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Game The Most Disliked First Season Episode

My sense of justice tells me to save the following episode, because my code of honor demands it...



Saving "MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES".

TAS needs some more love here, and tribbles are always welcome.


TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I"
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "Battle Lines"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses"
ENT: "Strange New World"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Breaking The Ice"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Sleeping Dogs"
ENT: "Shadows Of P'Jem"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
Tomorrow is Yesterday involves TOS's first proper time travel episode and is a lot of fun. The computer's sexy new voice creases me every time.

The sight of the Enterprise flying through Earth's atmosphere is a cool image, especially as it's spotted as a UFO. John Christopher is also a great guest character.

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "Battle Lines"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses"
ENT: "Strange New World"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Breaking The Ice"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Sleeping Dogs"
ENT: "Shadows Of P'Jem"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
I'm saving another good Hoshi episode, ENT: "Sleeping Dogs". I rather like the first season of Enterprise - despite more than a few of the episodes at first glance being somewhat dull retreads of previous Trek tales, I enjoy the small-stakes and character work as the show finds its feet.

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "Battle Lines"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses"
ENT: "Strange New World"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Breaking The Ice"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shadows Of P'Jem"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
"Shadows Of P'Jem" - by following up on the events of "The Andorian Incident", this episode showed that the relationship between the Andorians and the Vulcans would be really important throughout the whole show and we get to see Shran again.


TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "Battle Lines"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses"
ENT: "Strange New World"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Breaking The Ice"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
My sense of justice demands I save this next one, because a code of honor should adhere to one's sense of justice.



So I am saving "IF WISHES WERE HORSES".

It's a cool episode, despite it feeling like a TNG script. Clever idea of aliens not having a concept of imagination. We also get a somewhat grim look at how Kira's imagination works... while sexual fantasies, baseball heroes, animals, money, and fairy tales come to life for everyone else, the only thing Kira can imagine is disaster and people burning. That woman has endured some serious trauma if that's the best she can come up with.

(And you have to love her delivery of the line about the subspace oscillations. "What the hell does that mean?"

I asked myself that very same question every time, Major. Every time...)


TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "Battle Lines"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Strange New World"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Breaking The Ice"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
Whilst I'm not sure I enjoy the ending of Battle Lines and seeing Kai Opaka physically stuck on the planet helping the two warring factions that we'd never heard of, and then never saw again, there was still a lot of great Kira material. Opaka helping Kira to let go of the anger inside was great!

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Strange New World"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Breaking The Ice"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
Somehow I managed to overlook ENT: "Breaking The Ice" as I would have saved it much earlier. I love the beginning of the T'Pol/Trip storyline with the secret letter, and that T'Pol chooses to eat pecan pie at the end (as Trip did at the start). We also get the awesome Suurok-class starship!

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Strange New World"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
My sense of justice demands I save this next one, because a code of honor should adhere to one's sense of justice.

So I am saving "IF WISHES WERE HORSES".

It's a cool episode, despite it feeling like a TNG script. Clever idea of aliens not having a concept of imagination. We also get a somewhat grim look at how Kira's imagination works... while sexual fantasies, baseball heroes, animals, money, and fairy tales come to life for everyone else, the only thing Kira can imagine is disaster and people burning. That woman has endured some serious trauma if that's the best she can come up with.

(And you have to love her delivery of the line about the subspace oscillations. "What the hell does that mean?"

I asked myself that very same question every time, Major. Every time...)

I'm not convinced "feels like a TNG script" is as bad a thing as people claim. As you say with this one, Kira had character development. I love "Move Along Home" and it does feel like a TNG script (and in some ways feels like a TOS episode, a bit like "Spectre of the Gun").
 
"Strange New World" - it's an important episode for showing how much the crew don't trust T'Pol initially (and it only works this early in the series because of it). And I like that Hoshi's language skills are really important to resolving the situation.


TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "Court Martial"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
I can see why Trek continued its fascination with courtroom drama after the success of Court Martial. Samuel T. Cogley was a fascinating character to watch, too.

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "Babel"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
DS9: "Babel" is next to go. The little moments between Sisko and Jake, plus the ending with Odo and Quark working together to save the day bring a smile to my face :)

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Starstruck"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
Starstruck great visuals, and the kids trying to figure out how to operate the ship while everything is going to hell results in some pretty good comedic moments - from Holo-Janeway casually sipping her holo-coffee while shit's flying around, to Jankom being overly happy to push a button to blow stuff up.

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "Dagger Of The Mind"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
Dagger 0f the Mind is another good one from season one, with a fascinating look at violent tendencies and the potential madness and corruptibility of people. We also see Spock's first mind meld, which goes on to become as iconic as 'Live Long and Proper.'

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
Two come to mind, but

TNG: "When The Bough Breaks"​

Season one was all over the map, going from adventure fare to family fare to seedy-strip-club-at-the-outer-edge-of-town fare, but this episode tries to meld in the (stupid idea of putting all the families on the flagship that will be first to be sent out into war zones and stuff) with those atypical things that go bump in the night.

There is a certain charm in this episode.

The idea that kids will evolve to the point they can learn calculus at such a young age is a laudable one. But why bother when computers can do all the work and more? Tell that to the nonagenarian who shamelessly berates a 15 year-old in public who can't seem to figure it out that if a computer can do it, why learn it when there will be other things to learn that the mechanized-tool-used-to-supplant-human-labor will do? (Oh, no worries, it's a lot more complex as that, of which yon discssion goes well beyond the scope of this episode, and other sci-fi stories that take various aspects of the concept to play with them like sculpture clay... that said, Harry's dad does cover it by saying how everyone needs a basic understanding of it, not in-depth... without that line, the episode would be far worse...)

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(yes, I agree that the music is surprisingly corny...)


The special effects were given a mini documentary in a tv show. I don't remember which, it may have been Reading Rainbow, but for good reason - the reveal of the power source is surprisingly authentic in appearance despite the visual trickery used to create it (which was made with much and amusingly smaller items..

The Custodian has verbiage and even visage not unlike Zen from Blake's 7.

It's a little on the nose and highly oversimplified, and limited to contemporary-80s ecological issues, but is not too bad.

My only real complaint is that they think that stealing seven kids will repopulate their entire civilization. The genetic pool is too small, and more importantly the episode doesn't try to sell a sense of greater scale as even "Show me where the Enterprise kids are, Zen Custodian" and this teeny tiny map appears showing where the lot of them are. Okay, so is this then really a super-small civilization?

Also, and I wish I noticed one issue of particular and much mirth (adding link below), Picard is trying to save the kids even though he dislikes them more than how much kids hate eating real food (as opposed to kids 1000 years ago who'd have no clue on all the candy freely available...) and as such is probably quietly wishing he could do more to help the Aldeans...

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(Seriously, at 3:21, but the whole thing's a hoot... though at 3:08, modern sci-fi sometimes puts in the 4th wall jokes before the audience can think it up. Sorta like calculus...)


What's left:
TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Context Is For Kings"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
"Context Is For Kings" Discovery's debut was continuing to blow my mind at this point. It's such an interesting episode to revisit. It's soooooooooooooooooooo dark compared to where the show is now, but somehow the core identity of Disco is there.

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Absolute Candor"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
I like big games.

Picard next then and I'm going for Absolute Candor. Though my Code of Honour tempted me to vote otherwise, in the end I loved seeing Vashti and liked the follow up on ST09 with the fallout from the Romulan supernova. Great stuff.

Having completed a 'tour' of the series, subsequent choices will be whatever. I have my eyes on What Are Little Girls Made Of?

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Mengaerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Unexpected"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
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I'm finding it difficult now to pick something because I barely remember most of these. And when I take a trip to Memory Alpha to refresh the old grey matter, what I read doesn't fill me with happy feelings. However, ENT: "Unexpected" elicited a smile - I remember liking the interior of the Xyrillian's bio-ship, and that Trip's ridiculous pregnancy amused the Klingons enough to persuade them not to destroy the aliens travelling in their wake.

TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
 
Unexpected is a really stupid idea for a story but somehow Trineer saves it by being funny. I shouldn’t like it for all kinds of reasons but somehow, finally, I do.

Actually there’s a lot of good ENT episodes on the list calling to me. Detained, Desert Crossing… even Shockwave Pt 1.

It’s a tougher this list. I figure it’s going to end with Code of Honor being the ‘winner’.
 
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