List Only! Last Star Trek Episode You Watched

[at Quark's]

Parallax, Time and Again, and Phage (VOY)

I'm really noticing some of the easter eggs in these early episodes that will come along again. Kes's telepathic abilities starting to show in Time and Again, B'Elanna becoming Chief Engineer, and Neelix asking if the Doctor can Sing.

Recently rewatched those, and noticed and enjoyed the same things The first two are integral parts of season 1 story arcs, so not too much surprise to see them planted here. The EMH being asked to sing though ... as far as I know the first time we see him take that up is in 3rd season The Swarm, (perhaps there is an earlier instance but I didn't find it) so I'm really curious if this is just luck, or planned all along

Just watched Prime Factors. The end is interesting. B' Elanna gets reprimanded with I want you to know how very deeply you have disappointed me. If there are any further transgressions, even a minor one, you will no longer be an officer on this crew. Is that clear? (erm, since she was still an officer in season 7 I suppose she never stepped over the line anymore in the rest of the series' run?) whereas Tuvok gets a simple from now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back from her, even though he himself expects to loose my commission and to be court-martialled when we return to Federation space.

Yet he is correct that he was the senior officer involved (and also a "real" commissioned Starfleet officer while Torres is still adjusting to her new role at this point in time), so Janeway would have been in her right to come down on him much harder than on Torres. Why didn't she? Was it because she realised that while b' Elanna was into the conspiracy just for herself, Tuvok was in it more for her since her conscience wouldn't allow her to?

 

[Lord Garth]

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Who are you and what have you done with Vger23?

 

[tomalak301]

Watching The Cloud now (VOY). They just had another easter egg. The Doctor speculates what he would do with his program and he says raise a family (Real Life) and Raise an Army (Flesh and Blood, kinda). I am starting to think the writers did put these things in and paid them off in their own unique way later on.

Also watched Eye of the Needle. I wonder what was on the list of demands the Doctor wanted Janeway to see. I know one of them was the ability to turn himself off, but I'm thinking about improvements to Sickbay over the 7 year run and I'm coming up empty.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

-I think I've been hanging around humans too long. I think I'm developing a...
-Conscience?
-It's been coming for a long time. I've fought against it, I really have.
But living with those people day in and day out, being exposed to their ethics, their morality.
It's like I've been brainwashed.

 

[1001001]

Saints of Imperfection - DSC
The Sounds of Thunder - DSC

 

[Stephen!]

"New Eden" DSC

 

[Lord Garth]

"Hide & Q" (TNG)

I think this episode is proof that Riker wasn't intended to be the new Kirk. I say this because Kirk would never accept the powers of a Q, would never be tempted to use them, and would actively resist. Riker is initially opposed to the powers of Q, then wavers before finally coming back around again. Gary Mitchell fully embraced God-like powers, so I don't see Riker as Gary Mitchell either. He actually comes across the most like Decker, who was interested in merging with The Creator. Someone willing to do that would also be curious enough to accept the power of a Q.

This episode, along with "Encounter at Farpoint" and his initial reaction to seeing Troi again, drive home the idea that Riker is the new Decker.

 

[BillJ]

"Return to Tomorrow" - Star Trek

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

DSC: Through the Valley of Shadows

I love physical media, but your calculations leave out the other content on CBS All-Access you may want to see at some point. Like The Twilight Zone, and Star Trek: Picard.

Actually, no, they don't leave out Picard. It, too, will likely cost less on DVD than its relative share of the total cost of subscribing to CBS All Access.

 

[Moopsy]

"Statistical Probabilities" and "The Magnificent Ferengi" (DS9 on Netflix)

 

[marlboro]

"The Assignment"

Rom is such a garbage character.

 

[Discofan]

Sacrifice Of Angels: Deus Ex Machina. Need I say more?

 

[Vger23]

"Shadowplay" DS9

It's interesting...it's such a pedestrian episode, the kind I'd typically crap all over, but something about this one and it's 3 parallel but unrelated little stories hooked me.

 

[Vger23]

DSC: Through the Valley of Shadows



Actually, no, they don't leave out Picard. It, too, will likely cost less on DVD than its relative share of the total cost of subscribing to CBS All Access.

I have the CBSAA subscription AND I buy the Blue Ray disks.

 

[Reyman]

"By Any Other Name" Original series

So we know there is life in the Andromeda Galaxy if Trek ever decided to go there

 

[Discofan]

Honor Among Thieves: You can't help feeling sorry for O'Brien and even for the guy.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

(High pitched Sisko)
-You accused the Kai of burglary and kidnapping?!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Honor Among Thieves: You can't help feeling sorry for O'Brien and even for the guy.

That's one I've completely forgotten. Even after skimming the MA article on it, it still doesn't ring any bells with me.

 

[1001001]

Light and Shadows - DSC
If Memory Serves - DSC

 

[Lord Garth]

"The Big Goodbye" (TNG)

It was an okay episode but I have a simple solution for getting Picard and company off the holodeck. Just beam them out.

As far as the holodeck itself: they say it's been upgraded. Holodecks existed before, they just weren't as advanced. When Picard is explaining it, that's just 1980s TV. Expository dialogue reigned supreme at the time. You can find all kinds of examples, from back then, of characters telling other characters things they should already know. Especially if the intended audience included children, which was the case with TNG since it was a family show. Out of any the Star Trek series, TNG was the most family show of them all.

One other thing. I loved the costumes. And I like the characters having fun with the 1940s setting, even after they got off the holodeck. "Step on it!" Did I say "okay"? That's misleading. I liked it a lot, as light-weight as it was.

I'm also a huge fan of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, so that helps too. I even threw a '40s-themed party on my 40th Birthday a few months ago. I played '40s songs, a vintage WWII news reel, some serials, some cartoons, and then we watched The Maltese Falcon.

"Datalore" (TNG)

Great soundtrack, great acting, and did I mention a great soundtrack? Figured I'd point it out twice. I recognized some musical cues that were reminiscent of Alien, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner.

When Lore imitates Data, I like his getting rid of his twitch so people will have a harder time telling them apart. It reminds me of when Evil Kirk covered the scratches on his face so the two Kirks couldn't be told apart in "The Enemy Within".

Lore, by the way, is an evil piece of shit. I mean that in a good way. And this episode contains some of the best fights in the entire series.