Game The Most Disliked Episode From A Female Director

[Sakonna]

THE OBJECTIVE: A sudden-death elimination game in which we remove our personal favorite episodes from a themed list, until we arrive at the episode that is, if not the worst, at least the most disliked.

THE RULES: Below is a list of TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DIS, ST, PIC, LD, PRO, and SNW episodes with female directors.

Eliminate/save your favorite, or the one you deem the ‘best.’
Post something you love about the episode you are saving, and copy-and-paste the list with your choice removed.

You can use any standard you like to judge which option is "best." You can save episodes for being widely recognized “best Trek” classics, or for idiosyncratic qualities that no one appreciates but you.

But -- no tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you don’t think anyone else will, or because you feel it would threaten your preferred episode's chance to “win.”

You can take multiple turns. Leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

Make sure to SPOILER TAG your elimination reasons for any PIC, PRO, and SNW episodes. Instructions on how to spoiler tag can be found at this link, it is the 5th item from the bottom: https://www.trekbbs.com/help/bb-codes

Much thanks to @Farscape One for having the director credits literally memorized.

New players are always welcome, you do not have to already be a "most disliked game" regular to dive in.

Enjoy!

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Lower Decks" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 2: "The Wire" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 2: "The Jem'Hadar" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 4: "Message In A Bottle" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dead Stop" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening" (Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2" (Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier" (Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "Kayshon, His Eyes Open" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock" (Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (Andi Armaganian)

 

[Sakonna]

Sorry for the delay posting this one, busy few days.

I knew Trek didn't have many female directors, but I was a bit surprised by the numbers on this one. Through the Berman Trek era, 35 episodes directed by women, out of 716 total.

Streaming Trek has 33 episodes on this list, out of 120.

I'll start with saving "Kayshon, His Eyes Open". I honestly can't decide if LD or DS9 is my favorite Trek to date -- but I think it's LD! Which still shocks me. And "Kayshon" is one of their strongest outings. I laughed so hard in this one it hurt. Kayshon is a brilliantly executed character, hope they do more with him.

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Lower Decks" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 2: "The Wire" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 2: "The Jem'Hadar" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 4: "Message In A Bottle" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dead Stop" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening" (Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2" (Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier" (Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock" (Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (Andi Armaganian)

 

[1001001]

Removing Blink of an Eye. Wonderfully done.

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Lower Decks" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 2: "The Wire" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 2: "The Jem'Hadar" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 4: "Message In A Bottle" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dead Stop" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening" (Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2" (Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier" (Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock" (Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (Andi Armaganian)

 

[Seven of Five]

Another long list with good episodes. I'll go with The Wire first because Garak episodes always seemed awesome. One of my favourite moments between him and Bashir was in the episode about stories and lies.

"Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
"My dear Doctor, they're all true."
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies."

We also see Tain for the first time.

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Lower Decks" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 2: "The Jem'Hadar" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 4: "Message In A Bottle" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dead Stop" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening" (Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2" (Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier" (Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock" (Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (Andi Armaganian)

 

[Sakonna]

I'll next save "The Jem'Hadar." Such a cool atmosphere in this one, very effective finale. Great roles for Nog & Jake, which didn't often happen within the big Turning Point stories.

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Lower Decks" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 4: "Message In A Bottle" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dead Stop" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening" (Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2" (Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier" (Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock" (Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (Andi Armaganian)

 

[Captain's Coffee]

"Message In A Bottle" Bottle" both fun and funny. The Mark 1 and Mark 2 have great chemistry.

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Lower Decks" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dead Stop" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening" (Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2" (Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier" (Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock" (Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (Andi Armaganian)

 

[Oddish]

Dead Stop is my first save. The station is bright and clean but creepy nonetheless, and Roxann Dawson not only directs, but provides a bit of very effective voice work as well, and great ending to boot. And bonus points for my favorite Phlox line: "It's unethical to harm a patient, I can inflict as much pain as I like."

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Lower Decks"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock"(Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (AndiArmaganian)

 

[Seven of Five]

Lower Decks is a great episode. I love how suddenly I was rooting for these members of the crew that we didn't know much about.

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock"(Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (AndiArmaganian)

 

[Qonundrum]

In this list are a few excellent ones for sure, but

TNG Season 3: "Booby Trap"(Gabrielle Beaumont)​

Is my first choice - it has some very tight direction and every scene has its own atmosphere, in a story that also has its own atmosphere enveloping all the others, and gets a lot out of the cast as well. It's a solid enough story in its own right, but her direction turned something good into something great.

What's left:
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "Vox Sola" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock"(Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (AndiArmaganian)

 

[Cyfa]

I love "Vox Sola" - it's one of my favourite ENT episodes, so it's my first save. It 'ticks all the Star Trek boxes' for me by letting us get to know the regular characters (and a couple of the crew), a fantastic non-humanoid alien (even if some bits did look a bit ropey) and equally fascinating humanoid aliens (the amazing Kreetassans), a classic Trek 'discover new life' story and a first contact scenario, and Vaughn Armstrong pulling one of the most disgusted looking faces (helped by some brilliant make-up) I've ever seen! I don't know much about directing, but whatever Roxann Dawson did, it worked for me!

TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
PRO Season 1: "Time Amok" (Olga Ulanova, with Sung Shin)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock"(Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (AndiArmaganian)

 

[Captain's Coffee]

"Time Amok" I've saved this twice before, and I'm happy to save it again. A great episode, with a classic "Trek" feel to it, and great character development for Rok.

TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock"(Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian)

 

[Qonundrum]

Up next:

TNG Season 5: "Disaster" (Gabrielle Beaumont)​

It took a couple rewatches, but I found more to appreciate. Especially as it puts people outside their regular duties and comfy zone, so they have to scramble. And unlike for Star Trek IV, it's taken in a completely serious way - thankfully! Still got to side with Ro, since the story is trying real hard to make Troi the right one out, what with the sheer number of issues for which any of them could have caused the whole ship to go boom-boom-splodie, and turning everyone into briquettes as a result. Especially as Troi, not wrongly so, consoles Ro in saying she had a valid point.

As usual, the direction has a number of tight turns and knows how to get the best out of the actors. This helps a lot, since the story has number of plot problems - my favorite being Crusher telling Geordi "Now take a really big deep breath before you depressurize this room!" (In real life, you want to do a really big EXHALE, but that's not important right now...) The same story also contrives to make a big big stink about Data and being electrocuted, only to trivialize it later on.

But presentation can help improve a (bleeping/ly) bad script, or can actually worsen an otherwise great script. Had I read this story as a novel, I'd have ended up laughing until tears from the laughter sullied and wrinkled the parchment on which said text was printed on. As a TV episode it detracts, but its direction and acting are two of its strong points that maker up for. Kudos to Gates McFadden for spewing the antimatter-world science with such sincerity that I almost bought into it too.

Did I mention, Ro rocks?

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A solid opening... even the incidental music is contributing to the scene, rather than detracting from - impressive for this season. Even if those under her know their jobs, they're giving Troi an interesting crutch to work on. Good stuff... Troi does learn quick on her feet, which showed some astuteness in the script... on the flip side, Troi - the same character who can detect emotions several solar systems away - somehow can't in this episode and nobody figures out why. So glad no spies were on board, like the one from "Data's Day"

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Another bit of good moments...

Also, did I mention that the kiddie subplot was a horrid idea yanked fresh out of season 1?

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(Actually, the first 1:43 are surprisingly decent. It then goes downhill faster than the turbolift did... and the padding in that scene alone lasts for an unseemingly long 60 seconds...)

Lastly, this story was an influence on DS9's "Starship Down", which takes some similar themes but applies something new to them. Also worth a watch...

What's left:
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Spock Amock"(Rachel Leiterman)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian)

 

[Farscape One]

Saving "Spock Amok", for two reasons.

First, we FINALLY get a light-hearted live action episode, and second, it was a GOOD light-hearted live action episode.


TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Assimilation" (Lea Thompson)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian)

 

[Sakonna]

"Assimilation" is one I never get tired of saving. A peak episode of Picard's very strong season 2.

Spoiler

Annie Wersching is the best Borg Queen, and this is the first we really see of her take on the character.

TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian)

 

[Qonundrum]

This one is definitely more appealing for the kids (unlike 'Disaster') and adults may or may not enjoy some of the proceedings:

TNG Season 5: "Imaginary Friend"(Gabrielle Beaumont)​

Season 5 does return to the notion that season 1 put in, about this being a ship with whole families. The episode plays up the idea of an imaginary friend angle in something of a clever way - an alien* is curious about the crew**, learns about humans in the least effective way possible, decides all humans are bad and becomes all Bender and "kill all humans"*** on them... until Picard clears his throat and speeches the incorporeal aliens.

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Some good evil and non-blinking acting here, as well as the Picardian speech of the week. Actually, Picard's speech is quite good, rather. (And it's reminiscent of "Encounter at Farpoint" except this isn't Q he's having to deal with but a more tangible threat.

I recall some nice bits of horror as the story went on. The story is ultimately one that's more subjective to the individual audiences' preferences, but it's not badly written, not badly acted, and the direction did keep things solid.

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Might be up shortly in my rewatch list... haven't seen it in a long time, but always liked how a tv show would take the old fairy tale notion of having an imaginary friend and exploiting it - the episode's pretty solid, though despite the imperfect nature of "Disaster", "Imaginary Friend" doesn't reach quite the high points. But neither does it reach any of the low points.

* thankfully not an evil bad one who wants to eat everyone as dinner, but it uses that old Trekkian standby of incorporeal energy fritters who are curious about us
** a typical Trek trope (by the seashore tea store)

*** And here it is, in video form:

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!


What's left:
TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 3: "Coda" (Nancy Malone)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian)

 

[Qonundrum]

Bonus points for getting the use of "current" correctly (as opposed to "Skin of Evil", which has everyone yammering merely on "voltage" - given enough current, any voltage can be lethal, since a static electricity discharge is between 4000-35000 volts but the current involved couldn't roast a marshmallow... and yet Daleks use it to power their life support machines with, but I digress on a digression...):

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And you didn't think Data didn't have a hot body... But they're nowhere near a discount body parts shop...

 

[Captain's Coffee]

"Coda" A good Janeway episode. I like the entity, it was legitimately creepy, and I liked Janeway telling it fuck off.

TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 1: "The Andorian Incident" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers"(Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian)

 

[Tango]

I'm saving "The Andorian Incident". One of my favourite episodes from ENT S1.


TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers"(Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian)

 

[Seven of Five]

I've saved In Purgatory's Shadow (or By Inferno's Light)a few times already, so I'll do it again. Episodes like these are what DS9 did best, with everything that we had known up to that point being turned on its head. Martok and Tain being alive, and Bashir being a changeling was great enough, but that's before Dukat puts Cardassia's lot in with the Dominion in the follow-up.

TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Envoys" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers"(Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian

 

[Sakonna]

TBH, the weakest episode of LD is the pilot (and it's still super strong). But it was really the second episode, "Envoys", where the show totally clicked, and has been all-but-perfect since then.

Best 1st season in Trek to date, Lower Decks.

TNG Season 3: "The High Ground"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 4: "Suddenly Human" (Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 6: "Face Of The Enemy"(Gabrielle Beaumont)
TNG Season 7: "Genesis" (Gates McFadden)
DS9 Season 3: "The Search, Part I"(Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "The Ship" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Nor The Battle To The Strong" (Kim Friedman)
DS9 Season 5: "Blaze Of Glory" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Parallax" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Cathexis" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 1: "Jetrel" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 2: "Twisted" (Kim Friedman)
VOY Season 6: "Riddles" (Roxann Dawson)
VOY Season 6: "Collective" (Allison Liddi)
VOY Season 7: "Workforce, Part II"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Dawn" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Exile" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Doctor's Orders"(Roxann Dawson)
ENT Sesaon 3: "E²" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 4: "Awakening"(Roxann Dawson)
DIS Season 1: "Choose Your Pain"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 1: "Vaulting Ambition" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "An Obol For Charon"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 2: "Light And Shadows" (Marta Cunningham)
DIS Season 2: "The Red Angel"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Forget Me Not"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
DIS Season 3: "Die Trying" (Maja Vrvilo)
DIS Season 3: "Terra Firma, Part 2"(Chloe Domont)
DIS Season 4: "The Examples" (Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "...But To Connect"(Lee Rose)
DIS Season 4: "Rubicon" (Andi Armaganian)
DIS Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"(Deborah Kampmeier)
ST Season 1: "Runaway" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Remembrance"(Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "Maps And Legends" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The End Is The Beginning" (Hanelle M. Culpepper)
PIC Season 1: "The Impossible Box" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 1: "Broken Pieces" (Maja Vrvilo)
PIC Season 2: "Watcher" (Lea Thompson)
LD Season 1: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 1: "Veritas" (Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers"(Kim Arndt)
LD Season 2: "I, Excretus" (Kim Arndt)
PRO Season 1: "Terror Firma" (Olga Ulanova, with Alan Wan)
SNW Season 1: "Children Of The Comet" (Maja Vrvilo)
SNW Season 1: "Ghosts Of Illyria" (Leslie Hope)
SNW Season 1: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"(AndiArmaganian