What is the best episode of Star Trek The Next Generation?

[samurainoir]

Favourites? Why?

[kryptosmaster]

Personally I really liked the finale, "All Good Things..."
I'm always a sucker for time-travel and alternate universe/timelines and junk like that.
Rich

[Mikey]

Best of Both Worlds .....
It's fun and moves quickly

All Good Things ....
A nice wrap-up of the series --- would have been a GREAT first Next Gen movie rather than that crapfest Generations.

The one where the Enterprise gets destroyed over and over and over and over and over again ....
I love that episode :grin:

Relics .....
One word ... Scotty, nuff said :)

The one where everybody is disappearing one at a time - except Dr Crusher.

The Troi bad dreams one ..... One moon circles - :grin:

The one where Riker is in conflict with Picard and his former Captain- who went batty and made a cloaking device.

[HardyGirl]

The Measure Of A Man (proving Data's sentience) Favorite line in that for me is when Riker turns him off and says "Pinnochio is broken, his strings have been cut."

The Inner Light (where Picard lives a lifetime of a lost civilization in a few minutes) That was a great ep. And I felt so sad when Picard lost his family at the end. And I love his flute piece.

[Doc]

Inner light :yes:

And the one where Picard is captured and tortured by the Cardassians

[Cmonster]

Is this a trick question?

SC

[Doc]

Please don't say they were all good. Most of the first season is impossible to watch.

[Mikey]

Please don't say they were all good. .

I think he ment the opposite :smiley1:

[wilbs518]

The Inner Light. By far my favorite ep of the series. So sad when Picard lost everything. I loved how he got his flute at the end.

[Nostalgiabuff]

Best of Both worlds
relics
Unification( the one with Spock)
All Good Things
....also, I can't recall the name of the episode but the two parter where they go back in time and meet Mark Twane

[Blue Meanie]

Didn't read the whole title of the thread...Really can't stand Next Generation. So my answer would be none of the episodes. Now if you were talking Voyager...That's a whole other story. Loved that show.

[fallensaviour]

Oh that's easy the last one cause it was over... :grin:
It made me so happy the show was just to PC for me.

[kryptosmaster]

Oh that's easy the last one cause it was over... :grin:
It made me so happy the show was just to PC for me.

Hahahaha
That's how I felt about Deep Space Nine..I HATED that show!
Rich

[HardyGirl]

Best of Both worlds
relics
Unification( the one with Spock)
All Good Things
....also, I can't recall the name of the episode but the two parter where they go back in time and meet Mark Twane

That one is Time's Arrow.

[Random Axe]

Can't remember the episode name, but it's the two-parter with the Borg turning Picard into Locutus. I also like the follow-up episode the next season with the Borg who had gained sentience and was given the name Hugh.

Also Inner Light was outstanding. THey had some pretty bad shows, but overall the good outweighed the bad.

Scott

[tay666]

I think one of the better ones was the one where Riker was put onboard a Klingon ship.
Some kind of exchange program thing.

This was before a lot was known about the Kingons and seeing him interacting with the crew was interesting and entertaining.


The other one that stands out in my memory was where they were tracking down ancient civilizations to piece together some puzzle. Something about info in the DNA strands or something like that. Of course they were under the gun, because someone else was also doing the same, and they were trying to beat them to the punch.

[captact]

The Inner Light,...a very touching episode
and the one that Data builds a daughter,..once she learns to love,....she dies,..AWESOME!

[Paul Evans]

I always loved the lighthearted "Fistful of Datas" with Data, Worf and Alexander in the Western town on the Holodeck.

Pretty harmless fun with my 2 favorite characters. It was a hoot.

The 2 part time travel episode with Tasha's half Romulan daughter returning was pretty cool too! (Sorry, don't know the episode names)

[Nostalgiabuff]

there were a lot of great episodes really. a lot of stinkers too, but you always get good with the bad.
I actually can't sit through episodes of TNG anymore. the effects are somehow more dated than the original series. I mean Kirks enterprise moving through space looked more realistic than what they did on TNG. how is that?

[HardyGirl]

The Inner Light,...a very touching episode
and the one that Data builds a daughter,..once she learns to love,....she dies,..AWESOME!

Yeah, that was a really good one!

[samurainoir]

Is this a trick question?

SC

"How many lights do you see Human?" :smile:

http://brotherpeacemaker.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/four-lights1.jpg

[Mikey]

For episodes I hate ..... any with Troi's mother

Troi's mother was the worst character ever created for a Star Trek series.

I even like Wesley better than her :smiley1:

[david_b]

Please don't say they were all good. Most of the first season is impossible to watch.

Oh, yes and no.. It definitely had it's own 'wonky' style to it. I find about half the episodes fairly enjoyable on that type of charm alone. "Farpoint" was definitely good.

2nd Year..? Definitely "Measure of a Man".. The ending chokes me up every so often, when Data compliments Riker on helping him become a wise man.

3rd/4th Years..? Nearly every episode ROCKS. NG at their best..! "Drumhead", Frakes directoral debut was excellent. :grin:

5th Year forward..? Pretty much 'autopilot' with most of the creative juices then on DS9, but a few memorable ones, none the less.

Yes, 'Best of Both Worlds' and Unification (with Spock) stand out..

david_b

[bobws]

Yesterday's Enterprise with the Enterprise C and Tasha brought back to die again.

DS9 was pretty good.

Voyager was Trek as "Lost in Space"

Enterprise was the beginning of the end that culminated in Trek's death at the hands of JJ Abrams!

[johnmiic]

I would say more than 1/2 of the series is paint-by-numbers TV scriptwriting/ production. Another disease, another evil twin, another crew person gets drunk/goes crazy, misunderstood alien attacks, etc. are all foisted on the public in cycles each season because they didn't know what to write about. The ones that are good are often really good. I also find that the fans tend to like stuff that is total keee-rap! Any episode with Data's brother Lore is just garbage but the fans love it. Then they hate the good episodes in TNG because an episode tries something different or tries to challenge them. Interesting to note:

Skin of Evil - Tasha dies realistically and suddenly at the hands of a blob-like alien creature. Fans hate this episode and so does the writer, Joseph Stefano, ( respected writer of Psycho and The Outer Limits), because it was likely re-written by Rodenberry's lawyer at the time. This story allowed Denise Crosby to leave the show because she felt there was nothing for her to do. It was also specifically written to contrast with Spock's death in Star Trek II.

Fans also tend to hate these:

Hollow Pursuits & The Most Toys

Other good eps I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Yesterday's Enterprise - An alternate Trek reality from a different P.O.V.

Who Watches the Watchers - Picard is mistaken as God to a primitive people.

The Defector - A lone Romlan tries to convince the Federation that a war is going to break out between the Federation and the Romulans. DS9 did a better version of this a few years later with the Dominion as the threat.

Déjà Q - Q is kicked out of the continuum with no powers.

Season 4, Episode 15: First Contact - The UFO phenomena turned into a Trek story.

Captain's Holiday - Picard does a little Indiana Jones.

[jds1911a1]

Please don't say they were all good. Most of the first season is impossible to watch.

that's cuase it's almost entirely remakes of classic trek stories

[jds1911a1]

The wounded ... becuase it is all about Chief O'brian. it's also an allegory on the cold war how dinosaurs like me had to learn to trust the russians

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I do not know the name of it, but I like the ep where Q zaps the Enterprise into the Delta quadrant and they encounter the Borg for the first time. The only way they survive is because Picard admits to Q that humans can't do everything they want, yet.

[wyldpny]

I get a kick out of you guys when you say you don't know or remember the name of an episode.
One word..."Google" LOL J/K ;)

Aah yes, TNG. The relaunch of live action Star Trek on TV. A lot of really good episodes surrounded by many so so and some not so good and a few real eggs.
I agree that if I see TNG on and it is an episode with Laxwanna Troi I groan and quickly turn the channel. But there are many fans out there who love that character. Go figure.

One of my favorites was "Darmok".
"Darmok, and Jalad... at Tanagra!" - "Shaka, when the walls fell." - "That's how you communicate, isn't it? By citing example... by metaphor! Uzani's army... with fists open..." "Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"
This is what TNG and Star Trek in general could have and should have been about in so many episodes.
If I have one major complaint about Trek it is the fact that just about every alien race any of the Trek ships and crew encountered "seem" to talk English. I know I know, the universal translator. To that I say, Chinese martial arts movies. You know, the lips move but the voice in English doesn't match up. That could have been an amazing and challenging acting experience on top of all of the make up I bet.
Even though Darmok and his race also speak in English, thanks once again I guess to the universal translator, it is still presented as a unique challenge for Picard and crew to actually "understand" and comprehend their language and what they are trying to communicate. The episode was very well done. I used this episode to teach my wifes high school French class for two days on the idea of better understanding different cultures and languages and they really loved it and I think it helped open my wifes eyes to Trek as more than just a sci-fi TV show a little more as well.
The fact that Gene Roddenberry created the show and pitched it to the studio as being a somewhat cost effective show to make with the universal translator premise being one of the ways they would do it, but still... Just travel to 20 different countries right here on planet Earth and you will quickly discover just how many different and unique languages have independently developed over just hundreds of years right on this one planet, let alone the many possibilities on the hundreds and hundreds of planets that could support life that were spread out throughout the Trek-universe.

[Hector]

Anything WITHOUT Wesley Crusher... :smiley1:

I did love TNG...great show.

Deep Space 9 was great too.

Voyager was ok.

Enterprise was mediocre at best...but mostly a dud.

But the original series is KING of course.

:cool_y:

[Hector]

Didn't read the whole title of the thread...Really can't stand Next Generation. So my answer would be none of the episodes. Now if you were talking Voyager...That's a whole other story. Loved that show.

You must be the only one on Earth who feels that way.

You hate Next Generation but love Voyager...lol.

But hey...at least that makes you an original.

[Hector]

I get a kick out of you guys when you say you don't know or remember the name of an episode.

...and I get a kick when guys know and remember the names of episodes...lol.

Reminds me of that classic Shatner sketch in Saturday Night Live...

...what's the title of that sketch?

Mmm...let me try and remember...

...oh...I got it!

GET A LIFE!!!

:smiley1:

[pmwasson]

The one where everybody is disappearing one at a time - except Dr Crusher.


This is my favorite. I have a running joke with my wife where I say, "We never needed a crew before."

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I never really cared for the show; but I DID like the episode where the Enterprise gets hit with a random space plot-device and Troi has to take over. It was the only episode where characters showed any real difference in opinion. 'Course, that was mostly from Ro, and nobody really dwelled on the idea that she was right.... I also liked the resulting subplot of Troi trying for her fuill commission, 'cos it was the only time on the show any of the characters had to work at anything, and showed any development. (Them folks were too perfect right from the get go.)

Don C.

[wyldpny]

...and I get a kick when guys know and remember the names of episodes...lol.

Reminds me of that classic Shatner sketch in Saturday Night Live...


:smiley1:

Thanks for taking what I said out of context :no:
I am in no way someone who can even begin to remember every name of every episode, which is why I love Google so much :grin:

[Hector]

:grin:

[Mikey]

I always hated the pilot episode.

I'm still shocked the series sold with Encounter at Farpoint as the pilot.

The ending is so sickly sweet it's embarrassing to watch.

[toiletmonkey]

the outrageous okona

[StrangeVisitor]

My faves too...



The Inner Light (where Picard lives a lifetime of a lost civilization in a few minutes) That was a great ep. And I felt so sad when Picard lost his family at the end. And I love his flute piece.



One of my favorites was "Darmok".
"Darmok, and Jalad... at Tanagra!" - "Shaka, when the walls fell." - "That's how you communicate, isn't it? By citing example... by metaphor! Uzani's army... with fists open..." "Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"


Don't forget the great performance by Paul Winfield as Captain Dathan in Darmok.

Oh and..
Yeah, I could google the info I can't recall but isn't more fun to involve others? :grin: "I know the name of THAT episode! It's _____, wasn't it cool when the ...blah, blah etc"

[HardyGirl]

How could I forget Darmok? I love that ep! When Picard finally gets it and can talk to his crew. Too bad the alien had to die.

[NewForce]

I think someone else mentioned, but I think Yesterday's Enterprise was the best, closely followed by the 2 parter Best of Both Worlds... I liked All Good Things too...

[bizzaro megomauler]

Inner light :yes:

And the one where Picard is captured and tortured by the Cardassians

mine too!
but other notables are :
the western holodeck one with the outlaw datas
the sherlock holmes one where they are stuck on the holodeck,
the one where Q is booted from the continum
I, LOCUTUS!! I remember having to wait for the season to start to see the damned conclusion.:enraged:

[Thor]

I like the Redemption two parter. I love the drama of the Klingon civil war.

[Shabo451]

Top five in order for me are:

"All Good Things"
"Yesterday's Enterprise"
"Best of Both Worlds I & II"
"Inner Light"
"Relics"

"Sarek" was also a favorite, but "Unification I & II" (Spock's appearance) was just disappointing-glad he came back for the last movie.

I also agree that the first season was more painful to watch.

[johnmiic]

I had some free time so I looked up some of these on IMDB.com. Look at the Original air dates. Many of these are nearly-if not over-20 years ago now.

The one where...

Data plays Sherlock Holmes and they get trapped in the holodeck - Elementary, Dear Data, Season 2, Episode 3: Original Air Date—3 December 1988

Riker was put onboard a Klingon ship. Some kind of exchange program thing - A Matter of Honor, Season 2, Episode 8: Original Air Date—4 February 1989

Picard tells Q they don't need him and Q sticks the Enterprise in the middle of Borg infested space, Q Who?, Season 2, Episode 16: Original Air Date—6 May 1989

everybody is disappearing one at a time - except Dr Crusher, Remember Me, Season 4, Episode 5: Original Air Date—20 October 1990, Dr. Crusher enters a temporary alternate universe because of an experiment of
Wesley's.

The Troi bad dreams one ..... One moon circles - Night Terrors, Season 4, Episode 17: Original Air Date—16 March 1991

They all lose their memory and try to figure out who they are, Conundrum - Season 5, Episode 14: Original Air Date—15 February 1992

the Enterprise gets destroyed over and over and over and over and over again ..., Season 5, Cause and Effect, Episode 18: Original Air Date—21 March 1992. They called it a Causality Loop and it was used in Doctor Who episode once as well, ( Meglos).

Worf, his son Troi and Data are in a western, and trapped in a holodeck - A Fistful of Datas',Season 6, Episode 8:Original Air Date—7 November 1992.

where they were tracking down ancient civilizations to piece together some puzzle. Something about info in the DNA strands or something like that. The Chase, Season 6, Episode 20: Original Air Date—24 April 1993

Riker is in conflict with Picard and his former Captain- who went batty and made a cloaking device. The Pegasus, Season 7, Episode 12: Original Air Date—8 January 1994

Tasha's Romulan Daughter appeared in several episodes after the set-up in Yesterday's Wnterprise:

The Mind's Eye - Season 4, Episode 24: Original Air Date—25 May 1991. (voice) (uncredited) Tasha's daughter appears in silouette, preserving the end of season cliff-hanger.
Redemption - Season 4, Episode 26: Original Air Date—15 June 1991
Redemption II - Season 5, Episode 1: Original Air Date—21 September 1991
Unification II - Season 5, Episode 8: Original Air Date—9 November 1991 - Last appearance of Sela, Tasha's Daughter.

[captact]

I had some free time so I looked up some of these on IMDB.com. Look at the Original air dates. Many of these are nearly-if not over-20 years ago now.

The one where...

Data plays Sherlock Holmes and they get trapped in the holodeck - Elementary, Dear Data, Season 2, Episode 3: Original Air Date—3 December 1988

Riker was put onboard a Klingon ship. Some kind of exchange program thing - A Matter of Honor, Season 2, Episode 8: Original Air Date—4 February 1989

Picard tells Q they don't need him and Q sticks the Enterprise in the middle of Borg infested space, Q Who?, Season 2, Episode 16: Original Air Date—6 May 1989

everybody is disappearing one at a time - except Dr Crusher, Remember Me, Season 4, Episode 5: Original Air Date—20 October 1990, Dr. Crusher enters a temporary alternate universe because of an experiment of
Wesley's.

The Troi bad dreams one ..... One moon circles - Night Terrors, Season 4, Episode 17: Original Air Date—16 March 1991

They all lose their memory and try to figure out who they are, Conundrum - Season 5, Episode 14: Original Air Date—15 February 1992

the Enterprise gets destroyed over and over and over and over and over again ..., Season 5, Cause and Effect, Episode 18: Original Air Date—21 March 1992. They called it a Causality Loop and it was used in Doctor Who episode once as well, ( Meglos).

Worf, his son Troi and Data are in a western, and trapped in a holodeck - A Fistful of Datas',Season 6, Episode 8:Original Air Date—7 November 1992.

where they were tracking down ancient civilizations to piece together some puzzle. Something about info in the DNA strands or something like that. The Chase, Season 6, Episode 20: Original Air Date—24 April 1993

Riker is in conflict with Picard and his former Captain- who went batty and made a cloaking device. The Pegasus, Season 7, Episode 12: Original Air Date—8 January 1994

Tasha's Romulan Daughter appeared in several episodes after the set-up in Yesterday's Wnterprise:

The Mind's Eye - Season 4, Episode 24: Original Air Date—25 May 1991. (voice) (uncredited) Tasha's daughter appears in silouette, preserving the end of season cliff-hanger.
Redemption - Season 4, Episode 26: Original Air Date—15 June 1991
Redemption II - Season 5, Episode 1: Original Air Date—21 September 1991
Unification II - Season 5, Episode 8: Original Air Date—9 November 1991 - Last appearance of Sela, Tasha's Daughter.

....and which is the title of Data's daughter/robot????

[johnmiic]

....and which is the title of Data's daughter/robot????

The Offspring, Season 3, Episode 16: Original Air Date—10 March 1990
After returning from a cybernetics conference to the Enterprise, Data creates his own "child," much to the chagrin of his captain, and without regards to the ramifications with Starfleet.