5 best episode titles.

[Grant]

What are your 5 favorite episode titles? (episode quality notwithstanding)

My quick list:

For the World is Hollow.....
All Our Yesterdays
Private Little War
City on the Edge....
Return of the Archons


I like lots of others but these popped into my head first.


What about it?

 

[ScatmanRescueMe]

Devil In The Dark
Wolf In The Fold
Naked Time
Who Mourns For Adonais
Spectre Of The Gun

 

[Captrek]

The Conscience of the King
The City on the Edge of Forever
Day of the Dove
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Whom Gods Destroy

Season 3 might have sucked, but it had some nice episode titles.

 

[ToddPence]

The City on the Edge of Forever
A Taste of Armageddon
Return to Tomorrow
Requiem for Methuselah
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

 

[Sovay]

For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky- it's long but it's a really lovely, somewhat profound sentence.
Turnabout Intruder- not sure why, but I like saying it.
A Private Little War- I think this is an awesome title, and more of a commentary on the episode than many other titles.
Where No Man Has Gone Before- I know it's the trek slogan, but I think that as a title it's really exciting!
and finally:
Spock's Brain- This has the sort of honesty that has been utterly lost in modern years. It is cheesy and doesn't sound like a line of poetry, but it's not ashamed of it! Modern shows would replace a word like "brain" with a prettier one like "mind", or they just wouldn't call it anything of the sort because it sounds so awful. I think that this title kind of embodies a lot of what TOS was about.

 

[Jbarney]

Gamesters of Triskelion
A Taste of Armaggeddon
A Wolf In The Fold
A Private Little War
Spectre of The Gun

 

[Duane]

Six great titles come to mind:

1. City on the Edge of Forever
2. Is There in Truth No Beauty?
3. Balance of Terror
4. For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
5. A Private Little War
6. Daggger of the Mind

 

[Gorn Captain]

The Savage Curtain is an interesting title. A Taste of Armageddon. City of the Edge of Forever. The Gamesters of Triskelion. The Squire of Gothos.

Hands down worst title: Operation: Annhilate!

By the way, what does Amok Time mean, anyway?

 

[Gary7]

I disagree on worst. For me, it has to be "And The Children Shall Lead". "Miri" is not far behind.

Although a bit contrived, "The Savage Curtain" was a good one. "A Taste of Armageddon" fell quite short of being a fabulous episode (it had the potential, but the writing missed it). "Gamesters of Triskelion" was also entertaining. "City on the Edge of Forever" was probably the best of all... it had everything in it, including great direction and writing.

"Amok Time" is when Spock goes amok in a fit of Pon Farr. A rather straight forward title for the premise.

 

[Gorn Captain]

I disagree on worst. For me, it has to be "And The Children Shall Lead". "Miri" is not far behind.

Although a bit contrived, "The Savage Curtain" was a good one. "A Taste of Armageddon" fell quite short of being a fabulous episode (it had the potential, but the writing missed it). "Gamesters of Triskelion" was also entertaining. "City on the Edge of Forever" was probably the best of all... it had everything in it, including great direction and writing.

"Amok Time" is when Spock goes amok in a fit of Pon Farr. A rather straight forward title for the premise.

Gary,

My understanding is that we were talking about the quality of the title, not the episode. I would never advance any of the episodes save COTEOF as great episode.

And I understand what episode Amok Time is. Again, I was referring to the episode title. Let me rephrase. Does Amok Time mean, essentially, hey "time" for Spock to run "amok" ?

 

[mary2000]

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[Jax]

The Band’s Best Friend is the fifth episode of the first season of JONAS! TV Series which stars the pop-rock band sensation the Jonas Brothers. Jonas Brothers is composed of siblings Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas. The show being aired at Disney Channel. Band’s Best Friend will be aired on June 7 (formerly scheduled on May 23), with Nate Hartley as Carl as a guest. The title of the episode is an allusion of old saying man’s best friend. In 1870, a lawyer by the name of George Graham Vest wrote a poignant speech about dogs for a court case. One of the lines, “The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.”, was eventually pared down to man’s best friend by the press.

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I will say bye now because you won't be here for very long

 

[T'Bonz]

To the spambot:

 

[Christopher]

For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky- it's long but it's a really lovely, somewhat profound sentence.

Yeah, and it has the virtue of being an actual verbatim line from the episode. It's the sort of title that sounds like a poetic or literary quotation, but is entirely original, which is great. It sort of evokes the kind of story titles Harlan Ellison was coming up with at the time, like "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" and "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream."

Turnabout Intruder- not sure why, but I like saying it.

Not fond of it at all. It's a reference to a popular 1930s novel and 1940s movie called Turnabout, in which a husband and wife switched bodies. I find it awkward when a Trek episode is named as an homage to something else from pop culture; it kind of dates it. (I have a similar problem with such titles as "A Fistful of Datas" and "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places.")

Where No Man Has Gone Before- I know it's the trek slogan, but I think that as a title it's really exciting!

Interestingly, the episode title came before the opening narration. The book Inside Star Trek reprints the memos containing the drafts of the opening narration, written in August 1966, more than a year after the second pilot was produced. They liked the title so much that they decided to incorporate it into the narration.

(Samuel Peeples had a fondness for titles like that, it seems; he also wrote the animated episode "Beyond the Farthest Star.")

And I understand what episode Amok Time is. Again, I was referring to the episode title. Let me rephrase. Does Amok Time mean, essentially, hey "time" for Spock to run "amok" ?

Exactly. Amok or amuck comes from the Malay word amuk, meaning "a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder." (Source) Although in English it just means berserk, crazed, out of control.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky I like this one because it's so poetic, and it's deep, too.
The Enemy Within Concise, yet descriptive.
The Devil in the Dark I like the alliteration.
Whom Gods Destroy Props for the correct use of the word 'whom'.

 

[ToddPence]

The Savage Curtain is an interesting title.

This has always puzzled me. It seems like "The Savage Curtain" should be a quote from something, but I've never been able to figure out what.

 

[Christopher]

This has always puzzled me. It seems like "The Savage Curtain" should be a quote from something, but I've never been able to figure out what.

As far as I know, it's an original title. I figure it refers to the fact that the characters are forced to participate in a play of sorts, so "curtain" is implying a theatrical performance, an illusion. Or maybe it refers to the dividing line between the "good" and "evil" sides, like the Iron Curtain. Considering when it was written, maybe that was more the intent. It could easily mean both, though. Lots of good titles have multiple meanings.

 

[James Wright]

Well, I like "The Cage", the episode that began the adventure
"The Doomsday Machine"
"Mudd's Women"
"The Omega Glory"
"Assignment Earth"
James

 

[AstroMike]

"City on the Edge of Forever"-It just sounds like a great Sci Fi title.
"Spectre of the Gun"-very mysterious title. Could have been a TJ Hooker one as well (just kidding).
"The Doomsday Machine"-Simple title that kind of says it all.
"The Devil in the Dark"-Makes it sound like there was something ominous on the planet, but the end it was friendly.
"The Return of the Archons"- I was very intrigued by the title and this weird episode as a five year old watching late one night in the 70's syndication. It was somewhat disturbing.

 

[Captrek]

I hear the working title for the next film is The Return of the Retcons.