To POLLDLY POLL Where No POLL Has POLLed BePOLL: ILX Star Trek results, finally!

I've tabulated the ballots, and the results are forthcoming. Will it be worth the wait?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxDztnFva8

D'oh, I meant to change my D/N with this thread.

Let's start with the least surprising!

RIKER: BEARD OR NO BEARD?

4. No beard (ugh) - 0 points
2T. Season 2 Riker, fresh with beard - 1 point
2T. http://i.imgur.com/rsuxb69.gif - 1 point
1. Beard - 7 points

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Exciting!

Thanks Jeff.

http://i.imgur.com/rsuXB69.gif

'Commander, have you seen Lieutenant Leee?' 'No sir.' 'Computer, locate Lieutenant Leee.' 'Lieutenant Leee is not on board the Enterprise.'

Cool! I didn't vote in this poll, because I've only seen all the episodes with TNG and DS9, and none of Enterprise, so I didn't feel qualified to vote; my ballot would've been all TNG/DS9, since none of the handful of TOS and Voyager episodes I've seen compare to the best of those two series.

But I'm happy to see results and be educated, maybe I'll watch TOS properly one day (probably not Voyager though, from what I remember the quality that one wasn't particularly high).

Tuomas, most of my ballot was DS9, full-stop! I mean, if you decided to sneak a ballot in, I probably won't ignore it.

We need you Tuomas.

Oh geez just saw this now! glad i didn't miss much (aside from the beard rollout, a key one imo)

Ok. I'll try to come up with a ballot, you should get it in next 30 minutes...

I object to this blatant violation of ILX poll procedures, unfairly tilting results to TNG/DS9!

ok not really

altho I do wish Tuomas ballot could be counterbalanced by an all TOS ballot from Morbz

Sent it!

I could put together a fake Morbius ballot where the first letter of every entry spells out SHRILLARY or something.

Lol

TEH CAPTINZ

9. Sulu (to hell with archer) :: 1 points :: 1 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgTvIg4eZWk

8. Whatshisname :: 1 points :: 1 votes
http://hotphotosfree.com/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/4d22992b615ad024b331b07bb689b520.jpg?itok=Wj93mifL

7. Pike :: 1 points :: 1 votes
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/ST_TheMenagerie.jpg/280px-ST_TheMenagerie.jpg

6. Zlog :: 1 points :: 1 votes
https://icantwatchisitoveryet.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/captains-log.jpg

5. Archer :: 7 points :: 5 votes
http://dogactors.com/img/porthos_dog.jpg

4. Janeway :: 34 points :: 6 votes
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/01/1c/16/011c163ba711f2ad24a594cfb52a299e.jpg

3. Sisko :: 48 points :: 7 votes
https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/15577124.jpg

2. Kirk :: 60 points :: 8 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/25216824.jpg

1. Picard :: 84 points :: 8 votes :: 6 No. 1 votes
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R3OF6BKRh3A/hqdefault.jpg

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2F3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1

FUIUD Shakes.

Bah, the Archer pic was of his dog Porthos, and Janeway was a cleverly captioned screencap of Red from OITNB.

i stand for kirk but now i wish i 1'd sisko, he's awesome and deserved one

Captain poll bodes well for main poll.

I was voting as a starfleet academy review board. Kirk is good tv but bad captain.

academy

can't really argue w that

otoh that's also why Picard is more of a nullity than a compelling character

Pfft that's what sour grapes sound like apparently.

Wait a minute... huh. I watched a lot of voyager (didn't vote for any though), my gf watched a lot of oitnb that i couldn't avoid, and I never made the connection.

Picard is the best captain in the franchise, though not the best main character... And he get's a lot of defining character moments and fleshing out in the series, starting from "Family". You could only call him a "nullity" if you think a character is "compelling" only if he's driven by DEEP and DRAMATIC INNER CONFLICT. (Though you get bits of that too with Picard in "Tapestry", if that's your thing.)

yes, like Tim Burton, I only consider characters compelling if they had abusive father figures

but seriously, in what way is Kirk - a far superior character imo - driven by DEEP and DRAMATIC INNER CONFLICT

I dunno, I'm not super familiar with Kirk... I just don't understand why you would call Picard a "nullity"? He gets more fleshing out, more good episodes focused on his personality and loves and fears than any other TNG character. So do you feel he's a "nullity" because he's less flawed and more morally upstanding than Kirk, or why do you say that?

Picard is the best captain in the franchise

I dunno, I'm not super familiar with Kirk...

mm hmm

tell me more

And I'm not saying inner conflicts and deep shades of gray are necessarily bad, my favourite ST character has plenty of that.. But IMO a character can be compelling without those too. Picard is kinda like Superman, he's not interesting because "just like us", but because he strives to be better than us.

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Well, I've seen all the movies and a handful of TOS episodes, I think that's enough to form an opinion on Kirk?

picard is good but i'd still rate him 4th in the captains poll (which i forgot to vote for)

19. Jimmy brooks :: 1 points :: 1 votes
http://www.teennick.com/teennick-assets/blogs/images/degrassi/top-ten-lists/top-ten-jimmy-brooks-moments/degrassi-image-annoyed.jpg

18. Dax (if i gotta pick one, ezri) :: 1 points :: 1 votes
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Ezri_Dax_Season_7_Promotional_Photo.jpg

omg ezri so cuet!

17. Kira Nerys :: 2 points :: 2 votes
http://www.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/kiranerys/emissary074a.jpg

16. Dukat :: 4 points :: 1 votes
https://66.media.tumblr.com/f347ddd740327f59b587b487bfe795cf/tumblr_o6i2mbPhNu1ru85zso1_500.png

15. Beverly Crusher :: 4 points :: 1 votes
http://i.imgur.com/UHHnAJR.jpg

14. Quark :: 4 points :: 1 votes
https://www.jlab.org/sites/default/files/quarks.jpg

13. Lwaxana Troi :: 6 points :: 1 votes
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d7/3c/35/d73c353437239ddb855c3a459e05b99f.jpg

12. Odo :: 6 points :: 1 votes
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/53/a0/a4/53a0a4096bc4d2d358df8497b09c1f38.jpg

11. Seven of Nine :: 6 points :: 1 votes
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/09CeQIg0fPU/hqdefault.jpg

10. Uhura :: 7 points :: 2 votes
https://media.giphy.com/media/R0dr9dN8TKPqE/giphy-facebook_s.jpg

9. The Doctor :: 8 points :: 1 votes

8. Miles O'Brien :: 8 points :: 1 votes

7. Khan :: 9 points :: 2 votes

6. Worf :: 17 points :: 4 votes

5. Q :: 19 points :: 4 votes

4. McCoy :: 28 points :: 4 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes

3. Garak :: 33 points :: 4 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
https://imgur.com/gallery/O5pKOtZ

2. Data :: 42 points :: 5 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes

1. Spock :: 74 points :: 8 votes :: 4 No. 1 votes

lol all my precious images dammit.

I guess I should've included a character listing in my ballot, shocked that my all-time favourite Kira is so low! She should definitely rank higher than Woodface O'Brien or fucking KHAAANNN!!!

Props for the people who voted Garak so high tho! Definitely the most complelling (and funniest) supporting character.

Shatner plays Kirk much more broadly and melodramatically than Stewart's portrayal of Picard, and a large part of Kirk's appeal is rooted in this - while both characters are "Superman"-like in their essential idealization, Kirk is humanized and made both more relatable and more fun to watch by virtue of Shatner's expressiveness, commitment and charisma. Kirk gets way less backstory (or way less of a coherent backstory anyway - it does appear that he met a million people in his days at Starfleet Academy) than Picard and the viewer is given next to nothing in terms of his motivations and interior psychology, but Shatner's hamminess conveys so much about the character: his anger is palpable, his humor is infectious, etc. But Steward plays Picard with an implacable wall of reserve, always beholden to formality, protocol, maybe a dry smile here or a thin-lipped grimace of determination there but he is not particularly expressive. Which is why, even when the show brings in his ex-girlfriends or his love of horseback-riding or whatever, these feel more like extraneous details and less like lived-in, emotionally rooted characteristics. And yes, Picard *is* more of a goody-two-shoes than Kirk - he breaks the rules less, has less of a sense of humor, is not as flawed - and this only further contributes to his portrayal as that of an empty suit (or maybe a Starfleet uniform stuffed with rules and regulations + some token French culture references)

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And yeah, Ezri Dax was incredibly cute and Nicole de Boer was a better actor than Terry Farrell (she was great at doing chill and bemused, but not as good with drama). If only they'd done the switch a couple of seasons earlier, I think she would be much better regarded than just "the one who replaced Dax for one season". De Boer is particularly awesome in the one Mirror Universe ep she got to do, she chews the scenery HARD.

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Steward = Stewart duh

I do like Stewart in other stuff (I Claudius, LOTR, X-Men) so it's weird to me that the character he spent the most time portraying/is most identified with (maybe?) is such a bland nothing.

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9. The Doctor :: 8 points :: 1 votes
http://i.imgur.com/TzMrbDo.png

8. Miles O'Brien :: 8 points :: 1 votes
http://i.imgur.com/IRSpXBz.jpg

7. Khan :: 9 points :: 2 votes
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Khan1.jpg

6. Worf :: 17 points :: 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/kTfdd0X.jpg

5. Q :: 19 points :: 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/pIJtebJ.jpg

4. McCoy :: 28 points :: 4 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
http://i.imgur.com/qs7wJFG.gif

3. Garak :: 33 points :: 4 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
https://imgur.com/gallery/O5pKOtZ

2. Data :: 42 points :: 5 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
http://i.imgur.com/DFypeon.jpg

1. Spock :: 74 points :: 8 votes :: 4 No. 1 votes
http://i.imgur.com/UjCF1bl.jpg

But Steward plays Picard with an implacable wall of reserve, always beholden to formality, protocol, maybe a dry smile here or a thin-lipped grimace of determination there but he is not particularly expressive.

I'd say these are qualities of the character, not the actor, and Stewart plays him impeccably. And it's exactly because he's normally reserved and stiff that the moments (and there are many of those throughout the series) where he allows someone to get through to him romantically (like in "Lessons" or "Inner Light"), or breaks down due to trauma (like in "Family" or "Chain of Command"), or shows some self-deprecating humour (like in the "Captain Picard Day" scenes in "The Pegasus"), are so effective. I mean, it's not only melodramatic characters that can be compelling, don't you think? A space diplomat can be just as interesting as a space hero, if done well.

Also, I'm pretty sure Stewart wasn't in LOTR?

haha right sorry mixing up my X-Men/LOTR franchises

this one is pretty good but yeah idk why it placed so high

It's TOS does "Hunt for the Red October"! Much suspense etc.

5. The Best Of Both Worlds (TNG) :: 183 points :: 6 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
Part 1 Part 2

best of both worlds is fine, i get why its a big deal but i watch trek more for the "darmok"s and "measure of a man"s than for thrills. i feel like the borg episodes just haven't aged as well as the dramas

Part 1 is great though! It's just that the Borg are conceptually so powerful that the writers have to resort to lazy, anticlimactic backdoor hacks in order for our heroes to survive.

Balance of Terror: it's TOS does "The Enemy Below", a 1957 Robert Mitchum submarine movie. i like the episode more than the movie.

It's TOS does "Hunt for the Red October"! Much suspense etc.

you know you have this backwards right

AGT is weird. Picard x3 goes to all this effort to do a thing to save humanity which is in fact the thing that would put an end to humanity so he stops doing the thing and then humanity is ok. Would have all been fine if he'd stayed back at the ranch. Or is that the point?

I don't think anti-time in AGT makes any sense. "q did it" is my best explanation.

It's TOS does "Hunt for the Red October"! Much suspense etc.

you know you have this backwards right

Humanity's inability to perceive time as anything but linear is why Q puts us on trial.

AGT is weird. Picard x3 goes to all this effort to do a thing to save humanity which is in fact the thing that would put an end to humanity so he stops doing the thing and then humanity is ok. Would have all been fine if he'd stayed back at the ranch. Or is that the point?

I think the Continuum had judged that humans were doomed, so in an effort to save his pet species, Q guided Picard into creating a paradox that would lead to the Captain's insight and the salvation of humanity.

4. Far Beyond The Stars (DS9) :: 193 points :: 6 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
Memory Alpha

Almost perfect IMO. (Would've been perfect if they'd actually decided that the entire Trek universe was in Benny's mind.)

Will always love Far Beyond the Stars but Brooks tips over into too much scenery chewing.

far beyond the stars is the best

i like balance of terror a lot (my #2) and posted in the nominations thread that while structurally it's, yes, a submarine movie, its diligent empathy for the romulan captain and the romulan viewpoint is very trek. lenard's performance is great and the ep has as much to do w the wrath of khan as space seed does.

Like the climax of the episode being a brawl. Like 90% of TOS episodes.

― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Friday, November 4, 2016 11:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brawl > setting the phase dampeners to a quantum frequency that resonates with the object's flux signature (but then i voted for "arena")

3. The City On The Edge Of Forever (TOS) :: 194 points :: 7 votes
Memory Alpha

Hope that tides over the TOS boys.

lol not me :(

love spock's beanie tho

brawl > setting the phase dampeners to a quantum frequency that resonates with the object's flux signature

Touché. Although the latter is arguably more fitting for a sci fi show.

Hope that tides over the TOS boys

nah, this is a mid-tier episode imo

feel like it gets overrated due to ooh famous guest star + famous sci-fi writer

2. Darmok (TNG) :: 208 points :: 7 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

the non-TOS-boy's TOS episode, apparently xp

now darmok is very good.

1. Mirror, Mirror (TOS) :: 226 points :: 9 votes
Memory Alpha

haha ok all is forgiven

love everything about this episode. mirror spock: scarier than khan. "your agonizer, please", yes, but what about when he tells sulu that if he's killed his family will feel obligated to avenge his death "and some of them... are vulcans". sulu blanches and we are invited to imagine mirror vulcans. (except that these would p much be romulans i guess? still.) and on the other side (in the mirror if u will), evil kirk, demonstrating that kirk without judgement + self-mastery is just a goofy idiot. the part where he's howling from the brig "WHAT IS IT YOU WANT, SPOCK? POWER??" and good-spock deploys a "fascinating" is my favorite single trek moment.

i even think the sexual politics are dece tbh. mirror-kirk's girlfriend is neither dumb nor irrational, and being trapped in the terran empire is a good metaphor for being trapped in a tos episode.

i guess the flaw is that everything hinges on a magic tv screen that kills anyone you can think of, that's pretty dumb altho it's almost like a fairy tale right

anyway great #1-2 imo thanks leee!

yeah the tantalus field thing is v deus ex machina (or TNG lol)

115T. Things Past :: 13 points :: 1 votes
115T. Children Of Time :: 13 points :: 1 votes
115T. Strange Bedfellows :: 13 points :: 1 votes
115T. And The Children Shall Lead :: 13 points :: 1 votes
115T. Relics :: 13 points :: 1 votes
111T. The Emissary :: 14 points :: 1 votes
111T. The Sound Of Her Voice :: 14 points :: 1 votes
111T. I, Mudd :: 14 points :: 1 votes
111T. Dagger Of The Mind :: 14 points :: 1 votes
111T. Tacking Into The Wind :: 14 points :: 1 votes
111T. Clues :: 14 points :: 1 votes
105T. Thine Own Self :: 15 points :: 1 votes
105T. Valiant :: 15 points :: 1 votes
103T. Shore Leave :: 16 points :: 1 votes
103T. The Galileo Seven :: 16 points :: 1 votes
103T. The Magnificent Ferengi :: 16 points :: 1 votes
103T. Crossover :: 16 points :: 1 votes
103T. The Gamesters Of Triskelion :: 16 points :: 1 votes
98T. I, Borg :: 17 points :: 1 votes
98T. Datalore :: 17 points :: 1 votes
98T. The Immunity Syndrome :: 17 points :: 1 votes
95T. The Trouble With Tribbles :: 18 points :: 1 votes
95T. Rapture :: 18 points :: 1 votes
95T. Miri :: 18 points :: 1 votes
95T. The Die Is Cast :: 18 points :: 1 votes
95T. A Matter Of Honour :: 18 points :: 1 votes
95T. Is There In Truth No Beauty :: 18 points :: 1 votes
95T. Phantasms :: 18 points :: 1 votes
88T. The Enterprise Incident :: 19 points :: 1 votes
88T. For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky :: 19 points :: 1 votes
88T. Half A Life :: 19 points :: 1 votes
88T. Latent Image :: 19 points :: 1 votes
88T. Broken Link :: 19 points :: 1 votes
88T. The Wire :: 19 points :: 1 votes
88T. Elementary Dear Data :: 19 points :: 1 votes
81T. A Taste Of Armageddon :: 20 points :: 1 votes
81T. A Private Little War :: 20 points :: 1 votes
81T. Rocks And Shoals :: 20 points :: 1 votes
81T. Next Phase :: 20 points :: 1 votes
77T. Sacrifice Of Angels :: 21 points :: 1 votes
77T. Future Imperfect :: 21 points :: 1 votes
77T. Who Watches The Watchers :: 21 points :: 1 votes
77T. In Purgatory's Shadow :: 21 points :: 1 votes
73T. Take Me Out To The Holosuite :: 22 points :: 1 votes
73T. Conspiracy :: 22 points :: 1 votes
73T. The Survivors :: 22 points :: 1 votes
73T. All Our Yesterdays :: 22 points :: 1 votes
73T. Family :: 22 points :: 1 votes
68T. The Drumhead :: 23 points :: 1 votes
68T. This Side Of Paradise :: 23 points :: 1 votes
67. Arena :: 24 points :: 1 votes
65T. You Are Cordially Invited :: 25 points :: 1 votes
65T. Who Mourns For Adonais :: 25 points :: 1 votes
65T. The Tholian Web :: 25 points :: 1 votes
62T. Encounter At Farpoint :: 26 points :: 1 votes
62T. Rejoined :: 26 points :: 1 votes
62T. Looking For Par'mach In All The Wrong Places :: 26 points :: 1 votes
59T. Little Green Men :: 28 points :: 1 votes
59T. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges :: 28 points :: 1 votes
57T. The Siege Of Ar-558 :: 30 points :: 1 votes
57T. The Way To Eden :: 30 points :: 1 votes
57T. Civil Defense :: 30 points :: 1 votes
55. Ensigns Of Command :: 30 points :: 2 votes
53T. The Search, Part Ii :: 33 points :: 1 votes
53T. Call To Arms :: 33 points :: 1 votes
52. Sarek :: 33 points :: 2 votes
50T. Journey To Babel :: 34 points :: 2 votes
50T. 11001001 :: 34 points :: 2 votes
49. Timescape :: 36 points :: 2 votes
47T. Blink Of An Eye :: 37 points :: 2 votes
47T. Second Skin :: 37 points :: 2 votes
47T. Past Tense :: 37 points :: 2 votes
47T. The Devil In The Dark :: 37 points :: 2 votes
43T. Errand Of Mercy :: 38 points :: 2 votes
43T. It's Only A Paper Moon :: 38 points :: 2 votes
41T. Living Witness :: 39 points :: 2 votes
41T. Time's Arrow :: 39 points :: 2 votes
39T. Time Squared (TNG) :: 40 points :: 1 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
39T. Plato's Stepchildren (TOS) :: 40 points :: 1 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
37T. Trials And Tribble-ations (DS9) :: 41 points :: 2 votes
37T. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (TOS) :: 41 points :: 2 votes
36. By Inferno's Light (DS9) :: 45 points :: 2 votes
35. Tapestry (TNG) :: 46 points :: 2 votes
33T. Parallels (TNG) :: 50 points :: 2 votes
33T. The Squire Of Gothos (TOS) :: 50 points :: 2 votes
32. Remember Me (TNG) :: 51 points :: 2 votes
31. The Corbomite Maneuver (TNG) :: 51 points :: 3 votes
30. Deja Q (TNG) :: 52 points :: 2 votes
29. Distant Origin (VOY) :: 52 points :: 3 votes
28. Necessary Evil (DS9) :: 54 points :: 2 votes
27. The Thaw (VOY) :: 54 points :: 3 votes
26. The Naked Time (TOS) :: 62 points :: 3 votes
25. Lower Decks (TNG) :: 65 points :: 2 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
24. Ship In A Bottle (TNG) :: 66 points :: 2 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
23. Year Of Hell (VOY) :: 67 points :: 3 votes
22. The Enemy Within (TOS) :: 70 points :: 2 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
21. Chain Of Command (TNG) :: 78 points :: 4 votes
20. Frame Of Mind (TNG) :: 79 points :: 3 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
19. Hard Time (DS9) :: 80 points :: 4 votes
18. In The Pale Moonlight (DS9) :: 106 points :: 3 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
17. Cause And Effect (TNG) :: 109 points :: 5 votes
16. The Doomsday Machine (TOS) :: 114 points :: 4 votes
15. Duet (DS9) :: 115 points :: 5 votes
14. The Measure Of A Man (TNG) :: 117 points :: 6 votes
13. Space Seed (TOS) :: 133 points :: 6 votes
12. Amok Time (TOS) :: 142 points :: 5 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
11. The Inner Light (TNG) :: 150 points :: 5 votes
10. The Visitor (DS9):: 150 points :: 7 votes
9. Yesterday's Enterprise (TNG) :: 155 points :: 6 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
8. All Good Things (TNG) :: 169 points :: 7 votes
7. Q Who (TNG) :: 175 points :: 6 votes
6. Balance Of Terror (TOS) :: 176 points :: 7 votes
5. The Best Of Both Worlds (TNG) :: 183 points :: 6 votes :: 1 No. 1 votes
4. Far Beyond The Stars (DS9) :: 193 points :: 6 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
3. City On The Edge Of Forever (TOS) :: 194 points :: 7 votes
2. Darmok (TNG) :: 208 points :: 7 votes :: 2 No. 1 votes
1. Mirror, Mirror (TOS) :: 226 points :: 9 votes

stuff from earlier i missed posting about:

devil in the dark - glad this made it as i cut it from my ballot because iirc it takes place entirely in drab underground corridors, features no crew outside the core dialectic, and takes kind of a long time. but spock's mind-meld scene ("PAIN!!!") is essential.

errand of mercy - i like this one. like a day the earth stood still for 60s policy.

let that be your last battlefield - sort of annoyed this made it instead of any preachy third-tier TOS episodes i actually voted for.

the corbomite maneuver - good, indeed fundamental, kirk ep, but as almost nothing happens in it it's good the alien face is so striking and that they throw in the clint howard acid trip at the end.

lower decks - had a rly good time w the one time i saw this. patrick stewart's baldness in it is like a pun.

frame of mind - i like the being-in-a-play angle in this one.

seeing the full list there makes me wish i'd given just a few points to "sarek", my favorite Stewart Emotes! episode

a few more points, i mean; i had it at #15

so glad that voyager's scorpion got no votes. i remember that being a well-received one, but it both ruins the borg and includes a racist fable.

wait why did i think balance of terror already happened?!?!?!

WAIT ITS OVER? WHY AM I SO BAD AT ILX TONIGHT?

FUCK

did startrekman vote in this

You know, that's a pretty decent top 10. Mostly I'm happy that The Visitor beat out The Inner Light (which never resonated for me, either).

Q Who at #7 is just whaaaaaaaaaaat tho.

Q Who is great because it has that scene where the Borg is fucking with the Enterprise computer and Picard's all like "He has to be stopped! Mr. Worf!" And then Worf just goes "Ensign!" and totally passes it off to some ensign, who gets pummeled by the Borg dude. And that, kids, is how management works.

Can't help but wonder in Mirror Mirror how a universe where humans are so radically different could have developed so that at the exact moment they visit, Kirk & Spock et al find their exact counterparts in the same roles in the same organisation. Which only adds to its bonkers charm.

I enjoy thinking about that. What if every choice was the opposite but the results kept coming out the same?

Rewatching Yesterday's Enterprise for this poll, it occurred to me that it was mirror universe idea done seriously. It's lacking some of the charm.

Q Who is maybe unremarkable in retrospect but felt pretty next-level at the time.

Also it has my favourite TNG episode formula - start banal, end terrifying

My list.

http://a68.tinypic.com/4snuw6.jpg

saw the corbomite maneuver the other night and . . . it was pretty bad

apparently it was supposed to be the first non-pilot episode (although it ran later) so there's awkward character 'development', particularly of mccoy. the alien encounter had a countdown to doom that lasted forever, the payoff was absurd, the resolution lame (although it did rid us of an annoying ensign)

kirk was good tho

Did morbz vote before he was banned

― Οὖτις, Friday, October 21, 2016 12:30 AM

i have no idea why you wanted to know how an antisemite like me ranked the original Jews in Space

also i haven't watched any of this stuff in 25 years