TREK's best TWISTERS

[RobertScorpio]

In the another forum we are discussing the movies with the best "twists"...you know, The Sixth Sense, Planet of the Apes, where at the end there is a big twist...

What are some of trek's best twists?

My pick was SHIP IN A BOTTLE..they totally tricked Moriarty AND me with that twist at the end...

Rob

 

[sbk1234]

I don't know if this is what you had in mind, but the end of Catspaw, when they show the aliens' true form. Not what I was expecting at all.

 

[Nardpuncher]

The one the most like The Sixth Sense is DS9's Whispers. good thing is that it of course was aired a few years before the aforementioned movie came out.

 

[Luckyflux]

I like the mini twists in each episodes. Like during We'll Always Have Paris, when Picard, Riker and Data are casually walking down the corridor to the turbolift. The turbolift doors open and they step in, door closes. What is just a seemingly normal scene that any regular viewer might yawn though as the plot moves on is instantly a BANG when the doors open to reveal Picard, Riker and Data standing at the turbolifts threshold. Awesome scene totally out of nowhere.

Also when Picard is in the turbolift and it stops and the doors open directly into outer space! Picard has to catch himself from falling. Great scene twist.

 

[seigezunt]

as for Trek, I have to agree DS9's Whispers was the best.

 

[KimMH]

alas! I cannot remember the episode name, but in Voyager Chakotay crash lands on a planet that has been invaded by another species. He is brainwashed into hating the enemy who is inhuman in appearance and develops a true hatred for them. It turns out they are native to the planet and the humanoid species are the invaders who kidnap offworlders, brainwash them and trick them into fighting for them. Turns out Janeway has been working with the native species to retrieve Chakotay who is being used for devious purposes and would gladly harm his rescuers - which of course complicates matters.

 

[Luckyflux]

^ That was Nemesis, my favorite episode of Voyager. I like what he says at the end " I wish were as easy to stop hating, as it was to start."

 

[ToddKent]

That episode of Enterprise where the crew have to go to sleep for some reason and Phlox and T'Pol have to run the entire ship by themselves. Or so it seems...

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I just watched Voyager's Innocence, and I liked how the alien race is portrayed as douchebags who sacrifice their children, when, in fact, they age backwards and go to that planet to die, but their brains are so senile they think they're children.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I just watched Voyager's Innocence, and I liked how the alien race is portrayed as douchebags who sacrifice their children, when, in fact, they age backwards and go to that planet to die, but their brains are so senile they think they're children.

I have never seen this one..I'll look for it...

Rob

 

[StarryEyed]

TNG: The Defector

DS9 Inter Arma Einem Silent Leges

VOY: Nemesis
VOY: Counterpoint

 

[DevilEyes]

Nobody's mentioned Errand Of Mercy yet? I think that one and Whispers would be my picls.

TOS Errand Of Mercy
TOS Devil in the Dark
TOS The Corbomite Maneuver
TNG The Defector
TNG The Survivors
TNG Future Imperfect
DS9 Whispers
DS9 Shadowplay (later imitated in ENT Oasis)
DS9 Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
VOY Innocence
VOY Nemesis

 

[JiNX-01]

Would "Empress Sato" at the end of IAMD II count?

 

[Too Much Fun]

I'm usually the one to argue with people about "In the Pale Moonlight" saying it's overrated because everyone seems to love it and call it one of the best DS9 episodes while I just think it's okay, but I've got to give it some major praise here for that awesome twist at the end when Garak's plan is revealed. I echo the praise for "Whispers" too. Probably the first DS9 episode that I found really memorable which made me begin to consider DS9 as something I might come to appreciate as much as TNG.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Also when Picard is in the turbolift and it stops and the doors open directly into outer space! Picard has to catch himself from falling. Great scene twist.

What episode was that in? I think that's one of the greatest images in all of Star Trek, but I forget what episode it's from because I think it's from one I skip when I rewatch TNG.

 

[DonIago]

WNOHGB

 

[Caliburn24]

I'll vote for Whispers too. So many of the other good twists Trek has done involve time travel or alternate reality gimmicks that cheapen the whole affair. Whispers doesn't use any of that. Plus it has a really strong narrative flow.

 

[DonIago]

I'll add the killing of Ziyal. Didn't see that one coming.

 

[Isis]

The Roger Korby character in "What Are Little Girls Made of?"

 

[RobertScorpio]

The Roger Korby character in "What Are Little Girls Made of?"

I know its an old episode, but when I show it to people who have never seen it? It is a good twist. So yes..great pick!!!

Rob