Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

TNG Season 2 Episode 2: Where Silence has Lease. The Enterprise is stranded in a dimensionless void. Another Federation ship appears, and Riker and Worf beam over. But the ship is deserted, and things are not what they seem...

Riker: Let's get to the bridge. There's got to be an answer to all of this somewhere.
Riker: This bridge should be four decks above us - what's going on here?
Worf: That's not where we came from
Riker: Wait a minute...
Worf: Two bridges?
Riker: If we go through there, where will we be?
Worf: On the bridge!
Riker: But we are on the bridge.
Worf: It's up to you sir.
Riker: Let's see what happens.
Worf: Is it the same bridge?
Riker: Or did we step from one bridge... onto another bridge?

AAAAH STOP SAYING BRIDGE!

This is how I feel, when I hear the word, 'ledge', now.

Where's that confounded bridge?

Netflix has all the original Star Trek episodes available. I am watching them for the first time ever right now. I just got done with the salt monster elisode, and now I'm watching "Charlie X." My, it's goofy. "Is that... a GIRL?????"

Did we ever do a ballot poll of all Trek episodes?

And if not, should we?

I have definite opinions on that. I would even go so far as to do a ranked ballot lol

(says the guy who owns DVD collections of all three seasons)

#1 MUDD'S WOMEN
#2 I, MUDD
#3 - #79 everything else

Plato's Stepchildren would be my #1, easy

Poll would get me to actually sit down and watch TOS.

okay can we get a show of hands of those who would actually vote in a ballot poll for TOS...?

Only if I can give every episode -5 points.

I definitely would vote.

I would. Give me an excuse to rewatch a bunch of TOS.

what would you think about having a "most underrated" episodes poll? it seems like a top TOS episodes listing is settled law by now?
"city on edge of forever", "the one with mark lenard as kirk's worthy romulan rival" etc...

I watched all those shows to death in '70s syndication; no time for rewatching/reevaluation, so you'd be stuck with 14-year-old me.

star trek poll that polls every series' episodes + movies would be interesting. subpolls of fave captain, fave guest villain, etc.

Not just TOS, I'm envisioning ALL series (inc. TAS) and movies.

I dont really know if i could vote, cos i haven't seen all the episodes, and just about every new one I catch is "I love this show!" so id have a real rough time picking out a favorite.

I think maybe separate polls for TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT might be better?

these were the top 10 from a viewer's choice thing -- do you guys envision ilx results to differ that much?

"Balance of Terror"
"A Piece of the Action"
"The Menagerie, Part I"
"The Menagerie, Part II"
"Space Seed"
"Amok Time"
"The Doomsday Machine"
"Mirror, Mirror"
"The City on the Edge of Forever"
"The Trouble with Tribbles"

"A Piece of the Action" is a really weird choice, ST doing a comic version of a Corman gangster movie.

The menagerie is a clip show!!!!!! Why people why.

>:(

maybe they just wanted to vote for the cage twice

no, it's a padded pilot. plus there's lotta great stuff in The Cage.

'the menagerie' is not a clip show -- it was a clever way to use footage from an unaired pilot. the producers had no way of knowing that anyone would ever see 'the cage.'

plus it is an awesome episode, way better than just the pilot on its own.

Bakdndowndi7:$:@/)

#*&%^%@#$@#$@!!!!

majel barrett is kinda no-nonsense proto-ripley first officer in the cage.
or i guess proto-riker...

TNG Season 2 finale, though...now there's a clip show.

Haha that was just on regular tv over here! Riker relives all his amorous conquests and moments of violence - and it's called "Shades of Grey"! Also the source for this classic:

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

if the cage had been picked up, i wonder what 2nd season majel barrett would have been like with a beard.

Is the feeling that doing one poll, with about 80 episodes for TOS, and 170+ for TNG, DS9, and Voyager, too much to handle?

Too much. Should be seperate polls. And if they were combined all you yahoos would just vote for TOS episodes anyway.

Not me! Mine would be all Neelix episodes.

you could do a best multi-series arc poll (a set of episodes that span multiple series but have some kind of major continuity)
(e.g. trouble with tribbles TOS episode + the DS9 episode where they go back into time to the trouble with tribbles TOS episode,
mirror mirror TOS + tholian web TOS + the mirror mirror Enterprise episode)

Xpost Tuvix, FTW!

i am TOS-exclusive, fools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8g7y7jsos

^ the best of both worlds

A new greatest thing ever: Fashion It So

http://sttngfashion.tumblr.com/

Those people are doing the lord's work.

I've been unwinding watching TNG from the start. These early episodes are often just hilarious.

I had a whole lot of chuckles watching this one.

http://sttngfashion.tumblr.com/post/781297224/justice-1-08

Yeah, we've been trolling through Netflix picking out the good'uns. It stands up a lot better than I was expecting.

Although holy shit, I just read that blog post.

Highly recommend their post for Haven, too.

We got the remastered series on disc for an early Xmas gift and have been rewatching S1, too. As much as I'm enjoying it (although often for camp reasons bc wow first season is campy as hell), I feel like the show doesn't really get settled until Beverly comes back and Riker has a beard, so looking forward to S3.

okay how do i not remember that episode AT ALL

Justice is my fav s1 episode.