Hi there. A friend of mine wants to get into Star Trek (finally, yay). She asked me which series would be a good start since she loves binge watching. I honestly couldn’t say. My favourites are VOY, ENT S1/S2 & SNW, but I’m a big fan of all series and watched them so many times back to back (with the exception of DIS & PIC - only once and never again). So, instead I thought we could watch the top 3 episodes of each series and then she can pick one to start watching the entire thing. Let me hear your top 3 episodes of one or several series. Just keep in mind she doesn’t know any of the lore yet. I’m really looking forward to see your takes.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    In no particular order, two-parters count as one episode.

    TOS:

    • Balance of Terror
    • The Trouble with Tribbles
    • The Doomsday Machine

    TAS:

    • The Infinite Vulcan
    • The Slaver Weapon
    • The Lorelai Signal

    TNG:

    • Measure of a Man
    • The Inner Light
    • Cause & Effect

    DS9:

    • Pale Moonlight
    • Past Tense
    • Far Beyond the Stars

    VGR:

    • The Killing Game
    • Latent Image
    • Scorpion

    ENT:

    • Regeneration
    • A Night in Sickbay
    • A Mirror Darkly

    Those are the only series I’ve seen in their entirety, so I’ll leave it at that.

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      For Voyager, where is Year of Hell??

      I’m with you on all the others, but Year of Hell is probably my favorite episode of all the Treks.

      • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        I understand.

        There are so many episodes to choose from, it’s almost cruel to make a Trekkie pick just three. There are, like, ten more episodes I could have picked for TNG alone.

        Year of Hell is amazing, especially since it was a prophecy from earlier in the series. But I think Killing Game and Scorpion make better two-parters because they had a lasting effect on the ship and the show. Killing Game was huge in scale and necessary to address the power balance with the Hirogen. And Scorpion gave us Seven. Year of Hell, for all it did, fell victim to the big red reset button. And to pour salt on the wound, no one even remembered what happened.

    • danhab99@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      DS9 Pale Moonlight: is my second favorite startrek episode. This is like the deepest exploration into a starfleet captain and how easy it is to lose yourself to corruption and operate outside of your government even when you’re working towards the same goal.

      VOY The Thaw: an unironic cathartic watch. I’m ready invested in the characters and I get to see A1 star trek grade acting actually brings me back to that episode.