General Trek Questions and Observations

[Locutus of Bored]

What's everybody's favourite time travel episode? Two-parters count.

DS9 - The Visitor

 

[dupersuper]

City on the Edge of Forever
Voyage Home
Trials and Tribble-ations
The Visitor
Future's End
First Contact
possibly all of Prodigy season 1 if some theories are correct

 

[Richard S. Ta]

"Assignment: Earth"

A favourite of mine! Great stuff!

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I can give you a whole top ten:

TOS - The City on the Edge of Forever
TNG - Yesterday's Enterprise
DS9 - Visionary, Children of Time, Trials and Tribble-ations
Voyager - Future's End, Year of Hell.
Enterprise - Twilight, In a Mirror, Darkly

But my favourite Star Trek time travel episode is... Discovery's Such Sweet Sorrow. It's got that Kelvin Timeline energy where it makes no sense if I stop to think about any of it for a moment, but it doesn't stop for a moment so I got swept along with it to the end. You could tear the story apart with minimal effort, and I have, but I love it unironically.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

My runners up would be:

"Yesteryear"
"Trials and Tribble-ations"
First Contact
"Assignment: Earth"

I really can't stand "The Visitor." It's grating on pretty much every level.

 

[at Quark's]

I consider "Year of Hell" a quasi time-travel episode, otherwise I'd pick it.

If quasi time-travel episodes were allowed, I'd nominate Timeless and The Sound of her Voice.

Oh, and Cause and Effect. An episode that gives you the impression you've watched it 7 times when you've actually only watched it once must be good.

 

[gweeps]

"at Quark's, post: 14059359, member: 48496"]The Sound of her Voice.

Such a sweet episode.

 

[1001001]

I really can't stand "The Visitor." It's grating on pretty much every level.

 

[Oddish]

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Saw a video by someone who hated "The Inner Light", too.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

There are more than a few fans who don't like "The City on the Edge of Forever." There's nothing wrong with that.

 

[Oddish]

And personally, I'm not that wild about "Duet".

 

[at Quark's]

I think The Visitor is pretty good, but not truly great. It pushes all the correct buttons, tugs at the right heartstrings, but isn't revolutionary or perspective-changing. And emotion alone isn't sufficient in my book to warrant a stellar rating.

 

[tesral]

I think The Visitor is pretty good, but not truly great. It pushes all the correct buttons, tugs at the right heartstrings, but isn't revolutionary or perspective-changing. And emotion alone isn't sufficient in my book to warrant a stellar rating.

Plus for good writing, minus for time travel yet again.

 

[fireproof78]

What's everybody's favourite time travel episode? Two-parters count.

Episodes? Probably "All our Yesterdays" and "Trials and Tribble-ations." Overall, time travel is not fun.

 

[tesral]

Episodes? Probably "All our Yesterdays" and "Trials and Tribble-ations." Overall, time travel is not fun.

No it is not.

 

[gweeps]

No it is not.

"Relativity" looked like fun.

 

[tesral]

"Relativity" looked like fun.

By nature time travel violates causality.

 

[dupersuper]

By nature time travel violates causality.

Violating causality isn't fun?

 

[at Quark's]

"Relativity" looked like fun.

Not for 7, it didn't.

 

[Oddish]

The Butterfly Effect is disabled in Trek, so time travel can be fun.

I wonder if you can predestination paradox... Bashir certainly thought it was possible in "Trials".