TOS and TNG; Best and Worst

[CptTrips]

TOS: Best-

  Hmmm, Sooo many good ones.  Probably my favorite "Balance of Terror".  Kirk hunting down that cloaked Romulan ship with the massive plasma weapon.  Reminded me of an old WWII Destroyer vs. Sub movie.

TOS: Worst-

 The one with where Kirk has amnesia and dresses up like an American Indian in buckskins and head-dress.  Even as a kid I was like...WTF?




TNG: Best -

There are a couple I like.  My favorite is the one where Picard gets zapped by the probe and imagines a whole life spent on this a planet with a failing Ozone layer that was slowly killing off the plant life.  At the end, they open it up and all it has in it is the flute he dreamed he had learned to play.

TNG: Worst-

Any episode where Riker is beardless and has Q in it!

[Airscrew]

wow,  hard to pick.

Favorite original Trek,  "A Piece of the Action"  "City on the Edge of Forever"

Worst "Spocks Brain"   I also never liked the one with half black/half white and halfwhite/half black


Favorite TNG - "Casino Royale"  where they find a planet that just has a casino on it, and a room where some astronaut got lost like 200 years before.   Also the one where they keep playing the same poker game over and over before finally they figure out they're in some sort of time loop...and die over and over again.

I actually liked most of the episodes with Q, not the first couple

[Saxman]

Blasphemy! The Q episodes were some of the best!

[Shuffler]

Originally posted by AKWabbit
TOS: Best-

  Hmmm, Sooo many good ones.  Probably my favorite "Balance of Terror".  Kirk hunting down that cloaked Romulan ship with the massive plasma weapon.  Reminded me of an old WWII Destroyer vs. Sub movie.

"The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens. Pretty good movie made in 1957.

[Tigeress]

Originally posted by Saxman
Blasphemy! The Q episodes were some of the best!

I very much agree. Q was cool

TIGERESS

[midnight Target]

I agree with AKWabbit on the best TNG.

[CptTrips]

Originally posted by Airscrew
Worst "Spocks Brain"   I also never liked the one with half black/half white and halfwhite/half black

Hahha.  "Spock's Brain".  Forgot about that one!


I remember growing up there where 2 UHF TV channels in town.  (Yes youngsters this was before cable! We had like maybe 5 TV channels...)

Well, I guess they had some kind of deal and every 6 months they would switch off which channel showed the series and when they switched they would do a 3 day marathon and show all the episodes back to back in order.  I was glued to the TV all weekend, staying up til all hours.

My bastid parents never would buy me the hard-cover edition of the "Official Star Trek Technical Manual".  Grrrrrr.



Wab

[CptTrips]

Originally posted by Shuffler
"The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens. Pretty good movie made in 1957.

Yeah thats the one!

Wab

[midnight Target]

BTW that TNG episode was called "The Inner Light"

[Phaser11]

Best old
Requiem for Methuselah

Worst old
The lights of Zatar

[ChickenHawk]

TOS Best:   Mirror, Mirror where Kirk and co are transported to the evil Enterprise and Spock has a goatee.
Space Seed comes in a close second, where we meet Khan.

TOS worst:  I looked but couldn't find one worse than The Paradise Syndrome  that AKWabbit already mentioned.

TNG Best:  The one where Tasha dies.  Couldn't stand her character.  JK.
In all seriousness, The Inner Light wins hands down.  Next on the list would be The Best of Both Worlds Parts I & II where Picard is captured by the Borg.

TNG Worst:  Encounter at Farpoint. Aside from counselor Troy's miniskirt, there were no redeeming qualities about that episode and IMHO a terrible way to start a great series.

[JB73]

I was never a fan of TOS so I can't remember any specific episodes...

TNG favs are the one with Data vs Moriarty... the Picard maneuver, almost any Q episode, the Barkley is a genius one... thats all I can think of.

[john9001]

Originally posted by Shuffler
"The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens. Pretty good movie made in 1957.

good action, but the ending was too hokey.

[Chairboy]

TNG worst: 'Genesis', the one where everyone 'devolves' into lemurs and spiders.  Also 'Shades of Grey' which was just a clip show.

TNG Best: The Inner Light, the above mentioned 'lives a lifetime in his head' episode.

TOS best: City on the Edge of Forever
TOS worst: Spock's Brain ties with Catspaw for me.

[Saxman]

I have to say TOS Best: Wrath of Khan.

Yeah I know, it was a movie. But it's so much a "Part 2" you almost HAVE to include it.

Besides, to paraphrase Comic Book Guy: BEST...TREK...EVER.

As awkward and disappointing as some of the Season 1 and 2 episodes of TNG could be, you HAVE to give props because they retired the Starfleet Mini for female characters about the time S3 kicked off. Those girls just looked SO good.

Which ties into:

Best DS9: Trials and Tribble-ations.

The look on the Time Travel Investigators' faces when Sisko said they encounted the original Enterprise ("Oh HIM...." ROFL! ) was priceless. It was a good all around episode, and I LOVED how well they integrated the original footage with the new (how many 24th Century Starfleet officers can say they brawled with Klingons alongside Scotty and got a dressing-down by Kirk HIMSELF?) Odo smitten with the tribble (mirroring Spock's own "illogical" affection from the original episode) and Quark's irritated expression when they've taken over the Promenade at the end. The entire crew poking fun at Worf's recounting of his peoples' "glorious" battle to exterminate them. Bashir possibly being his own grandfather. Sisko risking the timeline to speak at least ONCE with Kirk ("I'd have done the same." Lol!)

And of course, Jadzia in the Starfleet Mini. Rowr! ("...and women wore less!")