Any Garak episode, especially the first scene in Past Prologue when Garak swoops in and hits on Bashir. Gayest. Scene. Ever. “...if you should require any apparel, or merely wish, as I do, for A BIT OF ENJOYABLE COMPANY NOW AND THEN, I’m at your disposal, Doctor.” LMAO
I too love Trials and Tribble-ations! Of course, I'm a Tribble fan. And I love Necessary Evil! It was brilliant backstory, and backstory on shows can often be a bit of a letdown.
Trials and Tribble-ations is, of course, at the top of the list. I find Our Man Bashir to be ridiculously fun romp every time, and I really wish the looming threat of legal menace hadn't gotten in the way of more Bond send-ups. Also, House of Quark and Looking for Par´mach in all the Wrong Places; I adore Grilka. For heavier episodes, Improbable Cause + The Die is Cast, The Wire, Cardassians, Dr Bashir, I Presume, In Purgatory's Shadow, and Nor the Battle to the Strong. Also, Shakaar - any episode where Kai Winn gets egg on her face is one I'm inclined to like. Duet, Far Beyond the Stars, and In The Pale Moonlight are some of Trek's best, but a bit too grim for me to rewatch unless I'm specifically in the mood for them.
Is the Bond franchise really threatening people who might want to do spoofs? I really hope that doesn't happen. Satire is fair use, and our culture would be poorer if it stopped being so. That said, the same spoof done more than once per show is usually too much.
You don't need to have a legal leg to stand on to send a C&D letter, just faith that whomever you're targeting won't/can't take the time and money to contest it in court. I don't know if MGM would be more relaxed these days, but, yeah, the rights-holders were not happy at the time. Per Memory Alpha:
I love any episode that deals full on with the history of the occupation. For anyone who thing Trek is too dark now it didn't get much more horrible than the creepy Cardies
I love "Emissary" the story I found touching and interesting; everything in the episode was a mystery and I was immediately invested to the main characters. Geez, the entire first 2 seasons for me, I loved the world building done by the creative team, it was definitely set to be entirely different from TNG. "Duet", "The Storyteller", "Progress" , Dramatis Personae", and "In the Hands of the Prophets". "Whispers" was a fun brain teaser episode which had some invasion of the body snatchers vibe but the resolution was quite satisfying. I thought "Second Sight" was a nice Sisko episode, The three part Season Premiere was an interesting plot for the crew which was different and showed how far away the Federation frontier was to them. I loved that because my heroes had to solve these issues by their own means and not the assistance from Starfleet. Other purely watched episodes were "Tribunal", "The Collaborator", "The Wire", "Playing God", "Armageddon Game", "The Alternate", "Melora", "Cardassians", "Necessary Evil", these episodes are so good, I honestly don't think DS9 got any better when it came to performances and isolated storytelling. Season 3 had some interesting work like "The House of Quark", "Equilibrium", "Second Skin", "Civil Defense", "Defiant", "Destiny", and my favorite of my list "Explorers" where Sisko takes his son out on an interesting quest where the Cardassians do something which was so enlightening and so showed another facet I loved about that race. I will add "The Visitor" in my bonus list but that's that.
So many! Progress Duet Invasive Procedures Necessary Evil Armageddon Game Blood Oath Tribunal The Jem'Hadar The House of Quark Civil Defense Defiant Visionary Explorers The Visitor Little Green Men The Sword of Kahless Hard Time To the Death Apocalypse Rising Trials and Tribbleations The Ascent Children of Time The Magnificent Ferengi Waltz Far Beyond the Stars One Little Ship In the Pale Moonlight The Sound of Her Voice Take Me Out to the Holosuite Siege of AR-558 Left out anything you couldn't just drop in on bereft of context and not be able to follow what was going on, I think. Probably quite a few more I didn't mention.
Just saw this for the first time since I was too young to understand. Absolutly brilliant first scene from Garek
Generally the Vic ones. Fun stories about people (who are dealing with a hologram) in the moments away from the war.
Yep, the cost of fighting a lawsuit is enough to ensure people avoid them. Some of the - now dead - most awful criminals used the threat of legal actions to keep themselves safe during their lifetimes.
Sacrifice of Angels, not just because of the action, but due to the stakes. There's a palpable sense of desperation in this episode, a feeling of time running out. Image in the Sand/Shadows and Symbols, a compelling opener to season 7, and I got emotional at the final shot of Symbols.
Sacrefice of angels In the pale moonlight the visitor what you leave behind call to arms the festival the way of the warrior the die is cast .. yeah a lot of good episodes