Best of Both Worlds

[RobertScorpio]

Some of the best of TREK shows have a great message, and can be told on a small level. Tapestry, The Visitor, Inner Light, are great episodes. Other episodes are told on a more grand scale, Best of Both Worlds, What You Leave Behind, The Dominion Arc ect...and the best part about STAR TREK being a STAR TREK Fan is that you can like either type of story construct they use...

What is your favorite "small episode" and what is your favorite "big" episode. And are you a fan of all Star Trek episodes, or only ones that fit a mold of what you want to see??

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

"The Inner Light," for TNG, and "Ties of Blood and Water," for DS9, when it comes to "small" episodes. Both made me cry!

BTW, I found "The Inner Light" on YouTube!

As far as "big" episodes--for all the crap it gets around here, TNG's "Descent," and also BOBW. For DS9, definitely the Dominion War arcs.

 

[Anika Hanson]

Small episodes ' The measure of a man', 'Symbiosis' and
'Elementary my dear Data'

Big episodes

'Times arrow' 'All good things' 'Equinox' 'Endgame'

 

[tranya]

Small episode, probably "The Visitor."

I can't say I enjoy "big episodes" at all anymore, they all feel so much more dated, straining so hard to be "epic." It's the personal stories I still enjoy watching.

 

[The Doctor.]

yesterdays enterprise

 

[2 of 10]

Best Big Episode, DS-9 "In the Pale Moonlight" to me it showed that even a decorated Star Fleet Capt, could be driven to brake the laws that he spent a lifetime trying to uphold. The final scene is fantastic, Sisko admitting to all these crimes, and then saying that he would do it again, and that he could learn to live with what he had done. It was a case where the ends justified the means.

Best Small Episode, Voyager "Latent Image" similar to "Measure of a Man"
the concept of non-human beings Androids, Holograms being given the same considerations as human. Again a great last scene, the Doc and Janeway in the holodeck, giving the Doc a chance to try to make sense of what was he had done.

Resistance is Futile

 

[Dane_Whitman]

And are you a fan of all Star Trek episodes, or only ones that fit a mold of what you want to see??

This is a good point. I'd say one of the reasons why I enjoy watching Star Trek so much, is that it offers such a great diversity in stories and styles. Not just the difference between 'small' and 'big' stories, but also the difference in genre. From comedies to thriller, hard sci-fi to drama, horror to political intrigue, Trek offers it all.

 

[jamestyler]

Best Big Episode, DS-9 "In the Pale Moonlight" to me it showed that even a decorated Star Fleet Capt, could be driven to brake the laws that he spent a lifetime trying to uphold. The final scene is fantastic, Sisko admitting to all these crimes, and then saying that he would do it again, and that he could learn to live with what he had done. It was a case where the ends justified the means.

Gotta agree with that one. It was one of my favourite episodes of DS9. It was one of those episodes in DS9 that showed a darker side to humanity, that they weren't in a perfect utopian paradise, but they'd do what it takes to get there.. ends and means and all that.

It's kind of odd... I'd imagine Gene Roddenbury objecting to this, as he did with Conspiacy and TUC, but it works really well.

The others your mentioned, Latent Image and Measure of a Man, are another two favourites, though I think the latter was more sledgehammer in it's racial equality message.

Others were 'Doctor Bashir, I presume' where they went back to the Khanisms, which injected a bit of life into Bashir... and Far Beyond the Stars among others which always really stands out to me as tackling the difference between our distant future and not too distant past.

There are a few that stand out, but seeing more DS9 than anything in the past few yeas has phased out a lot of TNG and TOS.