Oddly different choice ( "Odd in context" that I was not expecting that particular one, not disparaging it )My favorite is always TNG's "The Royale".
Favorite ALL time episode REGARDLESS of the series?
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"The Royale" has one heck of a Twilight Zone vibe to it. I would rank it among TNG's best.
Now that I view it with that in mind I can almost hear a Rod Serling VO starting in my head
I have loved just about every Lower Decks episode. I think that it was the slightly irrelevant take on the ST Universe that made it SO enjoyable to watch.LDS: "The Stars At Night"
TNG The Offspring. Touching episode and also the first episode I ever watched, which got me addicted to Star Trek when I was eleven.
And just think, no one took the idea of Jonathan Frakes directing seriously. And that episode was his debut.
Was on way to basically say the same. It had me in every scene, every moment. Nothing dulled it down, it was directed and edited perfectly. I already loved DS9 before, but it made me fall in love all over again. I should rewatch it today.
That's totally cool, I'm used to people being all "huh???" when I name "The Royale" as my favorite episode. Although I AM pleased to notice that more and more people seem to appreciate the episode these days! It is quirky and funny and yet also quite creepy and sad at the same time. I love that combination.
It's actually kind of refreshing, someone making an unconventional choice. My favorite episode might be a conventional choice, but my least favorite is one that most people seem OK with.
Mine was The Doomsday Machine when I was 7 (1st run syndication in Los Angeles CA)
Love to see another person who appreciates Star Trek Continues.
There are so many great choices but I have to go with TOS Wolf In The Fold.
The story begins with Kirk and McCoy getting Scotty a hooker to cure him of his hatred of women. When Scotty leaves to enjoy said hooker, Kirk and McCoy decide to go to a better brothel….i mean that place was good enough for Scotty but senior officers deserve better.
While They are walking the streets of Argelius, a scream pierces the night and they find that Scotty apparently killed his “date”.
The cop of the episode is this dude named Hengist (The actor was the same guy who voiced piglet, so he was ready for the role). He is ready to nail Scotty to the wall so Kirk rises to Scotty’s defense.
Much of the rest of the episode has Scotty being put in close proximity to more women, and sure enough they end up dead. However, no matter how many women Scotty kills, Kirk defends his engineer. So the logical thing to do is let the leader of Argelius’s wife (who is also psychic) do a seance to find the truth. This is decades before Nancy Reagan so…..anyway.
When the Prefects psychic wife turns up dead, even Kirk seems a little annoyed and gives him a look that said, “Hey Scotty, why don’t you leave some for the rest of us?” Regardless, he has to prove Scotty innocent, or the prefect will have him tortured to death.
So after they hook Scotty’s brain to a computer they figure out that despite the fact that Scotty hates the fairer sex, he isn’t lying. So the logical conclusion is that Jack the Ripper is the real villain here…..and that Jack is actually a non corporeal entity that feeds on fear who is currently possessing the body of Hengest the cop. So they chase the spirit out of Piglet and the spirit possesses the ship. In response, Kirk and McCoy decides to get the crew so high they can’t be scared of anything.
Pissed off by that, the entity goes back into piglet the cop and they beam his ass into space. The episode ends with a serial killer dead and everyone tripping balls.
I love this episode because every time you think it has peaked in its batshit crazy plot, it goes higher. Also it was penned by the same guy who wrote Psycho and the concept of it sharing continuity with this episode is fun to think about.
Wolf in the Fold is just wonderful and my vote for the best of the franchise.
The story begins with Kirk and McCoy getting Scotty a hooker to cure him of his hatred of women. When Scotty leaves to enjoy said hooker, Kirk and McCoy decide to go to a better brothel….i mean that place was good enough for Scotty but senior officers deserve better.
While They are walking the streets of Argelius, a scream pierces the night and they find that Scotty apparently killed his “date”.
The cop of the episode is this dude named Hengist (The actor was the same guy who voiced piglet, so he was ready for the role). He is ready to nail Scotty to the wall so Kirk rises to Scotty’s defense.
Much of the rest of the episode has Scotty being put in close proximity to more women, and sure enough they end up dead. However, no matter how many women Scotty kills, Kirk defends his engineer. So the logical thing to do is let the leader of Argelius’s wife (who is also psychic) do a seance to find the truth. This is decades before Nancy Reagan so…..anyway.
When the Prefects psychic wife turns up dead, even Kirk seems a little annoyed and gives him a look that said, “Hey Scotty, why don’t you leave some for the rest of us?” Regardless, he has to prove Scotty innocent, or the prefect will have him tortured to death.
So after they hook Scotty’s brain to a computer they figure out that despite the fact that Scotty hates the fairer sex, he isn’t lying. So the logical conclusion is that Jack the Ripper is the real villain here…..and that Jack is actually a non corporeal entity that feeds on fear who is currently possessing the body of Hengest the cop. So they chase the spirit out of Piglet and the spirit possesses the ship. In response, Kirk and McCoy decides to get the crew so high they can’t be scared of anything.
Pissed off by that, the entity goes back into piglet the cop and they beam his ass into space. The episode ends with a serial killer dead and everyone tripping balls.
I love this episode because every time you think it has peaked in its batshit crazy plot, it goes higher. Also it was penned by the same guy who wrote Psycho and the concept of it sharing continuity with this episode is fun to think about.
Wolf in the Fold is just wonderful and my vote for the best of the franchise.
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