I thought it would be nice to take a break from the usual back and forth and start a thread on something different. Obviously if you are following this game it has something to do with the fact that you are at least familliar with Star Trek. Maybe you've been a die hard fan for a long time or maybe the new movie has started your interest. What episodes and movies are you favorites? Here's mine.

Episodes:

Star Trek:

1. The Cage
2. Space Seed
3. Mirror Mirror
4. City on the Edge of Forever

The Next Generation:

1. Q-Who?
2. The Measure of a Man
3. Yesterday's Enterprise
4. Best of Both Worlds part 1
5. Genesis

Deep Space Nine

1. Duet
2. Way of the Warrior
3. The Visitor
4. Trials and Tribble-ations
5. Call to Arms
6. Far Beyond the Stars
7. In the Pale Moonlight

Voyager

1. Scorpian part 1

Enterprise

1. Regeneration
2. In a Mirror Darkly part 1
3. In a Mirror Darkly part 2

Movies

1. Wrath of Khan
2. The Undiscovered Country
3. First Contact
4. Nemesis
5. Star Trek 2009

Quite frankly I'm very surprised to see Nemesis and Star Trek (2009) on your list. For me, reading your post is kind of like eating a huge, absolutely delicious ice cream sundae smothered in all my favourite toppings only to find that the last two bites were cat turds. Not to say your opinion is wrong or your list is invalid (it does have some of the very best of Trek on it,) I just find the last two items to be odd...

My list:

The Original Series

Balance of Terror

Space Seed

The City of the Edge of Forever

The Doomsday Machine

Mirror, Mirror

The Trouble With Tribbles

The Next Generation

Conspiracy

The Measure of a Man

Deja Q

Yesterday's Enterprise

The Best of Both Worlds

The Inner Light

Tapestry

All Good Things...

Deep Space Nine

Emissary

Duet

Whispers

Through the Looking Glass

The Way of the Warrior

The Visitor

Trials and Tribble-ations

Far Beyond the Stars

In the Pale Moonlight

What you Leave Behind

Voyager

The ending credits for Endgame

Enterprise

In a Mirror Darkly, Part 1

In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2

Movies

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek: First Contact

I like many more, but these are probably my very favourite. I've bolded ones that really stand out for me as being the best of my favourite, otherwise they are in no particular order as I could never really decide on an order.

Sometimes I really love a single scene and that scene becomes some of my favourite Star Trek made (The scene where the Romulan commander destroys his ship, Captain Picard Day, the scene where Bashir and O'Brien sing "Jerusalem.") The same goes for individual lines ("Up your shaft!" "It appears we will be required to ignite the midnight petroleum, sir." "Still think we're finished?" "More than ever!" "Picard would never have hit me..." "I'm not Picard")

I won't mention episodes becaue i forget the names and there are two many. I'll just mention my best series which would have to be DS9, mainly because the last 3 or four seasons that they were at war with the dominion was some of the best episodes ive seen in any of the series. Movies would have to be the new one first, then #3, followed by the undiscovered country, then first contact and generations.

I can't wait for the newest movie to come out.

TOS:

Tough choices. I love TOS.

City on the edge of forever

Trouble with tribbles

Shore leave

mirror mirror

Doomsday Machine (looks really sweet in the enhanced series.)

MOVIES:

Wrath of khan

undiscovered country

first contact

TNG:

Darmok

Inner light

All good things

Best of both worlds

This list is subject to editing.

Originally posted by Xondar123

Quite frankly I'm very surprised to see Nemesis and Star Trek (2009) on your list. For me, reading your post is kind of like eating a huge, absolutely delicious ice cream sundae smothered in all my favourite toppings only to find that the last two bites were cat turds. Not to say your opinion is wrong or your list is invalid (it does have some of the very best of Trek on it,) I just find the last two items to be odd...

My list:

 

The Original Series

Balance of Terror

Space Seed

The City of the Edge of Forever

The Doomsday Machine

Mirror, Mirror

The Trouble With Tribbles

 

The Next Generation

Conspiracy

The Measure of a Man

Deja Q

Yesterday's Enterprise

The Best of Both Worlds

The Inner Light

Tapestry

All Good Things...

 

Deep Space Nine

Emissary

Duet

Whispers

Through the Looking Glass

The Way of the Warrior

The Visitor

Trials and Tribble-ations

Far Beyond the Stars

In the Pale Moonlight

What you Leave Behind

 

Voyager

The ending credits for Endgame

 

Enterprise

In a Mirror Darkly, Part 1

In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2

 

Movies

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek: First Contact

 

I like many more, but these are probably my very favourite. I've bolded ones that really stand out for me as being the best of my favourite, otherwise they are in no particular order as I could never really decide on an order.

Sometimes I really love a single scene and that scene becomes some of my favourite Star Trek made (The scene where the Romulan commander destroys his ship, Captain Picard Day, the scene where Bashir and O'Brien sing "Jerusalem.") The same goes for individual lines ("Up your shaft!" "It appears we will be required to ignite the midnight petroleum, sir." "Still think we're finished?" "More than ever!" "Picard would never have hit me..." "I'm not Picard")

Can't believe I forgot "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "Balance of Terror." /smacks forehead

I know that Nemesis wasn't the most popular with the fans, but I thought it was done really well. I think the story would have been better if they had ditched the "picard clone" and made it a Romulan or Reman Praetor. They also should have left some of those deleted scenes in that were taken out because they were good character moments. But I've seemed to enjoy this movie more and more over the years and enjoy watching it more now than I do Generations, Insurrection or even the much loved Voyage Home.

Star Trek 2009 is defintely a bold move in a new direction. My preference at the beginning was for them to move forward with the franchise after the events of DS9, Voyager and Nemesis. I'm sure that Abrams could have made just as good a movie with a whole new crew on the Enterprise D and created a good villian. But the new rage in hollywood these days is to reboot old franchises and that's what they did. Believe me, I went into that movie theater with  extremely low expectations but I ended up pleasantly suprised with how well done it was. The movie was entertaining and I thought they did a good job with the casting. But I understand why old fans might not like it, because it DOES change the look and feel of Star Trek towards a faster "Star Wars" type pace.

For me Original series

Where Spock Talks to the Rock Creature - very well written

TNG

Where Tasha Yar dies - such a moving story it made you feel like your part of the crew and really empathize with them

DS9

Where they get stranded on the planet only to find out that it is populated by there own ancestors and they decide to allow the accident that caused the mess to happen anyway in order to preserve the population but Odo made it so they would not fail in leaving which in turn wipes out the population of the planet. - Amazing episode great forethought again really makes you feel like your there with them.

Voyager

The introduction of species 8472, and the second part to it where they introduce 7 of 9 - Finally a critter out there that can stomp even the Borg

Enterprise

The first episode of the Zindi attack on earth - Its such a humbling experiance to think that that one attack changed the universe so dramatically and the future of Starfleet and earth itself.

Movies

Original Series

Wrath of Khan - Great story amazing writing and for the time best ship battles to date

TNG

This one is a toss up between First Contact and Nemissis

First Contact because it is nice to see where starfleet and all of star trek comes from the origins of warp drive.

Nemissis because the story again was very original and the best ship battles of todays movies

Now to me the best overall movie for all of them is the latest movie, but in reality that movie is not in the same quantum reality as all the rest because it is a new time line therefor it is in all rights its own movie.  Writing was great, action was good, the character introductions amazing and there interaction I think really grabbed you and made you think you were watching younger versions of the original series.

About 'Balance of Terror'

It is a generally well-made episode, and very popular with many fans, but one thing just spoils the reality of the episode for me.

Can anyone guess what it is?

Originally posted by zantax

For me Original series

Where Spock Talks to the Rock Creature - very well written

TNG

Where Tasha Yar dies - such a moving story it made you feel like your part of the crew and really empathize with them

DS9

Where they get stranded on the planet only to find out that it is populated by there own ancestors and they decide to allow the accident that caused the mess to happen anyway in order to preserve the population but Odo made it so they would not fail in leaving which in turn wipes out the population of the planet. - Amazing episode great forethought again really makes you feel like your there with them.

Voyager

The introduction of species 8472, and the second part to it where they introduce 7 of 9 - Finally a critter out there that can stomp even the Borg

Enterprise

The first episode of the Zindi attack on earth - Its such a humbling experiance to think that that one attack changed the universe so dramatically and the future of Starfleet and earth itself.

Movies

Original Series

Wrath of Khan - Great story amazing writing and for the time best ship battles to date

TNG

This one is a toss up between First Contact and Nemissis

First Contact because it is nice to see where starfleet and all of star trek comes from the origins of warp drive.

Nemissis because the story again was very original and the best ship battles of todays movies

Now to me the best overall movie for all of them is the latest movie, but in reality that movie is not in the same quantum reality as all the rest because it is a new time line therefor it is in all rights its own movie.  Writing was great, action was good, the character introductions amazing and there interaction I think really grabbed you and made you think you were watching younger versions of the original series.

"The Devil in the Dark"

"Skin of Evil"

"Children of Time"

"Scorpion"

Have no idea.

Interesting list.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

About 'Balance of Terror'

It is a generally well-made episode, and very popular with many fans, but one thing just spoils the reality of the episode for me.

Can anyone guess what it is?

The scene where Spock sings "Yankee Doodle Dandy" while Kirk and McCoy make out? Yeah, that's a horrible scene...

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

About 'Balance of Terror'

It is a generally well-made episode, and very popular with many fans, but one thing just spoils the reality of the episode for me.

Can anyone guess what it is?

 

The scene where Spock sings "Yankee Doodle Dandy" while Kirk and McCoy make out? Yeah, that's a horrible scene...

I have never seen the Director's Cut version.

I'm talking about the 'run slient' sequence where everyone on the bridge is trying to be super-quiet and Spock accidentally triggers an alarm.

Sound effects aside, there is no sound in space. There could be putting on a rock show on the bridge, and the Romulans would never hear it.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

About 'Balance of Terror'

It is a generally well-made episode, and very popular with many fans, but one thing just spoils the reality of the episode for me.

Can anyone guess what it is?

 

The scene where Spock sings "Yankee Doodle Dandy" while Kirk and McCoy make out? Yeah, that's a horrible scene...

I have never seen the Director's Cut version.

I'm talking about the 'run slient' sequence where everyone on the bridge is trying to be super-quiet and Spock accidentally triggers an alarm.

Sound effects aside, there is no sound in space. There could be putting on a rock show on the bridge, and the Romulans would never hear it.

To be fair, you could nitpick almost any of the episodes or movies on unplausability or violation of established canon. We heard sound in space all the time when there was a battle going on.My favorite for that is from "Relics".

1. Scotty thinks Jim Kirk hauled the Enterprise out of moffballs to rescue him even though he saw Kirks death in Generations
2. The Enterprise was able to beam Scotty and Geordi off the genolan even though the shields were still up
3. With Star Trek Enterprise series, there were actually 6 ships that carried the name enterprise at that point of the timeline. The Enterprise with Archer, the enterprise with Pike and Kirk, and the Enterprise A,B,C and D.

Granted, two of those canon violations happened because of screw ups after the episode aired.

Originally posted by DEATHRAMENT

I can't wait for the newest movie to come out.

The last one just came out this past summer. I believe the next one won't be out for at least two years so we have awhile to wait. Hopefully they can keep the momentum going.;)

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

About 'Balance of Terror'

It is a generally well-made episode, and very popular with many fans, but one thing just spoils the reality of the episode for me.

Can anyone guess what it is?

 

The scene where Spock sings "Yankee Doodle Dandy" while Kirk and McCoy make out? Yeah, that's a horrible scene...

I have never seen the Director's Cut version.

I'm talking about the 'run slient' sequence where everyone on the bridge is trying to be super-quiet and Spock accidentally triggers an alarm.

Sound effects aside, there is no sound in space. There could be putting on a rock show on the bridge, and the Romulans would never hear it.

On that note, the original pilot for Star Trek had no sound in space, NBC made them add sound effects in space.

Originally posted by Xondar123

On that note, the original pilot for Star Trek had no sound in space, NBC made them add sound effects in space.

I bet a lot of people think something is wrong with their TV the first time they see '2001'.

I admit I would hate to watch the 'Star Wars' films without space battle sound effects.

I just remembered my favourite episode of all time. Would have to be the final next generation episode, All Good Things. That was my personal favourite.

TOS : The way to Eden

Originally posted by inBOIL

TOS : The way to Eden

I am hoping that was sarcasm.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

Originally posted by inBOIL

TOS : The way to Eden

 

I am hoping that was sarcasm.

No way man, it was classic when that hippie played the bicycle wheel and when Spock jammed with the hippies. What are you, a herbert??

Originally posted by Xondar123

No way man, it was classic when that hippie played the bicycle wheel and when Spock jammed with the hippies. What are you, a herbert??

I wouldn't have thought so, but I guess I am.