Your Favorite Scene

[mb22]

I've always wondered why the films and the later TV shows always had such a flashy light show when beaming down? The original had the best transporter effect by far, just a fizz and then vanishing what else did it need? Certainly not that big sun-beam explosion for sure!
JB

To show off the improved SFX, I guess.
And the beaming process was also a longer and more drawn out process in "The Cage".

 

[Phaser Two]

All agreed, but I must say the Cardassian transporter effect was impossibly cool.

 

[johnnybear]

To show off the improved SFX, I guess.
And the beaming process was also a longer and more drawn out process in "The Cage".

That's probably true! They only want to show off their new SFX rather than just do a small update!
JB

 

[TrickyDickie]

That moment when the fender of the truck seems almost illusory, and you can see the bottom of Edith's coat through it:

 

[gottacook]

I have to split my response between dialogue and non-dialogue scenes. My favorite scene without dialogue is one already mentioned: the very last scene in "Balance of Terror," set to a most appropriate "Where No Man Has Gone Before" music cue. As for the other, it's a tossup between two revelations, superbly performed by Nimoy and James Daly, respectively:

"Captain, Ambassador Sarek and his wife are my parents."

"I... am Brahms."​

 

[UnknownSample]

The McCoy scene as he arrives in the past, in City on the Edge, in the alley, counting all of it as one scene, even though they cut away and come back. McCoy's speech about medicine of the past (now), then the hobo immolating himself on his own, with no witnesses.

 

[MANT!]

Just about every bit of Kirk-Fu is shown in the following scene.

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and when all else fails...beat him with a club!

 

[Mysterion]

The Doomsday Machine - Decker tells about the destruction of Constellation and the death of his crew. In the hand of another actor this could have been a cringy over-the-top sort of thing, but William Windom nails it perfectly in coveying Decker's pain, frustration and impotence in the situation.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Just about every bit of Kirk-Fu is shown in the following scene.

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and when all else fails...beat him with a club!

Nice work by the stunt doubles, too.

 

[Defiler-Of-Redshirts]

Some of my favorite scenes were Spock's memorable quotes, when speaking quiet moments of Vulcan Zen wisdom. Like in "Squire of Gothos" when he told Trelane: "I oppose you. I oppose intellect without discipline and I oppose power without constructive purpose."

Or when Spock got cuckolded at the end of "Amok Time" and simply told the other Vulcan: "Ston, she is yours. But after a time you may find that 'having' is not nearly so desirable a sensation as 'wanting.' It is illogical, I know....but so often true." (Have truer words ever been spoken?)