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My Star Trek: ToS Favorite episodes are...

1) The City on the Edge of Forever.
2) The Trouble With Tribbles.
3) A Piece of the Action.

ST:TnG:

The episode where Wesly Crusher leaves the show.

ST: DsN:

I'm indifferent to the whole series.

ST: Voyager:

The episode where the ship is stuck in orbit and watch the planet go through centries of evolution. A very interesting show indeed.

ST: Enterprise:

I'm indifferent to the whole series. (Not fond of the opening music, it does not seem to 'fit' the show)

another $0.02 from me to you. Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ January 05, 2004, 15:35: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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My 1 pence for you all (about $0.02 given the current Sterling/Dollar exchange rates http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )

Original Star Trek

Choice of two for me, the episode where they meet the Romulan warbird bLasting the federation base, or the episode where they meet the funny carpet-like creature which burrows through rock and murders people, but actually is a very nice evil minded murdering varmint

Next Generation

Dunno, any episode that doesnt revolve around Wesley having growing pains, or Ryker/Data/Geordie insert lead character of choice having some personal problems.

Personally, any episode with a high body count

Deep Space Nine

Better show for me, basically any of the Dominion War epsisodes with a high body count were fine with me

Voyager

Hmmmmm, not convinced on this one, but again, any episode with a bit of mayhem was quite entertaining

Enterprise

I quite like this one, if mainly cos the weapons officer is English. And T'pol does help on the eye candy front - basically, any episode where T'Pol wears a tight T shirt, and that Redneck person gets a "whuppin'" (is that how you say it?)

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my ToS favorite is Mirror Mirror I still enjoy watching it.

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Of the 79 episodes from the original show, I can only think of a handful that were my Favorites. The first one that comes to mind is Court Martial. Maybe it was my love of Perry Mason at the time, but this has been my favorite for a long time. Then there's Space Seed, The Trouble With Tribbles, The Balance of Terror and The City On The Edge of Forever. My least favorite, and the one I hate the most, is Turnabout Intruder.

As far as TNG, the one I like the best is the one where Picard lives the life of a man from a long dead planet. Can't remember the title right now.

Even though I watched DS9, there are a lot of gaps in my viewing, so I can't really saw which one was my favorite.

As far as Voyager, I liked the 2 parter where that one race took over the Voyager and had the crew go through all sorts of scenarios with the holodecks.

And I haven't been able to watch enough of Enterprise to get a grasp of the whole show, although I must admit I do like the title of the pilot episode, Broken Bow, since I am from Oklahoma. But I have no idea where Broken Bow is.

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One of my favorite Star Trek episode from TOS would be "The Squire of Gothos". Who doesn't love little Trelane? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif There is a good Star Trek book called " Q Squared" that brings Trelane back during the TNG era to battle Q. Trelane gains MORE power than the Q continuum. If you want to read it keep sharp it can confuse lower life forms. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Original show: "Mirror, Mirror"
I.S.S. Enterprise
Evil Spock "... and some of my operatives are Vulcans."

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ah yes. Origin of one of the calssic quotes of all time.

Kirk: Is he dead?
Bones: It's worse than that jim, they took his brain!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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TOS had something that non of the other shows had. That being a sense of being. I can't specifically describe it, but for me TOS, not counting the lame episodes, had more of a real human experience to it. People died, sometimes without meaning, as in real life. I believed that Kirk cared about his ship and crew above all else, and the relationship between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy was real. You had humor, pain, love, action, drama, basically everything. There was no commanding the ship by committee, Kirk was in charge, and everyone knew it. It was more real to me as it was more military based and not so politically correct as TNG was.

I loved TNG because of the cast and stories. Indeed there were many fine episodes that really had heart to them. The Picard one where he lived a lifetime on a planet in 20 minutes was a true visceral classic. Yesterdays Enterprise was the closes TNG ever got to TOS in respect to military feel. Both shows had their own personality and I loved them both very much.

DS9 was, and is in my opinion, one of the best character driven series of the franchise. I loved this show because it had dealt with deep character flaws and human emotion on a grand scale, war. It was depressing, uplifting, challenging, strange, and fun all at the same time. DS9 was also the only series to truly keep a linear story line. They had continuity throughout the seven years it ran. And no one can deny the appeal of seeing a dramatic space battle can bring to a show on the scale that DS9 had brought it to us.

I enjoyed the characters, all of them, and felt that throughout the seven years DS9 paid more homage to the Original series than all of the others had combined. We had the Mirror universe revisited on several occasions, and we finally found out what happened to the four Klingons from TOS. Koloth, Kang, Kor, and the weasel one from Trouble with Tribles.

The series was a grand experience.

Voyager, well I really did not like this series. I felt that it had the greatest potential out of all of them, but it lacked continuity and attention to detail on a grand scale. It is hard to believe the credibility of a show that pays no attention to the finer aspects of plot lines and established fact. A ship lost in space for over seven years, constantly doing battle and losing crew members should look the part. They should have concentrated on that a lot more than they had. Voyager looked brand new in the end, and despite the loose of life they had to endure throughout the series, they still managed to have nearly a full complement of crew. (Trek Fans kept count and the official number of counted crew members is well over 200. Another credibility issue.)

Never the less, Voyager had some damn fine episodes and was in the end, Star Trek to the core.

Enterprise is a nice series. I like the music at the start even though I thought I would not. The series seems lost though with no direction. Even with this rip off story arc from Crusader/Starblazers the show still feels as if it is rudderless.

The nice thing about Enterprise is the cast. Well done. The stories are ok, although a bit boring. The special effects are by far the best of the all the series and movies. The continuity issues can all be explained away with the Temporal Cold War. For in the end, Archer's adventures may not have ever happened. We won't know until the end.

As for the movies:

STTMP - What a dismal depressing movie this was. Love the Enterprise and it was Star Trek so I will not complain further.

ST II TWOK - Hot damn fine movie.
ST III TSFS - A stepping stone and ground breaking movie. New ships, new possibilities, humor, and Nemoy at the helm.
ST IV TVH - I did not like it.
ST V TFF - Oh brother! Someone should have taken Shatner out to the back lot and smacked him around. There are not 200 decks on the Enterprise!
ST VI TUDC - Damn fine movie with some major plot holes the size of a super nova, but what the hell, still fun to watch.

ST VII STG - I loved this movie because it dealt with something close to my heart, loss.

ST VIII FC - I hated this movie from start to finish. Horrible story, dumb concept, dismally depressing. Nice Enterprise and some good humor though.

ST IX Insurrection - I enjoyed this movie because it was a well done movie. I hated it because it has no action.

ST X - Nemeses - Well now, Data died.

From the first episode, the Cage, to the Last book released Star Trek has been, and I hope will continue to be, one fantastic ride.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">BRAINS!! BRAINS!!

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Atrocities, I may have to disagree on your assessments on some of the movies. Granted, the first one wasn't the best movie ever made, but at the time it came out, 1979, it was the first new Star Trek for a generation who never saw it live and had to settle for the various edited cuts that were released in sydication. So I went and saw it 5 times. And I had to wait an extra 6 months to see it, because of the way movies were distributed back then, the movie didn't come to my home town until Memorial Day 1980!!

ST 2 - I think by far the best of the movies. I just wished that in the movie they had made a reference to that boy Scotty was holding in his arms. It was his nephew, but we were never told that in the movie.

ST 3 - Although not great, it was good. I just wish the trailers didn't reveal that the Enterprise was going to be destroyed. They should have kept that as much a secret as possible.

ST 4 - I liked it. Although it did seem like an overlong commerical for Save the Whales, it had its moments.

ST 5 - I agree with you on your asseessment of Shatner's directorial debut. It sucked, and it will be the only ST movie I will not buy on dvd.

ST 6 - a murder mystery in space. But it was still a good movie.

ST-Gen - My jury is still out on this movie. It's ok, but maybe it was the way they killed off Kirk that made me not like it. (Personally, I always thought he'd get killed off by a jealous lover of one of his female conquests!!)

ST-FC - This is another one I disagree with you on. I loved this movie, and it's my second favorite after Wrath of Kahn. I just wish they could have used the original actor for Cochrane, but I think he died quite a few years ago.

ST-I - It was ok, but it could have been better. Seemed like an overlong episode from the series, but at least Troy & Riker got back together.

ST-N - Too many questions about this movie that made me not enjoy it. First of all, WEsley was a Traveller Last we saw, so why is he there in uniform? How did the Romulans find a imperfect copy of Data? And why kill off Data? Sure, Brent Spiner may have been tired of the role, but if this was going to be the Last film of this crew, I thought it was unnecessary.