What are your favorite time travel episodes? Also what are your least favorite?

  • Commod0re@startrek.website
    7·
    3 years ago

    DS9 Trials and Tribble-ations

    it’s not an “episode” but Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

    TNG Yesterday’s Enterprise I’ve also always found to be an intriguing glimpse at an era we’ve never really seen otherwise

  • space@beehaw.org
    4·
    3 years ago

    TNG: Time’s arrow. I loved the Guinan backstory, Mark Twain, the western setting, and especially that it was all Data centric.

  • Pack of highly@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 years ago

    Does Voyager’s Shattered count? The ship being split into different phases in time both past and future. It’s one of my favorites.

    For DS9 - Little Green Men and Trials and Tribble-ations are classic!

  • extropian@startrek.website
    2·
    3 years ago

    It’s hard to choose a favorite, but one that comes to mind is the Star Trek Enterprise episode “Carbon Creek” where some Vulcans crash land on Earth in the 1950’s (before first contact) and introduce humanity to velcro.

  • Wooster@startrek.website
    2·
    3 years ago

    I’ll vote for Prodigy’s Time Amok.

    The premise was really creative and it was delightful seeing the cast work together while not sharing the spot light with each other. And oh Gosh… poor Rok-Tahk.

  • Eva!@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    Yesterday’s Enterprise, if I had to pick one.

    Some more obscure ones that I like and I haven’t seen mentioned thus far in this thread:

    • I will always pull for Time Amok from Prodigy. It’s where in my eyes the series really started opening up. It touches on the deepest themes of Star Trek while still being a fun sci-fi concept.
    • Terra Firma from Discovery is basically Tapestry, mirror universe edition. Might have worked better as a one parter but it was fun deconstructing how the prime universe had changed Emperor Georgiou.
    • Timeless from Voyager set some bad precedents for time travel, but it was a good Harry Kim episode.
    • Shattered is probably where I’ll stop any future Voyager rewatches. A fun retrospective on the series, and Chakotay actually gets to do something for a change.

    Side note, have we not had any time shenanigans in Lower Decks? I know it’s technically coming by way of SNW, but still.

  • LibraryLass@startrek.website
    1·
    3 years ago

    I was surprised recently to realize that it might actually be “Time’s Arrow”-- the more so because I’m not as much of a TNG person as I always thought I was. But Time’s Arrow is a fun romp through a nifty and underserved setting, and the ending with Mark Twain is I think one of the most important sequences in TNG.

  • Nmyownworld@startrek.website
    1·
    3 years ago

    PIC season 2 has a lot of moments I enjoy. Ito Aghayere’s Guinan not being just a 100% copy/paste younger version of Whoopi Goldberg’s Guinan, but still being believable as the character. Seven’s enjoyment at not being treated and feared like a Borg for the first time in her adult life (life threatening situation from the alternate future aside). Raffi being confused at a mugger wanting “her wallet,” and then Raffi mugging the mugger, lol. Really, all of Seven and Raffi’s scenes in L. A. after they leave the La Sirena to search for the Watcher.

    DSC season 2 finale, “Such Sweet Sorrow.” The desperate battle. Admiral Cornwell. The goodbyes, that beautiful scene of Discovery following Burnham, with that magnificent music score. That episode always touches my heart.

    DS9’s “Little Green Men” s4e8 and “Trials and Tribble-lations” s5e6 are well done fun.

    TNG’s “Yesterday’s Enterprise” s3e15 is great. Whoa, that battle at the end, the Enterprise-D against those Klingon Birds of Prey. I know how it won’t end – meaning an end to TNG, but in the moment it’s hard to believe how it won’t end.

    TAS’ “Yesteryear” s1e2. I think it’s an episode well worth watching. And, it reaffirms that Sarek and Amanda seriously know how to keep secrets (Sybok, Micheal Burnham), because they must have had some suspicions about how much cousin Selek was like adult Spock.

    While those are my favorites, the good thing is that I enjoy the time travel episodes that I didn’t list here, too.

  • trekkie@startrek.website
    1·
    3 years ago

    There are so many good ones to choose from across all the shows. Since Past Tense and All Good Things have already been mentioned, I’ll say Time’s Arrow. The hook at the beginning of the episode is just too good. I mean,

    spoiler

    finding Data’s head in a cave on some random planet while Data is standing right there?

    The whole scene with Mrs. Carmichael trying to collect rent… Mr. Pick-ard! Snake canes eating souls, Mark Twain, Guinan and Picard meeting…

    Also, Little Green Men is a great one.

    Yesterday’s Enterprise…

    No, wait: it has to be Trials and Tribble-ations