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Devil in the Dark is one of the scariest episodes of TV ever.
Ricardo Montalban playing the manipulative tyrant in Space Seed never gets old. Much better than his crazed mad man in Wrath of Khan. "Now you must ask to stay." The rest of the episode is flawed.
The episode where Cisco plays a 20th century sci-fi writer is Emmy-worthy. I haven't seen much DS9, but if it's all that good I'm missing out.
Recently, S02E02 of SNW, a "trial" episode, was surprisingly riveting.
The episode where Cisco [sic] plays a 20th century sci-fi writer is Emmy-worthy. I haven’t seen much DS9, but if it’s all that good I’m missing out.
It's not all that good (a few are pretty bad even), but there's a lot of excellent TV in DS9.
DS9 is probably the strongest of the TNG-DD9-VOY-ENT set, partly because they wrote stories with arcs across seasons and episodes and not just syndication-friendly reset to zeros. It also benefits from most episodes taking place entirely in the station, so they don't need to spend as much time introducing the strange new world or the new forehead aliens.
I recommend it.
In case you weren’t already aware, fan-favourite Star Trek tie-in fiction author shared the script credit for Only a Paper Moon.
His other DS9 script credit is for Starship Down.
If you haven’t tried Mack’s tie-in novels, you’re missing some of the best.
A favourite of mine is Civil Defense (DS9 S03E07). A series of escalating attempts for Gul Dukat to assert control over DS9. It leads to some very satisfying Gul Dukat encounters, who in my opinion is a fantastic villain throughout.
I agree that Gul Dukat is fantastic, but calling him a villain implies he ever did anything wrong.
Good choice with Blink Of An Eye, love that episode.
Whenever I think of my favorite episodes, I think of what are probably the cliché and blatantly obvious ones: In The Pale Moonlight (DS9 S06E19), Measure of a Man (TNG S02E09), and The Inner Light (TNG S05E25). TNG and DS9 are my most rewatched Treks, so they are always freshest in my mind.
You bringing up Living Witness (Voyager S04E23), though, has reminded me of how phenomenal an episode it was—and I completely agree with it being a top five. I have my problems with Voyager, but, from time to time, it could crank out some truly classic Trek.
These are all great episodes, OP. You have great taste. I especially love your VOY picks, those are certainly among my favorites for the show.
My understanding is that the balance of terror is a take on some popular submarine movie or something, but I could be 100% wrong about this.
Great list.