List Only! Last Star Trek Episode You Watched

[Captain Rob]

DS9 "Dramatis Personae" on H&I.
Loved how Odo's face unfolds into itself right in front of Quark and Quark totally freaks out.
ENT "Rajin" on H&I.
Why didn't the Xindi leave behind a bomb to destroy Enterprise after they left with Rajin.?
They really lost a strategic opportunity.

 

[Discofan]

I think it is an interesting concept, very poorly done. But, that's one of the endearing qualities of TOS, they took chances. Sometimes it didn't work so well, but it was never dull.

I am sure it's not the concept, it's what they did with it. Plus it's rare when an episode with kids doesn't turn out to be a dud. This one was no exception.

 

[at Quark's]

DS9: The Ascent

Fairly standard 'let's put 2 characters with a love-hate relationship in mortal danger, and see how they deal with being responsible for the other's life' - ep. (The B story between Nog and Jake sharing rooms is even more forgettable). But what a great episode closer:

<Quark and odo lying on medical beds>
QUARK: Odo? Odo? Are you awake?
ODO: I am now.
QUARK: We survived.
ODO: We did.
QUARK: I bet you were surprised I actually made it all the way to the top.
ODO: Astounded.
QUARK: You remember back there when I told you I hated you, and you told me you hated me?
ODO: Vividly.
QUARK: I just wanted you to know I meant every word of it.
ODO: So did I.
<both start laughing softly as the camera zooms out>.

 

[Discofan]

DS9: The Ascent

Fairly standard 'let's put 2 characters with a love-hate relationship in mortal danger, and see how they deal with being responsible for the other's life' - ep. (The B story between Nog and Jake sharing rooms is even more forgettable). But what a great episode closer:

<Quark and odo lying on medical beds>
QUARK: Odo? Odo? Are you awake?
ODO: I am now.
QUARK: We survived.
ODO: We did.
QUARK: I bet you were surprised I actually made it all the way to the top.
ODO: Astounded.
QUARK: You remember back there when I told you I hated you, and you told me you hated me?
ODO: Vividly.
QUARK: I just wanted you to know I meant every word of it.
ODO: So did I.
<both start laughing softly as the camera zooms out>.

In "If Wishes Were Horses" we learned what was Odo's most cherished fantasy: Put Quark in jail.

 

[Vger23]

TOS: The Tholian Web

Another fine example of how the "3rd season sux" rhetoric is incorrect!

 

[XCV330]

ENT: Kir'shara

Any Shran episode is a good episode, but Bakula, Blalock, Graham and Trineer all put in good performances on this one too.

 

[Orac]

A Private Little War

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

The Squire of Gothos (TOS Blu-ray)

 

[Nyotarules]

Star Trek ENT Regeneration the Borg episode aka Scientists are damn stupid
aka Stafleet sure knows how to keep a secret for 200 years

 

[Captain Rob]

DS9 "Duet" on H&I.
Great quote: "What you call genocide I call a day's work."
ENT "Impulse" on H&I.
Just curious if it's actual Starfleet policy or the policy of individual doctors that all female patients must be naked in their beds even if they are being treated for a neurological issue (IOW one that's in their cranium). Sometimes happens to male patients as well.

 

[1001001]

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges - DS9

 

[cosmic mouse]

VOY Cold Fire

...aaand I forgot I skipped ahead an rewatched Hope & Fear since I was hankering for season 4-5 Janeway.

 

[Captain Rob]

DS9 "In the Hands of the Prophets" on H&I.
You'd think that after this episode Sisko would find a Vulcan to come meld with their captured suspect and dig out the person that planned the scheme.
ENT "Exile" on H&I.
Would like to just edit out the whole Hoshi/creepy alien part.

 

[Stephen!]

"Fair Trade" (Voyager)

 

[1001001]

Penumbra - DS9

 

[Captain Rob]

DS9 "The Homecoming" on H&I.
The seventy-sixth Rule of Acquisition is mentioned: "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies". IRL apparently a favorite of the North Korean leadership.

 

[cosmic mouse]

VOY Maneuvers

 

[Garth Rockett]

Journey to Babel (TOS) - One of my favorite lines in all of TOS, when Spock asks Sarek why he married Amanda: "At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do."

Chain of Command, Part II (TNG) - The best stuff in the episode is the Picard stuff of course, but I find as I get older and have more experience being in a leadership position at work, the less sympathetic I am to Jellico and the more I enjoy the scene where Riker tells him off. Hard to imagine how someone like Jellico could be an effective leader on a long-term basis.

 

[BillJ]

Chain of Command, Part II (TNG) - The best stuff in the episode is the Picard stuff of course, but I find as I get older and have more experience being in a leadership position at work, the less sympathetic I am to Jellico and the more I enjoy the scene where Riker tells him off. Hard to imagine how someone like Jellico could be an effective leader on a long-term basis.

I had the exact opposite reaction to the episode. When I was younger, I loved Riker telling off authority. When I was older and got authority, sometimes I had to make it clear that things had to be done my way because I was the one vested with the authority to make the decisions and it was my butt on the line if something went wrong. With age, I agree with Jellico. Except I would've sent Riker to Delta Vega in an escape pod.

 

[Garth Rockett]

I had the exact opposite reaction to the episode. When I was younger, I loved Riker telling off authority. When I was older and got authority, sometimes I had to make it clear that things had to be done my way because I was the one vested with the authority to make the decisions and it was my butt on the line if something went wrong. With age, I agree with Jellico. Except I would've sent Riker to Delta Vega in an escape pod.

Well, I find that's easier to get people to do things if they understand why they are doing it. Even if they don't agree with it, if they understand it's not arbitrary they're more likely to try their best than just half-ass it. Most people don't give their maximum effort to something if they don't see the point of what they are doing. I don't think Jellico was wrong to make any of the changes he did, but he didn't really bring even his senior staff in on a lot of his thought processes at the very beginning. The one time he did (his strategy for negotiating with Lemec) his team worked well with him.

Troi indicated that he's not very confident, and that's how he comes across to me. He has so little confidence in his own decisions that he can't bear to have to defend them. That's why he immediately relieves Riker of duty when Riker challenges his decisions as a first officer should (although Riker's manner is a bit too strident; however, he is duty-bound to raise those objections) and instead installs a yes-man in Riker's place. Riker is right, Jellico doesn't even try to inspire people to go out of their way for him, everything is "because I said so." Occasionally that may be necessary, but when that's the default way you lead people, you won't be respected and people won't be loyal to you.