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Old 01-15-2015, 08:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Looking for your best and worst Star Trek episodes

As part of the coming "Star Trek Month" in The Couch Potato, I want to try to include a top 10/20 of the best and worst episodes of the series. All five versions can be included, ie Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Star Trek Voyager and Enterprise if you must.

You can list all your best and/or worst episodes, in order if you want or not if you don't want to: I'll be organising them anyway. If possible, give the reasons why you think the episodes are good or bad.

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Old 01-15-2015, 09:16 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The Empath
I remember seeing Star Trek reruns at a very early age, and before I really could grasp what was going one I found this particular one intriguing. Every so often I get to see them and the older I get the more I understood. I just remember seeing clips of it, it was kinda dream-like, but I remember loving the whole concept behind the main character. I thought it was Sci-fiction at its best. I heard Trekees consdier "The City on the Edge of Forever" as the best episode ever. But the The Empath has always been a personal favorite and one I consider the best episode.

The Empath (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki

I don't know if it the worst but one I found particularly annoying to no end in sight was
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It will take some time, but I can do my favorites/least favorites for TNG.
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When I saw that Neapolitan had put the Empath, I thought yer I agree it's certainly one of the worst Trek episodes, then I saw he was voting it as one of the best!

Anyway I need some time to put the best and worst up of original Trek, but some of the very best I'd vote:

Balance of Terror
City on the Edge of Forever
Galileo Seven
The Menagerie (2 part story)
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Old 01-16-2015, 06:20 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Thanks guys.

Some of my own best and worst:

Best: "Best of both worlds part I" (TNG), "In the pale moonlight" (DS9) "The year of Hell" (VOY), "The Enterprise incident" (TOS)

Worst: "Code of honor" (TNG), "Fascination" (DS9) "Fair Haven" (VOY), "The omega glory" (TOS)

Just off the top of my head: it'll take some time to get a proper list together.
Thanks for helping out and keep 'em coming.

PS Neo, that episode "The empath", you may or may not know, was banned for a long time because of the at-the-time graphic scenes of torture. How times change huh?
And yes, I wanted to punch that kid (Jimmy? Billy?) in "And the children shall lead"...
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I'm not a big trekkie but with all the respect and admiration I have for the series, what it's done and what it achieved, I have a "worst" episode for you.
Storm Front (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Simply painful to watch, on more levels than one.
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Probably one of the most memorable: Amok Time

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Worst:

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Aw, how can you not like that Kirk gets to fight a giant lizard??
If you watch carefully, when the Gorn throws a cardboard rock at him to supposedly crush him, it's so light that Kirk has to work to keep it from rolling off him!
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