Favorite Star Trek episode

[tesco samoa]

Star Trek 6 directors cut is coming out Jan 24th...

[geoschmo]

My favorite was the one where the captain got split in the transporter into good Kirk and bad Kirk. The best part of that episode was when they had the big fight in engineering. It got so hard to switch seamlessly between Kirk, Kirk, Stuntman A and Stuntman B that it was almost like they stopped trying. "Hey wait, that's not Kirk. Wahhh?!?"

Speaking of engineering, what purpose did those white PVC pipe thingys serve other then convienent bats for Kirk to pull out and wack someone over the head with at the end of the fights?

[Cheeze]

"Naked Time" - if I have the name right on the episode. Spock getting the "seven year itch", T'Pau, the lyrpa...and of course, the greatest fight music ever created. "Trouble With Tribbles" also gets the nod as a more comedic episode. Harry Mudd was a great recurring character. And the alternate universe..."I have many operatives, and some of them are Vulcan". Set the standard for all parallel universes being evil and having beards.

I liked Doomsday Machine because there was a ship crewed entirely by Vulcans, and the illogic of such a weapon was beyond their understanding.

In TNG, "Rightful Heir" and many of the episodes positively focusing on Worf. The Borg shows are great, "Hugh" was a good twist, but I'd even add in the McCarthy-like trial episode. That one got me watching and enjoying TNG.

I do enjoy Enterprise. This past week's was a good one. I wasn't sure until the end if the show was going to end with the Zendi as diverse and divided (some even being unaware of the war), or if it was going to swerve us and have that Zendi character deliberately leading Archer astray.

[ January 09, 2004, 20:00: Message edited by: Cheeze ]

[Atrocities]

There were so many good episodes of Star Trek the original series that even today kids seem to enjoy watching them. They all gripe about the special effects, but overall the stories are solid and enjoyable.

What I loved most about the old series was the cool toys they had. Those tri-corders, phasers, and communicators were just fricking cool.

The show was decidedly more military oriented than later series and I think that is also why it has such a unique feel to it.

The series also seem the most real to me. They had batteries onbaord the star ship when things went south. Thing broke, engines overheated, circutes blew out, people died.

To mean TOS represents the way thing could be, without thefuncky costumes that is, if we are lucky enough to expand our technology and move out into the stars.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Star Trek 6 directors cut is coming out Jan 24th...

Already got it reserved. Can't wait to see the extras on this one.

Cheese, the episode where an all Vulcan ship, the Intrepid, was involved was not the Doomsday Machine but the Immunity Syndrome. Although the Doomsday Machine is a good episode. It introduces us to Matt Decker, who's the father of the Decker we see in ST:TMP. Spock getting the "seven year itch" was Amok Time.

But you're right about the TNG Worf/Klingon episodes. They were among the best of the series, and I wish they had made more of them.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
and what i'm saying is that those were intollerant periods, not nessasarily intollerent religeons.

Any religion that claims it is the one true religion (such as all monotheistic religions to one degree or another) is an intolerant religion. There are very few tolerant religions out there.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
There were so many good episodes of Star Trek the original series that even today kids seem to enjoy watching them. They all gripe about the special effects, but overall the stories are solid and enjoyable.

Hmm... I find 95% or more of them to just be corny stories...

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Any religion that claims it is the one true religion (such as all monotheistic religions to one degree or another) is an intolerant religion. There are very few tolerant religions out there.

A religion is not intolerant simply because they beleive they alone represent the singular true religion. As long as they acknowledge that all human beings are endowed by their creator with the freedom to choose right from wrong for themselves, and do not feel that they have the right or duty to compel others to follow their beliefs. A religion can believe that I am wrong, and as long as they leave me be, or at most simply express that opinion to me, and leave me to decide for myself whether they are correct, I would define as tolerant.

By your definition Fyron you are extremely intolerant yourself.

[ January 09, 2004, 22:42: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Fyron]

Yeah... that is nice on paper, but more often than not fails to hold up in the real world (especially when you look at historical events, not just the past few decades).

How am I intolerant by my own definition? I do not interfere with people following whatever religion they arbitrarily follow (or for those very select few that actually "shopped around" for their religion to find the one that suits them best, whatever they chose; although what they end up choosing is still fairly arbitrary, based on how they were raised to think and all...). This does not stop me from discussing such issues, of course, any more than your views stop you from discussion.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
How am I intolerant by my own definition? I do not interfere with people following whatever religion they arbitrarily follow ... This does not stop me from discussing such issues, of course, any more than your views stop you from discussion.

I was not talking strictly of religion, but of your tendency to have firmly held positions on various subjects. You believe you are right and others are wrong. There is nothing wrong with that, and nothing wrong with discussing topics of disagreement. But according to your definition it's not neccesary for the religions to interfere with others of differing beliefs to be labled as intolerant, simply that they only accept one Version of the truth and reject all others as false.

By that definition of intolerant, you are. For that mater by that definition of intolerant, everybody is.