Voyager's contribution to all time great Trek episodes

[indolover]

Scorpion is perhaps the best episode in the series.

But which other ones would you say could hold up to the best of TNG or DS9 (of the 24th century series)?

IMO, these are worthy mentions:

- Jetrel
- Tuvix
- Author, Author
- Prey
- The Killing Game
- Drone

 

[Galekarens]

Year of Hell was pretty massive, I think.

 

[BillJ]

The Thaw
Basics I/II
Death Wish
Unity

 

[froot]

Giving a second vote to Year of Hell, Scorpion, and Death Wish.

I'd toss in Nothing Human, but maybe that's just me.

 

[Admiral Shran]

I'll say....

Scorpion
Mortal Coil
Author, Author

 

[carlmarx]

Living Witness
Timeless
Distant Origin

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

"The Thaw"?? wow, I can't even watch that.

Okay I will say Timeless which is my personal favorite VOY ep.

I have to with Future's End too.

 

[D Man]

"Death Wish"
"Living Witness"
"Drone"
"Timeless"
"Latent Image"
"Blink of an Eye"

Those are my picks for VOY episodes that stand up with the best of any Trek show. It was a series of standalone adventures, but every so often the writers took that format and hit it out of the park.

 

[Destructor]

Year of Hell
Scorpion
Prey
Living Witness
Timeless

I have a soft spot for 'Muse' but recognize it is not everyone's cup of tea. When Voyager was bad it was very very bad and it was too often mediocre but it has episodes that stand up with the best of all Trek, to be sure.

 

[henbane]

The Thaw was a brilliant episode.

Then again, I tend to prefer the episodes with a strong basis in morality and philiosophy - those issues which set trek part from most other Sci-Fi shows (and many others too).

 

[NBG011]

In terms of philosophical discourse: "Death wish". A good way to show the pointlessness of omnipotence and immortality.

Action-wise: "Scorpion" and "Year of hell".

Biggest emotion-jerker:"Timeless". The older, alternate reality Harry Kim screaming "YEEEESSS!" gets me every time I think of it. You just know you'd do the same if in your last seconds you managed to correct the biggest mistake of your life, the one that has been haunting you ever since.

 

[kimc]

Resistance
Death Wish
Meld

 

[DevilEyes]

Jetrel
Meld
Death Wish
Resistance
Unity
Scorpion
Year of Hell
Mortal Coil
Prey
Living Witness
Drone
Latent Image
Equinox
Blink of an Eye
Author, Author

Giving a second vote to Year of Hell, Scorpion, and Death Wish.

I'd toss in Nothing Human, but maybe that's just me.

I think that Nothing Human is one of the worst. Well, not in the top 10, but a pile of crap in any case.

- The Killing Game

Ugh, space nazis - just no.

 

[AuntKate]

- The Killing Game

Ugh, space nazis - just no.

Awwww. Come on! The Nazi theme started back with TOS!

I looked through the episodes and tried to pick out the ones that I think most fit the "tradition" of the Trek morality play, that are clearly an exploration of an idea through science fiction, or are just good solid entertainment.

Resistance
Darkling
Meld
Death Wish
Deadlock
Sacred Ground
Real Life
Distant Origin
Scorpion
Nemesis
The Thaw
Scientific Method
Living Witness
Timeless
Latent Image
Equinox
Blink of an Eye
The Void

 

[Ensign Johnson]

I mostly agree with what has already been said for the best episodes though my favourite episodes are not always the best ones. I enjoyed Dark Frontier and Macrocosm for action Janeway, not the best episodes but Janeway was just so cool in them. Body and Soul was probably my favourite funny episode.

 

[DevilEyes]

- The Killing Game

Ugh, space nazis - just no.

Awwww. Come on! The Nazi theme started back with TOS!

Yes, and I think that was a silly episode, too. And then it gets even sillier when they kept doing it on 2 other Trek shows.

 

[froot]

Yeah, I figured I was in the tiny minority on Nothing Human. :x

 

[Destructor]

Yeah, I figured I was in the tiny minority on Nothing Human. :x

I actually really like that one. It's not perfectly executed, but the exploration of the very real issue of immoral medical research was well explored and very thought provoking. I'd actually completely forgotten about this, but recalling it now I remember being very touched.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Upon further consideration, I'll gladly add Meld to my list.

 

[DevilEyes]

Yeah, I figured I was in the tiny minority on Nothing Human. :x

I actually really like that one. It's not perfectly executed, but the exploration of the very real issue of immoral medical research was well explored and very thought provoking. I'd actually completely forgotten about this, but recalling it now I remember being very touched.

I could go on about all the things that are wrong with this episode, as I've already done a few times on various threads - from the many plotholes and illogical behavior by everyone, the inconsistency regarding the nature and sentience of holograms (one of the major themes of the show in general), to the casual racism towards Cardassians by a couple of regulars that is presented as being justified (something I don't remember a Trek show ever doing at any other time), to the hypocrisy and the one-sided arguments and a lack of mention of unethical medical experiments on humans throughout real life human history (all they could come up with was the Moset hologram mentioning humans conducting experiments on lower animals)...but I don't want to derail the thread.

It's one of those episodes that aim to be important and deep and thought-provoking and deal with a serious issue, but end up doing it in all the wrong ways and being incredibly shallow and hypocritical, not to mention full of illogical moments, out of character behavior and inconsistencies that come from manipulating the viewer and skewing the story in order to spoon-feed 'the message' to the viewer. If you actually start thinking about the events in the episode, it all falls like a house of cards. I remember starting to watch it expecting it to be great, and getting more and more bothered and pissed off with every scene.