What is your ultimate Trek Comfort Viewing?

[Lord Garth]

Some random episode of TOS.

If I'm watching the TOS Movies, or a season of Disco or Picard, it's different. I'm consciously deciding "I'm going to run through these!" With six movies for the former and shorter seasons for the latter, it's easier to do than the Massive Series Re-Watches I'm doing right now. They've made New Trek a lot more binge-friendly.

 

[Nyotarules]

So what’s the Trek that you turn to when you need cheering up? It may not be what’s considered the “best Trek”, but which episodes, seasons or series never fail to lift your spirits?

I have quite a list

TOS
Shore leave
The devil in the dark
I, Mudd
Journey to Babel
The trouble with tribbles
A piece of the action
Mirror, mirror

TNG
Darmok
Captain's holiday
Qpid
Lessons
Parallels

DS9
Profit and Loss
Little green men
Our man Bashir
Looking for par'mach
Trials and Tribblelations
Children of Time
Take me out to the holosuite
Badda Bing
His Way

VOY
Sacred ground
Bride of chaotica

ENT
The Andorian incident
Carbon Creek
The mirror episodes


DISC -
Magic to make the sanest man go mad
If memory serves

Movies
The Voyage home
The Undiscovered country
Insurrection
Star Trek
Galaxy quest

 

[cosmic mouse]

@ananta hang in there! You can beat this...


My go-to view for comfort- Trek is probably ST Undiscovered Country. It's not even my favorite (of the films, let alone all of Trek), but I find it infinitely accessible and entertaining and it leaves me with no heaviness afterwards. Kind of Iike eating a bowl of rice krispies.

 

[Norsehound]

My comfort trek is foremost movies 1-4. The saga of 2-4+6 is my quintessential idea of trek that, unfortunately, I don't feel the rest of trek matches. TOS is a close second, but the movies feel like a maturity of the concept that I rather enjoy being there than anywhere else.

The Berman era shows never did that for me. Here's hoping pikes Brave new worlds can put us back to that pioneering period from TOS.

 

[BillJ]

The original Star Trek (doesn't really matter what episode) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

 

[1001001]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Nothing cures insomnia quite like it.

 

[BillJ]

Nothing cures insomnia quite like it.

I've tried that before, and ended up watching the whole damn thing. Just something about the movie that speaks to me.

 

[publiusr]

I miss summer nights watching TOS as a child— with the sussurus of the air conditioner humming right along.

Hypnotic

 

[Greg Cox]

Star Trek IV: The One with the Whales.

 

[Kor]

A Piece of the Action.

Kor

 

[T'Elann]

DS9, it's not exactly the most lighthearted Star Trek out there but the characters are real and relatable, sometimes it's nice to see aspects on yourself living in a better future. Also ST IV, it's just so chill.

Side note: not season 7 or the last episode of season 6, I will not watch Jadzia die again.

 

[saddestmoon]

...any Trek with plenty of well-designed starships!

That brings me comfort...

 

[antinoos]

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[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

Any episode of TOS.