Best, Worst, Weirdest Trek Episode Titles

[2 of 10]

I was looking over a DS-9 episode guide and one episode title really stood out. It was in the 7th season and the episode was "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to mean.
I did have something to do with Section 31, it may be latin for "Slone really sucks" : ) I actually kind of liked Slone, faithful to the federation to the end.

So, my question can you think of any other Trek episode titles from any series that were really great, not so great or just plain weird...

 

[Atavachron]

Translated it means:

In time of war, the law falls silent.

Atavachron

 

[JiNX-01]

I have to say for the worst and weirdest, you've picked a twofer winner.

Best is a tougher call...

I've always liked "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky." It's so poetic.

 

[TheRealNaveed]

Favourites...
"All Good Things"
"Best of Both Worlds"
"Year of Hell"
"Scorpion"
"Time and Again"
"Terra Prime"
"Zero Hour"
"What You Leave Behind"
"Favor the Bold"
"Trials and Tribble-ations"
"The Balance of Terror"

Weirdest
"1101110100" (or whatever it was)
"The City on the Edge of Forever"
"Assignment: Earth!"
"Datalore"
"The Man Trap"

Worst
"The Naked Now"
"Countdown"
"The Turnabout Intruder"

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

Best:"These are the Voyages..."
Weirdest: "For the World is Hollow and I have touched the sky."
Worst:"Star Trek: Insurrection" (I know, I know; it's a movie.)

 

[M'Sharak]

I was looking over a DS-9 episode guide and one episode title really stood out. It was in the 7th season and the episode was "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to mean.

It's explained in dialogue between Bashir and Admiral Ross in the episode itself. Act Five.

 

[Augustus]

tinker, tenor, doctor, spy...

 

[MrsPicard]

Best: "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky." (TOS) Definitely. It sounds so wonderful.
Worst: "The Outrageous Okona" (TNG) - he's not outrageous, he's simply very, very annoying.
Weirdest: "Silicon Avatar" (TNG) - huh??? *lol*

 

[Alidar Jarok]

2 of 10, be careful with how many threads you start in a day. Typically, we discourage posters from posting more than three in one forum. You can always save your thoughts for another day (and it helps keep other people's threads on the first page as well).

 

[captcalhoun]

10110001 was the names of the four Bynars that appeared in the episode 10, 01, 11 and 00. not that weird.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

And The Children Shall Lead is really cool, too, considering what a clunker the episode is.

 

[bintak]

Taking "title" to mean exactly that, and nothing else, "Spock's Brain" is the best "title" that describes the weirdest worst Trek episode ever.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I like the long, strange, poetic titles like "Treachery, Faith and the Great River"; "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"; and "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"

I dislike the cheesy ones like "Course: Oblivion" and the generic one-word ones of which there are too many to count.

I'm slightly negative on the ones that are too obviously derivative of pop culture - "Take Me Out to the Holosuite," "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy," but I like "In the Pale Moonlight" which sounds like it must have an older source than it does (Batman movies)

 

[Mistral]

I have to say for the worst and weirdest, you've picked a twofer winner.

Best is a tougher call...

I've always liked "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky." It's so poetic.

I first saw this title about 37 years ago-and it has haunted me ever since. I don't know why but it has.

 

[The Wormhole]

Best title: The Changing Face Of Evil. It's just so cool to say.
Worst title: Can't think of one offhand. Though overall, Enterprise had a lot of unimaginative titles.
Weirdest title: For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky. It just sounds so weird.

 

[doubleohfive]

DS9 had some of the best and most meaningful titles. but TNG and TOS had some goodies too. Voyager managed to crank out one or two (I think Voyager is the only show to have an "!" in an episode title ("Bride of Chaotica!") but I was never impressed with a lot of the single-word titles. After a while it got annoying.

 

[GNDN]

I think Voyager is the only show to have an "!" in an episode title ("Bride of Chaotica!")

Not quite: Operation -- Annihilate!
Pretty weird itself

 

[Nardpuncher]

I have to say for the worst and weirdest, you've picked a twofer winner.

Best is a tougher call...

I've always liked "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky." It's so poetic.

I agree. When I hear dthis thread title I knew that DS9 episode would be in here. I find it a pretentious title.
I didn't like all those 3rd and 4th TNG titles with just " The ______"

 

[Augustus]

I think it would be fun to come up with episode names. Wouldn't that be a great full-time job?

Hi I'm Joe and I name every Star Trek episode.

 

[Smiley]

I agree about the one-word and "The ___" titles being annoying, especially when there are about 700 titles in the Trek canon. Some are memorable enough, such as "Tsunkatse" and "Scorpion," but "The Ship" and "Nemesis" are pretty generic.

Third season TOS had some great titles, even if the episodes were not particularly great. "Requiem for Methuselah," "The Cloud Minders," "The Savage Curtain," and "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" all immediately conjure up certain images in the viewer's mind.