Your favourite Finale?

[WeAreTheBorg]

All good things was a perfect Trek episode, and a perfect finale for the series as well. It's no contest.

Every other finale failed on some level, though What You Leave Behind was still nice despite these shortcomings. These Are The Voyages was a travesty, Endgame was just stupid and unsatisfying, and Turnabout Intruder wasn't a finale.

 

[Newt]

Voted for All Good Things... Fantastic ending.

As for TOS. I consider The Undiscovered County as the true final not Turnabout Intruder. But that's just my opinion.

 

[Jax]

What You Leave Behind narrowly beats All Good Things but if you ask me that in a few years it could change because both are wonderful.

As for other 3 well I don't like TOS and its not even a proper series finale...Endgame is well good 1st time and after that just average and...

These Are The Voyages may be the best episode title for any series finale if not episode of TREK, its the worst series finale and one of the worst episodes of TREK ever (not as bad as 11:59 I will say in its favour but close).

 

[Similitude]

What You Leave Behind, but AGT is right behind it, and some days might be number 1 to me.

 

[Vonstadt]

What you Leave Behind...

Far and ahead the best for me, though AGT will always be special to me, for it marked the first time Trek got a proper send off and it was handled rather well and with class.

I never saw Turnabout Intruder as the finale for anything. TOS actually never had one.

Vons

 

[Keith1701]

All Good Things for the win 8)

All Good Things for me as well.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

I might have considered Endgame if we'd seen more of the AQ than just a Galaxy-, Defiant-, Nebula-, Prometheus-, and Excelsior-class ship, with the Earth in the background (altho the choice of ships was a nice homage to all the Trek before)

 

[darkwing_duck1]

WYLB beats AGT hands down and by several THOUSAND lengths!

AGT was a plot-driven ep, the epitome of BermaTrek before BermaTrek was even codified: cosmic anomaly of the week/time travel/powerful alien/humanity on trial formula with a big shiney reset button to push at the very end.

What little characterization stuff there was was stilted and felt out of place, because these characters had been locked in a sort of stasis for 7 years, never really changing OR growing.

WYLB, on the other hand, was deep and meaningful character-driven drama, paying off character arcs that had been 7 years in the making. We SAW how the passing of time had changed our characters, because they were allowed to be REAL characters and not archetypes. Thus we were able to connect with them in a way the TNG crew just could NOT accomplish.

 

[Anwar]

Not really, I felt more connected to Picard and what he went through as a character as well as how they used plot points that had been part of the characters through nearly all of TNG to create the Anti-Time Future he visited. It was all really well-put together how they logically extrapolated from that to give off the future most likely to happen from that point on. It WAS character-driven. And then to put a cherry on top of a fine sundae they had Picard decide to tell them about that future so they could make positive changes to it in the end.

WYLB tried to wrap most things up, but just didn't quite pull it off in good fashion. That, and I thought that flashback montage was rather corny. Saying it was "deep, meaningful" is just usual hyperbole.

 

[Thor Odinson]

All Good Things.

 

[Falcor5]

All Good Things

 

[Garrovick]

All Good Things

Nothing else comes close - IMOHO

 

[sbk1234]

I was torn between All good Things and What You Leave Behind, and now I don't know which one I voted for! They were both great. What You Leave Behind did serve to tie up a lot more loose ends of ongoing story arcs, while the entire plot of All Good Things really was created just for that episode, for what that's worth.

 

[Reanok]

All Good Things

 

[JoeD80]

If All Our Yesterdays had been the TOS finale, I would have picked that one!
I picked What You Leave Behind, mostly because I invested more time in DS9 than the other series, having watched it from the very first episode.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Not really, I felt more connected to Picard and what he went through as a character as well as how they used plot points that had been part of the characters through nearly all of TNG to create the Anti-Time Future he visited. It was all really well-put together how they logically extrapolated from that to give off the future most likely to happen from that point on.

That's exactly it, plot points that's all the "development" was. It was all about servicing the Q/trial/anomaly story. The characters emerged from the crisis and went on about their "stiff upper lip" business. Not until Generations were we shown any REAL humanity from the TNG cast.

WYLB tried to wrap most things up, but just didn't quite pull it off in good fashion.

It ended the war, closed out the story of the Emissary, FINALLY got Dax and Bashir together, gave Worf a new purpose that allowed him to FINALLY "go home" to his people, among others. All of them were excellently done.

That, and I thought that flashback montage was rather corny.

Yes, let us forget about the last 7 years and NOT examine how we have changed over that time. Let us not refelct on how we've grown, and adapted and become different people because of it.

Saying it was "deep, meaningful" is just usual hyperbole.

No saying AGT was anything OTHER than plot-driven BermaTrek formula is hyperbole.

 

[miraclefan]

Endgame. Because the HORROR was FINALLY over!

 

[SFRabid]

All Good Things. TNG is my 4th favorite series but has the only finale I really like. Endgame had the most potential but did not reach it.

 

[dave_R_treker]

What you leave behind is my favorate.
Then:
All Good things...
Endgame
Turnabout Intruder (I actually never seen it, but its better then last place one)
These are the Voyages (now a good number of you Enterprise was the worst series, I am one of those who actually liked Enterprise, It ranks second for favorate series, I just don't like the series finale)

 

[Iasius]

I think AGT didn't have so many plot threads to close up as WYLB and could concentrate a bit more on characters and a good mystery. If the Sisko/Prophets resolution had been handled better, not just in WYLB but also the final arc altogether, I'd be absolutely sure which one I'd pick.
That said I still rate WYLB a bit higher, mainly because I like DS9 and its characters so much better than TNG (I can't stand to watch most episodes of TNG nowadays).

As for the other finales, one wasn't a finale and the less is said about Endgame and TATV, the better.