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Favorite Title

JeffinOakland

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  • It's not a very good episode but "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" is my all-time favorite title of any ST episode. What's yours?
 
Mine have already been mentioned.

1) For the World Is Hollow...was the first to pop in my head.
2) City on the Edge of Forever
3) A Taste of Armageddon

The episode is not very good, but I like:

1) Assignment: Earth
2) Operation: Annihilate

I also like The Enterprise Incident
 
Another vote for "The City on the Edge of Forever".

"If Wishes Were Horses" has also struck me as being quite the poetic turn of phrase, but alas that episode is horribad.
 
"Mirror, Mirror..." was an effective use of a line from a fairytale; I never cared much for the derivative titles that followed on DS9, however.

--Sran
 
Yeah, notch me up as another vote for "City On The Edge Of Forever". The first title I thought of. ;)
 
I'm a big fan of "The City on the Edge of Forever." Harlan Ellison has a real talent for evocative titles that plant an image or an idea in your head, and I'm very glad that it was never changed in any of the rewrites.

A good title should intrigue you and give you a hint about the story you're about to see. "Mirror, Mirror" is a very good title. "The Menagerie" is very evocative. "Far Beyond the Stars" is pretty good. So are titles like "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "The Big Goodbye", "The Trouble with Tribbles" or "Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places." Those are titles that stick with you.

I'm definitely not a fan of all the generic, one-word titles that came into favor during the TNG/DS9/VOY era. It made all the episodes seem more interchangeable and less memorable. I'm constantly mixing up TOS' "Metamorphosis" and "The Changeling" just because of their generic titles. Either one of those titles would've been right at home on TNG.
 
"Whom Gods Destroy" I always liked the poetic style of the TOS and TNG titles, it always brings up a nostalgic feeling whenever I see them.

I recognize the title even when the episode sucks or I forgot what it was about.
 
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