Your favourite episode titles?

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' started by apenpaap, Apr 30, 2009.

  1. apenpaap

    apenpaap Commodore Commodore

    One (of many) thing I really like about DS9 is the episode titles, which are generally much more original then thoise of the other star trek shows. A few favourites of mine:"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "If Wishes were Horses", "Through the Looking Glass", "Doctor Bashir, I presume", "Who Mourns for Morn?", "Wrongs darker then death or night", "Treachery, Faith, and the great river", "Badda-bing, badda-bang" and "The changing face of evil"
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  2. DS9forever

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    The Sound of Her Voice, In the Pale Moonlight and Treachery, Faith and the Great River.
     
  3. Vulcan Princess

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    "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" (I love Latin titles.)
    "The Forsaken" (There's just something hauntingly poetic about it.)
    "Sacrifice of Angels", "Tears of the Prophets", "Prodigal Daughter" (I like the spiritual themes of these titles. There's something longing, yet redemptive about them.)
     
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    "A Time to Stand", "Far Beyond the Stars", and "Once More Unto the Breach."
     
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    For the Cause
    For the Uniform
    Blaze of Glory
    In the Pale Moonlight
    Favor the Bold
    Rocks and Shoals
    Treachery, Faith and the Great River
    Hippocratic Oath
    Business as Usual
    It's Only a Paper Moon
    Our Man Bashir
    The House of Quark
    Empok Nor
    In the Cards
    Statistical Probabilities
    His Way
    Prophet Motive
     
  7. Kirks_Flying_Wig

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    I liked the long titles already mentioned. They evoke a sense of TOS (not like the boring one-word titles churned out by the Voyager staff).
     
  8. PKTrekGirl

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    I tend to like titles that invoke some heavy imagery for me. Imagery which may or may not have anything whatever to do with what actually happens in the episode.

    So for me, the coolest titles are ones like these (not in any particular order):

    In the Pale Moonlight
    It's Only a Paper Moon
    In Purgatory's Shadow
    By Inferno's Light
    Sacrifice of Angels
    Treachery, Faith and the Great River
    The Changing Face of Evil
    Far Beyond the Stars
    Tacking Into the Wind
    Tears of the Prophets
     
  9. Red Ranger

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    In The Pale Moonlight, Far Beyond The Stars, The Visitor, and I have a real fondness for To The Death as one of the most dramatic titles. -- RR
     
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    'In the Pale Moonlight'
     
  12. waynehead

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    "In the Cards" is a great title for one of my fav DS9 episodes.

    "Who Mourns for Morn?" has to be the best title, tho.
     
  13. PTRACER

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    The Siege Of AR-558.

    It just sounds good and I thought it was a fantastic episode too.