It's probably not controversial to suggest that "Turnabout Intruder" is an abominable send-off for TOS. Similarly, "These Are The Voyages" is... not great, exactly.
If you don't like the finale - or entire final season(s) - of a Star Trek series, what episodes do you think would make good makeshift finales instead?
For TOS, "The Tholian Web" works well - that way, the series ends with Spock and McCoy working together and Kirk coming back to rib them both over it. "The Savage Curtain" works fairly well too; the series ends with Kirk expressing his belief in a better future and his desire to continue the good work of past humanists.
For TNG, "All Good Things" is fine but oddly I always find "Emergence" makes for a fairly sweet finale - the Enterprise-D gives birth to a new lifeform based on the crew's fantasies, and from that it learns compassion and heroism and carries those values forward. Granted, the episode is boring as shit, but thematically it's a good conclusion to the show.
With DS9 you're obviously locked in to the end if you go into the war arc seasons, but if you want to rewatch just the first few seasons, "Explorers" is a fantastic sendoff - Jake and Sisko embracing as the Cardassian government begrudgingly acknowledge the successes of Bajoran culture, which is a situation that will no longer be thematically or logically possible in what the show turns into afterward.
Any others? I suppose Voyager's stuck with "Endgame" (which is fine for what it is), unless you want to awkwardly end with them still trapped in the Delta Quadrant.
If you don't like the finale - or entire final season(s) - of a Star Trek series, what episodes do you think would make good makeshift finales instead?
For TOS, "The Tholian Web" works well - that way, the series ends with Spock and McCoy working together and Kirk coming back to rib them both over it. "The Savage Curtain" works fairly well too; the series ends with Kirk expressing his belief in a better future and his desire to continue the good work of past humanists.
For TNG, "All Good Things" is fine but oddly I always find "Emergence" makes for a fairly sweet finale - the Enterprise-D gives birth to a new lifeform based on the crew's fantasies, and from that it learns compassion and heroism and carries those values forward. Granted, the episode is boring as shit, but thematically it's a good conclusion to the show.
With DS9 you're obviously locked in to the end if you go into the war arc seasons, but if you want to rewatch just the first few seasons, "Explorers" is a fantastic sendoff - Jake and Sisko embracing as the Cardassian government begrudgingly acknowledge the successes of Bajoran culture, which is a situation that will no longer be thematically or logically possible in what the show turns into afterward.
Any others? I suppose Voyager's stuck with "Endgame" (which is fine for what it is), unless you want to awkwardly end with them still trapped in the Delta Quadrant.
