good/favorite Star Trek eps

I can find nothing wrong with imagining that. Or is it just me?

 

Okay...

One of my favorite Star Trek episodes was "The Way To Eden".

The Enterprise transports a group of marginally Manson like devoted Space Hippies.

Now make no mistake. This is an absolutely horrible episode. But the attempt to create "Space Hippies" is so....weird...that I can't help but like it. Add to it, a generational split among the Enterprise Crew, and probably the worst "music" ever presented on television and it is so bad, it's good.

You'd be a Herbert if you never watched it...

 

No love for DS9, eh? I'm rewatching it now, almost done the 2nd season. I think it's my favorite because there is a bit more detail fleshed out with the settings and characters, though maybe I have to watch TOS and TNG again in order to have a more apples-apples comparison. (Not sure what these other series are that you guys keep talking about...)

 

Tooooo many baseball games and James-Bond-like multi-episodes in the holodeck...Oh yeah, a fascination with a Crooner Vic Fontaine. Too bad it fizzled out, probably because of Cpt Janeway...

The most memorable to me was when the "writer" son is on a "tour" with cadets that decide to take on Dominion battle cruiser.

In typical ST missing-plot fashion, Sisko is reunited with his son Jake, no other survivors...since when do escape pods "escape" detection across enemy lines?

I had the impression that Jake was pretty "far out" for a mere escape pod to return home safely...

 

It wasn't bad, it just wasn't as good as the others. The big problem was the spaceship/station that didn't go anywhere. I love those starfield warp effects.

No, Janeway was from Voyager, not DS9. Cisco never really appealed to me - he talked funny, too - but Janeway was a great captain.

 

My reference to Cpt Janeway, was that the Voyager show was starting, and DS9 was still running...

I was hanging on for Voyager to find a wormhole near Dominion space and kick their sorry nice person on their liquid homeworld with Borg nanotech.

 

Ah, that makes more sense. Sorry.

 

I actually rank Deep Space 9 as my least favorite of the Star Trek series but my favorite episode is one from DS9..."The Visitor". It's told in flashback perspective about the captain's disappearance and his son's lifelong quest to recover his father. Very moving episode, I don't tear up very often but this one had me like no other Star Trek. (or other TV for that matter!)

 

anyone with a borg in it

 

Funny, I liked Deep Space 9. I thought toward the end, final season, it deteriorated quite a bit in it's commitment to a overriding story arc of which I could never really get into.

But season for season? Episode to Episode? I thought Deep Space 9 had some excellent writing and routinely very, very good episodes. I speculate that it's heart being about a "Space Station" as opposed to being about a "Space Craft" allowed it to be more diverse in the "type" of episodes produced. Over the course of years you had a little of everything. In this case, episodes about "Religion, Politics and even the operation of a Space Station Restaurant/Casino may of made it unfamiliar feeling to some people trying to get "into" the series.

But if I define the Original Star Trek as being "untouchable"? I would probably easily go Star Trek TNG #2, and Deep Space 9, #3.

I watched but never liked Voyager or Enterprise nearly as much.

 

I enjoyed the Star Trek Enterprise (double) episode "In a Mirror, Darkly".
Similar to the TOS episode "mirror mirror"in which the good are now evil and you move up by assassination, etc. But with an additional twist- in this rendition the 22nd century Enterprise also tries to retrieve the 24th century Defiant from Tholian space to harvest it's weapons and propulsion tech for 22nd century dominance. Remember the Defiant from TOS? It's the ship that Kirk got stranded on that was drifting in and out of our space/time while the Tholians started building their web around the enterprise.
A very clever episode all-in-all, and once the 22nd century crew retrieved the 24th century ship- they changed into the 1960's era uniforms worn on TOS. It was nice seeing the 24th century bridge again- and the old uniforms.

 

I've always liked TNG, but Voyager happened when I lived in Britain and Hong Kong, and I don't think it was shown in either place when I was there.

But we've just got a cable upgrade, and there's a channel with loads of Star Trek on it. I've got very into Voyager, and I think Seven of Nine is a particularly interesting character who seems to be behind some really good storylines. I'm watching the episodes as they appear, which seems to have nothing to do with a natural progression of episodes. But the Unimatrix Zero episodes were particularly good.

My daughters (who are two and five)* are really into TNG and Voyager: they're always asking to watch episodes, and it calms them down like no other TV programme can. The two-year-old has a real think for Klingons. The two-year-old likes Deep Space Nine as well, but they both hate Enterprise.

I hadn't seen Enterprise until a couple of weeks ago. I don't know why, but I can't get into it. It might be that Scott Bakula just makes me think I'm going to watch a syrupy episode of Quantum Leap, or it might be the production values: there's something about the acting and the lighting and the sound that makes it feel more like Days of Our Lives or The Bold and The Beautiful than Star Trek. I suspect that's why the girls don't like it either: it doesn't feel like Star Trek.


* To clarify, their ages are two and five, not their names. We are not Borg.

 

Thanks for this. I will keep an eye out for those episodes. Maybe I should try watching them without the girls.