Season 1: Your Top Three Episodes

[ichab]

I feel enough time has been given after the end of the season for us to look back fondly on the episodes that we liked most or we found most memorable. I did a re-watch and these were the ones that stood out most for me

1.) Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
This was very well done and the ending had a twist that I did not see coming. It's also one that stayed with me long after.
2) All Those Who Wander
I love episodes with suspense and this one had it in spades.
3.) The Elysian Kingdom
When the episode started I didn't think I was going to like it. But the humor grew on me and the ending almost had me in tears.

Honorable mention: Strange New Worlds
A very solid first episode that sold me on the series.

What are the three that stood out most for you and which ones do you think will become that "classic" episode that fans will still be talking about years later?

 

[Oddish]

1. Strange New Worlds: The strongest premiere episode of any Trek. Pike's captain speech is right up there with Picard's best orations.

2. Ghosts of Illyria. A fine episode, pushed to superior by the awesome scenes with Una and M'Benga and also Pike and Una.

3. Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach: The ending of this one was a little like being smacked in the stomach with a six-pound maul... but it's memorable, and we're still talking about it.

 

[MrShinzoff]

1. Momento Mori. I thought this was excellent. Pike takes calculated risks in this episode and it's apparent he's using his knowledge of the future as an advantage. It shows the ingenuity of the crew and establishes the SNW Gorn race as a hardcore villain that I personally loved. Pike is supposed to be the ultimate diplomat and this is a villain that just has an unrelenting predatory urge to tear its victims apart and seemingly cannot be reasoned with. It was an instant classic disaster type episode. It was a huge episode for La'an and an interesting insight into the effect of revisiting childhood trauma as an adult and how that experience can help.

2. Strange New Worlds. An interesting episode about Pike's character and his decision to interfere in the planet's development even though regulation forbids it. Pike does the right thing, possibly saves an entire planet from destructive annihilation thereby ensuring that something good might have come from Earth's nuclear war even if it's just to hold it up as an example of the unthinkable happening. We also see Pike realising - through La'an - the benefit of being able to foresee the future and possibly considering that there might be good things that come from his vision.

3. A Quality of Mercy. Another interesting problem for Pike and he would have been successful had it not been for the betrayal of the Romulan officer. It's an interesting story about coming to realise your place in the scheme of things. It says a lot about failure and how we might not have done a lot wrong and yet things might still spiral out of our control.

 

[Quantum21]

Such small sample size..

 

[ichab]

Unfortunately the days of 25 episode seasons are over.

 

[fireproof78]

Better than killing the actors.

 

[Q2UnME]

1. Strange New Worlds: The strongest premiere episode of any Trek. Pike's captain speech is right up there with Picard's best orations.

2. Ghosts of Illyria. A fine episode, pushed to superior by the awesome scenes with Una and M'Benga and also Pike and Una.

3. Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach: The ending of this one was a little like being smacked in the stomach with a six-pound maul... but it's memorable, and we're still talking about it.

Wow, saved me a bunch of typing. The 3 episodes I picked and for the same reasons... Are you telepathic? ....

 

[Oddish]

Wow, saved me a bunch of typing. The 3 episodes I picked and for the same reasons... Are you telepathic? ....

Not last time I checked.

 

[Jayden Dersch]

These are my favorite

Episode 7
Episode 9
Episode 10

 

[Uhura's Song]

"Momento Mori" & "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" were easy choices for me. The third was tougher.

I went with "Strange New Worlds," but could easily have gone "Children of the Comet," "Ghosts of Ilyria," "Spock Amok," or the finale.

 

[ichab]

So far no love for The Serene Squall. It's the only episode without a vote.

 

[Okmyx]

So many quality episodes, so few choices. I could more easily pick my 3 least favorite than the 3 favorite, but ... 2, 3, 4 all in a row - Comet, Illyria, Memento.

 

[ichab]

After one day the top three so far are......

Memento Mori 53.8 %
Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach 46.2%
Children of the Comet 46.2%

Results have been interesting. I thought for sure that the last episode would get more votes.

 

[Oddish]

So far no love for The Serene Squall. It's the only episode without a vote.

I would have thought Squall would beat Elysian Kingdom...

 

[Therin of Andor]

This was very hard to do!

I ended up going with:

Spock Amok
The Elysian Kingdom
A Quality of Mercy

So far no love for The Serene Squall. It's the only episode without a vote.

I noticed this, too. I almost chose it!

 

[Noname Given]

1. A Quality Of Mercy

2. Spock Amok

3. Memento Mori

(And an honorable mention goes to: All Those Who Wander)

[And after just completing a rewatch of all 10 episodes on Blu-ray, I have to say this is the best Star Trek that's been produced since the original Star Trek (TOS), and that while yes it definitely does have nostalgic elements, unlike a certain other Paramount plus Star Trek show that just completed third season; Strange New Worlds doesn't rely solely on said nostalgia, and have some really interesting new and unique takes on that era of Star Trek; unlike that other aforementioned show series. YMMV of course. ]

 

[Captain Jollydark]

So far no love for The Serene Squall. It's the only episode without a vote.

Yeah. I liked it just fine. I liked every episode. But it's just not in my top three.

 

[Midquest]

So far no love for The Serene Squall. It's the only episode without a vote.

Count me among those who very narrowly didn't pick it. I really enjoyed that one.

 

[Oddish]

Count me among those who very narrowly didn't pick it. I really enjoyed that one.

It's always a bridesmaid but never a bride, it seems.

 

[DarKush]

1. A Quality of Mercy
2. Spock Amok
3. Ghosts of Illyria
Honorable Mention: All Those Who Wander

Hard to say which ones will become classic. I think that depends on how well the new or relatively unexplored characters like Number One, La'an, T'Pring, Uhura, the captain from Serene Squall catch on, because if they do, I see the episodes featuring them becoming classic in times.