says that fictions only and false hair/ Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?"

    Classy and obscure...
     
  18. Capt_Pickirk

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    These are my favourite titles overall.

    The Enemy Within
    Dagger of the Mind
    The Conscience of the King
    Tomorrow is Yesterday
    A Taste of Armageddon
    The Devil in the dark
    The city on the edge of forever
    The Trouble with Tribbles
    Is there in truth No Beauty?
    For the World is hollow and I have touched the sky
    Let that be your last battlefield
    Requiem for Methuselah
    All our Yesterdays
    Spock's Brain

    ;)


    On a side note, out of all the series, which Trek episode had the longest title?
     
  19. Admiral Shran

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    ^ For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky is the longest, I believe.

    DS9's Looking for par'Mach in all the Wrong Places comes close though.
     
  20. Greg Cox

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    At least four TOS titles come straight from Shakespeare:

    "By Any Other Name," "The Conscience of the King," "All Our Yesterdays," and "Dagger of the Mind."

    For those counting,that's two from Macbeth, one from Hamlet, and one from Romeo and Juliet . . . .

    Macbeth wins!

    (And, of course, TAS has "How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth" from King Lear.)