Yeah, I recently rewatched that episode and was really annoyed by it. The story only works because every crewmember behaves like a completely naive idiot.
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TAS Season 2 should be doable in one day. đ
So it kind of depends on how strictly you define âimportant.â
Youâre right. Your list makes it quite clear that when the bar for importance is too low, 90% of all episodes end up being important. From season 1 Iâd include 5 episodes in the list of important episodes: Encounter at Farpoint (setting up Q and everything), Where No One Has Gone Before (introduces the Traveller), Datalore (introduces Lore), Skin of Evil (kills of Tasha), The Neutral Zone (Romulans and Borg implied). Those episodes are a good example of what I was going for: none of them is above average but theyâre still important. âWhere No One Has Gone Beforeâ maybe comes the closest to being good.
Sidenote: I recently rewatched TNG season 1 and found it oddly charming. There are a lot of bad episodes but almost every episode had something going for it. You could see what they were aiming for but often couldnât stick the landing. And the music was really great, unlike in the rest of the Berman era.
Iâve also frequented Jammerâs Reviews for years because most of the time I agree with him. I also used it for the watchlist for my GF but building that list purely on good episodes gave me the idea to ask what the important episodes actually were.
I didnât know about Kethinov. Thanks for that.
I see your point. What I tried to assess is: which episodes enhance the viewing experience by rewarding the viewer for sticking around. For example, watching âDataloreâ before âBrothersâ is definitely not required. But it gives you some good backstory on Lore. Similarly, watching the various Maquis episodes on TNG and DS9 is not necessary to understand the Maquis characters on VOY but itâs a nice slow buildup that contextualizes a few things. Or TNGâs âThe Priceâ and VOYâs âFalse Profitsâ â neither of them are really good episodes but itâs a âoh hey, they picked up that storyline from years agoâ moment that I feel is very rewarding.
And of course my all-time favorite joke when Worf hears that Keiko is having another baby and he reacts with âNow!?!?â. It only really works when youâve seen âDisasterâ before.
Is there a list of important/key episodes â but not just the good episodes?
Is there a list of important/key episodes â but not just the good episodes? - Lemmy.World
There are many lists with recommended/must-watch episodes. But they usually just include episodes that are considered good or great. Is there also a list with episodes that are important but not necessarily good? By important I mean episodes that introduce new concepts or new characters (or kill off important characters), or that have lasting repercussions in the overall story of the series or Star Trek as a whole, or are necessary to watch first for a pay-off way later. For example, TNGâs âSkin of Evilâ shows the death of a main character but itâs hardly a good episode. The same goes for DS9âs âLife Supportâ. I wouldnât exactly call ENTâs âStorm Frontâ good either but itâs important to cap off the temporal cold war. TNGâs âMĂ©nage Ă Troiâ shows Wesley being promoted to Ensign but the rest of the episode is rather mid (except for the Picard meme) so that it wouldnât ever appear on any must-watch list. etc.
"Chaos on the Bridge" (William Shatner's Documentary about the early TNG years) available for free on YouTube
Well, at least they recognize Worf as one of the greats. {{:-)
But I find that âDuty! Honor! Service!â shouting really repulsive. I find it rather undignified. I canât for one second imagine Picard, Riker or any of the other classic characters doing that in their academy years.
Beam Me Up, Sulu | Official Trailer
Beam Me Up, Sulu | Official Trailer - Lemmy.World
From the video description: In 1985, Star Trekâs George Takei joined a group of dedicated fans to make a student film deep in the California forest-only for the footage to mysteriously vanish. Nearly 40 years later, Beam Me Up, Sulu unearths this lost film, revealing not just a piece of fan history but a broader story of representation, resilience, and the ongoing fight for inclusion in media and society.
Wow, that looks great! Iâm a bit envious. I need to learn how to do that to PRINT ALL THE SHIPS. đ
Thanks for sharing.