Episodes where you're like "**** it! That's awesome!"

[Crazy 4 Xmas Lights]

But I think most people like that one.

I think "Lessons" has some cool moments: the musical duets, Picard in a good mood, and the reason why Captain/subordinate relationships aren't a particularly good idea.

 

[King Bob!]

Report him to Q.

What makes you think Q would care or be anymore capable of imprisioning the Douwd?

 

[Crazy 4 Xmas Lights]

The Q imprisoned Quinn. Maybe they could snag the Dowdd. Given that they can bring back deleted lifeforms, while the Dowdd could only destroy them, at least suggests a greater amount of power.

 

[Cyfa]

ENT: "Precious Cargo" - I love this episode and feel no shame whatsoever in thinking **** it! That's awesome!
It seems so full of joy - intentional and otherwise. Padma Lakshmi seems on the verge of laughing quite often - I wonder how many cuts/outtakes she and Connor Trinneer caused?). And the scene with 'Judicial Administrator' T'Pol is hilarious

I also really love "A Night In Sickbay" for the reasons @Oddish mentioned upthread, and "Vox Sola" - not only is it a quintessential Trek story, but even through all that Kreetassan make-up, Vaughn Armstrong manages to convey the most magnificent look of absolute disgust that I think I have ever seen!
These three are my most watched ENT episodes by far.

 

[Crazy 4 Xmas Lights]

I like Vox Sola too, because Travis Mayweather once again shows his superior competence by calming down that Kreetasian and getting what Enterprise needs from him. in a big way, kid.

 

[Mojochi]

TNG Genesis: Yeah it's stupid. It doesn't make a damn bit of sense at all, but Picard is running for his life from a mutated Worf! Troi rolls over & is a fish, Barclay jumps out a spider, Riker looks like he just thawed out of a 100,000 year old block of ice... That's awesome! It might be one of the baddest bottle episodes they ever did, in every sense of the word

 

[Turtletrekker]

Ok, I'm going to say it...

ALLAMARAINE!

 

[Orphalesion]

Move Along Home was one of the first Star Trek episodes I ever saw as a young child, and it scared the crap out of me when those weird lights dematerialised Bashir. In general the whole episode was quite creepy to me as a child, since I hadn't seen any of DS9 before and had no idea what was even going on.
It sure left an impression on me and I remembered it instantly when I watched more of DS9 as a teenager.

 

[Frostscape One]

I'm so happy that "MOVE ALONG HOME" is getting a lot of love here.

ALLAMARAINE!!!!

 

[Crisp Conditions]

These are just some of my picks, based on my initial reaction, not necessarily on how I might rank them today relative to other episodes and films.

"The Menagerie" (parts 1 & 2)
"The Doomsday Machine"
"A Private Little War"
"The Best of Both Worlds" (part 1)
"Darmok"
"Redemption" (part 1)
"Beyond the Farthest Star"
"Far Beyond the Stars"
"Real Life"
"The Thaw"
"In a Mirror, Darkly" (parts 1 & 2)
"Mugato, Gumato"
TWOK

 

[Brenny Reindeer]

I first saw "Spectre of the Gun" in its original airing -- I was all of nine, and not yet a fan of Star Trek, but my dad watched the show and well, I was in the room. The weird and haunting atmosphere made such an impression on me that, a few years later, I started watching the series in syndication, hoping to see it again. By the time I did, I was hooked on Trek. Another episode of TOS that made a strong impression on me was "The Empath," with its stark, stylized settings and the silent but so-expressive Gem.

 

[Crazy 4 Xmas Lights]

I'm going to add "Hero Worship" to the list, because I thought that kid did a great Data imitation.

 

[Crisp Conditions]

The ending of “the Survivors” even though

Spoiler: Ending

the federation has no law to fit the crime of genocide?

"The Survivors" just missed my cut. My main criticisms of it are that it drags in too many places, and it comes across as if Picard pulls the truth out of a hat, too conveniently, too contrived. As I was watching it, I thought to myself that season three was going to be when TNG really came together.

Here's something that might blow peoples' minds, that I posted last year on another part of the board.

Check out Little House on the Prairie, "Haunted House" (1975). I almost fell out of my chair when I did my Little House series run through a year or so ago.

Here's what Memory Alpha has to say about that episode [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_Anderson_(actor)]:

Anderson once played the role of Mr. Pike, a grieving widower obsessed with a music box in memory of his late wife in an episode of Little House on the Prairie (1975).​

I mean, I couldn't have said it better. Freaky. Here's a more detailed synopsis [https://littlehouse.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_205:_Haunted_House]:

When Nellie dares Laura to enter a rickety old house, Laura instead discovers a kindly old widower Amos Pike, living there. She learns that he is waiting for his beloved wife, a deceased actress to return home. Laura excitedly volunteers her help in fixing up the place until a trip to Mankato shows that his wife is dead and not coming back. Laura then must help him overcome his denial and sorrow, when she tells him that his wife is dead.​

There aren't any credits in common with "The Survivors" that I can find, besides John Anderson himself.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Survivors_(episode)​

 

[publiusr]

Loud as a Whisper

 

[Crisp Conditions]

Loud as a Whisper

Underrated episode.

 

[Frostscape One]

And unique. Not just in how he communicated with his chorus, but in having an actual deaf person play such a big role in an episode.

 

[Brenny Reindeer]

As someone who studied English and performed in theater in college, I adore Voyager's "The Muse," with its ancient-Greek-style theater and the problems of working under a patronage system and the desire of the writer to make a difference. I was active in fandom at the time, and I remember the indignation of some fans who thought they were being poked fun at, and I guess you could make a case for that, but I never got that impression at all. I just thought it was great. I still do. Relatedly, I also liked "The Conscience of the King," with its traveling theater troupe bringing Shakespeare to their era's astronauts.

 

[Orphalesion]

Loud as a Whisper

There were a lot of things that didn't make sense in Loud as a Whisper (for one, that they weren't briefed that Riva was deaf and would bring some sort of mind-hive chorus with him)

But it also had a lot of interesting concepts that would, honestly need a miniseries or a book to properly flesh out.
Like everything about Riva, his relationship with his Chorus, their species, and then there's the planet that has been at war for fifteen centuries. And stuff like that just makes an episode memorable to me.

Like how exactly does the chorus work? After they were killed Riva called them "his friends", was their position perhaps akin to Ladies-in-Waiting and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber in European royalty? Or do they almost see themselves as part of Riva? Was telepathy something that only existed in the royal line, or was Riva's species telepathic with each other in general?
And was Solais V really at constant war for fifteen whole centuries? How does life look like on a world like that? What is even left of their culture and former way of life after a millennium and a half of war?
Or is that just the POV of the Federation and they'd also say Earth was "at war" for some 2000 years before First Contact, since a lot of history's conflicts have their root causes in older conflicts?

Plus its pretty cool that a deaf character was played by a deaf actor.

 

[Richard S. Claus]

Star Trek (2009).

**** it! It's awesome!

 

[at Quark's]

As someone who studied English and performed in theater in college, I adore Voyager's "The Muse," with its ancient-Greek-style theater and the problems of working under a patronage system and the desire of the writer to make a difference. I was active in fandom at the time, and I remember the indignation of some fans who thought they were being poked fun at, and I guess you could make a case for that, but I never got that impression at all. I just thought it was great. I still do. Relatedly, I also liked "The Conscience of the King," with its traveling theater troupe bringing Shakespeare to their era's astronauts.

Never been a writer or involved in the arts myself, but always appreciated that episode for trying something different and acknowledging that they are part of a very old tradition. Spanning all the way from that of Odysseus, trying to reach his home in Ithaca, to that of Voyager, "continuing her journey to the gleaming cities of earth, where peace reigns and hate has no home".