Do you have a 'go to' episode?

[bajorangirl]

When you just fancy watching a couple of episodes which ones do you choose.

I tried to choose the other day with Deep Space Nine, after nothing was on TV, and I struggled to find an episode I wanted to watch.

I liked the majority of the episodes when I watched them first time round (only a couple over the whole series annoyed me) and watch I what ever is given to me when it comes on SyFy but I just can't seem to choose one for myself. Not only on DS9 but the others as well.

So I wanted to ask.

Which episodes do you pick out the watch the most?

 

[Tomalak]

I think I used to. Back in the day it was the few episodes I had taped off TV, so it was always The Cage, Trouble with Tribbles, COTEOF, Parallels, Timescape, Pre-emptive Strike, All Good Things and most of DS9 seasons 6 & 7.

I found that I was over familiar with those, and neglected others. Since getting the DVDs, I've more or less had one of the series in rotation, so I always know the next episode to watch. It means I don't have to pick and choose, and I get to rediscover forgotten episodes, or ones I didn't think were any good.

At the moment I'm in TOS series 3, having started with Enterprise last summer. I started TOS in September for the anniversary.

Last night was 'For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky', which I don't think I've seen since it was on BBC2 about 20 years ago. I couldn't remember anything! It was a nice surprise actually.

 

[GabyBee]

TOS: "The Lights Of Zetar"
TNG: "Lower Decks"
DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited"
VOY: "Once Upon A Time"
ENT: "The Catwalk"

 

[Miss Lemon]

My all-time happy episode is Trials and Tribble-ations.

I find that I mostly rewatch quiet episodes that are focussed on interpersonal or intrapersonal issues rather than on big battle scenes or scifi, for example:
The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)
Rejoined (DS9)
Shuttlepod One (ENT)

Other than that, I like to rewatch anything with any of the following characters: Garak, Dukat, Shran or Kirk.

 

[King Bob!]

"A Taste of Armageddon"

 

[Tomalak]

"A Taste of Armageddon"

Good call. I think this may be the archetypal Star Trek episode.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

"A Taste of Armageddon"

Me too. A Taste of Armageddon is almost always the first episode I think of when I sit down to watch TOS now. Journey to Babel is also a go to for me.

 

[JoeCabby]

TOS: The Cage.
Voyager: Wink of an Eye.
Enterprise: the Nazi alien one.
DS9: Move along Home

Can't think one for TNG. I think I enjoy most of the episodes so it doesn't matter which one i'll watch.

 

[Starbreaker]

I've seen Parallels more than anything else. I had it taped on VHS and I've seen it on Netflix a handful of times.

 

[Pick807]

I really enjoy TNG: The Inner Light, because of how sad it is that the Kataan were not able to save themselves,yet wanted someone to know they had existed.

 

[Kor]

Errand of Mercy, of Korse.

Kor

 

[Vger23]

Not necessarily favorites or bests...bot episodes I find most enjoyable as rewatches.

TOS:
Corbomite Maneuver
Tholian Web
WNMHGB

TNG:
Cause and Effect
11001001

DS9:
Way of the Warrior

ENT:
Dead Stop

 

[RAMA]

I like picking ones I didn't look at often in the past. Some of the more common ones were: "The Chase", "The Defector", "Booby Trap", Contagion", "1101001", "Where No One Has Gone Before"..

I've "rediscovered" "The Last Outpost".

"Anomaly" from ENT "Azati Prime" ENT,

 

[donners22]

I don't watch TV much now, but it used to be The Magnificent Ferengi. Whenever I needed cheering up, that was a reliable way to do it.

The DS9 Ferengi episodes were of very mixed quality, but that was easily the best.

 

[Galileo7]

"Day Of The Dove" or "Balance Of Terror"

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I mostly watch in order but my first choice if I could only watch one episode would probably be Chain of Command

 

[Tesophius]

I really enjoy TNG: The Inner Light, because of how sad it is that the Kataan were not able to save themselves,yet wanted someone to know they had existed.

Same, I love The Inner Light. It's also so well made. Why can't the TNG movies be like it - I ask myself.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Oh, totally.

TOS: "Arena". The fight music, amusing costumes, and a little "We're better than that" moral encouragement.
TNG, it's always "Disaster" or "Clues".
DS9: Civil Defense. I find it a fun episode. Note that like TNG it throws the main characters into a conundrum on familiar territory, yet they're still in the dark.

 

[bbjeg]

"Darmok"

 

[Adventerprise]

Don't really have one, but the ones I've seen the most times are the tribble episodes.