The best episodes of STNG

[RAMA]

I've done top 5s, top 10s. For the first time I've actually finished a top 25 list, and it was tough. Some notable missing episodes...Chain of Command, Cause and Effect, The Enemy, Tapestry!, Data's Day, Redemption, et al., but I just couldn't fit all the best ones!

STNG:

1. Best of Both Worlds I and II
2. Yesterday's Enterprise
3. Darmok
4. The Chase
5. The Inner Light
6. The Measure of a Man (Extended)
7. The Survivors
8. The Wounded
9. Q Who
10. Where No One Has Gone Before
11. All Good Things
12. 1101001
13. The Defector
14. Tin Man
15. Booby Trap
16. Who Watches the Watchers
17. Family
18. A Matter of Time
19. Reunion
20. Parallels
21. The Pegasus
22. Birthright I
23. Relics
24. Masks
25. Conundrum

 

[JesterFace]

Perhaps it's a sentimental thing, but when "the best episode" talk comes around, 'Who Watches The Watchers' pops into my mind first...

 

[Clym]

no The Chase is just average at best

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

no The Chase is just average at best

This is not a place to criticize the choices made by others. It is an opportunity to make your own list.

 

[JesterFace]

The best of the best.

1. Q WHO
2. THE MEASURE OF A MAN
3. EVOLUTION
4. WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS
5. THE BONDING
6. THE DEFECTOR
7. THE OFFSPRING
8. SINS OF THE FATHER
9. THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
10. LEGACY
11. REUNION
12. DATA'S DAY
13. CLUES
14. FIRST CONTACT
15. NIGHT TERRORS
16. IDENTITY CRISIS
17. THE NTH DEGREE
18. REDEMPTION
19. IMAGINARY FRIEND
20. I BORG
21. SHIP IN A BOTTLE
22. ALL GOOD THINGS...

 

[Galileo7]

Yesterday's Enterprise
The Wounded
Relics
Booby Trap
Final Mission
Cause & Effect

 

[UnknownSample]

Q Who
Yesterday's Enterprise
Best of Both Worlds pt 1

 

[tomswift2002]

The Best Of Both Worlds Parts 1 & 2
The Vengeance Factor
The Pegasus
The Enemy
The Defector
The Battle
Conspiracy
Yesterday's Enterprise (to bad this wasn't a two-parter)
Final Mission
Masks
The Mind's Eye
Disaster
The Game
The Next Phase

 

[RAMA]

no The Chase is just average at best

If someone asked me for an example a a near perfect representation of Star Trek in general, The Chase would be right at the forefront, if not first.

 

[Galileo7]

..
Yesterday's Enterprise (to bad this wasn't a two-parter)
....

Agree, it should have been a two part episode.

 

[Paradise City]

I would've given more tension to the conclusion of The Chase.

Less semi-comedic bickering, more anxiety that they where going to blow each out of the sky. Alot of the sixth and seven season episodes where like that, weak on creating that urgency at the climax of the episode. But The Chase episode was a fine concept, very Trek.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just off the top of my head:

Measure of a Man
The Wounded
Sins of the Father
Q Who
The Best of Both Worlds (part 1)
Yesterday's Enterprise
Tapestry
All Good Things

Honorable mention: "Q-Pid" gets a nod for just one line: "I am not a Merry Man!"

 

[Paradise City]

In no particular order.

The Drumhead, Times Arrow, Conundrum, Clues, The Inner Light, BOBW, The Defector. The Nth Degree, Chain of Command, Yesterday's Enterprise, Unification, Redemption, The Wounded, Relics, Deja-Q, Tin Man, Masks, Brothers, First Contact. We'll Always Have Paris, The Neutral Zone, A Matter Of Honor, The Royale, Q-Pid, Time Squared, Manhunt, The Emissary, Evolution, Sarek, Ensign Ro, The First Duty, A Matter of Perspective, Frame of Mind, Preemptive Strike, Ethics.

 

[BillJ]

"Q, Who", "The Best of Both Worlds".

 

[Heghta]

A Matter of Honour
Sins of the Father
Redemption Parts 1 and 2
Darmok
The Game

I do like Klingon episodes and the Worf story arcs.

 

[2takesfrakes]

What I'm noticing and liking a lot, actually, is that there are so many different episodes being mentioned. It's so much easier for me, as an example, to name the episodes that are the weakest, because there are so few of them. I can't name the best, it's like saying which is the best breath over the course of the day? I need them all ... ALL of them! And the movies, too ...

 

[BillJ]

And the movies, too ...

Why would you need to breathe shit?

 

[2takesfrakes]

Sir...............................................................

 

[tomalak301]

My top 10 changes every so often whenever a thread like this comes up, so today:

All Good Things...
Best of Both Worlds I
The Defector
Yesterday's Enterprise
Measure of a Man
Conspiracy
Chain of Command II
Cause and Effect
Ensign Ro
The Wounded

 

[GulBahana]

Q Who
A Matter of Honor
Who Watches the Watchers
The Enemy
The Hunted
Sins of The Father
Tin Man
The Best of Both Worlds
Data's Day
The Wounded
The Nth Degree
Darmok
Chain of Command
Gambit