Best Scene?

[PhoenixIreland]

I've seen alot of best season threads, and I don't think you can lump entire seasons together and say they're good or bad, considering the amount of bottle shows you need to stock up to save money for a decent one.

So whats the best scene?
I'm nominating the "Stealing the Enterprise" scene from STIII

The music, the models (which made them look more real than the CGI we have now), the rebellion for a noble cause.

 

[Michael]

I've seen alot of best season threads, and I don't think you can lump entire seasons together and say they're good or bad, considering the amount of bottle shows you need to stock up to save money for a decent one.

Bottle show = bad episode?

 

[idreamedmusic]

I've seen alot of best season threads, and I don't think you can lump entire seasons together and say they're good or bad, considering the amount of bottle shows you need to stock up to save money for a decent one.

Bottle show = bad episode?

I guess more like something they did in S3 of TOS, where you had a couple of eps that took place solely on the Enterprise in order to save money on sets, extras, etc. They don't necessarily have to be bad, I mean, S2's Journey to Babel is one of my favorites, but I guess that isn't true for all money-saving eps.

As for favorite scenes... oy, tough one. I still totally like Kirk confronting Spock in The Naked Time, since it's intense and manages to sum up the characters quite nicely. But there are so many that come to mind...

 

[PhoenixIreland]

Alot of them were bad yes:

Shades of Grey (TNG)
Babel (DS9)
Parallax (Voy)
Elogium (Voy)
Time Squared (TNG)



A few were good:
Duet (DS9)
The Drumhead (TNG) (Fantastic!)
Civil Defense (DS9)
One (VOY)


A few were just bizzare:
Whispers (DS9)

 

[Michael]

A few were just bizzare:
Whispers (DS9)

That's actually one of my favorite DS9 episodes. So, to each his own, I guess.

All I want to say is that the fact that an episode is a "bottle show" has no influence whatsoever on the general quality of it. In fact some of Trek's best episodes only take place on standing sets. It's not the pivotal attribute that determines the quality of the story (the most important factor of the episode). Well, in my opinion, that is.

 

[THE_FETT]

I'd have to go with Spock's sacrifice in TWOK. From the bridge scene to the chamber, perfect in every way; dialogue, execution, acting, investment, resonance. 100% awesome.

 

[DeafPoet]

The single greatest scene in Trek is either Marritza's final confession to Kira in "Duet" or Sisko's final meeting with Old Jake in "The Visitor".

Okay, just so I'm not being too DS9-centric, I'll give you Picard solemnly playing the Ressikan melody on his flute at the end of "The Inner Light".

 

[Fel]

When the Pah-Wraiths melt Kai Winn

 

[PhoenixIreland]

The single greatest scene in Trek is either Marritza's final confession to Kira in "Duet" or Sisko's final meeting with Old Jake in "The Visitor".

Okay, just so I'm not being too DS9-centric, I'll give you Picard solemnly playing the Ressikan melody on his flute at the end of "The Inner Light".

The Visitor was powerful all around but the dialoge in that scene was very well done, as was the acting

"You didn't have to do this...not for me" (Sisko)

For you, and for the boy that I was. He needs you more than you know. Don't you see? We're going to get a second... chance." (Jake)

 

[Navaros]

Best scene is the last scene in ITPM where the Sisko deleted the entire personal log and it fades to black. Isn't really anything that can top that.

 

[JiNX-01]

TOS:
Dramatic: Kirk stopping McCoy from saving Edith.
Funny: Scotty telling Kirk how the brawl got started in Tribbles.

TNG:
Dramatic: Picard playing the flute at the end of "Inner Light." Heartbreaking!
Funny: Sir, I protest! I am NOT A MERRY MAN!

DS9:
Dramatic: The end of Duet.
Funny: Q: Picard never hit me! Sisko: I'm not Picard.

VOY:
Dramatic: The death of the Doctor's child in "Real Life."
Funny: The Doctor running amok for food and drink in "Body and Soul" (Jeri was awesome!)

ENT:
Dramatic: Death of Sim.
Funny: Trip and Archer in Engineering in Singularity.

I don't know if they're necessarily the best, but they're definitely among the most affecting or entertaining, IMO.

 

[CorporalClegg]

perfect in every way

Other then it was written to furnish and subsidize a contrived, convoluted plot device that, when you get right down to it, doesn't really make any sense.

 

[THE_FETT]

Other then it was written to furnish and subsidize a contrived, convoluted plot device that, when you get right down to it, doesn't really make any sense.

Elaboration?

 

[Trekwatcher]

Best overall scene: The climax of "The City of The Edge of Forever." Nothing will ever top that for me.

And I, for one, like bottle shows!

 

[EEE]

And I, for one, like bottle shows!

Ditto... off the top of my head, I think because we tend to get to see/learn/appreciate a series' regulars a bit more. Bring on those giant space amoebas I say!

 

[Shieldsdown]

Easy!! TWOK...................."KHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.................

 

[Sector 7]

I'd have to go with Spock's sacrifice in TWOK. From the bridge scene to the chamber, perfect in every way; dialogue, execution, acting, investment, resonance. 100% awesome.

Ditto! It is the best scene in ALL of Star Trek, IMHO.

 

[Natural]

The single greatest scene in Trek is either Marritza's final confession to Kira in "Duet" or Sisko's final meeting with Old Jake in "The Visitor".

Okay, just so I'm not being too DS9-centric, I'll give you Picard solemnly playing the Ressikan melody on his flute at the end of "The Inner Light".

You won the thread. I might also have thrown in Kirk watching Edith Keeler die in "The City on the Edge of Forever".

 

[CorporalClegg]

Elaboration?

Well, the first time you saw it, did you really understand what the hell was going on there?

They created this whole elaborate hoop that everyone had to jump through just to kill off Spock. Plus, after doing so, they had to give themselves an "out" just in case they decide later it was a bad idea.

And, it was kind of anti-climatic. The reference the villain as being a super genius over and over again to pound it into our brains. And then, he decides to turn himself into a glorified Baka Bomb.

In the meantime, the engine won't start. And, in order to fix it, Spock pulls out some techno-bullshit out of his ass that no one understands except that it'll kill him. Of course, the whole time all the engineers are standing around with their collective fingers up their asses.

 

[PhoenixIreland]

The Sisko PALE MOONLIGHT ep definitly deserves mention, the last few lines


The thing I liked about DS9 was that it showd two things:
1. What people who didn't live in the UFP Utopia had to go through and how they resented it (eg Eddingtons speeach when he defects to the Maquis) (and when Sisko is talking to Kira about the average Federation persons opinion of the Maquis "the problem is earth, on earth there is no war no poverty and no crime, but out here all the problems havn't been solved yet")

2. It explored what would happen if the very existance of the Federation was threatened from the time Bashir said in past tense "if something disasterous were to happen to the federation would we hold true to our ideals or end up here...right back where we started?"
They didn't quite end up back in the shithole 21st century, but they did violate their own principals when their very existance was in danger, I'd argue that if their very existance is in danger it was justified, but it showd that when your not on a Galaxy class starship cursing around the utopian federation the world is one big shade of grey, thats what DS9 was all about.

Picard had a similar chance to make a similar decsiion with Hugh and he coudln't do it, I personally would have, I wouldn't consider it Genocide since your never going to be able to pull a 7of9 on every borg and free them all, and you could argue they lost their individuality when they were asssimilated.

I know alot of fans hate that episode for the reason of sacrificing principals, but rightly or wrongly that happens in wars, even fake psudo-wars where the existance of the state is not threatened like the war on terror the USA, an adminable country in many ways, pissed all over it's own constutition, these things happen.

No matter how far we evolve in 300 years, if the very existance we hold dear is theatened (as it was in the Dominion war) we'd go to extreme measures.

TNG:
Dramatic: Picard playing the flute at the end of "Inner Light." Heartbreaking!
Funny: Sir, I protest! I am NOT A MERRY MAN!

What I liked better in that ep was when Geordi was playng the banjo thing and Worf calmly walks over, shamshes it in two, reuctantly says "..sorry" and hands it back to him.