Name your favorite Star Trek The Next Generation story!

[Deja Q]

"Hollow Pursuits" is mine.

I know there are others with a more sci-fi slant, which I should be preferring, but "Hollow Pursuits" really speaks out to me for some reason.

[Gothic Sponge]

1. Shades of Gray

Just kidding.

I really loved so many of them. Hard to pick one.

[Deja Q]

3. LOL

There are many that still hold up.

Indeed, "The Enemy" - despite one questionable point re: biology - is still fantastic. "The Defector", despite some ridiculous melodrama, still holds up extremely well. "The Best of Both Worlds" still holds up well, provided you haven't seen it in some time. "The Most Toys" is still a classic. And "Booby Trap", despite having a partial season 2 corny feel, is highly inventive.

I could go on for some time. :D

[democracyindanger]

2. the one where the holodeck goes haywire

[Gothic Sponge]

4. LOL

I also like the one where they beam down to a planet.

:silly:

[Deja Q]

5. LOL. That would be about 30 episodes...

The Big Goodbye
Elementary, Dear Data
Ship in a Bottle
(half of season 7)

I could go on... :D

[khashka]

6. Darmok

Although there was an episode (I forget the name) where Troi and Crusher discuss their relationships. It was a short scene but so human and normal.


Oh yeah, and all the bits in the first season with guys in miniskirts :evilgrin:

Khash.

[SeattleGirl]

11. I love "Darmok"!

And "Yesterday's Enterprise"
And "The Measure of a Man"
And, and, and -- I taped 'em all, so now and then I have myself a TNG fest!

[slay]

13. Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra!

/me puts on his sci-fi geek hat. :evilgrin:

[SeattleGirl]

14. I was so sad when Paul Winfield died.

I loved the character Darmok, and loved listening to him narrate that show on A&E, "City Confidential". His voice was so sooooooothing.

[MrBenchley]

21. Yes!!!

Also, although the Robin Hood episode sucks, Worf's line "I am not a merry man" just cracked me up.

[intheflow]

38. Best episode by far!

My son was 10 when this episode came out. He'd always enjoyed storytelling (ghost stories were his favorite), but this episode really brought it home for him. He still talks about this episode. He's finishing up his BS now, duel majoring in History and Creative Writing. I'm pretty sure the ST:TNG episode influenced him in deep ways.

Second fav: where al the crew morph into other creatures. Barclay becomes a spider--classic! :)

[petronius]

7. If I had to pick some to watch over and over, it would be the Klingon Wars

Pure space opera, but I love it (especially this: "K'Ehlar was my mate."). I also get a big kick out of any episode where Wesley suffers horribly (I replayed the bayonet scene about a dozen times!)

For intellectual stimulation, I prefer 'The Drumhead', 'The Measure of a Man', or 'The Offspring'.

Still, far too many to choose from...

[Deja Q]

8. Oooh, good ones!

"Drumhead" works surprisingly well despite being soap opera.

"Measure of a Man" is superlative.

"The Offspring" is something of a rehash of "MoaM"'s ideas, but it's still fun to watch.

[MrScorpio]

9. Best of Both Worlds 1 & 2

The Martian Defense Perimeter gets fucked

[Robeson]

10. To many to pick....

...I loved most of them. Very few that I didn't like.

[Mojambo]

12. I really dug that one, I think it's called "4"

Where they were caught in the time loop, but I've seen it so many times that it's lost something for me.

I like any of the ones where Data "dreams."

[CheckyPantz]

15. The Inner Light

Im shocked, *shocked* I tell you, that no one has mentioned "The Inner Light." This was the episode where Picard was zapped by an old space probe and spent an entire lifetime among a civilization (within the span of about half an hour), only to realize at the end that the civilization was extinct.

He had t-shirts made up... something to the effect of, "...and all I got was this lousy flute."

Seriously, some fine, fine acting and well written, classic sci-fi.

[SeattleGirl]

16. Thanks for mentioning this one!

Another one of my favorites!

[Nikia]

32. I liked that one, but it made me sad

I cried for a quite a while after seeing that one.

[baldguy]

17. "There...are...four...lights!"

Chain Of Command

[arwalden]

18. The Measure Of A Man (... something like that)

The one where they are trying to decide if Data has rights.

[ReadTomPaine]

19. "Lower Decks" little mentioned but excellent episode.

I'm also fond of "Data's Day" which is a bookmark episode to the classic Trek's "Balance of Terror". Many of my other faves have already been mentioned.

As time goes by, I find Stewart & Dorn's performances better and better.. and I dislike Spiner's performances more and more.

[Mutley]

20. Any Q episode.

Q cracks me up. :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

22. I loved the show, but

I don't really remember episode names. I watched every show when it first came on, too.

I think the original Borg episodes, first with Q and then when they invaded the Federation a season & a half later.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. The one where Picard lives a lifetime as a guy from a dead civilization.

From the signal beamed into his mind. He learns to play the flute as a result and plays one at the end.

Also:

The one where Q gives Picard the choice to relive an incident from his academy days differently (bar fight with the Kiss looking aliens), and a different choice makes his life turn out much differently (he's a science officer junior officer drone).

The one where Wesley is courtmartialed for flying shenanigans at the academy.

[Nikia]

34. I liked both of the first 2 that you mentioned

I also like the one that Picard talkes to the alien that speaks in metaphors.
I enjoy most science fiction, but really liked Star Trek Next Generation because of its thought provoking philosophy. The Picard character is also one of my favorite television characters.

[Puglover]

37. The Inner Light

and yes, that was my favorite as well. Haunting.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. "The Inner Light" and "Who Watches the Watchers"

And while I'm at it, let me just add that "Best of Both Worlds, Pt. II" is by far in the A-list of shitty pieces of shitty shit, right there with "Shades of Gray" and "Code of Honor".

[Coventina]

25. "Ugly bags of mostly water"

I can't remeber the title of the episode.

[Deja Q]

29. One of the few decent Season One stories... Called

"Home Soil", it's a nice discussion of terraforming... I liked it.

"Too Short a Season" being my fave for the season, even though I should be liking "Conspiracy" more... The story is regarding a person who sold weapons to a government years' back. 50 years later and he not only has to see the repercussions of his error, he also tries to do a one-up to defeat his enemy... D C Fontana wrote it, as I recall...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

26. The one where they were all getting addicted to the videogame was cool.

Not that it was one of the greats, but it had resonance for those of us who are video game addicts in real life.

[Deja Q]

31. "Hollow Pursuits" is similar, though "The Game"'s take on it was

well thought out. Not just addiction to something enjoyable, but how it was brought aboard and how those who introduced the game had sinister plans of their own.

Not the best produced, but an excellent story by any measure.

[Cannikin]

27. "Family"

[Telly Savalas]

28. I like the one...

where they encounter a super-powerful entity which menaces them, but by the end of the episode they realize that its intentions are benign and that it's all just been a big misunderstanding.

:hide:

[Deja Q]

30. That covers 40% of the Original Series. Captain Roadkill-for-a-wig.

Captain Baldie's era is rather different. (Picard, not Sisko, that is...)

[Telly Savalas]

35. There were a few episodes like that on Next Generation, weren't there?

I may be takin' the piss, but I do it out of love. Both series are good fun.

[Ilsa]

33. Dr. Crusher gets pulled into a different universe and people

are disappearing and those left don't remember any them. Wesley and The Traveler bring her back. The affection between Wes and his mother was really sweet and made me weep.

[Ilsa]

36. Also, the one where subspace aliens kidnap members of the

crew and do medical experiments on them. And they have these vague emerging fears. That one really gave me the creeps.

The one where the crew de-evolves is cool.