The best episode of any STAR TREK ever

This might surprise many of you, but for some reason The Survivors from TNG, season three really sticks with me.
Yes, there are many wonderful and classic episodes to choose from.

But the way this one ended amazed me, the admission of complete genocide, and Picard essentially just walking away.

Yes, when viewed again it needs about five minutes removed from the middle, but I just loved that ending.
 
"The Visitor" - DS9 Season 4 - Tony Todd was amazing as Older Jake, and Avery Brooks gave one of his most moving performances. Not to mention Cirroc Lofton and Avery Brooks played the father-son dynamic beautifully.
 
Calufrax said:
I never watched enough DS9 or VGR to have any opinion about them. I regard them as trying milk the idea of Trek for every last drop Paramount could get.
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A lot of people say that about DS9 and Voyager, but it's not deserved.

DS9 was, in many ways, more Trek then any other series - explored humanity and all the different flawed facets that TNG and TOS combined couldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.

Voyager deserves a lot of the criticism it gets, but it usually gets it from people who watched one episode a season and judged it unwatchable within the first three episodes. With Voyager, you had to put up with a lot of 'off' episodes (which were just plain terrible), but when it was 'on', they were some very fine episodes. For me, Voyager became more watchable when, in the fourth season, they finally gave up and said 'okay, we're just going to do more character stories and stop trying to pretend we're not trying to be a new NextGen'. It picked up and there were fewer unwatchable episodes (though still too many).
 
The one with that weird kid that fancied the chick with that hair that was like a basket. The weird kid made people go away when they told him not to touch the bum of the basket-haired chick.
 
TheDoctor said:
A lot of people say that about DS9 and Voyager, but it's not deserved.

DS9 was, in many ways, more Trek then any other series - explored humanity and all the different flawed facets that TNG and TOS combined couldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
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Never mind humanity and facets - a two-second shot of McCoy scratching his arse is more Trek than a whole series of DS9.
 
So many great ones it really is impossible to pick just one . . . except I have to always go back to "The Doomsday Machine" because it's the one that I always go to in a crisis!!! lol.
 
Darmok is definitely up there. I remember we actually watched that in a high school World Cultures class.

I'm not familiar enough with VGR, DS9, ENT, or TAS to really comment on those. Hell, there are large swaths of TNG that I don't really know well.

TOS, though, had some fantastic sci-fi concepts. I went back and rewatched the first season a few years ago and was just stunned at how good some of the underlying stories were, even if they were told in a particular style that is no longer in fashion.

I'll always give a show credit for having a good story or concept, even if the execution is a bit dated. Old Doctor Who also falls into that category.
 
feek61 said:
So many great ones it really is impossible to pick just one . . . except I have to always go back to "The Doomsday Machine" because it's the one that I always go to in a crisis!!! lol.
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In the new digital remastered version... you see these new CGI shots of the combat scenes between the Doomsday Machine and the Enterprise... which I thought was a good use of the new technology... although purists will not be pleased...
 
Enterprise: "In A Mirror, Darkly" Two-Parter
Star Trek: "The Enemy Within"
TNG: "The Naked Now"
DS9: Never watched it so, I can't list one.
Voyager: "Future's End" Two-Parter (honestly, I haven't gotten a chance to see the show after Season 4, due to the fact that UPN switched their broadcast from the big satellite to the smaller ones, thus I was unable to continue to watch the show. I've caught a couple of reruns on Spike, but even that is limited).
 
TheDoctor said:
A lot of people say that about DS9 and Voyager, but it's not deserved.

DS9 was, in many ways, more Trek then any other series - explored humanity and all the different flawed facets that TNG and TOS combined couldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.

Voyager deserves a lot of the criticism it gets, but it usually gets it from people who watched one episode a season and judged it unwatchable within the first three episodes. With Voyager, you had to put up with a lot of 'off' episodes (which were just plain terrible), but when it was 'on', they were some very fine episodes. For me, Voyager became more watchable when, in the fourth season, they finally gave up and said 'okay, we're just going to do more character stories and stop trying to pretend we're not trying to be a new NextGen'. It picked up and there were fewer unwatchable episodes (though still too many).
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I did try to watch DS9 and VGR years after they aired originally thanks to the miracle of a DVR, mostly because they were never syndicated in my area. I'd agree that DS9 looked like they were making an effort and of the ones I watched before I gave up on it I did like the one where O'Brien was cloned to be an assassin and the clone was too much like O'Brien to actually do what it was programmed for. But Avery Brooks angry shtick and Odo who was just odd and a total aversion to Ferrengi stories just made it unwatchable to me.

VGR was a cluster-fu from the first episode. I never could stand the Janeway actress because for years in the 1980s she used to do this Bell phone commercials "Call on us!" and I just couldn't stand her. I was literally sick of her before she ever got the part. She was horrible casting. They should have had a woman who was believable as a Captain like the actress that played Rachel Garrett in "Yesterday's Enterprise". Heck you can find tons of actresses better suited for the part.

Even TNG which I grudgingly started to like only in season 3 with episodes like "The Surviors" which has been mentioned could have only benefited by cutting the number of stories a season and concentrating on really good one, making them two parters. Take "Yesterday's Enterprise" as was mentioned as someone's fav and one of mine too. This is a single episode but look at other stories they did as two parters that were dreck. Other than a very few things like "The Measure of a Man" in those first two seasons of TNG are something I'd watch again ever.

When I catch a rerun of something like "A Fistful of Datas" I can only shake my head.
 
The episode that stands out the most for me was the TNG two-parter "Chain of Command". It's not my favorite episode, but I felt the acting, the script writing, and the exploration of character interactions was kicked up quite a few notches.
 
Where No Man has Gone Before. Great story, no crappy aliens or silly campness and Gary Lockwood being awesome.
 
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