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Your favourite episode titles?

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One (of many) thing I really like about DS9 is the episode titles, which are generally much more original then thoise of the other star trek shows. A few favourites of mine:"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "If Wishes were Horses", "Through the Looking Glass", "Doctor Bashir, I presume", "Who Mourns for Morn?", "Wrongs darker then death or night", "Treachery, Faith, and the great river", "Badda-bing, badda-bang" and "The changing face of evil"
What titles are your favourites?
 
"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" (I love Latin titles.)
"The Forsaken" (There's just something hauntingly poetic about it.)
"Sacrifice of Angels", "Tears of the Prophets", "Prodigal Daughter" (I like the spiritual themes of these titles. There's something longing, yet redemptive about them.)
 
For the Cause
For the Uniform
Blaze of Glory
In the Pale Moonlight
Favor the Bold
Rocks and Shoals
Treachery, Faith and the Great River
Hippocratic Oath
Business as Usual
It's Only a Paper Moon
Our Man Bashir
The House of Quark
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Statistical Probabilities
His Way
Prophet Motive
 
I liked the long titles already mentioned. They evoke a sense of TOS (not like the boring one-word titles churned out by the Voyager staff).
 
I tend to like titles that invoke some heavy imagery for me. Imagery which may or may not have anything whatever to do with what actually happens in the episode.

So for me, the coolest titles are ones like these (not in any particular order):

In the Pale Moonlight
It's Only a Paper Moon
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Sacrifice of Angels
Treachery, Faith and the Great River
The Changing Face of Evil
Far Beyond the Stars
Tacking Into the Wind
Tears of the Prophets
 
In The Pale Moonlight, Far Beyond The Stars, The Visitor, and I have a real fondness for To The Death as one of the most dramatic titles. -- RR
 
"In the Cards" is a great title for one of my fav DS9 episodes.

"Who Mourns for Morn?" has to be the best title, tho.
 
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