Submitted 1 year ago by Stamets@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
I guess I have a low bar but TNG Q episodes were all very funny, Deja Q if I were to say #1.
I’m an atheist though so I wont get scared by ghosts/horror stuff, but I guess the “worst feeling” moment was actualy TNG Best of Both worlds. I think the realization that the doomsday scenario is actually coming, it is real and inevitable, our chances are extremely low, the very moody soundtrack made it a very sober experience for me the first few times I watched it.
Frame of Mind is the scariest!
We just decided to rewatch DS9, but interrupted it, 2 episodes in, to watch TNG (s6e10/11) Chain of Command.
Enjoy your journey
I know the feeling, thats why I rewatch tv shows, you want to be relaxed in know ground where it’s just comfortable to watch.
I just recently watched for thre first time Voyager, I loved it, has a very bad stream of episodes but at the end was worth it
Don’t forget, even in the Star Trek main timeline, Earth had to suffer through the Second American Civil War, the Eugenics Wars, World War III, and the post-atomic horror before her people were able to start building a utopia. We’re right on track! ☢ 👽 🐬 🛸
In Trek we were lucky that our little corner had friendly/tolerable aliens and specifically that it was the Vulcan first contact.
Unfortunately in our reality we are 99.99999% for sure alone and the end result of all that suffering, if we manage to achieve near FTL travel we will just devolve into some nihilistic hyper capitalism, those stupid articles “this asteroid is worth 1 trillion USD in minerals” are already being published unironically.
Schisms is freaky indeed. I love that even in the 24th century humans are getting abducted.
How about “Frame of Mind” for another scary one?
Frame of Mind
Another good example. A good ol’ mindfuck of an episode is always something to get the stomach turning and kill the appetite. Which happens to be useful at the moment.
Deja Q is one of the funniest episodes for me.
adds to list
A good number of Q episodes are luckily pretty funny. Who knew God had a sense of humor?
Are you my son? If not you might be his twin!
Never knew my father. My entire life I’ve been abandoned and lost, adrift on the sea of indifference. A heart wrenched from safety and cast into the depths. No father, no playing catch, no fishing, no love. Have I finally been found? Has this desperate soul finally washed up on the shore? Have I finally found a man I can call ‘Daddy’?
I was going somewhere with this joke and honestly have no idea where it was anymore. I’ma just leave it as a testament to my idiocy.
Funniest for me is Starship Mine, for several reasons.
I haven’t actually finished TNG yet, but here are my picks for funniest and scariest so far.
Funniest: Deja Q
Scariest: Identity Crisis
xilliah@beehaw.org 1 year ago
The ones with data can be really funny. For example the one where he tries to understand humor.
Scary - I would say the double episode the best of both worlds. Just how unprepared they are for dealing with the borg, and just how entirely invulnerable they are.
Personally for me the borg are a metaphor for the corpos that have lost themselves entirely in the machine of civilization. Culture is irrelevant. It’s inefficient. Etc.
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
That’s a fair point. Spiner does get to go ham a lot and boy is he good at it.
The Borg episodes almost feel like cheating sometimes. They’re genuinely one of the most terrifying species that I’ve seen in sci-fi, especially in TNG/First Contact.