Star Trek: 10 Greatest Ever Time Travel Episodes
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Yesterday's Enterprise would/could have been such a kick ass movie.
It's still one of the best episodes of the whole series. I don't think Ira Steven Behr gets enough credit.
Let's make sure history never forgets... the name..."Enterprise"!
I have always though it came across as more of a short film, both in theme and in how it was shot. The 2 parter "Year of Hell" on Voyager is similar, in this way.
Come on Tarantino - make it your 11th movie
@@VonWenk not only one of the best of the series, one of the best of the whole franchise
Adam, you might really love it when I tell you the names of the two “time police” from “Trials and Tribbleations.” Their names are Dulmer and Lucsly. Their names are anagrams of Mulder and Scully. I just thought that you might enjoy that.
the Department of Temporal Investigations
Thank you Jennifer - that's genius!
Very cool!
The truth is back there.
Maybe my favorite all time episodes along with the inner light although not a pure time travel episode.
Voyager's "Blink of an Eye" was unique in that it was a time quandary rather than time travel. In one hour it combined history, religion, evolution, biology, meteorology, sociology, humanism, chronology, and philosophy. One of the best ever Trek episodes.
Great...Great Episode, the very best of Voyager on a par with 'Timeless'
It was a great episode, but not really time TRAVEL. Just time moving at different rates.
This was one of my favorite Voyager episodes.
Wait a minute.... John Robinson.... weren't you in Lost in Space? What are you doing in the Start Trek Universe anyway???????????
The Orville took a crack at it but Blink of an Eye is a great sci fi story regardless of Star Trek.
I don't quite understand why Time's Arrow gets so much hate. Samuel Clemens and his pet cigar are possibly two of the greatest guest characters ever.
“I’ve always thought (Mark Twain quote everyone’s heard of),” (actor who looks nothing like Mark Twain in very bad old age makeup.)
“Golly mister, my name’s Jack London. Can we go out onto the backlot and talk with three people in bad costumes?”
I loved that 2 parter. Miles better than Desent 1 & 2.
@@KingfisherTalkingPictures eh, Twain's long ago enough that nailing how he looks isn't super important. But that _voice!_ That's _totally_ how I always imagine Mr. Clemens speaking.
Who hates Times Arrow?..I mean I respect others opinions but if u don't like times arrow u must not be a trek fan...how could u not like such a great time travel story with data at the center?
@@antoniokastrocarlisledemel6617 it is sort of derided as silly, and... I don't know, flippant? In any case, I love it.
Worth noting that "Trials and Tribble-ations" was a special episode to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek
Did you see the original idea for that episode? Instead of going back in time, they were going to visit the Gangster Planet from TOS... except now, instead of copying 1920s gangsters, they were all copying Kirk, Spock, et al. It was Trekkie planet, basically. People cosplaying as Kirk and wearing fake pointy ears.
@@AndrewD8Red I did hear about that! Sounds intriguing but it may have come off like a parody so I think they went the better route.
Also trying to win over TOS fans for DS9 THAT late in the shows life sounds pretty far fetched.
Andrew Priest, interesting, so they were first going to make it an episode of Galaxy Quest.
Worf’s different physical appearance to The Original Series Klingons was explained on ST ENT.
DS9 had the best time travel episode in history with TOS! Warf’s non-explanation of Klingon evolution was hilarious!
And ENT had a great arc to bring a good explanation into canon.......and now DSC has gone and messed it up even further.
@@Keithustus They just shaved. After they grew their hair back they looked like TNG Klingons. Still dont look like humans in TOS, but better then nothing.
They still sing songs of the Great Tribble Hunt!
This list is illogical as the Vulcan Science Directive has deemed time travel impossible.
Since our species doesn't know if it's possible or not. All we can do is speculate about it .
T'Pol has joined the chat: "Not fair"
Your logic is impeccable.
Spock, George and Gracie would like to have a word with those that wrote the Directive.
@@cujoedaman old stuffie Vulcans is my bet
Leader: What do we want!?
Crowd: A time machine!
Leader: When do we want it!?
Crowd: That is irrelevant.
That's hilarious!
@@ChrispyCulture tell that to 1963, 1968, 2001, and 2020... oh
Borg: “Irrelevant”? That is our word
@@artembentsionov
I thought it was "futile"?
@@vincepurpura8905 that too
The Visitor is, by far, my favorite time travel episode. It really drove home how close Benjamin and Jake were as father and son. It was Avery Brooks strongest performance of the series, in my opinion. Cirroc Lofton and Tony Todd both gave excellent performances aswell, but Avery Brooks put on an acting clinic in this episode. It literally brings me to tears everytime I watch this episode. This episode is "The Inner LIght" of DS9.
I'm a grown man and I teared up at that one.
The one with the bell riots was my favourite.
I liked how it had the guy who was the gun/pawn shop owner who was killed by the terminator. I thought it was very fitting casting him there.
"All Good Things..." was the absolute best way to end Next Generation.
yeah, but it was kinda ruined with ST:Picard...geez...that series is so uneasily dark...I really hate and like it at the same time...still got some episodes to watch...
Icheb vivisected, Seven murdering the one responsible, the federation being transmuted into some militaristic organisation...mmmh...no...this is not what Picard should've been...
@@Hunne2303 agree completely!
It didn't end TNG. They made two movies afterward. Plus two other things everyone should skip.
@jdslyman, no, there’s only two films: Generations and First Contact. After that are just some fanfic films not worth acknowledging.
@jdslyman, I really like TMP. Sure it’s not a great film, but it’s a decent Star Trek theme.....explore, find that 20th Century Voyager did some sci-fi stuff, resolve problems not through combat. Plus the music is great.
Voyager's Year of Hell was a solid entry into the funky time shenanigans category. I read that they wished they could have had a full season arc with the concept, which would have been AMAZING. What I loved about Year of Hell is that Voyager finally had some real stakes and real adversity rather than problem of the week and "reset". To be honest, I really wish they had thought of the Voyager concept in today's TV world because the show could have been properly dark, suspenseful and made better use of the concept.
Spot on!
Problem of the week? The whole show is an ongoing f homeward bound
"Captain Kirk doing the greased weasel tango with painted ladies" .. is literally one of the most fantastic sentences that I have ever experienced.
One of the paradox's of Q's character is that as annoying as people found him he ultimately liked humanity and eventually saved them. I don't believe anybody else in the continuum would have even cared.
That seems like a corollary to the saying, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."
He had more interactions where he was helping them in ways they couldn't even understand that anything else.... he just presented it in the absolute worst way possible.
I often read Q as not being humanity's judge from the Q, but their attorney. 'Let me test them! Let me give them a chance to prove if they are worthy or not.'
It's just... he's ALSO a giant dick.
"The Visitor" makes me cry every time I watch it. Such a good episode, great performances, but so sad.
I know they don't technically travel through time, but Shattered is such a great episode. Traveling through the ship to help stop Seska is just 😍
I would consider it a time travel episode. And it's one of my favorites!
He's moving through temporal rifts. I'd call that time travel. And it's soooo Gooooood.
The omission of DS9's Past Tense is criminal.
Is past Tense the Sisko as a sci-fi writer one? That was fantastic, but if being pedantic, not time travel.
@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 It's the one where they accidentally let a civil rights dude get killed so Sisko takes over.
@@MilsurpMikeChannel Am I going mad or was Kid Rock in that one?
I know I COULD just google this.
@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 I googled it for you. It's a guy called Frank Military. Never heard of him.
@@jimmym3352 huh... Could swear it was kid rock, or maybe they wanted kid rock for the episode but it fell through. meh. Anyway OP yeah, Bell Riots was a great ep too. Where they go to a period of earths history where we stick all the poor people in one neighbourhood and have the police physically remove anyone who doesn't own a home. Ha, that'd be so ridiculous and inhumane. Ha! HAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!
fuck reality
Yesterday's Enterprise has one of the best Captain Picard lines of all time "Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise."
I'd like to think that the commander of every ship named Enterprise has said this line.
If not... well put it on the time travel bucket list.
special place in my heart since I was in the Navy and served almost 5 years on the Enterprise (CVN 65). Though I think the WW2 Enterprise did enough good work to be remembered, at least by WW2 history nerds like me.
@@jimmym3352
Did good enough?
The Enterprise was the most decorated ship in the US Navy in WW2.
"never forgets"? Between the real-life Enterprises and the Star Trek Enterprises ... 100 years after our civilization has gone away (hopefully not in an apocalyptic fashion), any human alive in what was once known as North America (& likely some other regions of the planet) will be re-counting the myths of the legendary 'Enterprise'!
City on the edge of forever has one of my most favorite lines:
"Killers! Assassins! I won't let you!" *McCoy sees a bum drinking milk*
"You! What planet is this?!" - McCoy
"What planet is this?" LOL
I liked Spock's comment "On the order of ten thousand centuries." So much for logic.
I heard this comment
You missed the DS9 Episode where Chief O'Brien keeps getting pulled a few hours into his own future then sent back over and over.
yeah i thought they`d have that one to
@@davidaltman3867 Visionary - Yeah, it's Great! "I hate temporal mechanics!" by both O'Briens at the same time.
"i hate temporal mechanics". 'Nuff said.
Ooooh yeah such a good one
I'd say Timeless is better than Endgame. It's one of the only good Harry Kim episodes.
Timeless. Yea thats a really good one. Garrett Wang's acting was quite good
To be fair, most of the Harry episodes were good, it's just that there were only about enough to count on one hand.
Timeless from Voyager & Times Arrow from STNG should be on the list. In fact, you would do series fans a good turn by creating a video that lists ALL Time Travel episodes from all five series. Timeless is tied with City on the Edge of Forever as my favorites. Harry Kim rose to Hero status in Timeless, demonstrating how guilt and regret remain the most punishing of human emotions. Good video, a thumbs up and a new subscriber earned!!!
@@theremixproject907 Common sense at last. I have converted many a non Trekkie to Star Trek through Timeless. Completely original storyline with some of the best acting from any Star Trek character post TNG.
Trials and Tribble-ations has always been one of the best DS9 episodes and a personal favorite. Plus we got to see Jadzia Dax in a TOS uniform. What is not to love.
We noticed that people were heavier in USS Enterprise in Trials & Tribblations than thinner USS Enterprise crews in the 1960's Star Trek classic series.
😍 😋 🤤 🔥 👏❗
Yesterday's Enterprise and All Good Things are probably my second and third favourite TNG episodes. Both utterly fantastic.
"Open hailing frequencies, Lieutenant. This is Captain Morgan Bateson of the Federation starship Bozeman... I'm listening. Sherry, Miles? 🍸"
Hailing frequencies open ... Maris?
Niles. Doctor Niles Crane... and Daphne.
@@kjamison5951 yes, but Miles O'Brien was the joke I was making in that last part. I couldn't resist. Though really, Barclay is the Niles of the Trek universe.
That's Niles, not Miles. Get it right.
@@kjamison5951 Fun Fact: Daphne was the first one to call Niles, Miles.
I thought 'City on the Edge of Forever' was the best Trek ever. It won the Hugo Award and was most memorable for young impressionable people of the '60's. Other ones mentioned were also excellent and had various flavors to the time travel genre of a number of Trek series.
"All Good Things" also won the Hugo Award in 1995 for "Best Dramatic Presentation".
@@lelandframe1029 Agreed! 'City...' though had the conflict about the 'needs of the many', duty vs. personal love interest and futurist person for the restoration to the time line. In my opinion, 'City...' raises philosophical questions to ponder about humanity, if there's really choice or we're given some script to fulfill.
I would have put "City" first also, but then I love TOS better than anything that came after it.
@@mosespray4510, I agreed, especially our baby boom generation! HELL YES! The City on the Edge of Forever is the best Star Trek classic of time-travel story of all time. Today's youth generation sucks! They had been excessively brainwashed by leftist propaganda, and so, they rejected the Star Trek classic and conservationism.
No “Past Tense”??? What it loses in time travel antics it more than makes up for in sociopolitical relevance
That comes in second only to Yeesterdays Enterprise as my all time favorite ST episode
I had to look up the episode, but yes, that was a really good one.
Past Tense is one of the best ST episodes of any series. It is brilliant.
"Past Tense" is one of the best episodes AND it is a WARNING because it has a good chance of becoming FACT!
Vote on Tuesday!
@@lelandframe1029 i suspect neither jagoff on the ballot can avert Past Tense
Jadzia really looked smokin' in a TOS uniform.
Oh yeah. Oh Yeah!
I gotta go see the rest of that episode now!
@Randomly Entertaining: IMHO, Jadzia {Terry Farrell} would look smokin hot wearing a gunny sack.
Damn she looked great in thst those legs her eyes her hair she was perfect......godamn Dukat!
Too bad she couldn't act.
The best thing about ALL GOOD THINGS was the Z-Axis attack by Admiral Riker's ship. That alone made it a legendary episode.
Voyager Relativity is one of my best, for similar reasons as you explained for your top episode.
Worf eating that omelette and loving it was hilarious
Captain Bateson is a central character in the novel Ship-of-the-Line. At first we’re shown the events of the episode from his viewpoint and of how he ended up going through the anomaly in the first place: he was trying to fight a Klingon heavy cruiser that has crossed the border to destroy a Federation outpost. It was a suicide mission, so they were buying time. After crossing over they learned that Kirk and the Enterprise showed up to drive the Klingons away, saving thousands of lives. The Bozeman’ screw was assumed destroyed and got heroic funerals. Years later, Bateson spearheaded the construction of the Enterprise-E and maneuvered himself into the position of her first captain. Then his old Klingon enemy (still alive) came back to settle an old score and capture the Federation flagship in the process. In the end, Bateson hands the command over to Picard and gets a new ship, the Bozeman II. The book ends with the opening to First Contact and Picard musing that the new Bozeman is present at the battle with the cube.
Bateson also briefly appeared in one of Shatner’s novels, sitting in a cafe with Kirk and Scotty in the 24th century
Ship of the Line is an excellent story. I highly recommend the audio book version of it narrated by Kevin Conway. I think it's even on TH-cam. Anyway, it's an excellent telling of the back story and what happened after TNG episode ends.
@@ORF5519 thanks! Didn’t know about the audiobook. I mostly listen to Audible, which doesn’t have it. Too bad it’s abridged, but the sound effects are nice
@@artembentsionov It might take a bit of searching but you there might be a full version online.
@@ORF5519 doesn’t look like they made one. Too bad, it’s the first novel I’ve read fully in English. My first attempt was Dune... bad idea
As if there's no 'Year of Hell', 'Relativity' or 'Future's End' on this list, and only an honourable mention for 'Timeless'. What do you have against Voyager?
I mean, you could argue that 'Year of Hell' isn't technically time travel, but neither is 'The Visitor', and that made the list.
I haven't seen the video yet but I downloaded it for later...are u telling me my all time favorite trek episode Year Of Hell isn't on here.....wtf?
I love futures end it’s one of my all time favorite episodes. Like seriously the guy outsmarts them almost every time and doc gets his mobile emitter.
@@Leavemealone670 don't get me started on futures end cuz that's one my all time favorite trek episodes too...I love how the team splits up and they all get their own little adventure and then the Dr getting the mobile emitter and seeing them back on earth(which who knew we wouldn't ever get to see them back on earth in their own time)... starling was such a asshole too that I couldn't wait for them to take him down
@@antoniokastrocarlisledemel6617 ya it was probably one of the best Star Trek episodes in general I loved it so much.
relativity was a good one. year of hell, kind of depressing.....whichever that one where Capt Archer can't remember much after the Xindi zaps Earth (not to mention, they still suffer losses when under attack)
Picard is possibly the only one Q found worthy of toying with. I love his line, "exploring the uncharted possibilities of existance!"
Yesterdays Enterprise is one of my favourite TNG episodes as we get to see the missing link, the Enterprise C. Admittedly we don't see the Enterprise B until Generations, but... still. Enterprise C quickly became my favourite Enterprise
Riker: "Your gonna call my bluff right?"
That really tripped my head out when he said that with the great camera work.
The picture of Kirk and Edith Keeler at 12:01 looks, from a 2020 perspective, as though they would be taking a selfie 😁
personally i would put "The Sound of Her Voice" from DS9 on the list. its a very unique "time travel" story.
" All good things" in my opinion is just another retelling of " A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Past Picard, present Picard, future Picard. " Hey, boy, what day is it?",
"" What day is it?, " Why it's Christmas day!!". " Lt. Worf, what star date is it? ". I mean it's the same plot. , even Picard changes at the end by joining Riker and all to a poker game which he never did before. " God bless us, one and all" " Thank you Q !", " Hey,..........Don't mention It ,"
An absolutely brutal twist reveal. They've failed before they've even tried. Kind of a mirror to the visitors twist
That episode is so goddamn good and tragic... gets me every time I watch it
@@iriswaldenburger2315 not time travel, but the one that always puts me in the fetal position is voyager-real life. Doc gets a family... good lord. Puddle of emotions
"The Visitor" and "Tapestry" are too low..and as a previous post stated, "Year of Hell" is a better choice than "Endgame". I preferred "Timeless" to "Endgame".
I think Year of Hell has been put forth as the potential of Voyager, should it be less episodic and for that it needs a mention.
Year of Hell was originally intended to be either a full season or a multi episode arc. I would have loved a three parter for it.
Year of Hell was amazing. Timeless is my favorite Voyager episode.
Year Of Hell, and Timeless are brilliant episodes which should've been on this list. 🤔🤔
Yes the visitor was a great episode and very touching and a tear jerker.
“Well? What year is it? Am I in Fraser or am I in Cheers?”
Just watch out for rakes
Picard: "X-Men. You're in X-Men. I'm Captain X."
Through a Mirror Darkly deserves to be on the list. Ties in to TOS, from the Terran Empire perspective, the opening theme and visuals being changed, brings back the tholians and the defiant...
I think "In a Mirror Darkly" was *the* best Episode of Enterprise, ever. But was it actually a time travel episode? Yes, some time travel was necessary for the plot, but that time travel took place with another ship, *before* the events of the episode.
"Cause & Effect" is one of my FAVORITE ST:TNG episodes. I have it on my DVR & try to watch it every time it airs. It's like Dr. Who ""Blink"...I could watch them both a million times & NEVER get tired of them.
BLINK is easily the best "stand alone" Who episodes ever - from any era.
My main issue is that they never did anything with it. Talk about a wasted opportunity.
The two investigators in Trials & Tribblations were Lucsly and Dulmer (a nod to Scully and Mulder)
Come on CBS, give us the spinoff series we really need.
@@AndrewD8Red Temperal investigations has a few novels out there, very clever writing and messing with past storylines.
We noticed that people were heavier in USS Enterprise crews in Trails & Tribblations than original thinner USS Enterprise crews in the 1960's Star Trek classic.
Timeless needs have been on this list it is better than end game. Missing this off was criminal.
He mentions it in the intro but doesnt give a reason its not on the list. Also year of hell
seriously? not on the list....thats a time episode. what about Trials and Tribbulations?
Children of Time was the most bittersweet episode of Trek for me. The biggest take away from that episode was that it showed how indifferent to humanoid life Odo could have been if it wasn't for his connection to Kira. The Odo of that colony lived with those people for centuries and yet he "killed" them all without hesitation because his love for Kira was all he cared about.
Odo was a strange and compelling character. I was kind of glad that they didn't overly "humanize" him but in fact he was always kind of an alien even in a show full of them. I didn't like, though, that toward the end of the series they made him into a "good" guy just because the plot required it.
The Inner Light, is the greatest Star Trek episode, and technically it is a time travel episode
So say we all :-)
Came here to say this 👆
No, technically it isn’t, since the probe put the memories of someone else’s life into Picard’s mind, where they played out while he was unconscious for 20 something minutes on the floor of the bridge - he never went anyway physically.
"City on the Edge of Forever" is IMO the absolute best not just within Star Trek but it is among the best Sci-Fi stories ever written. It's one of the very few stories that won critical acclaim outside television. I am also surprised that you did not rate "Assignment Earth". This would have been in my top 5 easily maybe higher. It was such a complete story with so many elements; it's easy to see why it was proposed as a pilot for an entire series. I don't get the fascination with DS9 which I thought was just meh within the ST Universe and descended into a soap opera at times. I also thought that ST Voyager's "Shattered" was a superb episode that would have made my top 10. Voyager was underrated on your list. I would also add "Year of Hell", fantastic storytelling.
As much as I love TNG and think All Good Things was the perfect send off, City on the Edge of Forever is without question one of the best episodes of television, one of the best sci-fi stories and the finest episode of Star Trek ever.
i never understand why people keep mentioning city on the edge of forever. it will be the first episode i watch when I can but I do not get it
@@TheCryptoKeeper, I am not sure what you mean? Are you saying you have not seen the episode or that you have seen the episode and don't understand why people rate it so highly? While SciFi nerds can debate where this sits in the hierarchy of all-time Trek, there is little disagreement as to the superb storytelling by Harlen Ellison. The story has it all and presents its final act as a Greek Tragedy. It's also to my recollection the only time you hear Kirk swear at the very end when he is ready to beam back to Enterprise. Very, very tame by today's standards but in the mid-1960s an unexpected bite of anguish over his loss.
So happy this popped up on my feed!!! Great videos y'all!! Thanks for doing these!!
I remember Trials and Tribble-ations when it first aired, and it got me hooked on DS9. It got me to learn to watch the TV Guide channel to find out when DS9 would air, and I'd stay up late to catch up on the episodes in syndication.
I don't understand how Past Tense is not on this list.
Riker: "Tough little ship..."
Worf: "Little?!"
I love that exchange! Love love LOVE, The Defiant!
When Lt. Thomas Riker disguised as William Riker hijacks the Defiant and takes it into battle, he also comments that it's a "tough little ship."
This list: *exists*
Time's Arrow: "Am I a joke to you???"
Honorable mention
The Visitor is a GREAT episode. But it's not about Time Travel. Time's Arrow should've had its spot.
Affirmative
Yes
Agreed. Time's Arrow should've been on the list.
'yesterday's enterprise' is my second favorite tng episode, right behind 'the inner light' which i thought might make this list, considering there is a time travel element to it...
There was that time travel episode in the animated series with Spock. We also got to see his pet!
That was a good episode basically a homage to the original using the idea of a what if and to have to fix it but at a price that occurs. Because in the original series he mentioned he had a pet and they decided to include it in this which was great.
Raves about how perfect a show the City on the Edge of Forever is and only lists it #2. Well not only is it #1 it may be so good as to negate even adding another 9 to the list.
Love your vids!! This was the best!!
"Blink of an Eye" Voyager. It's a different kind of time travel.
I know some people won’t consider this a time travel episode but “Our Man Bashir” because it’s during the Cold War and based off of a James Bond movie
Nobody would consider it a time travel episode since it‘s a holosuite program.
@Maria Kelly So in a video about "the best time travel episodes of Star Trek" nobody should care that there isn't any time travel in the here mentioned episode? Then I'd nominate the episode where the Doctor finds the last Dalek being a prisoner in a museum. Oh, wait, that's not Star Trek, that's Doctor Who. But who cares, right?
Dammit, now I want to watch all of them.
And pretty much all the other episodes.
This may take some time...
Fortunately, time will accommodate you.
Watching those videos has that effect on me as well ;)
Yesterday's enterprise is the definitive time travel episode of all of star trek
RIP temporal directive
I am really shocked "Time's Arrow" is not on this list.
I am truly shocked that both "Tapestry" and "All Good Things..." are on this list, for unlike the aforementioned episode, the latter two happened to Picard and him only!
The presenter either did not watch even one episode of Enterprise, or did not find a top 10-worthy episode on it.
If you listen closely, they had to dub over with '200' at several points
what was the original spoken word?
@@geoffroi-le-Hook "8 numpticods", a Geordie numerical unit.
closely?
I now need to go and watch all these again.
One of the things I love about "Children of Time" is that it's a time travel episode in which no one actually travels through time during the course of the episode
I'd put *The Visitor* at number 1
Great episode but is it time travel? Many don't think so.
Not sure it's time travel. Sisko does appear in the future, but there's no indication he travels through time, only that he's absent from time for long stretches.
The argument for it being on the list is that is that time is not running in a standard linear fashion. Regardless of that I still think it's the best episode on the list
In “Time Squared”, I always thought the alien shocking Picard on the bridge towards the end was it telling Picard to not go through with it, as it had failed previously. It was actually trying to help. Probably rolling it’s eyes and saying “geeez human, can’t you figure this out”?
I always felt that whenever the writers were feeling lazy, or someone was on vacation, "TIME WARP, MFER!".
Great video and commentary!
It isn't stolen Borg tech in Endgame. It's future Starfleet tech to defend against Borg.
"Trials and Tribble-ations" was more a one off show-casing episode what could be done with NLE those days...I think they did pretty good. ;)
oh, btw.: those guys from TI are Dulmer (or Dulmur) and Lucsly, which are actual anagrams of one "Mulder" and one "Scully"...wonder who they are :p
No mention of "Past Tense". An incredible DS9 episode, and so relevant today.
I agree, the relevance today (and the foresight of the writers!) is incredible. One of my favourites.
Love the content you guys put out, keep up the great work!
What about TOS episode where the Enterprise went back to 1960's Cape Canaveral, got chased by a fighter jet, spotted by the pilot, and had to set things right? I like the way they showed actual NASA footage of the space program that was happening at the time of filming TOS. Things like that made Star Trek more interesting and believable that we would eventually make it into space.
I still believe that Magic to make the sanest man go mad is worthy of this list too. It's a standout episode of Trek and Discovery, and also shows the extents to which Michael would go for the federation in the worst case scenario
I do love that episode.
All Good Things is the best series finale in all television in my opinion.
Of my favorite TV shows, this as well as Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen from MASH are my 2 favorite finales,
I also enjoyed MASH’s, but I was too young to appreciate it when I, and the rest of the planet, watched it.
Sure, a great episode, but it doesn't really end anything. VOY finale on the other hand does.
@@Keithustus wasn't meant to end anything. It was just an end to the series. They made 4 movies afterward(Generations was already in the can when TNG ended). Voyager was an ending(they came home).
I could not have come up with a better list myself. Well done!
Carpenter Street from Enterprise is pure gold. Almost feels more like a modern cop drama than a Sci Fi episode.
Should have definitely included at least some of these; 'Timescape', 'Past Tense', 'Visionary', Carpenter Street', 'Time & Again', 'Eye of the Needle', 'Before & After', 'Shattered', 'Cold Front', 'Azati Prime', 'E²', 'Zero Hour'.
No Enterprise entries whatsoever, despite its entire arc around the temporal cold war.
For me, Shattered is a great episode.
@@psu2dcu Shattered is definitely underrated. One of the most fun episodes in the series.
I'm going to look Shattered up! Thx
Had Yesterday's Enterprise not been on this list I straight up would have blocked the channel lol
That omelet had me crying....its like 6 eggs and supposedly it's going to be a meal.....with a story of how he became such a good cook....Riker does not lack confidence 🤣🤣🤣
Your description of "Tapestry" (7:13) describes almost every Q episode and I love it.
This was a pretty */200/* nice list overall :-)
its crazy how Tasha is featured in two of these episodes.
Tasha is the perfect symbol of time travel antics, due to her early departure.
It 's too bad they couldn't find a use for her during her regular series run, but at least they found a use for her later on special appearance.
I love this channel. Suggestion: 10 Best Jeffrey Combs Appearances/Characters.
Trials and Tribble-ations is tied with Little Green Men as my favourite time travel episodes.
I read somewhere that Yesterdays Enterprise, the writers had planned lots of gruesome deaths for the bridge crew as they were fighting the Klingons, but as they had a tv budget instead of a movie budget they had to cut back & we only saw Rikers death instead of Data being Electrocuted, Wesleys head exploding & the rest.. Oh well. 🖖🏻🕶🖖🏻
Did you miss DS9 "Past Tense" off the list because it might be considered too controversial to cover when you uploaded this list?
In the two-part Episode, Sisko and Bashir end up in San Francisco in 2024 where the US President of the time (who presumably won in 2020) has turned part of the city into a walled dystopia known as a "Sanctuary District", walled it all off and threw anyone he didn't like in to it - the poor, the sick, anyone who disagreed with him and then left them there to rot. At the same time, Dax ends up with a rich businessman who, along with the other rich, have turning a blind eye to it all and instead found ways to get rich of the suffering and live like kings.
Yes, I am not making that up. That is the base setup of this episode from 1995. Look it up if you don't believe me.
Excellent listing. End Game was the best ending to any series so far. Janeway deserves all the praise that is heaped on her.
For just TOS the episode "City on the Edge of Forever" is definitely the best time travel episode. The late Harlan Ellison was arguably one of the greatest Sci-Fi authors around. He was also a conceptual consultant / consultant for B:5. However there were two other TOS episodes that definitely need mentioning. The first being "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and the second "Assignment: Earth". Gary Seven: "That, Miss Lincoln, is simply my cat." IMHO that one line made the entire episode. Great video, thanks for posting!
WTF? Where's the Gabriel Bell 2 parter?
This person speaks truth!!
The Bell riots of 2024 didn’t make the cut. However, the Floyd riots of 2020....
A lot of great picks. I did also think about the DS9 episode "Visionary". O'Brien keeps jumping several hours into the future because of radiation he absorbed during an Engineering accident. It's a great episode because the stakes keep getting higher. First, it's just a case of seeing himself having an argument with Quark, then a bar fight in Quark's bar before (more seriously) his own death in various ways. It's also the ONLY episode we see the destruction of the station, as one of the time-jumps sees him fleeing DS9 in a Runabout shortly before it gets torn apart. Eventually, he's able to make a more-controlled time-jump to just a few hours into the future, so he can find out what happened to the station. He arrives in Ops with his future self just in time to see a Romulan Warbird decloak and begin attacking. However, O'Brien's too sick from radiation poisoning to make the return journey to the present and instead has to get his future-self to go in his place. So, every episode from that point on has an alternate O'Brien!
All I know from that episode is that both O'Briens hates temporal mechanics.
Great to see time travel episodes like this revisited.
These time travel episodes were all good with rewatching value.
huh, cool list, and I think Q has a man crush on Picard.
You lost me after the first few minutes when you eliminated from consideration some of the best time travel episodes. By the way, City on the Edge of Forever is number 1 and there isn't a close second.
I agree and All Good Things really didn't impress me as a good episode at all, nevermind one of the best time travel episodes.
I remember when Cause and Effect first aired. I didn't see the preview for the episode, so when the Enterprise blew up from the get go... I screamed.
If anyone's interested and doesn't want to read the article (written by Simon Gallagher, by the way), there's more entries listed:
#15: Time's Arrow - TNG
#14: E2 - ENT
#13: Tomorrow Is Yesterday - TOS
#12: Timeless - VOY (which really isn't about time travel but about making sure a big mistake never happens from the future)
#11: Little Green Men - DS9
What would be your honorable mentions?
1. Tomorrow is yesterday
2. Assignment earth
Poor Voyager can’t get the love some of its time travel episodes need. I enjoy Voyager and stand by its quality as a series still today. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
I agree wholeheartedly 🖖
There's too many bad bad bad episodes so even the good ones are less watched.
@@Keithustus you are one of those haters so people who love this series don’t really care about your opinion.
Not trying to be nasty, just voicing my own opinion
batgurrl, I don't hate VOY. It just really was quite a letdown from TNG and DS9. Thankfully RD Moore was able to guide BSG where VOY could have gone.
Being a fan of all four types of original star trek series, not counting enterprise. I think you hit it out the park.
Thanks! I have written down the list and will re-watch them in order.