Best Star Trek Episode Ever

[Transgirlofnofaith]

I thought it would be good to explain our favourite Star Trek episodes and why we feel that they are the best.

My selection:

"In The Pale Moonlight"-Deep Space 9, Season 6, episode 19.

An examination of morality and the price we must sometimes pay for the greater good. Captain Sisko narrates, in soliliquy, the events of the past two weeks, as he embarks on a plan to draw the Romulan Empire into the Federation's war against the Dominion, a totalitarian hegemony intent on taking over the Alpha quadrant, a war that the Federation and its allies are losing badly. Quite simply, it is sublime. The acting and direction are all top notch. It is further helped by the simplicity of the narrative and by focusing so closely on Sisko's internal struggle as he tries to come to terms with the sequence of events:

"My father used to say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". I laid the first stone right there. I'd committed myself, I'd do anything, go to any lengths, because my cause was righteous. Because my... intentions were good."-Benjamin Sisko.

[Animavore]

Star Trek is shit.

[klr]

Star Trek is shit.

Well, that's this thread settled then. It's dead, Jim.

[AshtonBlack]

It IS one of the best episodes. This I will agree upon.

[Rum]

In its time Next Generation was brilliant. They tackled all sorts of unusual topics and it wasn't just about laser guns and fighn' n' shootn'

I used to like the ones where reality was warped by some 'field' or other and the crew had to work out that they were not inhabiting the reality they should be. Can't remember the name of the episode but one was where they got caught in a repeating loop of time. Part of the loop included a game of cards and slowly they began to work out that they had played the game over and over.

I have watched a few episodes lately and I have to say it is beginning to show its agae.

[angrychimp]

In its time Next Generation was brilliant. They tackled all sorts of unusual topics and it wasn't just about laser guns and fighn' n' shootn'

True but I think they went too far with the telepathy nonsense.

Troi: "Captain, I sense deception in his mind"

Gag-Cringe-change the channel.

[AshtonBlack]

In its time Next Generation was brilliant. They tackled all sorts of unusual topics and it wasn't just about laser guns and fighn' n' shootn'

True but I think they went too far with the telepathy nonsense.

Troi: "Captain, I sense deception in his mind"

Gag-Cringe-change the channel.

Next Gen: Deus Ex Machina to the rescue....

[tattuchu]

I liked the one Ellison wrote, where the original crew travels back to Nazi Germany. That was great fun

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I liked the one Ellison wrote, where the original crew travels back to Nazi Germany. That was great fun

It wasn't nazi germany, it was depression era NYC. The episode is called "The City on the Edge of Forever."

It involves a moral dilemma where Kirk has to allow a woman (Joan Collins) to die in order to prevent her from founding a peace movement which prevents America from entering the second world war and allows the nazis time to develop an atomic bomb, thus conquering the world.

It is also nothing like the story that Ellison originally wrote except in its broadest structure.

[tattuchu]

I liked the one Ellison wrote, where the original crew travels back to Nazi Germany. That was great fun

It wasn't nazi germany, it was depression era NYC. The episode is called "The City on the Edge of Forever."

It involves a moral dilemma where Kirk has to allow a woman (Joan Collins) to die in order to prevent her from founding a peace movement which prevents America from entering the second world war and allows the nazis time to develop an atomic bomb, thus conquering the world.

It is also nothing like the story that Ellison originally wrote except in its broadest structure.

Well my memory was hazy, but I knew it has something to do with Nazis

Who bastardized Ellison's story? And how does the original compare?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I liked the one Ellison wrote, where the original crew travels back to Nazi Germany. That was great fun

It wasn't nazi germany, it was depression era NYC. The episode is called "The City on the Edge of Forever."

It involves a moral dilemma where Kirk has to allow a woman (Joan Collins) to die in order to prevent her from founding a peace movement which prevents America from entering the second world war and allows the nazis time to develop an atomic bomb, thus conquering the world.

It is also nothing like the story that Ellison originally wrote except in its broadest structure.

Well my memory was hazy, but I knew it has something to do with Nazis

Who bastardized Ellison's story? And how does the original compare?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_o ... nal_script

[Don't Panic]

I thought it would be good to explain our favourite Star Trek episodes and why we feel that they are the best.

My selection:

"In The Pale Moonlight"-Deep Space 9, Season 6, episode 19.

An examination of morality and the price we must sometimes pay for the greater good. Captain Sisko narrates, in soliliquy, the events of the past two weeks, as he embarks on a plan to draw the Romulan Empire into the Federation's war against the Dominion, a totalitarian hegemony intent on taking over the Alpha quadrant, a war that the Federation and its allies are losing badly. Quite simply, it is sublime. The acting and direction are all top notch. It is further helped by the simplicity of the narrative and by focusing so closely on Sisko's internal struggle as he tries to come to terms with the sequence of events:

"My father used to say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". I laid the first stone right there. I'd committed myself, I'd do anything, go to any lengths, because my cause was righteous. Because my... intentions were good."-Benjamin Sisko.

I would have to agree with you on that MONF, it is one of the best written episodes of DS9. That and 'Inter einem arma silent leges'.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The one after the final one.

[klr]

The one after the final one.

"Zilla not a Trekkie" shocker!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The one after the final one.

"Zilla not a Trekkie" shocker!

I grew up with it, and thought it was cool, sort of. But when Frank Gorshin got a role I got disgusted and never watched it again.