Best Classic Star Trek Episodes?

[drwayne]

The "Preservers" are an ancient race that are thought to be responsible for "seeding" many
planets with life, and providing support to their evolution.

There was a next generation episode in which they were referred to, not by name, in an episode
in which it was discovered that their is a coded message in the DNA or a variety of races through
the galaxy.

In one of the books, it is brought out that the "Doomsday Machine" was a weapon that was built
to fight a war between the preservers and the borg.

Wayne

 

[drwayne]

Some of this shows up in the books referred to as the "Shatnerverse"

Some links:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Preservers

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Preserver

 

[ZenGalacticore]

The "Preservers" are an ancient race that are thought to be responsible for "seeding" many
planets with life, and providing support to their evolution.

There was a next generation episode in which they were referred to, not by name, in an episode
in which it was discovered that their is a coded message in the DNA or a variety of races through
the galaxy.

In one of the books, it is brought out that the "Doomsday Machine" was a weapon that was built
to fight a war between the preservers and the borg.

Wayne

Of course. Although I love the original show and have at least some measure of respect for the whole franchise, that explains why there are so many humanoid aliens in the Star Trek Universe. I remember a friend telling me about it back in the early 90s, I just didn't recall the term "preservers" or its meaning and relevance.

But hey, one has to work with something! It is after all, just science fiction. And it's plausible to the extent that we ourselves may one day become Preservers. (As far as DNA or even humans being scattered around, after 100s of thousands or millions of years, how human they may or may not look is probably a whole thread in and of itself. Wouldn't you say?)

 

[drwayne]

The novels, and to some degree Next Generation episodes, have taken it upon themselves to
'explain' some of the plot and technology issues that the original series left open. I have to
admit, I tend to like that sort of thing for the most part. (I also like novels in which the series'
characters interact, and it's hard to beat seeing Data/Spock and Scotty/Geordi interactions in
TNG).

Wayne

p.s. Anyone wonder if there was room for a second story after "Obsession" ended? I mean, how do they
know they actually destroyed the creature? It's not like they spent a lot of time looking. When they
got Kirk back aboard, they immediately went trucking off to the rendevous with the Yorktown.

 

[crazyeddie]

And the 'Gary 7' episode? (For the life of me I can't remember the actual name of that one.) But I loved it. And Teri Garr? Mmmmmmmmmm. I only wish they'd put her in one of the many skimpy outfits they had for the fairer sex guest stars!!

Oh yeah!!!! "Assignment Earth". (The ole noggin still works, just takes a while to get the phasers fired up these days, sometimes.)

That one was one of my favorites. As you probably know, it was a pilot for a spin-off series, and it would have made a good one, in my opinion. I loved the sassy Beta-5 computer and Terri Garr was great as Seven's Goldie Hawn-ish sidekick. The cat, Isis, was a curiosity.....appearing, when it wanted to, as a seductive alien female. And the climactic scene of Spock and Seven frantically trying to disarm the nuclear warhead as the computer relentlessly counted down the rocket's altitude was a masterpiece of suspense.....and another good example of how the music score in those moments really added to the scene's tension. You almost never saw anything like that in ST-TNG, which often seemed so boring and tame compared to the action-oriented original series.

 

[ZenGalacticore]

I totally agree. Action, and the characters' REACTION to phenomena, makes for much better sci-fi than a bunch of way over-done, meaningless techno-babble, overly emphasized political correctness, and mostly flat, one dimensional, absolutely insufferably boring characters and storylines.

And the original ST music? OUTSTANDING!!! Dramatic(when the Enterprise is heading into the maw of the doomsday machine or the giant cell in 'Immunity Syndrome'), sad (Spock's theme), intense, New Age sometimes, and traditional, almost neolithic/natural human rhythms at other times (when the green slave girl dances, for example).

And the reflective ditty they would play when some awesome fact or revelation was discovered or experienced, or a previous notion overturned. Don't know what I would call that one, "Jim's Awakening", maybe?

Roddenberry really had the elements right in the first series. The later shows seem to have forgotten Drama 101. Don't fix it if it aint broke, I always say!

 

[bdewoody]

Did any of you realise that "Ballance of Terror" followed the story line of a WW II movie "The Enemy Below" with Robert Michum and Kurt Jurgens. It was about a US destroyer escort stalking a German submarine in the south Atlantic. The main difference being that in the end the two ships sank each other. BTW this was one of my favorite episodes,

 

[scotpens]

"The Paradise Syndrome"

In one of the novels, it was revealed that the obelisk was in fact a preserver artifcat.

Wayne

"My bearings, my poor bearings" - Montgommery Scott

Actually he said "My poor bairns" (Scottish for babies). Funny, at first I thought he said "bearings" also. Do the Enterprise's warp engines have crankshafts?

 

[observer7]

I think that the ULTIMATE TOS episode is....

...

are you ready?...

..

come on, think people it's....





The City on the Edge of Forever



Drama, music, story, and when Kirk holds on to McCoy, stopping him from saving Keeler, that was moving. They return to their proper time and Kirk's "Let's get the hell out of here." just says it all.

O7