Best episode of nuTrek? Best episode since DS9 ended?

[tomalak301]

There are many great episodes since DS9 ended.

ENT

Azati Prime/Damage/The Forgotten
Home
Forge/Awakening/Kir'Shara

Discovery

Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Into the Forest I go
New Eden
If Memory Serves
But to Connect
Stormy Weather

Lower Decks

Temporal Edict
Crisis Point
No Small Parts
We'll Always Have Tom Paris
I, Excretus
Wej Duj

Prodigy

Terra Firma
Time Amok
A Moral Star

Picard

Nepenthe
The Impossible Box
Star Gazer

Haven't seen the new episode yet.

 

[Uhura's Song]

For my money, by each show:

1) VOY: Year of Hell (S4, 2 pt), Living Witness (S4) (If you want to count stand alones only)
2) ENT: Carbon Creek (S2), Similitude (S3)
3) DISCO: If Memory Serves (S2); Into The Forest I Go (S1) (Excluding legacy stuff).
4) Picard: Nepenthe (S1); Absolute Candor (No legacy).
5) Lower Decks: Crisis Point (S1), wej Duj (S2).
6) Prodigy: Kobayashi (S1).

 

[donners22]

Plenty which I would consider not just excellent recent episodes, but better than most of the previous eras:

Disco (yet to see S4)
Context Is for Kings
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Into the Forest I Go
Despite Yourself
The Wolf Inside
Vaulting Ambition
The War Without, the War Within
Light and Shadows
If Memory Serves
Project Daedalus
Such Sweet Sorrow
Forget Me Not
The Sanctuary
There Is a Tide...

Short Treks
Calypso
Escape Artist
The Trouble with Edward

Picard
The Impossible Box
Nepenthe
The Star Gazer

Lower Decks
Veritas
The Sky Humongous
I, Excretus
First First Contact

That's without even going into Enterprise and Voyager.

 

[Lord Garth]

I have to update this list. Spoiler Free. Plus I ought to anyway. And I'm sorry, but my definition of New Trek (I don't call it "nuTrek") is really from 2009 on, not since DS9 ended. My guideline is that when the regime is no longer making new Star Trek and another regime has replaced it, it becomes "Old Trek". I don't base it on my tastes, I base it on production realities. So, for instance, even though the last Abrams Film came out six years ago, JJ's involved with the 2023 film, so it's still the same regime for the movies, so I still consider the 2009 Film to be "New Trek" and that's my cut-off.

But anyway, my proper Top 10 New Trek episodes:

1. "Context Is for Kings" (DSC)
2. "Lethe" (DSC)
3. "Despite Yourself" (DSC)
4. "Remembrance" (PIC)
5. "Stardust City Rag" (PIC)
6. "That Hope Is You, Part I" (DSC)
7. "Stormy Weather" (DSC)
8. "... But to Connect" (DSC)
9. "Species 10-C" (DSC)
10. "Penance" (PIC)
Bonus: "Calypso" (Short)

The rest of Picard Season 2 might change this list, so might Strange New Worlds, or even this season finale for Discovery. But, as of March 12th, 2022, this is where it stands.

 

[Orphalesion]

All of Lower Decks.

^ This. Specifically:

Envoys
Much Ado About Boimler
Veritas
Crisis Point
No Small Parts
We'll Always Have Tom Paris
An Embarrassment of Dooplers
The Spy Humongous
Where Pleasant Fountains Lie
I,Excretus
wej Duj
First Contact

 

[gweeps]

Stormy Weather is excellent. Might be Top 3 of DIS so far. Frakes is a great director.