Favorite Episodes Round Five
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This was really a tough one, but I voted for:
All Good Things
Darmok
Tapestry
The Inner Light
Yesterday's Enterprise
It was really really difficult trying to pick between Darmok and The Measure of a Man for my 5th vote, but I went with Darmok if for no other reason, an alien was finally presented as alien. Star Trek as a whole rarely did that, and it was done to good effect here.
And yes, I really do consider those shows better than Best of Both Worlds. I like character dramas. It makes Spider sad Lower Decks didn't make it to this round.
All Good Things
Darmok
Tapestry
The Inner Light
Yesterday's Enterprise
It was really really difficult trying to pick between Darmok and The Measure of a Man for my 5th vote, but I went with Darmok if for no other reason, an alien was finally presented as alien. Star Trek as a whole rarely did that, and it was done to good effect here.
And yes, I really do consider those shows better than Best of Both Worlds. I like character dramas. It makes Spider sad Lower Decks didn't make it to this round.
This is getting seriously hard to choose. After some deliberation, I had to admit that Best of Both Worlds simply would not make the cut.
My top 5 are-
Darmok
Tapestry
The Inner Light
The Mesure of a Man
Yesterday's Enterprise
I hated to omit BOBW, it is a brilliant two-parter, but taken as single episodes, these 5 are better. And The Drumhead is a fantastic episode, which was only just left off my list.
BRG
My top 5 are-
Darmok
Tapestry
The Inner Light
The Mesure of a Man
Yesterday's Enterprise
I hated to omit BOBW, it is a brilliant two-parter, but taken as single episodes, these 5 are better. And The Drumhead is a fantastic episode, which was only just left off my list.
BRG
BOBW 1
All Good Things
The Inner Light
The Drumhead
Darmok
All Good Things
The Inner Light
The Drumhead
Darmok
All Good Things
Best of Both Worlds I
Tapestry
The Inner Light
Measure of a Man
Best of Both Worlds I
Tapestry
The Inner Light
Measure of a Man
OK, this Officially Sucks Now. My choices for this round are:
All Good Things - Best series finale ever and a nice bookend to Encounter at Farpoint
Best of Both Worlds Part 1 - Introduced the cliff-hanger to Star Trek and to this day one of the finest ever done. For any TV series.
The Inner Light - A personal favorite and very Star Trek. Who wouldn’t like to live an entire life in a matter of minutes? A side of Picard that we rarely saw again.
Yesterday's Enterprise – Loved the premise. Loved the story. Loved Rachel Garrett. Loved seeing the Enterprise-C. Loved the tie in with the real world relationship with the Klingons. Time changed and in a good way.
And finally…
Q-Who? – For those of us that watched TNG in first run syndication, we only had TOS and four movies for reference. We knew about Klingons, we knew about Romulans, we even knew about the Conspiracy bugs. But the Federation had never encountered the Borg:
Good or bad, this was the episode that introduced the Borg to the Star Trek universe and subject of multiple episodes across every subsequent series plus one feature film. Regardless of what they became, Q-Who? in its original airing was memorable. None of us had any idea what was coming.
All Good Things - Best series finale ever and a nice bookend to Encounter at Farpoint
Best of Both Worlds Part 1 - Introduced the cliff-hanger to Star Trek and to this day one of the finest ever done. For any TV series.
The Inner Light - A personal favorite and very Star Trek. Who wouldn’t like to live an entire life in a matter of minutes? A side of Picard that we rarely saw again.
Yesterday's Enterprise – Loved the premise. Loved the story. Loved Rachel Garrett. Loved seeing the Enterprise-C. Loved the tie in with the real world relationship with the Klingons. Time changed and in a good way.
And finally…
Q-Who? – For those of us that watched TNG in first run syndication, we only had TOS and four movies for reference. We knew about Klingons, we knew about Romulans, we even knew about the Conspiracy bugs. But the Federation had never encountered the Borg:
The Borg in Q Who? were the single most frightening enemy of the Federation ever encountered. Even the Enterprise couldn't defeat them (a first as I recall). And the foreshadowing at the end left you with chills.
Good or bad, this was the episode that introduced the Borg to the Star Trek universe and subject of multiple episodes across every subsequent series plus one feature film. Regardless of what they became, Q-Who? in its original airing was memorable. None of us had any idea what was coming.
^Damn TNG had some great dialog in it didn't it. I just love that episode because of all the great lines. They don't write dialog like that like they used to.
All Good Things
The Best of Both Worlds, Part I
Cause and Effect
The Measure of a Man
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Best of Both Worlds, Part I
Cause and Effect
The Measure of a Man
Yesterday's Enterprise
Best of Both Worlds Part 1:
The frustration and defeat in Worf's response is obvious. And then we get:
You're quite correct in that assimilation added yet another terrifying capability to this already fearsome enemy. Too bad that Part 2 started the demise of the Borg as a threat.
I thought the way the dealt with the destruction of the Borg ship in BOBW II was creative and believable.
They managed to destroy the ship and eliminate the threat through a loophole in the collective's programming. None of the conventional weapons they threw at them helped.
It was in later incarnations where they held their own with ship's weapons that I thought they became watered down.
They managed to destroy the ship and eliminate the threat through a loophole in the collective's programming. None of the conventional weapons they threw at them helped.
It was in later incarnations where they held their own with ship's weapons that I thought they became watered down.
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