Now for the lamest or most overdramatic DS9 title

[Tachyon]

Good picks already!

I had to peek Treknation's episode listing to refersh my memory with the episode titles and what caught my eye was "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang". WTH?

 

[DonIago]

^Not exactly overdramatic though...

 

[Cyke101]

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges.

Ooo, look, I can look up Latin quotes in a book!

A touch of latin usually adds a bit of class, but GEEZE, did they overkill it big time with that title. Heck, you beat me to it.

To be fair to DS9, I think Trek as a whole using Latin for episode titles is just overcompensation. For what, I don't know Everybody in the future listens to 17th century classical music, can recite obscure poetry, and has read every book under the stars, in addition to being perfectly capable in technobabble MacGuyverisms, as if the Future stopped producing their own works of art and focused completely on science and engineering instead. I'm all for the advancement of culture and education, but tacking on Latin titles just seems to scream insecurity of knowledge.

 

[Tachyon]

^Not exactly overdramatic though...

There are two kinds of titles named on the thread title.

 

[Anwar]

I think they only showed them listening to more timeless stuff like classical music (and occasionally jazz) so that they wouldn't date themselves or look strange by making incomprehensible music (which would require hiring some high-class composers as well, lots of dough). Somewhat backfired.

 

[Cyke101]

I think they only showed them listening to more timeless stuff like classical music (and occasionally jazz) so that they wouldn't date themselves or look strange by making incomprehensible music (which would require hiring some high-class composers as well, lots of dough). Somewhat backfired.

Yep, especially with Riker and Papa Riker showing us what sparring in the future would look like (classic 80s, epic fail). If anything, the concentration on "timeless" activities made them seem somewhat arrogant as opposed to varied and eclectic. Mention the title of a fiction book written in 2320, show collected paintings from post 21st century, play a guitar medley but say it was composed five years prior to the episode, something that showed the TNG era was a 24th Century Show without an aristocratic mindset. 3-D Chess is probably Trek's best example (as far as I know) of showing a form of futuristic form of culture & entertainment without becoming dated.

...wait, I really hope we see 3-D Chess in Abrams' Trek

 

[Anwar]

Maybe they could've had Wesley playing 3-D pong or something .

 

[Cyke101]

Maybe they could've had Wesley playing 3-D pong or something .

You mean Tennis?

 

[Anwar]

I mean like the game is in a virtual cube and you have two sides that you have to keep the pong from hitting, and you can move the protection bar up, down, left, right and diagonally to keep the pong from hitting them.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I think they only showed them listening to more timeless stuff like classical music (and occasionally jazz) so that they wouldn't date themselves or look strange by making incomprehensible music (which would require hiring some high-class composers as well, lots of dough).

That reminds me, isn't there a scene in a TNG episode where Picard goes to visit some young boy's quarters and he's listening to some really loud, dissonant, pseudo-futuristic all guitar music and yells, "WILL YOU TURN DOWN THAT NOISE!"? Does anyone remember what episode this is from? I've been trying to remember for years and I just can't pin it down. I'm a little frustrated over that.

 

[Karnbeln]

DS9 had some overly dramatic titles, but I'd rather have them than the one-word descriptors that were in vogue with Voyager.

 

[Praetorian]

I think they only showed them listening to more timeless stuff like classical music (and occasionally jazz) so that they wouldn't date themselves or look strange by making incomprehensible music (which would require hiring some high-class composers as well, lots of dough).

That reminds me, isn't there a scene in a TNG episode where Picard goes to visit some young boy's quarters and he's listening to some really loud, dissonant, pseudo-futuristic all guitar music and yells, "WILL YOU TURN DOWN THAT NOISE!"? Does anyone remember what episode this is from? I've been trying to remember for years and I just can't pin it down. I'm a little frustrated over that.

"Suddenly Human"