Dr_Daystrom
Commander
The conclusion of City on the Edge of Forever. From the point where Kirk stops McCoy from saving Edith (already mentioned) to the end where Kirk says "Let's get the hell out of here" (first curse on television).
Best Scene?
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I love some of those dramatic scenes already mentioned in Voy, TNG, DS9, Eent, T-O-S but in terms of visual Fx I loved saucer separation move in TNG Encounter at Farpoint. I think this was the moment when Trek reached a new height in terms of visual effects 
My three best scenes, in no particular order:
Very last scene of ENT, where Picard, Kirk and Archer recite the "Space...the final frontier" speech with their respective ships.
Very last scene of DS9 where Kira joins Jake looking out of a window and the camera pulls back until the station is just another blink of light in the vastness of space.
The log entry from ITPM.
Very last scene of ENT, where Picard, Kirk and Archer recite the "Space...the final frontier" speech with their respective ships.
Very last scene of DS9 where Kira joins Jake looking out of a window and the camera pulls back until the station is just another blink of light in the vastness of space.
The log entry from ITPM.
Risk . . . RISK . . . is our business!
Agreed... both were awesome. Don't feel bad I cry at those two moments also.
I think the best funny scene is during Datas dreaming and he has to surrender the side arm to Worf, and asks him to watch spot.
Worf holds spot about a meter in front of him with his legs dangling in air as Data says "he will need to be fed twice a day...and you must sing to him, and tell him he is a good cat, and a pretty cat and..." (he catches worfs glare) as Worf says "I will FEED him"
Worf holds spot about a meter in front of him with his legs dangling in air as Data says "he will need to be fed twice a day...and you must sing to him, and tell him he is a good cat, and a pretty cat and..." (he catches worfs glare) as Worf says "I will FEED him"
Yeah, I love it when Star Trek does "Animal House."
One of my favorite scenes from TOS is in The Ultimate Computer. The scene between Kirk and McCoy as after the Dunsel comment. It contains one fo my favorite Kirk lines of the series:
"'All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer it by'. You could feel the wind at your back in those days. The sounds of the sea beneath you. Even if you take away the wind and the water, it's still the same. The ship is yours. You can feel her. And the stars are still there, Bones."
"'All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer it by'. You could feel the wind at your back in those days. The sounds of the sea beneath you. Even if you take away the wind and the water, it's still the same. The ship is yours. You can feel her. And the stars are still there, Bones."
Dr_Daystrom
Commander
How about the opening scene in Next Gen "Cause and Effect" when Picard issues an abandon ship order after the USS Bozeman crashes into one of the warp nacelles but a warp core breach destroys the ship as he's saying it?
"All hands abandon ship! Repeat, all hands abandon.."
That sent chills up my spine the first time I saw it (of course it's repeated several times in that episode because of the time loop). That's also one of the most watched and best loved Next Gen episodes.
Along those lines, how about in First Contact when Picard orders everyone to abandon ship and all the escape pods launch? Very cool!
"All hands abandon ship! Repeat, all hands abandon.."
That sent chills up my spine the first time I saw it (of course it's repeated several times in that episode because of the time loop). That's also one of the most watched and best loved Next Gen episodes.
Along those lines, how about in First Contact when Picard orders everyone to abandon ship and all the escape pods launch? Very cool!
The FC one didn't do it for me because I knew they'd be back, since I saw the TNG Cause and Effect years later I knew they'd be back too, but the almost panic, fast pace etc of that scene did send a chill down the spine, I think because you never expected to see that ship in such a dire catastrophy, that was for OTHER ships.
Agree on Tashas goodbye speeach.
Dr_Daystrom
Commander
I agree, all scenes like that don't have the edge they should because you know that they're not dead.
I'm a HUGE fan of intrigue and surprise plot twists in pretty much any show or movie I watch (I'm a surprise plot twist junkie, really), so as far as Trek goes, all of my favorite scenes come out of DS9, and practically all involve Garak, who was the king of intrigue and plot twists.
1. The final showdown between Garak and Sisko in Garak's shop in In The Pale Moonlight....when it all comes together and Sisko is forced to admit - even to himself for the first time - that he brought Garak into the plan in order to do the 'dirty work'.
2. The showdown between Garak and Odo in Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast when Odo accuses Garak of blowing up his own shop.
3. The scene between Garak and Bashir in The Wire where Garak goes into his crazed rant and tells Bashir about 'Elim'...not saying that Elim was, in fact, Garak himself. It's great when Tain fills in the blanks for Bashir! That whole Enabrain Tain storyline totally rocked, IMO.
4. The battle scene in Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast when the Cardassians/Romulans discover that they'd been duped...and the Rumulan commander turns out to be a Founder.
One DS9 scene, however, that always sticks in my mind despite the fact that it does not involved big surprise plot twists is a very simple one: the scene on the bridge of the Defiant, right before the fleet goes into battle in Favor the Bold/Sacrifice of Angels. The tension mounts perfectly as they ready themselves...and culminates when O'Brien tells them just how many Dominion ships they are facing. I think one of my favorite lines that Sisko says in the entire series is when he says "There's an old saying....fortune favors the bold. Well, I guess we're about to find out." Perfect 'cap' to the tension in that scene.
Outside of DS9, I think my favorite scenes in Trek are the funny ones - the one on the bus in The Voyage Home, Q and the mariachi band in Deja Q, and similar types of scenes.
1. The final showdown between Garak and Sisko in Garak's shop in In The Pale Moonlight....when it all comes together and Sisko is forced to admit - even to himself for the first time - that he brought Garak into the plan in order to do the 'dirty work'.
2. The showdown between Garak and Odo in Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast when Odo accuses Garak of blowing up his own shop.
3. The scene between Garak and Bashir in The Wire where Garak goes into his crazed rant and tells Bashir about 'Elim'...not saying that Elim was, in fact, Garak himself. It's great when Tain fills in the blanks for Bashir! That whole Enabrain Tain storyline totally rocked, IMO.
4. The battle scene in Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast when the Cardassians/Romulans discover that they'd been duped...and the Rumulan commander turns out to be a Founder.
One DS9 scene, however, that always sticks in my mind despite the fact that it does not involved big surprise plot twists is a very simple one: the scene on the bridge of the Defiant, right before the fleet goes into battle in Favor the Bold/Sacrifice of Angels. The tension mounts perfectly as they ready themselves...and culminates when O'Brien tells them just how many Dominion ships they are facing. I think one of my favorite lines that Sisko says in the entire series is when he says "There's an old saying....fortune favors the bold. Well, I guess we're about to find out." Perfect 'cap' to the tension in that scene.
Outside of DS9, I think my favorite scenes in Trek are the funny ones - the one on the bus in The Voyage Home, Q and the mariachi band in Deja Q, and similar types of scenes.
Tasha's goodbye speech and Spock's death were great, of course.
I also really really like the end of Balance of Terror. Wonderfully done.
I can't believe nobody's said this, but BOBW part 1's final scene is riveting as well.
And of course Tasha's talk with Wesley about drugs.
I also really really like the end of Balance of Terror. Wonderfully done.
I can't believe nobody's said this, but BOBW part 1's final scene is riveting as well.
And of course Tasha's talk with Wesley about drugs.
People mock Tashas drug speach but it was a very accurate, all be it simplified, way of explaining how it happens to people.
All Garak moments are automatically classics
"My dear doctor...they're all true"
"even the lies?"
"ESPECHALLY the lies"
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"maybe I'm an exile"
"or maybe your a spy"
"or maybe I'm an exiled spy"
"how could you be both!??"
"I never said I was either"
(turned out he was both)
All Garak moments are automatically classics
"My dear doctor...they're all true"
"even the lies?"
"ESPECHALLY the lies"
--------------------------
"maybe I'm an exile"
"or maybe your a spy"
"or maybe I'm an exiled spy"
"how could you be both!??"
"I never said I was either"
(turned out he was both)
Dr_Daystrom
Commander
The scene in the Doomsday Machine when Kirk asks Decker where his crew is. Decker says he beamed them down to the third planet and Kirk says there is no third planet.
"Don't you think I know that? There was! But not anymore!"
"Don't you think I know that? There was! But not anymore!"
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