Broke Warp 10, had magic space-lizard babies; the new STAR TREK thread.

[dieblucasdie]

Actually, I would like that.  Because, as willing as I am to watch all of TNG, I really don't have the energy for any of the other series(es) aside from select TOS episodes.

Dawg, watch DS9

[Babar]

Ellaguru's list is pretty good (except for Miri  ) but here's my watch-list. I bolded the episodes that appear on both of our lists, which could be considered the stone-cold classics.

- Season 1 -

The Menagerie
Balance of Terror
Shore Leave
The Squire of Gothos (mainly for the camp though)
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Court Martial (space court drama at its finest)
The Return of the Archons
A Taste of Armageddon
This Side of Paradise (Spock goes free love on us)
The City on the Edge of Forever

- Season 2 -

Amok Time
Mirror, Mirror
The Deadly Years
The Trouble With Tribbles
The Gamesters of Triskelion
A Piece of the Action
Patterns of Force (ze nazi episode)

- Season 3 -

The Enterprise Incident
Spectre of the Gun (Chekov gets to be the badass)
Requiem for Methuselah
All Our Yesterdays

[jebreject]

If you wanted to put which season those are in I would appreciate it but if you don't that's fine too

I only ask because I'm lazy

Thanks guys!

[Babar]

edited!

this is pretty helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_episodes

[Thermofusion]

Actually, I would like that.  Because, as willing as I am to watch all of TNG, I really don't have the energy for any of the other series(es) aside from select TOS episodes.

Dawg, watch DS9

Yeah definitely! I started with Season 1 back in October and now I'm somewhere near the end of Season 6. I'm already prepared to call it my favorite Trek series. TNG has the iconic crew, and a handful of self-contained episodes (Darmok, Inner Light, etc) that can't be fucked with, but DS9 reveals just how shallow and dull TNG's interpersonal relationships were. Like, I always thought the most interesting dynamic in TNG was (by far) Picard/Guinan, and DS9 has at least half a dozen relationships that are more intricate and delicate than that one. Especially Kira/Odo and Bashir/O'Brien. Also the show is dark as shit and pretty depressing at times.

[jebreject]

I've only ever watched a handful of DS9 episodes. Guess that's what I'm doing next.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

gonna start ds9 tonight yeahhhhhh

have only watched disconnected episodes because i used to live with people who were obsessed with it

[ellaguru]

Deep Space Nine is pretty great, but it takes a looooooooooong time to get pretty great.

But I have watched most of it twice and will likely rewatch it again at some point.

[YojimboMonkey]

It starts much stronger than TNG did though. Though there are some really goofy episodes early on too

[ellaguru]

It's true. Oddly, the one that didn't start terrible for me was Enterprise. Sure ended up going that way, though.

Original series stuff was the only thing on daily back when I was a lad young enough to watch the same thing over and over again without regard to quality, so I've seen every episode like 8 times. Many nerd points for me.

[Thermofusion]

IMO Emissary is definitely the best Trek pilot episode, although the competition ain't exactly fierce.

[Ignatius]

I want blucas here to tell me about good pilots across all of television. Twin Peaks comes to mind but maybe doesn't count.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

ALL RIGHT i bought beer and i think i'm ready for unbearded sisko

LET'S DO THIS space station in the unmoved blackness

[Thermofusion]

I like this kid's enthusiasm!

[Greg Nog]

Bashir/O'Brien. Also the show is dark as shit

Not only Bashir/O'Brien, but also Bashir/Garak!

And yeah, it's kind of like the dark depressingness of BSG applied to the cheerfully utopian world of TNG.  It's like the first two series were all, "Here's what a perfect human society looks like!" and the third series is there to say, "okay, cool idea, but here are all the ways it's going to fail."

[DCDave]

IMO Emissary is definitely the best Trek pilot episode, although the competition ain't exactly fierce.

Walk on the beach scene says negatory.

[Thermofusion]

I like that scene! Better than Encounter at Farpoint's hilariously premature saucer separation, or Troi's crying catharsis during the space jellyfish lover reunion.

Man I sound like a dork.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

IMO Emissary is definitely the best Trek pilot episode, although the competition ain't exactly fierce.

Walk on the beach scene says negatory.

oh yeah, that happened and i was like "why has everyone on screen suddenly forgotten how to walk"

[YojimboMonkey]

man shit gets real in the beginning of season 2 of DS9

[Thermofusion]

My favorite thing about season 2 is all the casual, seemingly innocuous allusions to the Dominion.

[jebreject]

Starting DS9. Any important bits of history, etc. covered in TNG that I should remember for all this to make sense?

[Greg Nog]

The only big thing is the Battle of Wolf 359!  That's where Picard became Locutus of Borg, and wiped out like half of Starfleet.  I think that's the only major piece of TNG history brought into the new show.  I mean, and the fact that the Bajorans are still recovering from the Cardassian occupation.

[jebreject]

Battle of Wolf 359 was some awesome shit

[Ah_Pook]

i guess this is a thing thats happening

[YojimboMonkey]

I saw something about that on twitter today. I'm not all that pumped about crossovers, guess I'm curious though.

Continuing my DS9 runthrough and I just got done with S2 E8. "Necessary Evil" is a great little noir--an attack on Quark in the present ties in to a crime from the past, when the Cardassians were still running the station and Gul Dukat first brought Odo in as an investigator. The episode switches nicely between past and present as it follows the timeline of both investigations, with the flashback scenes showing a much different, darker station than the one currently administered by the Federation. It does a great job of tapping into the backstory of some of the characters, filling in the history of the station a bit, and doing it all nicely within the confines of the established DS9 continuity while still presenting a classic noir--with, I think, a very suitable ending for the genre. An excellent episode.

I'm not going to write reviews of every one I watch that tickles my fancy--for instance the first three episodes of this season were outstanding as well--but this was an excellent one-off.