if that doesn't help, I'll make the next clue obvious
George's choice of 2 worst episodes is hard to argue with, so I won't, as I mostly agree. They were certainly the most ridiculous (along with season 2,s 'I, Mudd"
Star Trek 5 is amazingly awful
I have other choices for 'worst' episode based on other criteria, but that's another discussion
Was it the NG episode where Picard, Guinan, Ro, ans a couple of others get turned into children (transporter mishap, I believe), and try to re-take the Enterprise from some Ferengi? Young Picard had a lot of hair. I remember that the first thing he did after being returned to normal was to feel for hair!
With a faint look of disappointment, at that!
Incidentally, I picked "Way to Eden" to complement the previous use of "Spock's Brain." In my estimation, those two are tied for the worst ST episode of all time. And "Way to Eden" was essentially remade as "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," probably the worst ST MOVIE ever.
George
I hear the Voyager fans consider "Threshold" the worst Trek episode ever,
due to it being a continuous string of science fantasy so far from plausible that
my vote for worst episode is 'Requiem for Methuselah"
It's not the stupidest, or most far fetched , but it typified everything wrong with 3rd season Trek.
Kirk lands on a planet and immediately falls in love with a hot blonde
Nothing new there, but in the meantime, the Enterprise is shrunk and dangling from 'Methuselah's hand like a piece of jewelry.
So with over 400 people he's responsible for in this dire situation, Kirk is wholly consumed with fighting this guy over this woman he's known for about 2 hours.
'In the Corbomite Manuever, Kirk tells McCoy he already has a woman to worry about, her name is the Enterprise. Not any more.
He's at least ashamed of himself at the end. McCoy then lambasts Spock, defending Kirk's actions because, well, that's what real men do, sacrifice all to get their rocks off.
Spock, in a move to show his 'humanity' mind melds with Kirk to make him forget.
He should have made him remember what he said in the Corbomite Manuever.
ok I've got that off my chest. It's shows like that that make some of the original series unwatchable for me.
Q loses his powers. The Enterprise is attacked by beings who hate Q. He sacrifices himself to save the ship, and gets his powers back. "What did you do to them, Q?" "Nothing bizarre. Nothing grotesque." His encounters with Guinan and Data were classic.
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hiway29
That's a good guess, but it's not that episode.
another clue-the line is spoken on earth
if that doesn't help, I'll make the next clue obvious
George's choice of 2 worst episodes is hard to argue with, so I won't, as I mostly agree. They were certainly the most ridiculous (along with season 2,s 'I, Mudd"
Star Trek 5 is amazingly awful
I have other choices for 'worst' episode based on other criteria, but that's another discussion
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"Family" where Picard and his brother hang out in the family vineyard?
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another good guess-but not 'Family'
I really like 'Family' thou-a nice 'rest' episode following the harrowing Borg invasion
The quote was given by a 'martian' from Picard's past.
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"THE FIRST DUTY."
When Picard finally gets to see Boothby again,
Boothby replies
"I remember you.
What happened to your hair?"
Boothby gets great lines.
With a faint look of disappointment, at that!
I hear the Voyager fans consider "Threshold" the worst Trek episode ever,
due to it being a continuous string of science fantasy so far from plausible that
suspension of disbelief just can't be done.
(For most people.)
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First Duty it is
my vote for worst episode is 'Requiem for Methuselah"
It's not the stupidest, or most far fetched , but it typified everything wrong with 3rd season Trek.
Kirk lands on a planet and immediately falls in love with a hot blonde
Nothing new there, but in the meantime, the Enterprise is shrunk and dangling from 'Methuselah's hand like a piece of jewelry.
So with over 400 people he's responsible for in this dire situation, Kirk is wholly consumed with fighting this guy over this woman he's known for about 2 hours.
'In the Corbomite Manuever, Kirk tells McCoy he already has a woman to worry about, her name is the Enterprise. Not any more.
He's at least ashamed of himself at the end. McCoy then lambasts Spock, defending Kirk's actions because, well, that's what real men do, sacrifice all to get their rocks off.
Spock, in a move to show his 'humanity' mind melds with Kirk to make him forget.
He should have made him remember what he said in the Corbomite Manuever.
ok I've got that off my chest. It's shows like that that make some of the original series unwatchable for me.
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Ok, next one, then.....
"The moon.
Yes, that will be my home.
My paradise.
I shall find there, all the souls I love -- Socrates, Galileo..."
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"The moon.
Yes, that will be my home.
My paradise.
I shall find there, all the souls I love -- Socrates, Galileo..."
"The Captain will do everything in his power to stop you."
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"The moon.
Yes, that will be my home.
My paradise.
I shall find there, all the souls I love -- Socrates, Galileo..."
"The Captain will do everything in his power to stop you."
"G sub I J of t as t approaches infinity..."
"That's G of t over G-naught."
"So it is, so it is."
"I still don't see how you can incorporate the quantum principle into general relativity without
adjusting the cosmological constant a lot more than you're doing here."
"If we increase the value as you suggest, we must face the possibility of twenty-six dimensions,
instead of ten!"
"I'm not sure if I'm ready for that."
"I certainly am not."
"But if this semiset was curved into the subatomic, the infinities might cancel each other out."
"Gruss Gott. They just might."
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The Next Generation..
Hollow Pursuit
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Sadly, no.
Maybe if you figure out who that exchange was between, you'll have the episode.
There's a hint if you read it carefully.
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TNG...
9th degree?
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Deja Q
Q loses his powers. The Enterprise is attacked by beings who hate Q. He sacrifices himself to save the ship, and gets his powers back. "What did you do to them, Q?" "Nothing bizarre. Nothing grotesque." His encounters with Guinan and Data were classic.
George
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You meant "the Nth Degree",
which IS the correct answer.
Barclay's brain gets a super-upgrade, and he gets confidence and an effective
personality as a side-effect.
Before that, he's unable to perform Cyrano confidently, even with full costume.
Afterwards, he's 'in character' with no need of costume.
Thus, the lines from the play about the moon.
After he takes over the ship, they begin working on a bypass to the engines so they
can get to a starbase, while the ship's counselor tries to talk him out of his plan,
and thus out of being plugged into the ship. When she fails, she turns back and says
"The Captain will do everything within his power to stop you,"
which not only won't convince him to step out,
not only will convince him she was insincere when talking earlier,
but was as good as sounding an alert that they were working on something-
which, of course, means Barclay stopsm Geordi's bypass. All from one line.
Also, he stays up all night debating the Grand Unification Theory with a holographic
program of Albert Einstein-and is getting the better of him in discussion!
It was the German Einstein who said "Gruss gott!"
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pawnbroker's turn!
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Yes, we're very much alike, Captain.
Both proud of our ships.
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hiway29
The Corbomite Manuever-Balok (actually little Clint Howard, already weird looking)
"you're so stolid-you weren't like that before the beard"
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WordWolf
Was that "Q WHO"?
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no-but in a way it may as well be, as some of the Q episodes blur for me.
right Q, wrong episode though.
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I'll go with "Deja Q", then.
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GeorgeStGeorge
Actually, I think THIS one was "Deja Q."
George
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Ha! Got you by SECONDS, George!
*checks*
Ah, the line was from the end, while the Mariachi band was playing.
I've always had trouble placing that line.
George, go ahead and take it anyway!
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I'll be back this afternoon with a good one.
George
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"We will both keep the predators away."
George
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"I became self-aware; I am alive."
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