Trek's Highest Moment

[Push The Button]

My wife and I attended one of the theater screenings of The Best of Both Worlds last year. There was something so wonderful about seeing this great two-part TNG episode on the big screen with several hundred fellow Trek fans, it was the most fun that I've had at the movies in a long time, and reminded me of how much I love Trek and what an important part of my life it has been.

 

[HaventGotALife]

My wife and I attended one of the theater screenings of The Best of Both Worlds last year. There was something so wonderful about seeing this great two-part TNG episode on the big screen with several hundred fellow Trek fans, it was the most fun that I've had at the movies in a long time, and reminded me of how much I love Trek and what an important part of my life it has been.

I attended all three screenings for the Blu-Ray releases. It gave me a chance to reminisce with my brother over the Star Trek of our youth. It was fun. I loved those nights, all three of them. My favorite was Q Who and The Measure of a Man, however. Just something about seeing it on the big screen...it was magical.

 

[HIjol]

TNG's Darmok is my number one episode.

GOT to agree...
Pure.
Genius.
...plain and simple...

 

[Forbin]

"When I was in my early twenties on a trip to east Africa, I saw a gazelle giving birth. It was truly amazing."

Just musing that, depending upon the aline species he's talking to, there could be not one single point of that sentence that could be understood. Say, an alien species that knows nothing about Earth, doesn't give live birth (lays eggs, divides by mitosis, etc), doesn't know how long an earth year is or that humans denote their age by saying a number and omitting the phrase "years old", doesn't know how old Archer was anyway, doesn't know what a gazelle is or what an Africa is...

Way to make a point, Johnny!

 

[Brolan]

The Picard portion of the TNG episode Family. It showed the real consequences of the dangerous lifestyle of a Starfleet officer. It also showed Picard's human side. I could watch that over and over.

 

[bbjeg]

I wasn't a fan of Family. A couple of episodes after The Best of Both Worlds, I kinda wanted Picard to take an extended vacation. He was all sorts of messed up.

 

[Isolinear]

THERE ARE...FOUR...LIGHTS!

Yuck. No. I always thought this was such an unsubtle 1984 rifoff. Same as Cpt. "Ripley" Janeway in Macrocosm.

Highest moments? There are too many. A couple:
- Yesterday's Enterpise: Enterprise-C coming through the anomaly and changing everything.
- Who Watches the Watchers. Picard + Nuria on the Enterprise.
- Future Imperfect: Riker realizing something is wrong.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

That scene may have been a play on genre norms, but not 1984. The source material is based around the idea of the torturer's first goal being to gain complete emotional control over the torturee. They did similar scenes in Babylon 5 and Game of Thrones.

 

[Aretaku]

The end of Rocks and Shoals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3wiJ6Eud4

There had been episodes of DS9 prior to that that focused on the Jem'Hadar, and always portrayed them as potentially redeemable.

And in one short scene, all the hope of driving a wedge between the Founders and their servants comes crashing down.

Remata'Klan states it succinctly...

"It is not my life to give up, Captain. And it never was."

There is only a single episode afterwards with a Jem'Hadar in a speaking role. (One Little Ship)

 

[Isolinear]

That scene may have been a play on genre norms, but not 1984.

Tell me how many do you see? Four fingers / Four lights.

If not 1984, what else?

 

[BigJake]

The Picard portion of the TNG episode Family. It showed the real consequences of the dangerous lifestyle of a Starfleet officer. It also showed Picard's human side. I could watch that over and over.

The scene where Picard breaks down and confesses his anguish to his brother was powerful stuff, and new territory for Trek at the time. It was my dramatic high point of Trek before DS9 and "Duet" came along.

 

[Brolan]

The Picard portion of the TNG episode Family. It showed the real consequences of the dangerous lifestyle of a Starfleet officer. It also showed Picard's human side. I could watch that over and over.

The scene where Picard breaks down and confesses his anguish to his brother was powerful stuff, and new territory for Trek at the time. It was my dramatic high point of Trek before DS9 and "Duet" came along.

Duet is excellent as well.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Ahh, I didn't remember any specific scenes in 1984 that the scene referenced directly, so maybe you're right. But the tone of the whole scene reminds me more of the cold war genre than 1984.

Anyway if you're going to criticize a science fiction show for being influenced by something, you should find them all unwatchable. Doing something similar to something else is fine, as long as they make it their own, which this scene did. Otherwise, the John Sheridan torture episode and the Ramsay Snow torture story should be considered awful for copying Chain of Command.

 

[TheSubCommander]

STAR TREK (2009) was, in my humble opinion, "Trek's Highest Moment." Not because of its content so much as that finally, FINALLY, this franchise has a "Break Out" movie. And I was there, on opening night. I saw - First Hand - STAR TREK achieve greatness. I'll never forget it.

I somehow knew we couldn't get through a thread like this without someone from the "OMG Abrams RULZ/TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT Era bites-the-big-one" crowd posting. My question is what took so long?

 

[BigJake]

Trek's "break out" movie was either The Motion Picture (out-grossed every other effort in adjusted dollars including the Abrams films) or Wrath (best-known and most respected outside the franchise, most-imitated film within the franchise itself). Abrams' movies are a fresh "break out" after the original film franchise finally sputtered, but it's not like the original films series was exactly languishing in obscurity.

 

[2takesfrakes]

I somehow knew we couldn't get through a thread like this without someone from the "OMG Abrams RULZ/TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT Era bites-the-big-one" crowd posting. My question is what took so long?

You have my assurances, sir ... I am not of that "crowd." My first, best love ... is The Next Generation. It satisfies so deeply, so completely, and on so many levels that I really don't need any other STAR TREK to get my fix.

However ...

VOYAGER has, starring in - perhaps - its most important 2 Part Episode "Future's End," my first and only celebrity crush: the beautiful and - so very Jewish -Sarah Silverman. Beyond that, really I can take it or leave it. Deep Space Nine isn't too bad, until Worf joins the proceedings. ENTERPRISE is a mixed bag. And The Original Series is a hoot! But STAR TREK '09 and ID broke the ice with the public at large - and gave the franchise a new lease on life.

 

[Nightdiamond]

THERE ARE...FOUR...LIGHTS!

Easily one of the best moments.

I've heard a lot about it being lifted from 1984, but they did a good job with it. The way it was written, it really seemed like Picard wasn't going to get out of that hell hole.

Call to Arms -- for the first time seeing that large battle fleet and Starfleet being serious about fighting back.

Sacrifice of Angels -- for the first time really seeing what it looked like when Starfleet fights in a war and you see 'the good guy ships' being destroyed and kicking tail as well.

 

[Cyke101]

STAR TREK (2009) was, in my humble opinion, "Trek's Highest Moment." Not because of its content so much as that finally, FINALLY, this franchise has a "Break Out" movie. And I was there, on opening night. I saw - First Hand - STAR TREK achieve greatness. I'll never forget it.

I somehow knew we couldn't get through a thread like this without someone from the "OMG Abrams RULZ/TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT Era bites-the-big-one" crowd posting. My question is what took so long?

I really didn't get that sense from 2takes' post. And really, if we're talking about TMP and TWOK as breakouts (and I'm not arguing that they weren't), that's still a couple decades prior to Abrams. There was most certainly a gap in reception in the years between. Trek had reached a point in pop culture exposure that arguably compared to or exceeded the TNG exposure of the early-mid 90s, which also had been 15 years prior (as excited as folks were for Generations, STXI certainly surprassed it).

So really, it wasn't a post to put down 90s Trek, but no one can deny STXI's numbers and impact. And while quantity doesn't equal quality (so bash the films as much as you want), 2takes is specifically talking about a particular Trek experience that he never had before, and no doubt shared with many others within a community and a movie theater (on opening night, no less!).

 

[2takesfrakes]

2takes is specifically talking about a particular Trek experience that he never had before, and no doubt shared with many others within a community and a movie theater (on opening night, no less!).

I was fixin' to go more in detail, but I see there is no need! A very complete summary of my post on what I suspect is, indeed, STAR TREK's Highest Moment. I thank you, sir ...