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  • TOS: The Cloud Minders. One of the show’s extremely heavy-handed message episodes, this time about classism and labor rights. It’s quite dramatically compelling in addition to expressing its ideas eloquently.

    TAS: Beyond the Farthest Star. One of the more “normal” episodes of that series, but it really works for me.

    TNG: Contagion. One of the most tense and action-packed TNG episodes, featuring computer malfunctions both amusing and terrifying, but also a great showcase for all the characters, and their ability to combine their talents to solve what seems like an impossible problem, to the point that it’s one of the episodes that got me into Trek in general (alongside Remember Me).

    DS9: Visionary. Pretty good episode of time travel weirdness, and one of my go to examples of what I think is best way to go about explaining time travel: don’t explain it, just do whatever wacky shit you want and laugh off the paradoxes with a recurring joke. “I hate temporal mechanics!”

    VOY: Latent Image. In addition to being yet another fascinating exploration of the rights and sentience of artificial life, with a hint of an ethical dilemma in there, I really relate to how the Doctor’s trauma responses are described.

    DIS: There Is A Tide. I love all of the scenes between Admiral Vance and Osyraa.

    PIC: The Impossible Box. I remember that being one of the more tense and well-made episodes of the show, especially Soji’s existential crisis and Picard’s Borg flashbacks, although I find it hard to think in individual episodes with this one.

    LD: Veritas. The show hadn’t really clicked with me before this episode. I loved the whole theme about the lack of attention the command crew gives to the ensigns, and how this just adds to their problems.

    I’ve only really seen the consensus classics of ENT, and while I have seen SNW and PRO, my favorites are all consensus favorites that get a decent amount of buzz already.




  • This is an interesting comment, actually, because instead of hating on the new shows and comparing them to the old ones, Matt’s hating on the old shows for being politically correct and saying DS9 and Voyager, the shows that were currently airing as of 1999, are the good ones. Even though DS9 was more diverse and less subtle about its themes, compared to TNG.

    Imagine if Dave Cullen, Doomcock, Midnight’s Edge, Nerdrotic, etc. dedicated their careers to saying that the new Star Trek shows were AWESOME because they were less woke than TNG and DS9. That’s what this is.






  • You can start anywhere you want! I often recommend starting with Star Trek: The Next Generation, since it’s aged a little better than the original series. You might prefer to jump ahead to season 2 or 3 to get to the really good stuff, but even season 1 is worth watching.

    Up until Enterprise season 3 it’s pretty much all episodic (or in DS9’s case, mostly episodic with a subset of the episodes forming a series-long story arc), so you can pick a random episode or movie with a cool-sounding description and start there if you want. That’s how I got into Trek, just picking random TNG and Voyager episodes.



  • Fandom does care about cash cows, and will almost certainly do the same thing they’ve done with several wikis that have left: take it over, remove references to the move, and continue attempting to compete with the new wiki, leveraging their better SEO.

    But if anything, Fandom considering Memory Alpha a cash cow would be even more of a reason to leave, considering that Fandom tends to cover those wikis with ads (that’s why Minecraft Wiki moved).