Trek's best HAIL MARY

[Saquist]

A Hail mary is when the captain, or heck anyone, comes up with such an outlandish plan to "deal" with a situation (usually happening in the last five minutes of the given episode)...

Which one of these 'last second' ideas was the best, meaning, when it was suggested you said to yourself..."ummmm...okay"...

Picard telling Data to tell the Borg to sleep is one that I always think of. It comes out of left field, and works. But I remember just cocking my head and shaking my head in disbelief...

Kirk's gamble at the end of TMP. When he has his showdown with the Ilya probe and tells her that he knows why the creator hasn't contacted V'gr.

What are some of yours?


Rob

Some good and bad responses. But such an interesting topic.

Janeway deciding to crash into Annorax's timeship at the last minute without any input or any new information, just something that had occured to her after everybody left.

They knew the objective was to destroy the TIME ship and reset it. That's not a hail Mary. You guys have to watch more football.

Watch Brett Farve. He's married to Hail Mary. A Hail Mary is when you just throw it up and hope for the best....a long shot pass that has almost no chance of working.

It's not planned or orchestrated.

See, I had always interpreted that as Janeway's last ditch effort to destroy the ship. I mean, she had no weapons and Voyager was torn to shit. What else could she have done?

Correct.

Back to basics: THe Corbomite Maneuver.

THen in The Deadfy Years he reused a variation of the Corbomite scam.

Bingo!

It has to be Spock igniting his shuttle fuel at the end of The Galieo Seven to create a flare.

I think that one ranks up there.
Perhaps that is the truest Hail Mary in Trek.

The first thing I thought of was having the Defiant enter the wormhole to face thousands of Dominion ships by herself. Year of Hell is another good choice, though. I actually like the former, since it makes sense that the prophets can control their wormhole. Year of Hell just confused me when I saw it the first time, though.

That was pretty good to but Sisko really just had an ace in the hole...I'm not quite sure if that was a Hail mary.

The Defector, when Tomalak (I think) tells Picard the Enterprise could not survive 'their' attack. Picard counters that the Romulans wouldn't survive either, and two Klingon birds of prey decloak beside the Enterprise.

That's an Ace In the Hole too.
That's good planning and preparation.
That's knowing you opponent.
....Chess....

I have to say, in STIII, when Kirk lures the Klingons onto the enterprise and cleverly self destructs the ship (although this wasn't in the last five minutes, still quite cool).

That was...a Hail Mary...yeah but I don't think it was a big one...I think that' what anyone would do. IMO

Star Trek II. Nobody believed the franchise could be revived.

Now that was funny.
Go Meyers.

I don't know I'm going to have to think about a good Hail Mary...most of the time it's a tech mary.

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How about the Tellarian Captain in Darmok? The whole episode was a long shot pass and he even stake his life on it.

 

[Magnum]

Jake Sisko killing himself to get his father out of subspace. ("The Visitor")

 

[6079SmithW]

In "Masks" when, instead of technobable, Picard uses his anthropology skills to save the day.

 

[sbk1234]

How about Amok Time, where Bones gives Kirk the neural paralyzer? I didn't see that one coming the first time. Of course, I was 8...

 

[6079SmithW]

Quark's haphazard plan to rescue his mother from the clutches of the Dominion using only Ferengi who mostly had little to no combat experience (excluding the psychopath) and actually managing to pull it off with no losses.

 

[Lor'Vela]

^ That's a good one. I was also somewhat "WTF" when the Jem'Hadar agreed to vacate the place despite having the superior tactical advantage.

 

[Mr. B]

How about Kirk detonating torpedoes behind the enterprise to blast his way out of the grip of a black hole in XI. Who would have thought that would ever work?

 

[RobertScorpio]

good one...

Or what about that way Data was able to warn himself in that crazy CAUSE AND EFFECT episode...

Rob

 

[Finn]

^^^ No, they didn't. That's why Tuvok protested at first. It was something that hit Janeway at the last minute to lower the sheilds...

 

[captcalhoun]

How about Kirk detonating torpedoes behind the enterprise to blast his way out of the grip of a black hole in XI. Who would have thought that would ever work?

That wasn't torpedoes, it was the warp cores.

 

[Rojixus]

One word: Corbomite

 

[RobertScorpio]

not sure if its mentioned...but at the end of "THE SEARCH", on DS9, when its revealed its all an elaborate mind trick and they're all hooked up to some kind of computers. Something I hope wont happen on LOST

Rob