MAKE IT POLL: ILX Star Trek nominations thread at last! VOTING ENDS 2016/09/09

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THE RULES
Vote for 20 episodes from all four five of the canonical Star Trek TV series, yes that includes The Animated Series Enterprise (if you're that kind of Trekkie).

Multipart episodes bearing the same episode title like "The Best of Both Worlds" will count as a single entry (TNG's' ensusing "Family", however, will be considered separately). DS9's Final Arc, though connected, will be treated as discrete individuals.

I'm giving everyone a month, which probably isn't enough time to fully familiarize yourselves with a whole series outside of TOS, but I assume that we'll want to wrap this up sooner than later. With sufficient outcry, I am willing to extend the deadline, of course.

Scoring
1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12

NOTE: Any Enterprise entries will count for double points, just to make things more competitive. (No, not really.)

Optional Side Polls
Rank the 5 Captains
5 favorite non-captain characters
5 favorite movies
5 favorite aliens
Ryker: Beard or No Beard?

Submit to:
All ballots sent to leeeee [at] gmail [dot] com (with "ILX Star Trek Poll" in the main subject if you please) will be assimilated into the collective results.

Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine_episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_Voyager_episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_Enterprise_episodes
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Main

I probably don't know all the series well enough to make a ballot, but looking forward to seeing the results!

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Ignorance is irrelevant, you will vote.

lol @ top image. can I vote if my ballot will be 90% tng?

This would be my question, as well. I've watched the shit out of some TNG and all of the OG movies (and I've seen a smattering of everything else save Enterprise) but I'm otherwise largely Trekgnorant.

'Other Media' would be a cool side poll. I have read a couple of the novels, and everyone seems to rave about How Much For Just The Planet? as one of the best Trek-related things ever. But you're runnin' the poll so I trust your judgment.

I'd be pleased as punch if the results were dominated by TNG!

I've only read a couple novels, neither of which were the one OL mentioned. I could certainly add that as a side poll, but I wouldn't be able to vote in it myself!

TOS only here

5 fave aliens: species or individuals?

i.e. am i putting ferengi or quark at the top

Did they ever name the alien race that was trying to infiltrate Starfleet during s1 of TNG?

I think I need to submit a TOS-only ballot to help balance skewing by mistaken younger voters

5 fave aliens: species or individuals?

Species. If you like Quark, you can vote for him individually.

Did they ever name the alien race that was trying to infiltrate Starfleet during s1 of TNG?

Looks like they're referred to as neural parasites: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Neural_parasite_(24th_century)

Mine's gonna be TOS- and DS9-dominated probably.

xpost thanks leee! that's what I figured just making sure

do you have a format preference for the episodes?

gonna take me a while to reacquaint w/ some of the eps

By all means stan for your favourite TOS (or other) episodes. I had a binge a couple of months ago, watched 17 of them. Better than I was expecting, less corny! Still pretty corny though. Brawl ratio currently 10:17.

By my count, there are three categories that the Tribbles could take here.

i will only be voting for one tribble episode tyvm

Did Kirk ever boink a tribble or was that where he drew the line

I realise that it is an objectively bad film, but I hope that Star Trek V gets some votes. when I was seven years old the idea of them flying a spaceship to the centre of the universe and meeting god seemed like the most amazing thing. I watched it again as an adult a few years ago and the whole script seems like it was made up by a seven year old, which is maybe why it spoke to me so much at that age

Star Trek V is easily the worst ST thing I've been exposed to.

do you have a format preference for the episodes?

Do you mean something like "Episode Title" (series name) (in the event multiple series have episodes with the same title)?

Yeah, or did you want like S05E08 or whatever

I like some post TOS stuff but for the purposes of this poll my ballot's gonna be all TOS for sure

Will, episode title (and optionally the series name) will be fine -- I'd probably ignore the production number.

In case anyone needs any help deciding riker beard v no beard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck-VIA1GUCY&list=PL67ABF0793ACF3B87

points off for not ending with a trombone solo

so hyped for this, thanks leee! my ballot will have some token tng and ds9 but otherwise trek to me is tos -- don't think anyone should worry about the diversity of their selection.

will get hi and choke up this and subsequent threads at some point but for now here's a block of advocacy from somewhere else:

"balance of terror" a big one for me despite its leaving out most of the usual star trek stuff in favor of what's basically a naval-combat drama. but its empathy for the romulans is very trek.

the diptych of s2's "a private little war" (allegory not for vietnam but for the self-exculpating american fantasy of vietnam; comes down on the side of the war but allows bones a furious dissent) and whatever that s3 one's called where the gas is making everybody hate each other (first line on return from commercial: "we must stop this war now") is pretty central

i love the colors and the kirk pauses in "the gamesters of triskelion" but the drag queen jokes are a drag

"the squire of gothos" a #1 contender imo -- weird, funny, has a nice after-school point to make about power and maturity, lots of fuck yeah kirk stuff. some people prob find the squire unwatchable tho.

spock character episodes always good: "amok time", "journey to babel", the one where he defects to the romulans.

"mirror mirror" the absolute peak of Goofy Trek, partly because it's not all goofy. evil spock -- so totally similar to good spock -- the scariest villain in the whole show. evil kirk on the other hand a hilarious idiot. spock's reply to "what is it you want, spock? power? i can get that for you, spock! I CAN GET THAT FOR YOU!" is nimoy's single best "fascinating."

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whatever that s3 one's called where the gas is making everybody hate each other

(this is "day of the dove" btw and it's not really very interesting but i do still recommend "a private little war" which is a very vivid artifact. a piece of simplistic self-regarding propaganda with the weird decency to end in doubt.)

I wanna rep for Plato's Stepchildren

genuinely creepy one

"devil in the dark" is often and rightly cited as an excellent one but it can prob be pretty boring for an initiate -- no crew outside of the main three, no enterprise stuff to speak of or possibly iirc at all, dramatic climax a scene where leonard nimoy presses dramatic claw-hands to a shuffling carpet draped over some stagehands and howls "PAIN!!!!". still v empathetic, v trek.

it has a lot of my favorite Trek elements - classical allusions, characters being forced to act ridiculous, a couple genuinely moving monologues, a progressive groundbreaking TV moment, great supporting characters and of course it looks fantastic

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my favorite Trek elements - classical allusions

otm. soft spot for "who mourns for adonais?" (the One With The Hand) for this reason. whole premise of show obv pretty odyssey tho not i guess as odyssey as voyager.

yeah that one's great, although Adonais is not quite as engaging a character as Alexander the Dwarf.

I'm somewhere in the middle of TOS season 1 and it's gotten a lot more interesting than the first third of episodes. I like the Trelane one, and the one where "The Galileo Seven" are really fun!

i'm gonna take some time and sit down w/ it but at this moment were i forced to choose, i'd be hard pressed to put anything above balance of terror. what a great episode.

no. no. he's shrewd, this starship commander. he tries to make us waste energy.

Kinda wish this poll came out after the hella mega TOS+TAS+OG movies bluray set was available because that's when I was planning to properly dive into the old stuff.

OH YES "Balance of Terror"! Love Romulans.

OL I might extend the voting deadline just so I can finish TOS off myself.

I'll be voting. I've seen the first two seasons of TOS, all of TNG, a few random DS9 episodes and most of the first two seasons of Voyager. Is there anything in TOS season 3 I should watch before voting?

i'm gonna be that guy who has multiple Voyager eps on their ballot

good-to-great TOS S3 episodes:

Spock's Brain
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There In Truth No Beauty?
Plato's Stepchildren (as discussed)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Way to Eden (SPACE HIPPIES!)
The Cloud Minders
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

TOS had the best episode titles that's for sure

last battlefield will prob make my list. it gets a lot of flak for being heavy-handed, but i think it's great!

Frank Gorshin at his hammy best

Spock's Brain is the Showgirls of ST

(garbage, it is)

And the Children Shall Lead also krap

Belli is rolling in his grave

I have seen Spock's Brain and it is indeed crap. The Enterprise Incident is the highest rated S3 episode on IMDB -- I just watched it, and won't be voting for it.

Graph TV:
TOS http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0060028
TNG http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0092455
DS9 http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0106145
VOY http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0112178
ENT http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0244365

Hmm, my possible #1 (TNG) is rated only just above average.

I remember the "Nazi" one, did that ever get shown again?

I would vote in this poll, but I would only vote for the "Original" episodes, and the films at a stretch.

And, most of these I've not seen since 1968 or thereabouts.

My top two would be the Time travel/Joan Collins one, and "Mudds Women" probably.

Joan Collins one is "City on the Edge of Forever" and is just ok imo

Can I vote just to put all my points into "Darmok"?

that's def my highest tng ep.

"Amok Time" a #1 contender for Vulcan horniness, presided over by Peter Lorre's first wife

"city on the edge of forever" is hugely overrated i think, slow and schmaltzy, plus afaict the point of it is that if there's a really important war on (they pretend they're talking about ww2, but uh) it's best to kill pacifists? spock's outfits are funny tho

"spock's brain" is camp, essential in its way but not recommended in the earnest way i recommend most of this.

"for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky" is downhill from its title imo, but that's a big hill.

killing pacifists is standard liberal palaver, if you've been following social media this year

tho Ellison complained about his script as aired

why would i follow social media this year

Ellison complains about everything fwiw

"amok time" def great -- the most important kirk/spock bropisode (the smile), but also some great fantasy set design and space ritual. features the first appearance iirc of the lil vulcan meditation chamber in spock's otherwise federation-issue quarters which i think is so cool.

ellison later republished the original script of "city" w/ this hilarious cover:

http://harlanellison.com/review/covers/cvforever.jpg

i have no mouth and i must lol

Should we do a side poll for 'best Beastie Boys song in a movie reboot installment'?

share mark's fondness for "mudd's women" tho i like "i, mudd" a lot more. mudd btw would be #1 on my list of villains to resurrect if given charge of a star trek movie so be thankful there are people w worse ideas than jj.

i have no mouth and i must lol

lmao

btw i read the ellison "city" book when i was like 15 and remember very little about it other than the rather amazing fact that gene roddenberry went around for years (falsely) telling ppl that the reason they rejected ellison's original draft is that he had "scotty dealing drugs on the enterprise"

haha i just went thru the wiki section about the teleplay and it's... convoluted. much rancor over a proposed plot device involving mccoy injecting himself w dangerous drugs as well. as far as i can tell tho the distinct fuck-the-hippies vibe is ellison's.

(it's not that strident, kirk abandons joan collins w regret and admiration, etc, but idk it still feels nixonian to me. also not sure what exactly happens w/r/t pearl harbor in the joan collins lives timeline. usa turns the other cheek i guess.)

Ellison there looks like Michael Dunn in "Plato's Stepchildren"

Jeffrey Tambor IS Harry Mudd

i did always wonder why they didn't just take joan collins back to the future w/ them, but maybe that wasn't an option w/ that particular time machine

her absence from 1930 Chicago (or was it NY?) might've also caused the Nazis to win

idk if i like any episode that takes place on earth. spock peering through the goggles at a backlot set and saying "strange, captain -- it bears a surprising resemblance to mid-20th-century earth" -- that's fine. the planet of warners gangsters is fine. just as long as it's not earth. even star trek iv is working at a huge disadvantage w me.

IDW recently adapted Ellison's teleplay for a 5-ish series:

http://www.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cotef.jpg

idk if i like any episode that takes place on earth

the only good one is the Gary 7/Terri Gar one imo

DS9 had the best earth episodes ("Past Tense" and "Homefront"/"Paradise Lost")

No way, this was best DS9 earth episode.
http://i.imgur.com/zbHnqYS.jpg

you know that was supposed to be a pilot for a series, right Shakey? honestly, would you have watched that show?

!!!

In 2008, IDW Publishing launched an Assignment: Earth five-issue comic book series written and drawn by John Byrne. The stories show the characters' lives from 1968 up to 1974, including Seven and Roberta's peripheral involvement in the events of a prior episode, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (occurring before "Assignment: Earth" for the Enterprise crew, but after for Seven and Roberta), and an epilogue set in 2008 depicts an annual reunion between Roberta and Isis (in her humanoid guise) at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to honor a friend who was killed in that conflict. The characters appear also in 2010 in issues #3 and #4 of Star Trek: Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor.

Author Greg Cox has included Gary Seven and Roberta in three of his Star Trek novels, Assignment: Eternity and the two-part novel, The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh. In the latter two novels Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln go on to eventually stop Khan Noonien Singh and his fellow genetically engineered humans from taking over the planet.

I doubt I would've watched the show but I like this bizarre mysterious character dropped into the Trek universe, it works well

mudd's women was one of the three stories roddenberry pitched for the star trek pilot. he was using the fantastic allegorical power of sci-fi to tell the story of a pimp who lives in a cave.

even star trek iv is working at a huge disadvantage w me.

"Don't leave him at the mercy of twentieth century medicine" all time win.

I've only read a couple novels, neither of which were the one OL mentioned.

How Much For Just The Planet is indeed great, but John M. Ford's other Trek novel, The Final Reflection, is far more serious-Trek for people that like that.

Already got a ballot!

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This is v. exciting, thanks Leee!

I heart TNG, but I've hardly watched any Enterprise, DS9 or Voyager. Always happy to get TOS recommends - I remember watching the whole series on BBC2 in the early nineties but I can't remember much except that The Menagerie seemed like the most interminable thing ever to a 13-year-old.

Recently watched the remastered Doomsday Machine on Netflix and that is fucking bonkers good.

I'm ambivalent about the CGI inserts but the remastered interior scenes on TOS are just fucking beautiful to look at.

CGI remastering is a tragedy of Lucasian proportions.

It's pretty seamless (and often an improvement) on TNG, but the CGI ship on the original series looks wack.

(I believe the CGI effects shots were a necessary result of remastering, rather than Lucas-style "improvements". But some of them are pretty shit-looking nonetheless.)

And, that said, the Doomsday Machine space dong on the remaster looks fucking groovy.

Sharpening up the picture is one thing, but adding effects shots is totally misguided. Better to let these things remain of their time. Part of the fun of TOS is going back to the 60s.

Otm i hate that shit. Glad i have the og dvd sets

I would agree but I love this shot too much

http://67.media.tumblr.com/7d4fb230cb1c40d6d39b363a6543ed51/tumblr_nw8gm7vPdY1ufg9h8o1_1280.png

I was referring to TOS

voted!

Received! BTW I'm almost certainly going to extend the deadline at least one month just to give myself time to finish TOS.

maybe I will have re-watched all of TNG by then

probably not though - may just revisit my favorite TNG villain episodes ie, the Borg, Lore, and Q

I think it's time for a DS9 rewatch.

i recommend skipping season 1 other than the first episode and "Progress" and "Duet", it's a whole lot of excitement-killing nothingness otherwise

I think this is the fabled DS9 spreadsheet, which might be useful here

im not a fan of that spreadsheet anymore, its purpose is more to show the episodes that are related to the main story arc so you miss out on some good one-offs

the ciderpress guide to DS9 goes something like this:

Season 1:
Emissary
Progress
Duet

Season 2:
Necessary Evil
Whispers
The Maquis Pts. 1&2
The Wire
The Jem'Hadar

Season 3:
The Search Pts. 1&2
Civil Defense (this one is skippable i just find it stupidly entertaining)
Defiant
Past Tense Pts. 1&2
Destiny
Visionary
Improbable Cause
The Die is Cast
The Adversary

Season 4-7
Just watch everything at this point. you can skip the ferengi episodes if you dont like those (S6 "The Magnificent Ferengi" is really good though) and the holosuite eps if you don't like those (S7 "It's Only A Paper Moon" is the good one there imo) but there aren't too many stinkers otherwise

Hey I like "Move Along Home", "If Wishes Were Horses", "Q-Less" (which is like a Mirror-Universe Doctor Who episode) from season 1!

those are the goofy ones, i like them too but most of the ppl i recommend trek episodes to want the more dramatic stories

Oh I would totally want the good goofy ones too. I mean, I even super enjoyed "Angel One"

I always considered myself a big Trek fan but holy shit @ this thread. I know nothing.

Civil Defense (this one is skippable i just find it stupidly entertaining)

omg this is second only to "Far Beyond the Stars" as far as DS9 goes IMO.

haaaaaaapppppy 50th!

https://twitter.com/tomandlorenzo/status/773863593204936704

OK, started working on this today. I promise I'll have it done. With no TOS.

ok i will counter with all-TOS

oh crap this is due tomorrow?

someone name me 3 episodes of TOS to watch tonight before i hash out my ballot, assume i haven't seen any already except "Balance of Terror" and "City on the Edge of Forever"

(i have seen others but not in 10+ years)

Amok Time
Plato's Stepchildren
Mirror, Mirror

HEY! I'VE EXTENDED THE BALLOT SUBMISSION DEADLINE!! To indefinitely!

indefinitely?

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poll will run until April 5, 2063

Dropping more Voyager eps in here than I thought I would.

Ciderpress - Doomsday Machine is awesome (and on my list) (which I haven't written yet)

all suggested are good, i will throw in squire of gothos

totally gonna make deadline btw!

Deadline? What deadline?

I might extend it out a few more weeks just to give myself time to hit the highlights of TOS seasons 2 and 3. (Shakey, should I just look at a certain ahem list that you send me for reference?)

Go on go on

well that's what *I* would say but other people have differing opinions. there are probably a handful of others that I think are either generally well-regarded or at least enjoyable via camp ridiculousness : The Immunity Syndrome, The Gamesters of Triskelion, Mudd's Women, I Mudd, etc. I also enjoy the Nazi/gangster/Roman planet ones altho I wouldn't say they are *great* exactly (they certainly established a trope that subsequent series returned to again and again)

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Tholian Web another one I forgot to mention

(they certainly established a trope that subsequent series returned to again and again)

fwiw not referring to the "planets with cultures remarkably like 20th Century Earth!" as much as "crew dropped into familiar historical scenario" (i.e. TNG does Robin Hood or Sherlock Holmes or whatever. I have no idea if Voyager or DS9 did this, I suspect Enterprise did but who has time to watch that garbage)

yeah def a genre. btw first tng holmes ep is pretty terrible imo but second one (ship in a bottle) is my second-favorite tng ep after darmok (and my favorite screen moriarty?)

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ship in a bottle will be top 5 on my ballot for sure

love picard's closing remarks where he slyly breaks the fourth wall

yes! love also that it is a hardassed kirk solution disguised as a humanitarian picard one.

also that the technobabble is diagetic bullshit for a change

Ranking today, man these are almost impossible to rank.

Top 5 are pretty easy, but below that, it's like rating your kids, you love them all in different ways.

Was the deadline actually extended?

I will get my ballot in by the deadline! Helps that I live in the future (aka Seoul).

I just watched Yesterday's Enterprise, and it was *quite* as good as I remember, which is flummoxing.

What's deal re: deadline?

whoops, I mean it wasn't quite as good

I've been going through the TNG episodes I remember as being good + others recommended here - watched "The Game" last night, which was pretty good. Another deus ex machina ending that felt pretty abrupt, which is something I've noticed as a general problem with this series. There's a lot of slow buildup/scene setting and then oh hey problem solved by rerouting the dampeners phase blast coordinates through the temporal circuits or whatever and v little actual resolution/denouement. For ex., in The Game once Data shows up and frees everyone from the game, there's zero discussion of who the aliens behind this plot were or what their motives were or how the game actually worked it was just "hey problem solved! now let's have a scene where Wesley and Ashley Judd kiss THE END"

Still generally a fun episode. I am always down with a chase scene through the Jeffries' tubes.

similar thing happens with the Q episode where the Borg is introduced - crew spends 2/3rds of the episodes freaking out about the Borg when it all boils down to just Picard apologizing to Q in order to get him to snap his fingers and wave everything away in the last 5 minutes. Just a kind of weird pacing.

(speaking of Squire of Gothos upthread - lol that Trelane was retconned into being a member of the Q Continuum)

I can see and acknowledge that as a weakness. And then that's where DS9 started to shine when it had long strings of serialization, you really got that depth in the story.

Back to my list, I'm struggling at the bottom where I want to include my favorite Bev and O'Brien focused episodes. Like maybe they aren't in my top 20 of all time, but I want to give them proper representation.

still can't believe they made Sisko into what was basically space jesus but it worked out

Deadline has been extended!!

Submitted. I did good work.

How many ballots have been received? Let's make a deadline. Some future stardate.

watched Darmok last night. V good ep, I appreciated it's economy and it's sort of classic "what if?" conceptual SF story construction. I don't think the language-composed-entirely-of-analogies thing actually makes much sense (seeing as how the analogies were all still composed of conventional grammatical tools - verbs, nouns, etc.) but whatever.

Damn ok I guess I'm going to have to sit through chaka khan when the walls fell. Already suffered picard playing the nose flute in the inner light.

in other Star Trek news

https://features.wearemel.com/in-spocks-shadow-71305e8e0d0#.jdbl3w4ny

How many ballots have been received? Let's make a deadline. Some future stardate.

Six so far. :(

OK, I'm setting a hard date: 9/30 11:59pm PST.

I don't think the language-composed-entirely-of-analogies thing actually makes much sense (seeing as how the analogies were all still composed of conventional grammatical tools - verbs, nouns, etc.) but whatever.

the grammatical sentences we hear are meant to be an artifact of the struggling universal translator, right? so there's some unheard ~stream of images~ -- shaka, the walls, a certain time -- expressed according to who knows what rules, which the translator is grasping as images/ideas if not as metaphors and rendering in something like english. it just doesn't know who shaka is.

i could be wrong tho cuz i'm always confused about how the translator works. i mean their lips are always recognizably saying the english words, it never makes any sense. plus i mean that is Quite A Feat for a piece of software to be always performing on the fly w zero data to start with. really everyone should sound like darmok for the first few days.

iirc darmok is one of the first episodes featuring the rad captain jacket picard starts wearing in s5, love that jacket.

i'm a bad egg and did not make the deadline. working on it tho.

I'll do it, promise!

Anyone got any more good TOS/DS9/Voyager (or even Enterprise!) recommendations? Especially anything from DS9 that doesn't spoil the ongoing story.

Star Trek 101's Essential Episodes is a good news pace to start. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_101#.22Ten_Essential_Episodes.22_feature

Some of the DS9 ones are part of the main arc though.

I suggest DS9's The Visitor and Far Beyond the Stars. Total one-offs, no arc.

DS9 Past Tense is a fun 2 parter that's not part of the main arc. Also all the 'let's torture O'Brien' episodes (Whispers, Visionary, Hard Time)

for VOY I particularly liked:
Distant Origin
Living Witness
The Thaw

I forget if Bride of Chaotica is fun or not. Second The Thaw though.

Weird fun DS9 that I liked:
The House of Quark / Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Lwaxana episodes
Visionary
Body Parts

The Magnificent Ferengi is the best DS9 ferengi comic relief episode imo (feat. Iggy Pop as a Vorta!). the ferengi episodes have a pretty low hit rate but that one is fantastic.

i also like the one with the scene where Quark attempts to explain capitalism to the Prophets

That comes kind of late in the series when the war stuff gets hot and heavy, which is why I didn't include In the Cards.

For such a lightweight episode, In the Cards has got some of my favourite character moments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx5I7uEEEYo

watched TNG "Frame of Mind" last night, that's a real good one as has been mentioned

also watched VOY "Latent Image" which was a pretty strong Doctor episode

Remember, the deadline was extended to the end of the month! Two more weeks to comply submit!

MAKE IT SO

I watched "Darmok" last night and the weird thing was that when Ensign Lefler showed up, I faintly remembered that she was significant in some way; only after I looked her up did I realize that she's Ashley Judd!

Watched the first half of All Good Things last night, never seen it before. Stoked for part two. Then it's ballot time.

bit distracted in part two by the miniature penis beverley has had installed in her neck

http://imgur.com/a/LLSEf

http://i.imgur.com/msFBohV.jpg

It's more beautiful than I remember.

GET YOUR BALLOTS IN! 9/30 11:59pm PST.

Got mine in yesterday. Already thought of several oversights, but no regrets! This is going to be great.

just sent a ballot

10 ballots so far (not counting mine).

Couple options. I'm swamped at work, and won't be able to tabulate results for the indefinite future. So, either I extend the deadline again and hope to collect more ballots, or someone can tab the results for me and roll out the results more quickly.

10?!

get it together people, what kind of nerds do we have around here

i'm on this i swear, mostly made, side polls done, just needs tweaking, might watch some episodes today.

I've got a poll set ready to send, but it's verrry heavy on TNG, so I might readjust if you extend the deadline. If not, it'll be with you soonish today!

I'm likewise swamped at work, happy to help tab at a later date, tho

sent! 13 TOS, 7 TNG. definitely gonna regret not re-onscreening the animated series.

eh the animated series really doesn't hold up imo

I mean it's fun in a campy Adult Swim way but the animation is terrible and the stories are uniformly sloppy/dopey

the thing i like about it is it's the only series that can have actual alien-looking aliens in it, like that yellow insectoid bird thing that's just hanging out w them at one point

haha yeah that's true it does go places the live action show couldn't

the episode where all the male crew get sirened and uhura takes command of the ship is really cheesy but on the other hand UHURA TAKES COMMAND OF THE SHIP

anyway it was admittedly hard enough making the last few cuts as it was.

Did you get my ballot?

the thing i like about it is it's the only series that can have actual alien-looking aliens in it, like that yellow insectoid bird thing that's just hanging out w them at one point

The unicorn dog in 'enemy within' not good enough for you?

i did think of "devil in the dark"'s snuffling carpet while posting that

Ledge, yes, got your ballot. We have all of 11 now! (May have miscounted earlier.)

Make that 12!

When's the reveal?

If people are OK with only 13 ballots, I'll work something out with Chuck Tatum for the reveal.

I'm always bummed when a poll doesn't break 20 ballots but that's just me

7 more may be asking a lot. I tried to get Carl to submit one but she never had the time.

Considering how many times I've extended the deadline, that's a lot of time!

I know, priorities, man.

can't make people vote whadayagonnado

Bumping to let you all know I'm collating the ballots now! Remember Me You are not forgotten!

Thank you sir.

And if anyone were to slip a ballot in the meantime, well, golly, I haven't been keeping track of datestamps or anything...

:D

Did morbz vote before he was banned

No. :(

Goddammit