Comment on Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In no particular order, two-parters count as one episode.
TOS:
TAS:
TNG:
DS9:
VGR:
ENT:
Those are the only series I’ve seen in their entirety, so I’ll leave it at that.
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.
Did you mean “Yesteryear” for TAS? “Spock Amok” is an SNW episode.
No, I actually meant The Infinite Vulcan. Not sure how I got those titles mixed up. Thanks for pointing that out.
Ah, that was my second guess.
As an ENT fan, excellent choices 👌
That list is amazing! There are a lot of episodes I hold dear. Also thanks for adding TAS.
kaitco@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.