Favourite Ever Episode

barneysplash

For me it has to be The Pegasus from TNG

Brilliant story, great script and you're kept guessing to the end.

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the episode!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pegasus_%28TNG_episode%29


By the way, is there no Doctor Who forum on boards.ie ?

Goodshape

Probably Best of Both Worlds (TNG) or Way of the Warrior (DS9).

They sort of feel like the easy answers but I can't help it.. they're brilliant.

Honorable mentions to All Good Things... (the TNG final), Yesterdays Enterprise and The Inner Light.

barneysplash wrote: »

By the way, is there no Doctor Who forum on boards.ie ?

Yup. It's under Hosted -> Arts -> Doctor Who

Year of Hell Parts One and Two STV

(Warning, above links contain spoilers)

I always found this to be an amazing episode.

Tar.Aldarion

darmak and jalad!

Ro: maaan!

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

darmak and jalad!

Don't know how people can like this. One of my least favourite eps.

Tar.Aldarion

User45701

Ro: maaan! wrote: »

Don't know how people can like this. One of my least favourite eps.

I was never a big fan of it, it was good first time but no way my fav. Again like the last time this topic was around it would probbley be DS9, The Die is the Cast
(2 parter about gareck, his relationship with enabroun Tain, the obsidian order, tal shiar and odo and the advancement of the dominion storyline.)

My fav charactor is gareck

kevmy

Deleted User wrote: »

Year of Hell Parts One and Two STV

(Warning, above links contain spoilers)

I always found this to be an amazing episode.

That was the best VOY episode by a long way. But it always annoyed me slightly in that it reminded me of what VOY could have done as a series but it was squashed into (an admittedly very good) two-parter

Johnny Storm

DS9: "The Visitor".


Honourable mentions to:
Part 1 of "the Best of both Worlds"
"All Good Things..."
"City on the edge of forever"
"Devil in the Dark"
Plenty more that i'll remember in a minute .... :rolleyes:

FutureGuy

Ro: maaan! wrote: »

Don't know how people can like this. One of my least favourite eps.

At Tanagra

Actually, I really l;iked this episodes. It's one that you would show a non-Trek fan and they would enjoy it.

IamBeowulf

I loved the two parter of DS9 season 5, In Purgatory's Shadow, and By The Pale Moonlight where Worf is imprisoned by the Dominion, and he finds the true versions of Bashir and General Martok.

I'll never forget the scene where Worf first encounters Bashir at the prison, and he, along with the viewer notices the doctor is still wearing the older, blue and black uniform. Next, we switch to the main elevator on DS9, and there's Dominion-Bashir dressed up in the First Contact grey version, smirking---only then does it click that the counterpart has been onboard for at least 2 or 3 episodes previously. And upon revisiting the previous ones, you can tell there's something a little off!

I also loved the Mirror Universe episodes for their silly bombasity---esp the one where Worf had Garak on a leash. Beautiful

kevmy

FutureGuy wrote: »

At Tanagra

Actually, I really l;iked this episodes. It's one that you would show a non-Trek fan and they would enjoy it.

I liked it as well. It seemed to have more of a feel about what it really would be like to encounter aliens. You don't understand the language and how simple gestures could be misinterpreted as hostile. Also it was nice to see a race who had brains and wanted to encounter other races and start a dialogue.

Armin_Tamzarian

Am I imagining it or is there an episode of TNG where they encounter a load of Irish Travellers?

Kiith

How has no-one mentioned 'In the Pale Moonlight'. By far the best episode of Star Trek ever written. (i havent seen "Far Beyond the Stars"). Garek and Sisko are both excellent, as is Senator Vreenak. My other favourite are...

TNG
Darmak and Jaded
Best of Both Worlds
Yesterdays Enterprise
Cause and Effect
Parallels
Pegasus

DS9
In the Pale Moonlight (as i said above)
Trials And Tribble-ations
Call To Arms
What You Leave Behind (part 1)
In Purgatory's Shadow
Way of the Warrior

Voy
Drone
Year of Hell
Scorpion
Future's End
Equinox

robby^5

"THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!11!"

best. episode. ever.

Goodshape

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Am I imagining it or is there an episode of TNG where they encounter a load of Irish Travellers?

No. Never. Didn't happen. Nu-uh. No way.

lalalalala.. I'm not listening... lalalalalala...

Tar.Aldarion

Great episode, begorrra.

'You would make a good security officer'

Armin_Tamzarian

Goodshape wrote: »

No. Never. Didn't happen. Nu-uh. No way.

lalalalala.. I'm not listening... lalalalalala...

Really?
I never watched TNG much but I could swear I remember Colin Meaney being in some cargo hold of the ship with a load of Travellers eating and singing around camp fires.

What a strange dream to have...

Johnny Storm

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68394.html

Worst ever ......

Good ol' Riker still manages to give the colleen in the Arran-knit halter top a shot, though :eek:

Tar.Aldarion

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Really?
I never watched TNG much but I could swear I remember Colin Meaney being in some cargo hold of the ship with a load of Travellers eating and singing around camp fires.

What a strange dream to have...

Yeah dude, it is an episode. God, what an episode.

Goodshape

barneysplash

robby^5 wrote: »

"THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!11!"

best. episode. ever.

Chain of Command - That was a brilliant two parter.

Fantastic performances by Patrick Steward and David Warner as his tormentor. You can't beat the RSC / RADA quality actors.

Kiith

As bad as the TNG Irish episode, Fairhaven was far far worse.

bus77

The one that sticks out in my mind is the DS9 one with Jake and Nog trying to get a Willie Mays baseball card for Sisqo. I thought it was gas.

Johnny Storm

bus77 wrote: »

The one that sticks out in my mind is the DS9 one with Jake and Nog trying to get a Willie Mays baseball card for Sisqo. I thought it was gas.

Was that the one with the self-sealing stem bolts? That was a good one alright!

bus77

Johnny Storm wrote: »

Was that the one with the self-sealing stem bolts? That was a good one alright!

No this one was called ''In the cards''. I liked the stem bolts one aswell.

Goodshape

There was an episode of DS9 that took place on a 'sister station' to DS9 and featured almost exclusively unknown characters (cadets or lower ranking starfleet members iirc). It had a fairly unique and really cool style to it.

Anyone remember the title?

It was great, as far as I remember.

barneysplash

Kiith wrote: »

As bad as the TNG Irish episode, Fairhaven was far far worse.

That Fairhaven was dirt. But Trinity College was namecheked when Janeway was
programming the holo program of the oirish charmer that she liked. Be de hokey

User45701

Ye i liked that episode but again because it was a Garek episode and yes it did have a unique feel to it

Johnny Storm

Goodshape wrote: »

There was an episode of DS9 that took place on a 'sister station' to DS9 and featured almost exclusively unknown characters (cadets or lower ranking starfleet members iirc). It had a fairly unique and really cool style to it.

Anyone remember the title?

It was great, as far as I remember.

AFAICR it was a sister ship to the Defiant and the young Star Fleet officers had gone a bit rogue.

EDIT: The Ep is called "Valiant", season 6

Johnny Storm

FWIW "the Visitor", IMHO the best Trek episode ever, is on Sky channel 153 tonight @ 8 o'c. (or 154 at 9) (Virgin TV)

"The Visitor" is frequently cited by the show's cast, crew and fans as their favorite episode, was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1996, and, according to a reader poll in the September 21, 1996, issue of TV Guide, was voted the best Star Trek episode of all time (although a similar poll in the April 20, 2004, issue saw it slip to fourth place).

Kiith

That was a brilliant episode. A perfect example of the quality of the writing in DS9.

Yakuza

TOS:
"City on the edge of Forever"
"Mirror Mirror"
The one with the sentient rock in the mines "No Kill I"

TNG:
Cause and Effect
Disaster
The Game wasn't bad (mmm, Ashley Judd) despite its overkill on the moral overtones in relation to addiction
The Lower Decks

ENT:
Brent Spiner's arc
Any screen grabs of Jolene Blalock or Hoshi will do

Voy:
Year of Hell I / II
The ones with Brad Dourif, great actor.

DS9:
The one with they find a crashed Jem'Hadar ship which they want to keep, but get barricaded in by more Jem'Hadar, who only want to save their "God". Shows the futility of war etc yadda yadda. Edit: Just looked it up..."The Ship".
As mentioned elsewhere, "The Visitor"

Goodshape

Johnny Storm wrote: »

AFAICR it was a sister ship to the Defiant and the young Star Fleet officers had gone a bit rogue.

EDIT: The Ep is called "Valiant", season 6

No, that wasn't it. Just did a Google search for 'DS9 sister station' and found the one I was talking about - 'Empok Nor', from season 5.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Empok_Nor_%28episode%29

"Scavenging an abandoned Cardassian space station identical to DS9 for equipment, O'Brien's team discovers that the station may not be completely abandoned."

Tar.Aldarion

All this is making me want to watch them all again.

Johnny Storm

Goodshape wrote: »

No, that wasn't it. Just did a Google search for 'DS9 sister station' and found the one I was talking about - 'Empok Nor', from season 5.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Empok_Nor_%28episode%29

"Scavenging an abandoned Cardassian space station identical to DS9 for equipment, O'Brien's team discovers that the station may not be completely abandoned."

D'oh!

CidonaBoy

Threshold.

I really liked "The Best Of Both Worlds".

Pepe LeFrits

Probably In Purgatory's Shadow.

Pride Fighter

Enterprise C episode with parallel universe in TNG. I like the whole cloning part of the episode with the travellers although the portrayal of the Irish is muck.

Niska

Quite a few to choose from, but "In The Pale Moonlight" is my personal favourite.

"It's a FAAAAAKE!"

"So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing, a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it... Computer, erase that entire personal log."

Other honourbales:

TOS
The City On The Edge of Forever
For the World Is Hollow And i Have Touched The Sky
The Enemy Within
Balance of Terror

TNG
Inner Light (favourite TNG ep)
Darmok
Chain of Command
The Wounded
Yesterday's Enterprise
All Good Things

DS9
The Visitor (watched it tonight on Virgin. Bloody Brilliant)
Duet
Necessary Evil
Blood Oath
The Ship
Trials and Tribble-ations
Improbable Cause / The Die is Cast
many more...

No Voyager or Enterprise episodes stick out

kevmy

Goodshape wrote: »

No, that wasn't it. Just did a Google search for 'DS9 sister station' and found the one I was talking about - 'Empok Nor', from season 5.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Empok_Nor_%28episode%29

"Scavenging an abandoned Cardassian space station identical to DS9 for equipment, O'Brien's team discovers that the station may not be completely abandoned."

Goodshape wrote: »

There was an episode of DS9 that took place on a 'sister station' to DS9 and featured almost exclusively unknown characters (cadets or lower ranking starfleet members iirc). It had a fairly unique and really cool style to it.

Anyone remember the title?

It was great, as far as I remember.

I think you may be mixing up two different episodes here. Yeah there was one on Empok Nor and it was a pretty good episode but it didn't involve that many other Starfleet people IIRC.

There was an episode of TNG when they concentrated on unknowns (ensigns and so on) who are on the ship but never really seen. The senior officers were doing a staff review or something. I think it was called 'Below Decks'

Goodshape

The TNG episode was called 'Lower Decks' ...not the episode I'm thinking of at all.

I'm fairly certain that Empok Nor is the episode I'm thinking of. An engineering crew (these guys... best picture I could find) running around a dark, unpowered DS9 style space station trying not to get killed (by Garak I think. He had gone a bit mental iirc).

Pepe LeFrits

Niska wrote: »

No Voyager or Enterprise episodes stick out

Indeed, although there are a couple of pretty good episodes - Scorpion Part One, Hope and Fear, Course Oblivion etc. I quite liked the pilot too.

Ro: maaan!

Empok Nor was indeed that episode. Good one too. Also liked The Magnificent Ferengi which was also set on Empok Nor.

Kiith

kevmy wrote: »

I think you may be mixing up two different episodes here. Yeah there was one on Empok Nor and it was a pretty good episode but it didn't involve that many other Starfleet people IIRC.

The other characters that went to Empok Nor with O'Brien, Garak and Rom were the only ones. One of two of them were ensigns, but no cadets.

The one with the cadets on it was when a group of cadets had a Defiant class ship, and went to try and destroy a highly advanced Dominion ship...it didnt end well :rolleyes:

youcancallmeal

Niska wrote: »

Quite a few to choose from, but "In The Pale Moonlight" is my personal favourite.

"It's a FAAAAAKE!"

Yeah I reckon this is probably my favourite as well followed closely by The Visitor.

oneillMan999

anyone with Q" in it,,,,,wasnt he such an enjoyable character to watch, and a brilliant actor to boot.
scenes with him and picard are legendary!!!!

boogle

LOVE the two-parter where Picard is made into a Borg. Also hilarious was the episode with the planet where women were the dominant sex and Riker had to dress up in this sexy outfit... Gold.


Also, is it wrong that I found Data (not Brent without make-up) very attractive as a young wan?

G-Money

I'm currently in the middle of watching all Deep Space Nine episodes, not having seen most of them when they were originally on television.

I am currently on the Season 4 dvd boxset and I came to episode 2 of Season 4 - The Visitor - and thought "Oh great, a story about Jake Sisko". I was getting ready to completely skip it as I thought it would be boring but decided in the end of watch it. And I couldn't have been more wrong.

I'm so glad I didn't skip it. It is easily one of the best episodes of any TV series I have ever seen. I have favourite episodes of other shows - Memoria in Season 3 of Smallville being one that jumps to mind. But I think this even surpasses it. It is easily the best Star Trek episode I have ever seen to date.

Make sure you watch it.

G-Money

Also, from Enteprise the episodes:

Dear Doctor
Cogenitor

G-Money

I've been reading online and it seems that The Visitor from Season 4 of DS9 is one of the most popular episodes of any Star Trek series.

I have to say I can't disagree. I haven't seen every episode of every Star Trek series, but I will be amazed if I ever see anything that is better than The Visitor, in any TV series. It is quite simply the most amazing episode of a TV programme I have ever seen. What's better is that you don't have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy it.

It is incredibly moving and perfectly executed. I came close to skipping over the entire episode when I read the summary that it was about Jake Sisko. At that point, I didn't know it was one of the most popular DS9 episodes. But I'm so glad I didn't skip over it. It was one of those shows where I could feel my eyes welling up and huge lump in my throat. I'm just glad no-one seen me when I was watching it, they'd have wondered what was wrong with me

Seriously, make sure you see this episode. Even just thinking back about it, I can feel myself getting emotional. Simply perfect television.