So this thought occurred to me in another thread.
I'm sitting here, north of Chicago, snowed in. There's no STO at the moment

so I was thinking that this would be a great time to watch some Trek.
So...if you were going to be marooned somewhere, and you could only have 10 total episodes of Trek (any series)...which 10 would you want? Your first instinct would be to go for the "best" but -- and this is a subtle distinction -- there may be a difference between "best" and "most rewatched." Example: I don't consider "A Piece of the Action" to be the *best* TOS episode (or even in the top 5), but for some reason it's like a comfort episode for me: I can watch it over and over. So it's definitely on my list.
I'll post my full list in a bit, but I'd love to see others'.
Comments
TNG Yesterdays Enterprise
TNG All good things (I'll count that as one episode)
DS9 Duet
DS9 In the hands of the prophets
DS9 The way of the warrior (again ill count this as one episode)
DS9 The sacrifice of angles
DS9 In the pale moonlight
VOY Timeless
VOY Future end (again one ep)
Let He Who Is Without Sin - the risa one
Spock's Brain - the wacky one
Masks - the boring one
Favorite Son - the harrowing one. (or i love you harry)
oh wait...those are the ones you wanna avoid.
2. Homefront-DS9
3. Paradise Lost-DS9
4. Endgame-Voyager
5. Scorpion-Voyager
6. Tomorrow is Yesterday-TOS
7. Balance of Terror-TOS
8. The Trouble with Tribbles-TOS
9. Trials and Tribbleations-DS9
10. Little Green Men-DS9
Top ten episodes of the franchise for my own inevitable stranding on a desert island, that's a good question. Now are we counting 2-parters are one episode? I'll just assume we are because several of my favorites just happen to be 2-parters.
In no particular order:
Balance of Terror (TOS)
Amok Time (TOS)
Best of Both Worlds (TNG)
Chain of Command (TNG)
All Good Things... (TNG)
Way of the Warrior (DS9)
What You Leave Behind (DS9)
Equinox (VOY)
Endgame (VOY)
In a Mirror Darkly (ENT)... just to keep a bit of variety.
Edit: Looking through some of the ones before me, and I realized I completely forgot about Timeless (VOY), one of my favorite Voyager episodes. 10 episodes is just not enough!
Originally I tried to select at least one or two from each series, but that's just impossible. I like each series, but unfortunately I couldn't even squeeze in a Voyager or TAS episode, and only one lowly ENT.
On the flipside, I had a REAL problem with DS9. There are SO many good DS9 episodes (in my opinion there are more well-written DS9 episodes than there are for any other series), but many of them are part of the longer arcs; I tried to avoid these and shoot for self-contained episodes (with partial success).
Anyway, my list:
- TOS: A Piece of the Action
- TOS: City on the Edge of Forever
- ENT: In a Mirror Darkly
- TNG: Deja Q
- TNG: The Best of Both Worlds
- TNG: Unification
- TNG: Chain of Command
- DS9: Hard Time
- DS9: Sacrifice of Angels
- DS9: Badda-Bing Badda-Bang
As I said in my original post, these aren't necessarily the *best* episodes (though there is overlap), but they are ones I could re-watch over and over.DS9: Far Beyond the Stars {My favorite ep of all the series}
DS9: Trials and Tribble-ations
DS9: Little Green Men
DS9: Badda-Bing Badda-Bang
TNG: Unification 1&2
TNG: Cause and Effect
TOS: The Trouble with Tribbles
TOS: City on the Edge of Forever
VOY: Tuvix
ENT: In a Mirror Darkly
for the most part my favorite episodes are the DS9 time travel episodes.
2. The Inner Light
3. Balance of Terror
4. Duet
5. Far Beyond the Stars
6. Errand of Mercy
7. The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1
8. The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2
9. Lower Decks
10. Q Who
far beyond the stars (DS9)
Relics (TNG)
Tapestry (TNG)
Author, author (VOY)
Tinker tenor doctor spy (VOY)
Sons of Mogh (DS9)
Judgement (ENT)
Carbon creek (ENT)
Paralells (TNG)