Favorite Star Trek!!!
Well, here goes.
1/ The Corbomite Maneuver- The Enterprise destroy a space probe, and immediately encounter an alien ship. A fearfully ugly face appears on the view screen, calling itself Balok and tells the crew that they are trespassing , and will be destroyed. Kirk tries to bluff the alien by telling it that if fired upon, the Corbomite in the ships hull will destroy both ships. In the end we discover that the alien is in fact a child like entity who wanted to test the Enterprise to see if they really were peaceful. I loved this episode and the face of Balok really did give me the creeps.
2/ Cause And Effect- The Enterprise crew keep reliving the same few hours over and over. While playing poker, the crew realise that they know what cards are going to be dealt next. Later, a ship appears from a sub space rift and collides with the Enterprise, destroying both ships. Time then repeats itself. I love episodes that involve time, and especially this one when we get to see Data making a big mistake.
3/ Children Of Time- The Defiant discovers a colony on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, that are descendents of the Defiant crew. Another time travel episode, and we see how far Odo will really go for his love of Kira.
4/ Timeless- Voyager crashes on an Ice planet. The only survivors are Chacotay, Kim and the Doctor, who 15 years later decide to change history.
5/The Wrath Of Khan, First Contact.
6/ It has to be Voyager.
7/ The Doctor- Robert Picardo is brilliant (and I will tell him when I see him in July)
8/Star Trek represents a bright future for humanity, where greed and racial discimination have been replaced with the quest to explore and better ourselves. It shows us that if we can solve all our modern day problems, then we can achieve anything!
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Replicant Roy Batty in Bladerunner.