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Comment on Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie

aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In no particular order, two-parters count as one episode.

TOS:

Balance of Terror
The Trouble with Tribbles
The Doomsday Machine

TAS:

Spock Amok
The Slaver Weapon
The Lorelai Signal

TNG:

Measure of a Man
The Inner Light
Cause & Effect

DS9:

Pale Moonlight
Past Tense
Far Beyond the Stars

VGR:

The Killing Game
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Scorpion

ENT:

Regeneration
A Night in Sickbay
A Mirror Darkly

Those are the only series I’ve seen in their entirety, so I’ll leave it at that.

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USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Did you mean “Yesteryear” for TAS? “Spock Amok” is an SNW episode.

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- aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No, I actually meant The Infinite Vulcan. Not sure how I got those titles mixed up. Thanks for pointing that out.
  
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  - USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah, that was my second guess.
    
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MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As an ENT fan, excellent choices 👌

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kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For Voyager, where is Year of Hell??

I’m with you on all the others, but Year of Hell is probably my favorite episode of all the Treks.

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- aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I understand.
  
  There are so many episodes to choose from, it’s almost cruel to make a Trekkie pick just three. There are, like, ten more episodes I could have picked for TNG alone.
  
  Year of Hell is amazing, especially since it was a prophecy from earlier in the series. But I think Killing Game and Scorpion make better two-parters because they had a lasting effect on the ship and the show. Killing Game was huge in scale and necessary to address the power balance with the Hirogen. And Scorpion gave us Seven. Year of Hell, for all it did, fell victim to the big red reset button. And to pour salt on the wound, no one even remembered what happened.
  
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danhab99@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
DS9 Pale Moonlight: is my second favorite startrek episode. This is like the deepest exploration into a starfleet captain and how easy it is to lose yourself to corruption and operate outside of your government even when you’re working towards the same goal.

VOY The Thaw: an unironic cathartic watch. I’m ready invested in the characters and I get to see A1 star trek grade acting actually brings me back to that episode.

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