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[RobertScorpio]

sometimes our favorite STAR TREK shows would surprise us and try to do something different..it was rare...sometimes it crashed and burned...but sometimes it worked. What are some of your favorite episodes that tried to 'think outside the star trek box' and surprised you...

I am going with DS9's Badda Bing Badda Boom (or whatever it was called) for DS9...for TNG I am going with, hmmmmm, QPID. I liked it because it was so whimsical and, I think, was pretty good...

Rob

 

[jamestyler]

With the response in the DS9 forum to in the Pale Moonlight, I'm probably not the only one who'd suggest that episode.

Within the happy civilised TNG era it certainly showed a darker side to the Federation and how things may work behind the scenes.

 

[RobertScorpio]

With the response in the DS9 forum to in the Pale Moonlight, I'm probably not the only one who'd suggest that episode.

Within the happy civilised TNG era it certainly showed a darker side to the Federation and how things may work behind the scenes.

good pick..

another one I thought of, from DS9 as well, was Take Me Out to The Holosuit...a lot of NINERs don't seem to like this great baseball episode, which teached Sisko a lesson about leadership. Not me, I love this episode...

Rob

 

[SilentP]

another one I thought of, from DS9 as well, was Take Me Out to The Holosuit...a lot of NINERs don't seem to like this great baseball episode, which teached Sisko a lesson about leadership. Not me, I love this episode...

Rob

I liked it too, twas whimsical. I yearn for the day I can growl in context:

"Death to the opposition!"

I liked the Lower Decks episodes, it's nice to see what life's like for the underlings that work for our heroes.

 

[RobertScorpio]

another one I thought of, from DS9 as well, was Take Me Out to The Holosuit...a lot of NINERs don't seem to like this great baseball episode, which teached Sisko a lesson about leadership. Not me, I love this episode...

Rob

I liked it too, twas whimsical. I yearn for the day I can growl in context:

"Death to the opposition!"

I liked the Lower Decks episodes, it's nice to see what life's like for the underlings that work for our heroes.

I totally forgot about LOWER DECKS..great pick. And, for me, by that time, with TNG in coasting mode heading towards the movie world, I found those young characters very refreshing at that time...

Rob

 

[sbk1234]

I don't remember a lot of episode titles, so I'll have to go with descriptions.
There was that DS9 episode where Worf was tried by the Klingons for destroying one of their ships. In the flashback sequences, the person relaying the story would talk directly to the camera from the flashback. Not one of my favorite episodes, but a gutsy way to tell a story.

Family, one of my favorites from TNG. Never before had they shown a recovery episode in Star Trek. It truly showed that these characters are human and can't just bounce back from whatever happens.

 

[SilentP]

I don't remember a lot of episode titles, so I'll have to go with descriptions.
There was that DS9 episode where Worf was tried by the Klingons for destroying one of their ships. In the flashback sequences, the person relaying the story would talk directly to the camera from the flashback. Not one of my favorite episodes, but a gutsy way to tell a story.

Rules of Engagement, Season 4. It was a good episode, though I found the way the characters suddenly looked at the screen a bit jarring at first.

Family, one of my favorites from TNG. Never before had they shown a recovery episode in Star Trek. It truly showed that these characters are human and can't just bounce back from whatever happens.

Continuity FTW!

 

[barnaclelapse]

I think the whole thing DS9 shot for was a good bit different than what I had seen at that point as a Star Trek fan. For the most part, it definitely worked.

 

[sbk1234]

Whether it worked or not, it certainly was gutsy. Good for them!

 

[Pemmer Harge]

DS9 Hippocratic Oath. I liked the rather cynical, downbeat Bashir/O'Brien plot and it also had a neat Worf/Odo sub-plot that kind of made the point that DS9 didn't work quite the same way as TNG.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

So that this thread doesn't become (predictably) DS9-dominated, I'll nominate the changed title sequence for ENT's MU episodes as being a pretty fun out-of-the-box idea.*

And who can ever forget the Space Nazi cliffhanger? You gotta admit, it took guts to pull something like that...

*However, I refuse to accept the MU title sequence as canon, since I like the notion that City on the Edge of Forever is connected to the creation of the MU, which therefore dates back only to the 1930s. (Well, maybe the sailing ships somehow involved Edith Keeler's ancestors...)

 

[DevilEyes]

So that this thread doesn't become (predictably) DS9-dominated, I'll nominate the changed title sequence for ENT's MU episodes as being a pretty fun out-of-the-box idea.

And who can ever forget the Space Nazi cliffhanger? You gotta admit, it took guts to pull something like that...

I have never watched ENT past the pilot (although I've now decided to finally do it one of these days...), but those credits are really awesome! If the rest of the episode is nearly as good, it will be worth watching 4 seasons to see it. (Then again, it depends on whether the other episodes are as bad as the song in the usual ENT credits... )

 

[T'Girl]

Rules of Engagement, Season 4. It was a good episode, though I found the way the characters suddenly looked at the screen a bit jarring at first.

Rules of Engagement came out in april of '96. I think having the charactors talk directly into the camera came from a then popular MTV show called "real world", which would have the witless cast go into a confessional and talk like that to a camera.

.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

I'm not really into Enterprise, but I rather liked the episode Carbon Creek, which was mainly T'Pol telling a story and barely featured the actual regulars at all. Seeing Vulcans in the 1950s watching I Love Lucy and going on dates with humans made me smile.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'm not really into Enterprise, but I rather liked the episode Carbon Creek, which was mainly T'Pol telling a story and barely featured the actual regulars at all. Seeing Vulcans in the 1950s watching I Love Lucy and going on dates with humans made me smile.

Carbon Creek was filmed near where my vacation home is...we got to watch them film a few scenes..was real cool..

Rob

 

[Pemmer Harge]

Carbon Creek was filmed near where my vacation home is...we got to watch them film a few scenes..was real cool..

Rob

 

[Admiral2]

Genesis, TNG

 

[JiNX-01]

I would say ENT season 3 ... a very dark season and a very, very dark Captain Archer.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

How about Cause and Effect? 4 segments that all begin the same but then branch off into being different. Kind of cool and not something you see often (if ever?).

 

[Dane_Whitman]

Impulse, ENT.

As a huge zombie movie fan, this was a dream come true. Back in the TNG days I could never have imagined that zombies and Trek would ever meet in this fashion.

Although technically the Vulcans in this episode are more akin to so-called 'infected', it's close enough and you can spot something of a 'Vulcan zombie walk' here and there.