Playboy ranks every Star Trek ever

[zinfamous]

Surprised it isn't 695 individual page clicks to see each episode.

:hmm:

 

[tynopik]

the scene in Identity Crisis (TNG S4) where they were discovering and reconstructing the invisible alien gave me chills the first time i watched it

#585 :-/


Also Threshold (warp 10 turns you into horny amphibians) was ranked #692 when it shouldn't even be on the list as i refuse to believe it was an actual Star Trek(TM) episode

 

[Sonikku]

The inner light will always be my personal favorite.

 

[Centauri]

I'm shocked that Deep Space Nine's 'Duet' isn't higher. It's one of the best hours of televisions I've ever seen. Ditto for 'In The Pale Moonlight'.

 

[AMCRambler]

This one sounds epic:

692) “Threshold,” Voyager, Season 2
Tom Paris takes his shuttle to Warp 10 and is “at all points of the Universe at one.” This changes him into a salamander, and he then kidnaps Janeway, turns her into a salamander, too, and mates with her. Chakotay yanks them away and they all desert the out-of-space-and-time offspring down on a bog planet. What. The. Hell.

 

[AdamK47]

Surprised it isn't 695 individual page clicks to see each episode.

:hmm:

The click-bait headline: "695 reasons to watch Star Trek with this one amazing trick!"

 

[Centauri]

This one sounds epic:

692) “Threshold,” Voyager, Season 2
Tom Paris takes his shuttle to Warp 10 and is “at all points of the Universe at one.” This changes him into a salamander, and he then kidnaps Janeway, turns her into a salamander, too, and mates with her. Chakotay yanks them away and they all desert the out-of-space-and-time offspring down on a bog planet. What. The. Hell.

Episodes like that are kind of a reminder of how stupid children are. When that first aired I was 11 years old and... didn't find anything wrong with it.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Episodes like that are kind of a reminder of how stupid children are. When that first aired I was 11 years old and... didn't find anything wrong with it.

This is why Voyager and Deep Space 9 were created... and why I never watched more than a single episode of either one of them.

 

[tynopik]

This one sounds epic:

692) “Threshold,” Voyager, Season 2
Tom Paris takes his shuttle to Warp 10 and is “at all points of the Universe at one.” This changes him into a salamander, and he then kidnaps Janeway, turns her into a salamander, too, and mates with her. Chakotay yanks them away and they all desert the out-of-space-and-time offspring down on a bog planet. What. The. Hell.

that episode ended any interest i had in voyager, it was just so unbelievably stupid i couldn't deal with it

Also Threshold (warp 10 turns you into horny amphibians) was ranked #692 when it shouldn't even be on the list as i refuse to believe it was an actual Star Trek(TM) episode

 

[Craig234]

yes

I was kidding - but that is the one animated episode I remember.

 

[ViRGE]

I'm a bit disappointed that The Sound of Her Voice was rated so low. It was meant to be a tearjerker from the start, but I always felt it turned out really good. Avery Brooks was on the top of his game in that episode.

I would have also liked to see more season 4 Enterprise episodes in the top 100. But I guess this list favors strong bottle episodes over self-referential world-building.

Also Threshold (warp 10 turns you into horny amphibians) was ranked #692 when it shouldn't even be on the list as i refuse to believe it was an actual Star Trek(TM) episode

If there's any episode that should be stricken from the record and never mentioned again, it's These Are The Voyages… #691 is still one spot too good for it.

 

[Fritzo]

This one sounds epic:

692) “Threshold,” Voyager, Season 2
Tom Paris takes his shuttle to Warp 10 and is “at all points of the Universe at one.” This changes him into a salamander, and he then kidnaps Janeway, turns her into a salamander, too, and mates with her. Chakotay yanks them away and they all desert the out-of-space-and-time offspring down on a bog planet. What. The. Hell.

That was everyone's reaction to that episode. It was one of the few "that never actually happened, just forget about it" episodes in all of Trek.

 

[SlickSnake]

This one sounds epic:

692) “Threshold,” Voyager, Season 2

Tom Paris takes his shuttle to Warp 10 and is “at all points of the Universe at one.” This changes him into a salamander, and he then kidnaps Janeway, turns her into a salamander, too, and mates with her. Chakotay yanks them away and they all desert the out-of-space-and-time offspring down on a bog planet. What. The. Hell.

That was everyone's reaction to that episode. It was one of the few "that never actually happened, just forget about it" episodes in all of Trek.

When I first saw that episode, me and a friend were literally ROFLOL with ridicule for nearly the entire episode. Were they actually trying to kill the series with ridiculous stupidity at that point? I mean WTF!!!

This list is a desperate attempt to make Playboy relevant to trekkers (or the sci-fi crowd) and get site hits, and little else.

 

[Kadarin]

I agree with the episodes that are at the bottom of the list...

Someday I'll need to watch the later seasons of DS9; I never did because the early seasons turned me off of that series.

 

[brandonb]

I agree with the episodes that are at the bottom of the list...

Someday I'll need to watch the later seasons of DS9; I never did because the early seasons turned me off of that series.

DS9 eventually absorbed most of the writers from TNG (from the later seasons.) Therefore, in the beginning it wasn't so good, and eventually got great. It also didn't have Gene Roddenberry involved, so none of those "storyline in an episode" restrictions the TNG had. It had story arcs that traversed 6-8 episodes in a row. Which of course if you only seen one episode you'd be sitting there scratching your head, but led to some excitement. I remember plenty of times watching it "I can't wait to see the next episode" moments, which you never had with any other Star Trek, and only comparable to Babylon 5 in that regard.

So, starting at Season 3, if you take out the Dax, Ferengie, and alternate universe episodes you had a good series.

 

[ViRGE]

So, starting at Season 3, if you take out the Dax, Ferengie, and alternate universe episodes you had a good series.

Aww, the Ferengi episodes were some of the best. They were a welcome distraction that kept the show from getting too serious and depressing.

 

[mmntech]

This one sounds epic:

692) “Threshold,” Voyager, Season 2
Tom Paris takes his shuttle to Warp 10 and is “at all points of the Universe at one.” This changes him into a salamander, and he then kidnaps Janeway, turns her into a salamander, too, and mates with her. Chakotay yanks them away and they all desert the out-of-space-and-time offspring down on a bog planet. What. The. Hell.

Threshold is what Doug "Nostalgia Critic" Walker used to refer to as a Big Lipped Alligator Moment. An outlandishly over the top, bizarre, and out-of-place scene in a film or TV show that is never referenced again. Tom Paris did get to bang Janeway, so he's got that going for him.

What makes this episode great is that it's just a perfect train wreck. Nothing about it makes sense. Not in real world logic, or in the established rules of the Trek universe. Even how it developed sounds like a complete mess. It's Star Trek's version of The Room.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Threshold#Background_Information

 

[brandonb]

Aww, the Ferengi episodes were some of the best. They were a welcome distraction that kept the show from getting too serious and depressing.

I only liked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Men_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)

Quark: You people should take better care of yourselves. Stop poisoning your bodies with tobacco and atom bombs. Sooner or later that kind of stuff will kill you.
General Denning: What do you know about atom bombs?
Quark: My people have been watching your world for years; we know all about you: baseball... root beer... darts... atom bombs. It's quite a fascinating culture you Humans have here.