What are your favorite time travel episodes? Also what are your least favorite?

  • Kichae@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Favourites: Yesterday’s Enterprise, Troubles and Tribbleations, Past Tense, Time’s Arrow, All Good Things, and Star Trek IV.

    Lease favourites: Literally all of the rest.

  • old-tymon@lemmy.one
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    3 years ago

    My far-and-away favorite is Paste Tense from DS9. The conversation between Bashir and Sisko in the tent city hits me like a hammer on the heart every time.

    Least-favorite would have to be the lion’s share of Picard s2, but specifically the episode where the gang tries to pull an Ocean’s 11 at that gala event and Picard gets run over by a car.

    • knotthatone@lemmy.one
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      3 years ago

      Least-favorite would have to be the lion’s share of Picard s2, but specifically the episode where the gang tries to pull an Ocean’s 11 at that gala event and Picard gets run over by a car.

      I agree. And that episode was especially stupid, but it was a special kind of stupid. I thought the late Annie Wersching’s performance as the Borg Queen was a highlight. It reminded me of Wayne Pygam’s scene-chewing-but-snarky performance as Head Scorpius from Farscape. And then Alison Pill got to show off her pipes singing “Shadows of the Night” while the band and spotlight operator jumped right in. Made no goddamn sense, but I loved it.

      Also, Pat Benatar is now canon in Star Trek.

    • trekkie@startrek.website
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      3 years ago

      Past Tense is such a well done two-parter, too. Having watched it again recently it’s a bit scary how close it came to reality…

  • grahamj@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    I’ve always considered time travel to be something of a plot cheat code so such episodes aren’t often favourites. But that said we’ve been watching Enterprise lately and recently got to S03E11 “Carpenter Street” and it had some good moments.

    Top of mind is Archer driving a truck and T’Pol exclaiming “Turn Starboard at the next street!”

    Incidentally I’ll never understand how they could possibly think taking an alien back in time to Earth is a good idea. T’Pol is the second last crew member that should have been on that mission (just slightly ahead of Phlox)

  • knotthatone@lemmy.one
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    3 years ago

    TNG’s All Good Things is probably my all-time-favorite; with close-seconds to DS9’s The Visitor and TOS’s City on the Edge of Forever as runners up. Honorable mention to DS9’s Far Beyond the Stars, while technically a vision/fever-dream it’s one of Star Trek’s finest hours.

    • old-tymon@lemmy.one
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      3 years ago

      Far Beyond the Stars is probably DS9’s best episode IMO - but it’s funny, I never considered it a time-travel ep before. I guess it fits that bill too.

      • trekkie@startrek.website
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        3 years ago

        I suppose it sort of is a time travel episode?

        Avery Brooks’ acting in that one is top notch either way.

        I also suppose if we are counting it, then we should also discuss The Visitor. Tony Todd does such a great job as old Jake, and as a father myself, this episode hits the feels really hard. And then later Tony Todd is back as Kurn and there’s no way you could tell it’s the same actor, other than his voice.

        • crowebear@lemmy.world
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          3 years ago

          The Visitor is probably my favorite, and in the running for my favorite episode. I remember when I put that episode on, innocently all ready to enjoy another episode of DS9… 45 minutes later I’m basically sobbing in front of my tv lol. The beautiful thing is it probably wouldn’t have hit as hard if they didn’t do such a great job of setting up Jake and Sisko’s relationship leading up to it. Not to mention the performance from all three actors. Watching their faces as they interact with one another is incredibly convincing and just pulls you fully into the scenes emotionally.

  • trekkie@startrek.website
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    3 years ago

    There are so many good ones to choose from across all the shows. Since Past Tense and All Good Things have already been mentioned, I’ll say Time’s Arrow. The hook at the beginning of the episode is just too good. I mean,

    spoiler

    finding Data’s head in a cave on some random planet while Data is standing right there?

    The whole scene with Mrs. Carmichael trying to collect rent… Mr. Pick-ard! Snake canes eating souls, Mark Twain, Guinan and Picard meeting…

    Also, Little Green Men is a great one.

    Yesterday’s Enterprise…

    No, wait: it has to be Trials and Tribble-ations

  • Eva!@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    Yesterday’s Enterprise, if I had to pick one.

    Some more obscure ones that I like and I haven’t seen mentioned thus far in this thread:

    • I will always pull for Time Amok from Prodigy. It’s where in my eyes the series really started opening up. It touches on the deepest themes of Star Trek while still being a fun sci-fi concept.
    • Terra Firma from Discovery is basically Tapestry, mirror universe edition. Might have worked better as a one parter but it was fun deconstructing how the prime universe had changed Emperor Georgiou.
    • Timeless from Voyager set some bad precedents for time travel, but it was a good Harry Kim episode.
    • Shattered is probably where I’ll stop any future Voyager rewatches. A fun retrospective on the series, and Chakotay actually gets to do something for a change.

    Side note, have we not had any time shenanigans in Lower Decks? I know it’s technically coming by way of SNW, but still.

  • LibraryLass@startrek.website
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    3 years ago

    I was surprised recently to realize that it might actually be “Time’s Arrow”-- the more so because I’m not as much of a TNG person as I always thought I was. But Time’s Arrow is a fun romp through a nifty and underserved setting, and the ending with Mark Twain is I think one of the most important sequences in TNG.