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Favorite Star Trek episodes.
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He wasn't. He's a dogmatic authoritarian. A good leader earns respect through leading by example. Instead of learning about his crew and adapting to the ship, he deliberately demeaned and created chaos within one of the best functioning crews in Starfleet. That approach is unlikely to result in a better functioning ship.
As much as I like all the various series, I'm still a fan of the original ST. It was my gateway drug to science fiction. The weird thing is, I never got to see the show when it was in production - we had only one TV station and it was CBS, not NBC - so I discovered Trek via the James Blish adaptations. Three favorite episodes:
Amok Time
Trouble with Tribbles
City on the Edge of Forever
Okay, rambling, boring story time, please disregard if you would like. I write spec fiction, not famous or anything but I've had some stuff published. City on the Edge of Forever was written by Harlan Ellison, who had some major fights with the producers over it. Learning about the process that went into making that episode was kind of my introduction into what writing really is about. Harlan was my boyhood hero, despite his reputation as a PIA. Flash ahead thirty years and I was the treasurer of a national writers organization and had to carry on a dispute with Mr. Ellison over an old bill. Came in from the hay field one day and my wife said "You had a phone call from a Harlan somebody or other. He wants you to call him back." With great trepidation I called him, knowing I was about to receive a world class ass chewing, but instead discovered he was actually a lot of fun to talk to even as we argued. Amazingly smart, funny individual.
Anyhow, that's my brush with fame Star Trek story.
Amok Time
Trouble with Tribbles
City on the Edge of Forever
Okay, rambling, boring story time, please disregard if you would like. I write spec fiction, not famous or anything but I've had some stuff published. City on the Edge of Forever was written by Harlan Ellison, who had some major fights with the producers over it. Learning about the process that went into making that episode was kind of my introduction into what writing really is about. Harlan was my boyhood hero, despite his reputation as a PIA. Flash ahead thirty years and I was the treasurer of a national writers organization and had to carry on a dispute with Mr. Ellison over an old bill. Came in from the hay field one day and my wife said "You had a phone call from a Harlan somebody or other. He wants you to call him back." With great trepidation I called him, knowing I was about to receive a world class ass chewing, but instead discovered he was actually a lot of fun to talk to even as we argued. Amazingly smart, funny individual.
Anyhow, that's my brush with fame Star Trek story.
Maybe. But he was effective. He got the job done. He wasn’t nice but the crew of the flagship could’ve adapted if they had to. He didn’t create chaos. Some people got mad and complained and Riker asked him to adapt but that’s not how it has to work. They do as they’re told. And in the end they got the job done.
I'm checking out the Garek epis on DS9...there's about 30+ of them.
I looked at Wiki for some background info on his Cardassian Intelligence past.
Caramba...it's deep.
I looked at Wiki for some background info on his Cardassian Intelligence past.
Caramba...it's deep.
I really liked the continung story lines in DS9. It was a great vehicle to explore the Star Trek Universe since you could bring in so much character development.
I'm not enough of a Trekkie to know the names of the episodes, but there was one episode of Voyager (I think? That's the one with Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway, right?) where they get caught in some kind of time warp and there wind up being three separate Enterprises in three separate timelines and they have to figure out how to get a message to the different timelines...something like that. That was cool.
There were a lot of episodes of TNG that I really liked too. Wasn't there one that was like a thinly-disguised rip-off of "The Last Temptation Of Christ" where Captain Picard is a farmer in France?
There were a lot of episodes of TNG that I really liked too. Wasn't there one that was like a thinly-disguised rip-off of "The Last Temptation Of Christ" where Captain Picard is a farmer in France?
That made the part of my brain devoted to Star Trek facts twitch. You’re actually kinda sorta but not really talking about one episode from TNG.
The three enterprises were in the finale, All Good Things. Getting messages from timeline to timeline wasn’t an issue. Picard was aware of all three and communicated as necessary in each timeline. There was an episode where the enterprise was in a time loop and they had to figure out how to have data remember what was going on to break the loop. I’ve never seen the last temptation of Christ but the only time Picard farmed or did something farm like was also in the finale where he was retired at his family vineyard.
There were a lot of good voyager episodes but that show had the weakest characters, IMO. A lot of bad acting too. Kim and Paris were intolerable. Plucky but growing and the former bad boy now redeemed got so cliche and it was so poorly acted. The two of them were predictable and unconvincing in everything they did. There’s one episode where they get locked up together with anxiety inducing restraints implanted in their heads. It’s just horrific. Like an elementary school play.
We used to play a game called "Barley Trek" which was a drinking game similar to the Bob Newhart Show drinking game. The episode used for Barley Trek was TOS where Kirk is transported into a woman's body.
The premise of the game is this...
Each player draws a name from a hat, that ticket contains the name of a character in the show. Every time someone on the show mentions that characters name, you would have to take a drink of your beer.
Now the poor/lucky person who drew Kirk would have to keep track because if someone on the show simply said "Captain" they would have to take a drink. Captain Kirk would require two drinks and Captain James T Kirk would require drinking an entire beer.
So you can see that this episode we had on tape would make who ever drew Kirk, fairly inebriated, fairly quickly. And given that we would FF through commercials, a lot of beer can be consumed in a rather short period of time!
Fishheadjoe
The premise of the game is this...
Each player draws a name from a hat, that ticket contains the name of a character in the show. Every time someone on the show mentions that characters name, you would have to take a drink of your beer.
Now the poor/lucky person who drew Kirk would have to keep track because if someone on the show simply said "Captain" they would have to take a drink. Captain Kirk would require two drinks and Captain James T Kirk would require drinking an entire beer.
So you can see that this episode we had on tape would make who ever drew Kirk, fairly inebriated, fairly quickly. And given that we would FF through commercials, a lot of beer can be consumed in a rather short period of time!
Fishheadjoe
Sounds like you are thinking of the TNG episode "All good things" with "Q".
"Space Seed" Was always my fave from TOS
Also, From "Voyager" the episode "Hope and Fear".
It was about them meeting with an alien who helps them out but then is revealed that he is there for revenge. His planet was rather advanced and had been outwitting the Borg, but they were making progress and adapting. Then the Borg had it's war with Species 8472. Janeway and crew negotiated a deal with the Borg. Safe passage through the Delta Quadrant for assitance defeating Species 8472 (and episode from the previous season).
They're helping the Borg, allowed them to then regroup after the 8472 fight and then breakthrough and assimilate that aliens home world.
I liked that, how unintended consequences of a past decision came back on them.
Also, From "Voyager" the episode "Hope and Fear".
It was about them meeting with an alien who helps them out but then is revealed that he is there for revenge. His planet was rather advanced and had been outwitting the Borg, but they were making progress and adapting. Then the Borg had it's war with Species 8472. Janeway and crew negotiated a deal with the Borg. Safe passage through the Delta Quadrant for assitance defeating Species 8472 (and episode from the previous season).
They're helping the Borg, allowed them to then regroup after the 8472 fight and then breakthrough and assimilate that aliens home world.
I liked that, how unintended consequences of a past decision came back on them.
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