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My favorite TNG episode is from the seventh season. It's called Masks

Not a lot of other people like it, and even some of the actors had comments such as, "I didn't get it." But hey, I still think that it is an awesome episode. So what are some of your favorites?

I happened to like The Chase, where the Progenitors are introduced. The crew goes all over the place, and discovers the secret to an ancient mystery. Cool in my book.

Barring that, the obvious choice, BoBW Part I & II.

LOTS, its my childhood and today's favorite show.

Best of Both worlds
Redemtion 1 and 2
Time Squared
Times Arrow
Unification 1 and 2
Decent 1 and 2

Qpid - "Sir, I object - I am not a merry man !"
Who Watchers The Watchers ? - "But if the only proof you will believe is my life - then shoot"
Remember Me - "The universe is a spherical region, seven hundred and five meters in diameter..."
Captain's Holiday - "I knew he'd have a great time"
The Perfect Mate - "But you... you had to work side by side with her for days...how could you resist her... ?"
Booby Trap - "Admirable. They died at their posts..."

Tapestry

Q wrote:Like I said, Picard: you're dead, this is the afterlife, and I am God.

Yesterday's Enterprise.

"Let's make sure history never forgets the name, Enterprise."

Disaster - "That is not the correct port, Commander."
Yesterday's Enterprise - "That'll be the day."
True Q - Olivia D'Abo

I thought the premise of Rascals was kind of absurd, but the little kid Picard throwing a temper tantrum and then the look on Riker's face when he calls him dad made me laugh. I also liked Tapestry, especially the way Q said "Welcome to the afterlife Jean-Luc. You're dead." That episode probably had the biggest case of Q-wanking, assuming he wasn't just making Picard experience a near-death hallucination before pulling him out of it. I also enjoyed the Gambit two-parter.

The Big Goodbye
The Measure of a Man -My personal favorite. Data and Picard at their best.
The Defector
Redemption 1&2
I, Borg
The Inner Light -My second favorite, nearly brought me to tears.
Starship Mine
Lower Decks

Darth Quorthon wrote: That episode probably had the biggest case of Q-wanking, assuming he wasn't just making Picard experience a near-death hallucination before pulling him out of it.

How do you "wank" Q? Wanking, as I understand it, means attributing capacities to an entity unreasonably exceeding what we see in the source material. Do we have any established limits for Q's powers?

General_Soontir_Fel wrote:

Darth Quorthon wrote: That episode probably had the biggest case of Q-wanking, assuming he wasn't just making Picard experience a near-death hallucination before pulling him out of it.

How do you "wank" Q? Wanking, as I understand it, means attributing capacities to an entity unreasonably exceeding what we see in the source material. Do we have any established limits for Q's powers?

Point taken.

Definitely 'Yesterday's Enterprise'. This showed what TNG could have been - incidentally, if you work through the logic of the episode then the 'alternate' timeline must actually be the original timeline [& Guinan's lines therefore incompatible].

BoBW not bad either.
'Remember Me' was interesting.

Me tooing Yesterday's Enterprise. I also really enjoyed Chain of Command and The Wounded. I really wish they explored the finer points of revolving around the Cardassian War, since it had such a huge effect on the Federation. At least, explored it in a non-stupid way that didn't make the Federation seem so self-righteous despite dicking over all those people.

B5B7 wrote:Definitely 'Yesterday's Enterprise'. This showed what TNG could have been - incidentally, if you work through the logic of the episode then the 'alternate' timeline must actually be the original timeline [& Guinan's lines therefore incompatible].

What? Please someone explain this to me as I am very confused.

Master Bob wrote:My favorite TNG episode is from the seventh season. It's called Masks

Not a lot of other people like it, and even some of the actors had comments such as, "I didn't get it." But hey, I still think that it is an awesome episode. So what are some of your favorites?

I actually liked Masks. It wasn't my favorite, but I enjoyed it and can watch it again, unlike some trek.

My all time favorite TNG episode would probably be The Defector. Dealing with the Romulans (my favorite trek baddies/potential good guys), with none other than Commander Tomolak, my favorite Romulan commander, making an appearance. More importantly, though, was the tension, the relative lack of technobabble, the neatness with which the plot's loose ends were tied up, the truly surprising plot device that saved the E-D, and the fact that you (or least I) really didn't know what the right call was. Either of Picard's potential choices risked war.

Also, Tomolak's monologue was just badass, going on about how the Romulans would display the Enterprise's broken hull to inspire their people.

The Guid wrote:What? Please someone explain this to me as I am very confused.

If the Enterprise-C had been spewed into intergalactic space and no travel back in time occured, what would have been the state of the Alpha Quadrant? Remember, the Enterprise-C jumps into the future in both timelines.

Yesterday's Enterprise
Sarek
The Drumhead
Measure of a Man
Chain of Command
All Good Things
Cause and Effect
Genesis

Three of my favorites:

Mirror, Mirror
In a Mirror Darkely
Lower Decks

Invictus ChiKen wrote:Three of my favorites:

Mirror, Mirror

That was TOS.

In a Mirror Darkely

That was Enterprise.

Your first two are not TNG eps

General_Soontir_Fel wrote:Tapestry

Q wrote:Like I said, Picard: you're dead, this is the afterlife, and I am God.

My favorite as well. The rest of that dialogue snippet is priceless:

Picard wrote:You are not God!

Q wrote:Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out, or smite you or something.

The Guid wrote:

B5B7 wrote:Definitely 'Yesterday's Enterprise'. This showed what TNG could have been - incidentally, if you work through the logic of the episode then the 'alternate' timeline must actually be the original timeline [& Guinan's lines therefore incompatible].

What? Please someone explain this to me as I am very confused.

According to Guinan, the original timeline is the one where the C was destroyed at Narendra III. But then - where did the alternate timeline come from ? Did the anomaly that sucked the C into the future just appear out of nowhere ?

You could argue that the D triggered the event by scanning the anomaly in it's original timeline, thus setting the timetravel in motion - but in that case, the alternate timeline was unavoidable, and the "war" version of history was the real timeline, albeit with a small detour.

Simply put, you're led to believe that the original sequence of events is

Enterprise destroyed -> Klingons get friendlier -> happy future

and the alternate sequence is

Enterprise sucked through time -> Klingons get pissed off -> war future -> Enterprise gets sent back -> [timeline A happens as usual]

But since the anomaly existed in both timelines, the time-travle would've happened anyway, and the "bad" future is how things were supposed to have happened.

Tapestry, Yesterday's Enterprise and despite being a Crusher episode, I like Remember Me.

I second The Inner Light. Very touching and excellent Picard Episode, probably the best display of Stewart's acting ability on TNG.

General_Soontir_Fel wrote:

Darth Quorthon wrote: That episode probably had the biggest case of Q-wanking, assuming he wasn't just making Picard experience a near-death hallucination before pulling him out of it.

How do you "wank" Q? Wanking, as I understand it, means attributing capacities to an entity unreasonably exceeding what we see in the source material. Do we have any established limits for Q's powers?

Can't escape from comets, fear provoking the Borg, can be killed by weapons humans can use with no blowback problems... People, stop this Q-No-Limits BULLSHIT.

But my favorite episode is most things with Q. For a trickster wizard, he's got the right idea: The Galaxy is a place of wonder and strageness. You will have to change and grow to understand it. ANd ultimately, the greatest journey is that of the mind, and possibilities.