question: best star trek episode and why?

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Chairboy
City on the Edge of Forever, the one where Kirk does the social worker.

That was Joan Collins, by the way.  As in "Dynasty" Joan Collins, the superstar actress that nobody's heard from recently.

[gofaster]

Originally posted by SaburoS
"Balance of Terror" to this day is still my favorite.
The cat and mouse fight between the Enterprise and the Romulan flagship.

Absolutely the ultimate.  The pace was good, the strategies used by the captains were good, the camerawork, lighting, special effects...all working together and producing a great visual story.

Even better was the film "The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum, which was the basis for "A Balance of Terror".

[GtoRA2]

TNG and DS9 sucked so bad Hoover tried license them to be motors in there vacuums!

God how I hate all the new startrek crap........ that French captain is such a puss!!!! Kirk would kick his bellybutton then sleep with his women, well if he had a women, and wasn't well so lame!!!


"Balance of Terror"  Was by far the best one of the first series!

And all you TNG and DS9 dorks, don't bother to flame me, I will still be right, and you will just be proving you're dorks!!:D

[midnight Target]

The Yangs and the Coms... Where Kirk saves the day by reciting the US Constitution from memory.

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Swag Abroad
"Doomsday Machine"  Enterprise and Constellation had to destroy a planet killer.

My 2nd favorite episode.  What really made that story work was Commodor Decker.  We had action, we had strategy, we had space ships duking it out, we had dramatic tension and we had a captain who may or may not be insane, creating fantastic character conflicts.  Decker and the Doomsday Machine was Ahab and The White Whale.

Funny how we get so wrapped up in the action of "what" that we just accept Kirk's explanation of the "why".  How did he know it was activated by an ancient civilization that had gone to war and ended up being consumed by its own Weapon of Mass Destruction?  Makes an interesting parallel to The Cold War and the Bomb.

[Wlfgng]

the blue chick was hands down the best one Kirk ever did...

besides, wasn't she the one that was supposed to be trained from birth in the ways of pleasure or something...
hell.. can't go too wrong there


oh yeah, and the captain of the Enterprise is not a woman !!!

[gofaster]

Originally posted by midnight Target
The Yangs and the Coms... Where Kirk saves the day by reciting the US Constitution from memory.

Eeg Pla Nista!

Anybody else notice that it seemed a lot like "Planet of the Apes", in that we have spacemen coming to a planet like Earth, where "our side" has been destroyed and replaced by apes/Communists?

[Wlfgng]

he he .. right on GTO

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Swag Abroad
"Shore Leave"  Where what ever you thought about became a reality.  It ended up being a huge amusement park.  The fight between Kirk and Finnigan was cool.

I almost forgot about the WW2 airplane that kept strafing the young lieutenant!  That scene was snatched straight from my subconscious.  Too bad the machines didn't snatch any of my other fantasies . . . with Yeoman Rand.

[OIO]

Wlf, the Enterprise C's captain was a woman. Supposedly was the Enterprise that saved a klingon outpost from a romulan attack. The "C" didnt survive the battle. In TNG they popped Lt Yar into that Enterprise (lame).

Aside from that, I rather liked the concept of the original Enterprise (where the guy from Quantum Leap was capt). For once there was no goody-goody federation morals (maybe thats why I kinda liked sisko in DS9.. he poisons a maqui planet's atmosphere to lure a maqui out of hiding and punches Q's lights out  in another episode ).

[Swoop]

Yeah but all that crap with the Pa wraiths and toejam was a load of tripe.  The religion thing was what spoiled DS9.  Anything's better than Voyager though.

[LePaul]

The DS9 remake of the Tribbles Episode is still among my favorites.

Many favorites in Voyager (really enjoy The Dr) and TNG ("The First Duty", etc)

[Wlfgng]

OIO I know.. but I think you may have missed my point.

there was no star trek past the original...
no fluffy 'new' generation, no ds9 soap opera,
no woman captain and certainly no Scott Bayowhatever.. cripes.

The first, the original, the corney, but the best.

no PC.. that's the best part of the original.
I'm sick to death of PC this and PC that.

[GtoRA2]

Right on man! You tell em!

[pugg666]

come on you're all forgeting The Trouble with Tribbles. that was a great one.