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frame-of-mind-au · 3 years

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Star Trek Fan? Favorite Series and episodes? "Temba, his arms wide."

Voyager, easily. I've heard Deep Space Nine is excellent, but I have yet to finish it (my watchlist is a mile long). I also haven't seen Discovery or Picard yet, so no spoilers on those please!

Favorite episodes is harder... there's a lot I love across the various series.

Parallels from TNG is one I love, the idea is just really cool and it actually kinda makes me care about Worf's existence even if it's only for 45 minutes.

Loud as a Whisper is just stellar. It tends to slip my mind when folks ask about The Next Generation, but if I'm picking out an episode to watch or I catch it on TV, I'm gonna be glued to my screen for all of it. Even in the 24th century, communication is still something that is not as universal as one might expect. And since we're on the topic...

Darmok is another great one. An alien species that essentially communicates through memes and the irony of "Temba, his arms wide" lowkey becoming a meme irl is truly something, especially since to some degree this is a real-world phenomenon. I could relay something to someone entirely with SpongeBob and Vine quotes. Its awesome.

Frame of Mind from TNG obviously is another, no suprise there XD Characters being fucked with on a psychological level is interesting to me and it's territory Star Trek doesn't get to explore very often.

Pretty much any Data-centric or Seven Of Nine-centric episode would apply to this list so I won't go through all of those.

Course: Oblivion was the first VOY episode I clearly remember seeing, when I was around 9 or 10 I think, and its ending really stuck with me even without intimate knowledge of the characters. It's one of the reasons I lean so hard towards bittersweet endings for my own stories.

Living Witness from VOY is a super cool concept, and the Doctor is one of my favorite Star Trek characters ever, so that's an easy pick.

The infamous VOY episode Threshold for just the shear batshit craziness of that making it to television... the first half sets up such a dope premise only for it to just totally derail in its second half and its HILARUOUS! Plus, Voyager's fandom takes having one of the worst episodes ever really well. We've even got a day dedicated to celebrating it!

In the Wink of an Eye, also from VOY is a fun one too. It's a time travel episode (of sorts) that's not a pain in the ass to explain and understand, while still being super interesting.

Year of Hell, Parts 1 & 2, is another VOY staple and an auto-include. Not gonna explain the premise since I'd argue this is one you'd need context for.

Twisted, once again from VOY, I feel like gets forgotten about sometimes. Not sure what about it I love so much, I just do. I will try not to spoil the ending for people who haven't seen it yet, but I like the ending a lot. Sometimes there really isn't anything you can do, and that's okay.

And speaking of endings, Tuvix has one of the best. The choice that Janeway makes is a hard one, and one I feel like only she could make as far as Star Trek captains go (at least from the captains that I'm familiar with). I don't think Picard could be given a moral dilemma of that caliber.

This Side of Paradise from the original Star Trek series was the first Star Trek thing I ever saw and to this day I still love it. I'd recognize the flute melody that plays throughout the episode nearly anywhere.

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, also from TOS, is another favorite, for both having the current record for longest episode title and because the premise for it is just so interesting. It's really nice when Star Trek actually follows through on the whole 'seek out new life and new civilations and boldy go where no one has gone before' thing and this is one of those episodes.

Picking favorites for Star Trek: Enterprise is a bit harder, as it only piqued my interest when it started having an actual plot (i.e. season 3 onwards), so most of the ones I like are really plot heavy and hard to recommend for peope who just wanna watch a one-off thing without needing a shit ton of context.

Ones that explore alien Xenophobia are interesting to see with this series' placement in the Star Trek timeline. It's early in humanity's space exploration so not everyone is used to aliens yet and it makes for some good drama.

I think I'll cut this off here for now, cuz real talk, there are so many episodes I like... I could ramble about Star Trek for ages and this isn't my main!

bUt NuGgEt, I hear you saying, wHaT aBoUt Inner Light???

Okay yes, that is a great TNG episode, and I do love it to peices, but fuck, that thing has been praised to hell and back and won several awards, its got more than enough clout. Hush.

But yeah, I'm done now, go home.

#anon what have you done #you asked about a Special Interest #you madlad #anyway #if you wanna ask about any of my other hobbies or intrests outside of SU then hit up my main!#cuz lord knows i have no self control and i will ramble for pages about things i like #ask #anon #meta

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sporkandpringles · 4 years

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So I've only recently started on star trek and you seem to know your stuff. It appears you've seen the stuff i haven't, I started with the abrams movies just because i like that kind of movie, went to discovery as they're a similar style and then developed a proper interest with TNG (I've now started DS9). This is my long winded way of asking what's worth watching? I've heard enterprise isn't great but have heard nothing really about the original series, would you reccomend them?

Do I... do I give off knowing my stuff vibes? I only started watching star trek last October. Haha. But I guess I do consume Memory Alpha daily for breakfast... and I have a pretty encyclopedic memory for fan stuff so...

Anyway, to answer your question I actually like Enterprise for all it’s flaws, so far (I’m on season 3 right now) though I’d say that about most treks. Sometimes the writers are dumb in terms of continuity and using any excuse to make one particular vulcan female get naked, but its not as egregious as the AOS movies, in my opinion. JJ Abrams is by far the WORST when it comes to treatment of women and ignoring star trek canon, so... since I too, was exposed to those movies first, Enterprise is actually refreshing sometimes.

I will also say, that TOS is ABSOLUTELY worth watching. And especially if you’ve already seen the reboot movies. It adds so much to the characters and fleshes out the world in a wonderful way! It was the OG inspiration and in a lot of ways its better. Though I do like AOS’ updated visual effects.

As for everything else, I haven’t seen disco yet or anything from the 24th century (TNG, VOY, DS9 or Picard), so I can’t really say. Though I, personally, do, eventually, plan to watch everything. Even Star Trek: The Animated Series, which is... objectively bad. No really. But it’s great for memes.

so, basically:

TOS - must watch.

ENT - I like it a lot, but your mileage may vary,

Everything else: I have no fricking clue because I haven’t seen any of it yet.

thanks for asking!

#I'm so flattered that everyone thinks I'm some repository of knowledge #I've gotten several asks like this #I only made this blog two weeks ago #asks #asked and answered

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