The FX & footage integration on "Trials & Tribble-ations" still impress and are amazingly flawless for a '90s TV show. Just as impressive is the match lighting.
I think the only part where I see it really show its spliced is when Bashir and OBrian are being reprimanded by Kirk for the fight. It has a weird blurring effect on the edges but the rest of them are near seamless if not seamless.
I remember this Ep aired on TV not too many years after Forrest Gump hit theaters. Was a great use of that technology on a TV budget, I was so impressed
Nice job, but I'm surprised that the Voyager episode "Flashback" wasn't included, since it had a callback to STVI: The Undiscovered Country with Captain Sulu and the crew of the Excelsior.
Unfortunately, "Flashback" got a few things wrong. Tuvok said it was only a few days after the explosion of Praxis that Kirk and McCoy were charged with and convicted of Gorkon's assassination when in the film there had been several months of negotiations between Ambassador Sarek, Spock and Gorkon. Also, Dimitri dies in the episode, whereas he was still alive at the end of the movie!
I would have included "All Good Things..." as a follow up to "Encounter At Farpoint", as Q finally passed judgement on humanity while secretly helping Picard to solve the riddle. "The trial never ends..."
I did a _most undignified_ little dance when I originally saw the Discovery episode was Unification III, because I was so overjoyed with that callback! The whole thing with Pike across Disco and SNW is some of the best Trek. Seeing him wrestle with his possible self-sacrifice on so many levels...whether or not he even _has_ to, the possible paradoxes, what the right thing to do is, and maybe even questioning to some degree his obligation to _do_ what's best for the universe...then finally, resignation at the obviousness of his choice. And yeah, Course: Oblivion is utterly heartbreaking. omg. Like, the existential reality of the situation is bad enough, but then the fact that the probe is destroyed so they end up not even leaving behind any proof they ever existed?! Flippin' 'eck, that's grim! Chills me to my bones. Trials and Tribble-ations is so damn brilliant! Like, I have a bit of VFX experience, so I'm even more blown away that they pulled that off in the 1990s. That'd be a _not-insignificant_ ask even _now._ And hey, bravo to whoever edited this video. The use of the actual title fonts for each series...exquisite!
The Doctor on Voyager was good with those, too. My favorite, though was from the EMH in Star Trek: First Contact, when asked to keep the Borg busy--"I'm a doctor, not a doorstop."
@@martyklestadt6766 And as Robert Picardo has often stated; during his audition for Voyager he ad-libbed "I'm a doctor, not a nightlight" without knowing about the "I'm a doctor..." routine. Supposedly. Still a fun story :)
God, I loved 'In A Mirror Darkly'. It was just so perfectly woven into the 'Tholian Web' and to see a Constitution Class starship back into service was a true guilty pleasure.
I think In a Mirro Darkly wasnt really about the Parrallel Dark Universe. Irt was really a Politcal Allegory about the US becoming a De-Facto Fascist, Imperialistic Country during the Bush/Cheney Years
Unfortunately, revisiting "Pegasus" really didn't allow for Riker's little jaunt in the holodeck, so it made a hash of that one, too. And "The Menagerie" wasn't born out of laziness, it was born out of desperation. They were falling dangerously behind schedule, to the point where they were about to miss their airdates, which would've been a deathblow for the fledgling series. So in an act of production genius, we got television's first ever two-part clip show, which allowed the effects houses to get caught up and gave the cast and crew some much needed rest.
And it's also relevant to understand that, although every Trekkie now gets to see it included with the series set, "The Cage" was not released until 20 years after the original series first aired. It did not air on television before that. So _everything_ in "The Menagerie" was entirely new material for viewers at the time. The old footage would not have felt like retreading old ground or filler because it was all previously unseen by viewers at the time. In fact, it would have probably looked more expensive than a normal episode with lots of different actors, different costumes, and props. What an absolutely brilliant use of resources.
I'm just a silly old man, but I bawled like a baby when I watched that episode. At least now I don't have to feel like I'm the only one who was so deeply touched by the pathos. Even now I feel a tear welling up as I type this.
@@BIackMoonCGI Ya,but I'm sure there's more of them back on the planet they came from who may have better luck if they leave their world.If there is anything to learn from such a tragic journey its probably don't forget who you are in life and where ya come from !?
While in and of itself, Oblivion is interesting, I have always held it up as an example of Pilar's stupid way of running the show. As producer, Pilar was dead set against any 'arcing' (we got the 'year of hell' episodes because they were on sabbatical) or even internal consistency. In this particular case, the show did nothing to actually explain how we know this story. After all, the alternate Voyager and crew dissolved before communicating anything at all. It just sat completely wrong with me and I felt like I wasted an hour.
"In a Mirror, Darkly" also features a callback to "The Menagerie." Trip's delta radiation burns are nearly identical to Pike's. I wish that he and Phlox would have shared some dialogue: Trip: "Doc, the way things are going, it looks like I'm gonna end up in a beep chair. If that happens, wouldja do ma favor and kill me?" Phlox: "I'd be happy to, Commander." 😁
The thing is, in the 'Alternate Universe' James Kirk KILLED Christopher Pike to get command of the Enterprise, so he never saved the cadets or got exposed to the Delta Rays. Not to mention in the time of 'Enterprise', Pike had not been born yet. BUT, it would have been a cool dialogue for Trip and Phlox!
@@randynutt5660 Phlox: "Would you prefer quick and painless, Commander, or slow and agonizing?" Trip: "Oh...Quick and painless, please." Phlox (obviously disappointed): "Oh. Well...All right. Just relax, Commander, this won't hurt a bit." Trip: "WHAT! NO! Gee whiz, Doc, I don't mean NOW!" Phlox: "Oh dear. I never get to have any fun..." Trip: "Ain't we got that Tholian pris'ner the Cap wants to interrogate?" Phlox (brightening): "Ooh. Yes, Commander. I take it back. That WOULD be fun!" Trip: "Enjoy."
The Menagerie wasn't made due to "laziness", but due to how long the opticals (now called visual effects) were taking to complete. The Menagerie didn't need any new visual effects so it was easy.
i remember seeing course oblivion for the first time and having no idea that the crew and even the ship were replicants ... they handled the bait and switch so well that i was completely shocked
SERIOUSLY! It was a callback to, what? Like 20 episodes ago, and most of that _after_ a season break? It just hit us out of nowhere, and it isn't until well into the episode you have any chance of actually connecting the dots. They played the audience _expertly,_ it was _diabolical!_ I remember watching it when it aired like "omg, what are they doing?! They killed off B'Elanna?! But her and Tom just... WHAT'S GOING ON?!" practically screaming at my shitty little TV... 😂 In the years since, many people have put forth the question: How many of the intervening episodes were actually following the "Silver blood Voyager"... Gets ya thinkin', don't it? 😏
Funnily enough I had just watched Balance of Terror the night before Quality of Mercy had released. Tripped me out that they'd went all in on an episode I had just watched the first time.
Well, there was the DS9 episode that called back to all three of the original series Klingon antagonists... having Kor, Kang and Koloth (played by the original actors) hanging out with Dax. ;)
This was a good video. There was a fun nod to the last episode of Enterprise in the Lower Decks comic book series' first issue. They said there was a glitch that only lets you go there as a cook.
The conversion of The Cage into a two part episode had nothing to do with laziness. The show was getting further & further behind delivering episodes on time, as it was like shooting half a film per week Costumes, sets, FX; all offered major challenges compared to a contemporary police show or medical show. The Menagerie was seen as a "break glass in case of emergency" scenario if the show found itself too far behind in delivering new episodes. It took about one week to shoot the framing scenes and edit the original pilot as needed, but resulted in two episodes. This allowed the show meet its season one commitments.
@@Michael-bk5nz well, not so much money, as the actors of course got still payed for two episodes - but yes, they ad least could use the Cage material and it wasn't waste in the end.
Lower Decks may have just redeemed These Are The Voyages. When the holodeck doesn't know what is supposed to be going on it just starts making stuff up. So that must be what happened when the NX-01 simulation couldn't handle all that Riker. And that would make Demons/Terra Prime the real Enterprise finale which I think would be a much better choice.
@@honzasenbauer612 Yeah, Strange New Worlds is infinitely better than shite like Discovery or Picard, but it still craps on canon and that bugs the hell out of me. :\
@@PetersonZF mistakes are bound to happen in a franchise this old and vast. There are things that are just wrong, but in my opinion they are not that serious most of the time
@@honzasenbauer612 I'm not referring to minor mistakes. They didn't care about completely changing literally everything about the Gorn except 'reptilian'. And that's not a minor race seen in a little known TOS episode. It's the main villain of arguably the most famous TOS episode and completely ruins the climax and moral message of that episode! They could have simply introduced a new race that behaved the way they needed for the story they were writing. There's no point using the name Gorn for familiarity it you're going to change everything about them. Compare that to the clever way Lower Decks uses the Pakleds where them behaving differently (ie. being much more powerful) is literally made a plot point.
Always loved the way Star Trek, in all its forms would do these intra-canon links and crossovers. The Tribbles one had me agog in laughter and delight as I viewed it for the first time, so enraptured was I by the great job they did of interweaving the two episodes.
In TOS, By Any Other Name calls back to events happening in Where No Man Has Gone Before and Taste of Armageddon. I always liked those continuity touches in that episode.
My favorite callback to not make this list is from Voyager S3E2 "Flashback", calling back to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. It was impressive that instead of simply using clips or vague references from the movie, they re-enacted scenes from the movie using some of the original cast, and then incorporated the Tuvok story into new scenes. It was also cool to bring Kang into the mix, and give a little nod to the past dealings with Sulu and Kang.
They could gladly do that, as the sixth movie and the episode were only 5 years apart - they still had some of the stuff in the storage from the movie and could redo most of the stuff missing for the excelsior bridge.
TNG episode 'The Naked Now'(season 1, episode 3) deals with the same disease first encountered with Classic episode 'The Naked Time' (season 1, episode 4) . I think Crusher even references old files by dr. McCoy and Kirk's Enterprise...
5:30 "The Menagerie" was hardly produced "out of laziness." During the first season, the production staff were killing themselves to put out what was basically a 1 hour SFX-heavy movie every week. Remember that back then, shows didn't go "on hiatus" or rerun episodes in the middle of the season. It was basically 30 shows straight from September to May, after which you had re-runs over the summer until the next season started. Star Trek actually did the unthinkable and missed a deadline, re-running "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" in early February. Rodenberry was just being a good producer and he made two shows using the 60 minute pilot, and only having to shoot about 30 minutes of new footage. As a bonus, there were very few SFX shots in the new footage as most of it was a courtroom drama.
In the good old days, it was 26 one hour episodes, then 26 weeks of reruns. 30 episodes a year would make 90 total episodes, and not the actual 79 episodes. A lot of us discovered Star Trek when it was immediately syndicated.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 - You are correct regarding Star Trek, but I was referring to the broadcast industry in general. Other programs of the era, e.g. "The Addams Family," "Thriller," "The Outer Limits" (all of which I have the complete series of) would have 30 or more shows in a season. The Addams Family, in particular, had 34 shows it's first season, but that was only a half-hour comedy shot largely on a sound stage, which made it easier.
Mirror, Mirror occurred in Season 2 of Classic Trek; The Tholian Web was a 3rd Season show. Chronologically, The Tholian Web happened first in continuity. Great presentation by Bree.
You’ve missed a pairing that really deserves to be on this list. DS9 episodes Ties of Blood and Water and Second Skin. Both thoughtful and beautifully acted and written throughout.
My guess is there was a criteria that it had to be a call back from a different series. I also like both of those DS9 episodes too though. I had initially thought of Encounter at Farpoint and All Good Things... Not that Encounter At Farpoint wasn't flawed, but how directly and well executed they called back specifically to that episode in AGT.
The Menagre was not born out of laziness! It came about because the series was pressed for scripts and they had spent and enormous amount of money on "The Cage" and wanted to get something out of it.
To be fair to “these are the voyages” you have to understand that much of the crew had been working on Star Trek since 1987 and the inclusion of Riker was like going full circle to where they started.
My friends and I had a saying about VOY (adapted from the Simpsons): "There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Janeway. Which is just the wrong way but inexplicable." The number of times she could have gotten home but didn't was almost a trope. Ostensibly it's to protect Starfleet values, but often she could have done both if the plan were just thought through a bit more.
@@Popcultureguy3000 Yeah it's the gangster episode. I haven't read the comic books, but if there ever was a premise that needed a revisit or at least a nod back that would be it.
My hopes for sequels include two creepy TNG episodes: Schisms, with the shadow dimension click creatures experimenting on sleeping Starfleet personnel) and Conspiracy--the necktail body controllers.
@@jimcarey7150 technically Schisms has a sequel of sorts. The Star Trek Online MMO has an adventure arc that revisits that story and references the episode more than once.
"A Piece of the Action" would have been fun for another Trek series to revisit in order to gather the Federation's "cut." Could have spun another story where Picard and others would have been drawn in and played Chicago-style old-school gangsters, too. Hilarious possibilities. And in Trials and Tribble-ations, recreating the funny bar-fight scene and Kirk interrogation scene of the bar-fight participants was one of the best things ever done in Trek. Awesome.
In 1990, super Star Trek scribe Peter David wrote The Trial of James J Kirk for all those Prime Directive violations. Bela comes to testy for Kirk, returns McCoys heater untouched, and to give Kirk his piece of the action!
I don't think that would have worked due to how A Piece of the Action ended with concerns about McCoy's communicator potentially changing the course of the civilisation. Unless the world were revisited and they had formed their own version of Starfleet or something along those lines.
It was "Through the Valley of Shadows" that convinced me that 2020s Pike could carry a series (1960s Pike, with all due respect to the late Jeffery Hunter, could not), and that "Strange New Worlds" would be worth watching.
Anson Mount is a hell of an actor. While Inhumans sucked, his portrayal of Black Bolt in it was one of the few things that did *NOT* suck. The man can act with the best of them, even when he's not allowed to speak (Black Bolt deliberately has taken a voice of Silence because a mere whisper from him can kill someone, which unfortunately included his own parents).
iirc Sean or whoever was doing the Ups and Downs for the ep said the same thing; that for the sake of consistency (and because it'd be a right laugh) they should have had it be the actor playing Sarek on Disco and _just never address it whatsoever._ 😂
I like the novel "Sarek" referencing the reason the Romulan commander looked so much like Sarek. Kinda of like how in another book there is a reference to Una being the template for the Starfleet computer, since in the real world Majel Barrett did both. Sort of why I had hoped that SNW would use the same actress to play Number 1 and Chapel.
"Defiant" also may have called back to "The Wounded", where Captain Benjamin Maxwell infiltrates Cardassian space, trying to uncover the rearming of the Cardassians.
And by extension, the season 3 two-part arc Improbable Cause / The Die Is Cast could be seen as a continuation of Defiant (where the secret Cardassian fleet is finally revealed)
A good video and all the examples are excellent. I think I'd have switched 1 and 2 esp as the Discovery in the other dimension is likely also the reason the Empire was to become so much more dominant when Kirk goes there. The one lacking, although you touched on it, were the ENT episodes referencing the look of the Klingons. Trekkers have begrudged the change of the look of the Klingons in TMP from the beginning simply for no reason other than the Director's whim. Yes we got used to the skeletal ridge over time but if anything, it made TOS episodes just feel worse. So the ENT story arc bridged TOS to TMP to TNG and onwards including the DSN tribbles episode. Sadly DIS destroyed that with their new look for Klingons. Plus the ENT story arc was both a connection to Space Seed and TWK plus set up Soong's decision to go into artificial life forms. It just revisited so much more than one other episode. There should have been honourable mention for LWD as most episodes revisit other episodes.
0:30 "Here are the 10 best star trek episodes" that revisited other episodes 0:43 "These are the voyagers is notorious for possibly being the worst episode of enterprise" ???
Trials & Tribble-ations doesn't feel as special nowadays since we live in a post-Strange New Worlds & post-Kelvin world but it's such a great and loving callback to the Original series. No updates, reworks, recasts, or changes to the aesthetic; just pure 1960's love.
A Quality of Mercy is one of the best episodes of Star Trek. I don’t remember the last time we had an episode of that caliber, Enterprise’s Terra Prime episode?
Trials and Tribblations/Trouble with Tribbles should have been #1. In addition to all the things listed in this video, it also included Charlie Brill reprising his role as Arne Darvin.
"The Menagerie" was NOT the result of "laziness"! 😡 It was born of necessity! The first season of Star Trek was very difficult! Nothing like it had ever been done for television before! The optical effects were very complicated at that time, and they fell behind--meaning that it was only a matter of time before they missed a scheduled airdate! This would NOT be a good thing in the eyes of the network or the sponsors of the show! They had to do something--and fast! Gene Roddenberry came up with the idea of using "The Cage" footage as a kind of flashback--and wrote "the envelope" (that's what they called it!) story of Pike's accident and Spock's Court-Martial. The end result was that they bought themselves some breathing room, brought in two episodes for less than the price of one, and to top it off: a "Hugo" Award (Science Fiction's equivalent of The Oscars) for Best Dramatic Presentation of Science Fiction for 1966! This was not the first time pilot film footage had been utilized in this way. The year before, Lost In Space's producer Irwin Allen had done a similar trick with their pilot footage and had gotten 3 or 4 extra episodes!
One thing I don't understand is that you mentioned that "These are the Voyages " is considered one of the worst episodes in Star Trek. However you have it this list of the "Best episodes that revisited other episodes. " I would definitely not have this on the list. There are many other episodes that are above this one that revisited other episodes in the history of Star Trek.
I'm appalled that you put the 2 tribble episodes on the 3rd spot... It had everything, it was funny, witty, had some great lines, it made fun of star trek itself, and was expertly made. Its easily one of my top 5 episodes in the entire franchise.
Dax as the Everyman was excellent. She was us, gushing at how much she loved the classic 23rd century design, wanting to be a part of it again, experiencing the nostalgia. It was all quite perfect
6:45 THE MANAGERIE/FALOS IV: Not only that the Pre-Pilot episode also sponsored a couple of very well written nevels around Captain Pike and his crew. -Still avilable on the Second Hand Market - and that not only in English but even WORLDWIDE!
@@cliffcorson4000 I hear you. However, I like the current amount(what they've done with the use of the mirror universe in all of the series)--any more would not be my cup of tea. But to each their own. I can't get into any of the current series either, except for Lower Decks, although I only saw Season One of that (on DVD), and I'm not going to get Paramount Plus just for that.
Theres an episode of the Shuttle Pod where Rick Berman explains the reasoning for "These are the Voyages" and in retrospect the reasoning is sound enough. Execution could have been better -Riker on the Titan (Ala Lower Decks) would have fitted in much much better
Regardless, the Pegasus story interfered with the real story on "Enterprise" and "killed" off Trip as well as the show. If it had proceeded w/o Riker's "help", we would have seen that Trip faked his death to undergo a new mission for Section 31-infiltrating the Romulans during the Romulan War. We would also have seen T'Pol meet Trip under the steps during Adm. Archer's speech. A continued series could've been done with seasons 5-7, but maybe we fans should be lucky to read more novels like "Rise of the Federation", etc.
@@virginiaconnor8350 - what you have to remember is that this episode had to see out over 20 years of Trek (with no idea if it would ever get picked up again). Given the time frame they had to write the episode with that knowledge, it definitely feels better.
@@willmfrank true but i still feel like it should have been included. They did so much to mirror those scenes perfectly, down to the actors and similar tea cup and everything.
@@thedragonauthority With any luck, TrekCulture will produce a sequel "10 MORE Times..." that will include both television and motion picture callbacks...'cause, there's...y'know...a lot.
A Quality Of Mercy is the best non TOS Trek Episode I have ever experienced. I had no idea the Star Trek franchise could still pack that great a punch. I was speechless. My favorite Star Trek episode is still City On The Edge of Forever, but Errand of Mercy was way up there for me. To dig deep into it with an alternate future was captivating. (Mirror Mirror and Devil In The Dark still delight me). Because City on The Edge is so powerful, I really yelped out loud when Burnham and Georgiou approached the Guardian in Discovery. Amazing moment. .. but Quality of Mercy still stands out as the best.
How is The Next Generation’s “Lower Decks” and “The First Duty” not on this list? At least top 5, especially if you count Star Trek “Lower Decks” series.
The Demon planet episodes were indeed some of the saddest Treks (shows) I have ever seen. The philosophy is so deep. It still bothers me to this day, and has affected how kind I try to be to others, hoping to learn a little something from everyone I meet. It has made me even more aware of how fragile life really is.
Oddly left out... The writers of 'Discovery' incorporated TOS Mirror Mirror with TOS [critically acclaimed] City On The Edge of Forever, where mirror universe 'Emperor' / captain Philippa [maybe there's an Enterprise backstory?] deal with a 'Guardian' of the forever 'time tunnel' [taken from another 60's sci fi show ]. Writers Ellison, Fontana and Coon of City on the Edge of forever, originally pitched the TOS episode to Roddenberry as beings who were 'guardians' of the forever 'time tunnels' within the accents ruins. Thus 'Carl', on the Discovery series, reflects the original concept for the TOS episode City On The Edge Of Forever.
In The Tholian Web, TOS, Spock says no Starfleet Officer has ever been convicted of mutiny. False: his sister, Burnham. Which adds so much depth to Discovery and Strange New Worlds, Spock is keeping the secret.
In Course: Oblivion the silver blood crew had to return to a Y-class planet because radiation from their enhanced warp drive was causing the to destabilize. The Maquis were a group of Federation civilians, Starfleet officers, and people who just wanted to fight/kill that fought against the Cardassian Union, not the Federation.
couldn't number one also include Number One? STOS: "Where no man has gone before." and Strange New Worlds revealing Number One passed through the same barrier as Gary Mitchell did in the STOS episode I referenced.
Course Oblivion makes me wonder if some other episodes were in fact the "Demon" crew's voyages. Actually reminicient of a Doctor Who story with a similar tale of people trying to return to a place their ancestors had never been.
Um.... How'd you guys get the Course: Oblivion plot so wrong? The Silverblood crew weren't dying because they were native to a Y-class planet. They were dying because of the interaction between their Silverblood biology and their newly enhanced warp drive.
Here is a more light hearted callback: ST:TOS 's "Amok Time" and ST:SNW's "Spock Amok". I love how Strange New Worlds recreates the scene and music of Spock's ritual combat with Kirk, down to even the choreography of the fight, in SNW Spock's dream about whether he is human or Vulcan and hence worthy of T'Pring.
I thought is that Jeffrey Hunter? He was the original Captain Pike. He was considered for their lead role in the entire series then William Shatner came along. Believe he's dead I just checked it out, died in 1969? Really blows me away! The guy was just in the Star Trek pilot two or three years before that then he lost his wife of 10 years and then remarries in 69 and died in the same year, like a deathbed marriage. Unbelievable, I mean cuz he's so healthy looking!!! I Love Star Trek because it has the element of the past and the future as parts of the plots and so you can resurrect anyone. It's beautiful and it's brilliant. It's almost like a Christian belief baked into a science fiction fantasy world that has no boundary's.
Hunter, a very handsome guy and a talented actor, could certainly have grown into the role. It would have been great to have him in a few episodes. He fell down a short staircase, hit his head, had a brain bleed, and passed away. He had been injured some time before in a stunt on a film and suffered a concussion. He was only 42.
"The naked now" vs. "The naked time" "More tribbles, more troubles" vs. "The trouble with tribbles" "The counter-clock incident" vs. "All our yesterdays" "Tuvok's flashback" vs. "The undiscovered country" "Emissary" vs. "Best of both world" "Concerning flight" vs. "Requiem for methuselah" "Generations" vs. "Q who" ... list is endless...
The FX & footage integration on "Trials & Tribble-ations" still impress and are amazingly flawless for a '90s TV show. Just as impressive is the match lighting.
I think the only part where I see it really show its spliced is when Bashir and OBrian are being reprimanded by Kirk for the fight. It has a weird blurring effect on the edges but the rest of them are near seamless if not seamless.
I remember this Ep aired on TV not too many years after Forrest Gump hit theaters. Was a great use of that technology on a TV budget, I was so impressed
It was, and is, an incredible episode and so so so well done.
Best episode
Number 1 for me.
Trials and Tribble-ations will always be my favorite generation mixing episode. It was done so well. ❤
Trials and tribblations was my favouite revisit show! the sneaky way Sisko got Kirks Autograph, and Worf's comment "We do not speak of this!"
Nice job, but I'm surprised that the Voyager episode "Flashback" wasn't included, since it had a callback to STVI: The Undiscovered Country with Captain Sulu and the crew of the Excelsior.
I was surprised top, but then I saw the title of the video as best episodes, and not movies,
The films are all episodes.
Or Wrath of Khan as it followed up on Space Seed.
Yeah they may need to do another list 10 MORE times . . .
Unfortunately, "Flashback" got a few things wrong. Tuvok said it was only a few days after the explosion of Praxis that Kirk and McCoy were charged with and convicted of Gorkon's assassination when in the film there had been several months of negotiations between Ambassador Sarek, Spock and Gorkon. Also, Dimitri dies in the episode, whereas he was still alive at the end of the movie!
I'm still partial to Trials & Tribble-ations as my favorite. It was awesome to go back to the TOS and they did it so beautifully.
I would have included "All Good Things..." as a follow up to "Encounter At Farpoint", as Q finally passed judgement on humanity while secretly helping Picard to solve the riddle. "The trial never ends..."
Also wej Duj/No Small Parts referring back to The Samaritan Snare is another good overlooked one.
I did a _most undignified_ little dance when I originally saw the Discovery episode was Unification III, because I was so overjoyed with that callback! The whole thing with Pike across Disco and SNW is some of the best Trek. Seeing him wrestle with his possible self-sacrifice on so many levels...whether or not he even _has_ to, the possible paradoxes, what the right thing to do is, and maybe even questioning to some degree his obligation to _do_ what's best for the universe...then finally, resignation at the obviousness of his choice. And yeah, Course: Oblivion is utterly heartbreaking. omg. Like, the existential reality of the situation is bad enough, but then the fact that the probe is destroyed so they end up not even leaving behind any proof they ever existed?! Flippin' 'eck, that's grim! Chills me to my bones. Trials and Tribble-ations is so damn brilliant! Like, I have a bit of VFX experience, so I'm even more blown away that they pulled that off in the 1990s. That'd be a _not-insignificant_ ask even _now._
And hey, bravo to whoever edited this video. The use of the actual title fonts for each series...exquisite!
My favorite line from "Trials & Tribulations" was "I'm a doctor, not an historian."
Bones would have been proud.
The Doctor on Voyager was good with those, too. My favorite, though was from the EMH in Star Trek: First Contact, when asked to keep the Borg busy--"I'm a doctor, not a doorstop."
@@martyklestadt6766 And as Robert Picardo has often stated; during his audition for Voyager he ad-libbed "I'm a doctor, not a nightlight" without knowing about the "I'm a doctor..." routine. Supposedly. Still a fun story :)
My favorite part is Sisko trying to call the Defiant on his emblem.
@@Awestefeld6612 and Dax just smiling politely until he realizes...
God, I loved 'In A Mirror Darkly'. It was just so perfectly woven into the 'Tholian Web' and to see a Constitution Class starship back into service was a true guilty pleasure.
We all stan the queen, EMPRESS Hoshi Sato
Well, the use of The Tholian Web and its story redeems the episode and perhaps even the season as a whole somewhat.
I think In a Mirro Darkly wasnt really about the Parrallel Dark Universe. Irt was really a Politcal Allegory about the US becoming a De-Facto Fascist, Imperialistic Country during the Bush/Cheney Years
NIVAR: Now It's Vulcans And Romulans.
Unfortunately, revisiting "Pegasus" really didn't allow for Riker's little jaunt in the holodeck, so it made a hash of that one, too.
And "The Menagerie" wasn't born out of laziness, it was born out of desperation. They were falling dangerously behind schedule, to the point where they were about to miss their airdates, which would've been a deathblow for the fledgling series. So in an act of production genius, we got television's first ever two-part clip show, which allowed the effects houses to get caught up and gave the cast and crew some much needed rest.
And it's also relevant to understand that, although every Trekkie now gets to see it included with the series set, "The Cage" was not released until 20 years after the original series first aired. It did not air on television before that.
So _everything_ in "The Menagerie" was entirely new material for viewers at the time. The old footage would not have felt like retreading old ground or filler because it was all previously unseen by viewers at the time.
In fact, it would have probably looked more expensive than a normal episode with lots of different actors, different costumes, and props. What an absolutely brilliant use of resources.
I lost count of how many things she gets wrong in this video.
@@HermanVonPetri Agreed!
@@selalewow And every other!
@@selalewow it's Marcus Fry, the scriptwriter. He is bad about misremembering details, but includes them anyway.
Course: Oblivion is my second favorite Voyager episode (behind Timeless). It might just be the most heartbreaking episode of Star Trek I've ever seen.
I agree.COURSE OBLIVION also seemed like a tribute to THE TWIGHLIGHT ZONE and certai nly had a similar feel to some early episodes.
I'm just a silly old man, but I bawled like a baby when I watched that episode. At least now I don't have to feel like I'm the only one who was so deeply touched by the pathos. Even now I feel a tear welling up as I type this.
Timeless is just fantastic isn't it?
@@BIackMoonCGI Ya,but I'm sure there's more of them back on the planet they came from who may have better luck if they leave their world.If there is anything to learn from such a tragic journey its probably don't forget who you are in life and where ya come from !?
While in and of itself, Oblivion is interesting, I have always held it up as an example of Pilar's stupid way of running the show. As producer, Pilar was dead set against any 'arcing' (we got the 'year of hell' episodes because they were on sabbatical) or even internal consistency. In this particular case, the show did nothing to actually explain how we know this story. After all, the alternate Voyager and crew dissolved before communicating anything at all.
It just sat completely wrong with me and I felt like I wasted an hour.
"In a Mirror, Darkly" also features a callback to "The Menagerie." Trip's delta radiation burns are nearly identical to Pike's.
I wish that he and Phlox would have shared some dialogue:
Trip: "Doc, the way things are going, it looks like I'm gonna end up in a beep chair. If that happens, wouldja do ma favor and kill me?"
Phlox: "I'd be happy to, Commander." 😁
The thing is, in the 'Alternate Universe' James Kirk KILLED Christopher Pike to get command of the Enterprise, so he never saved the cadets or got exposed to the Delta Rays.
Not to mention in the time of 'Enterprise', Pike had not been born yet.
BUT, it would have been a cool dialogue for Trip and Phlox!
@@randynutt5660 Phlox: "Would you prefer quick and painless, Commander, or slow and agonizing?"
Trip: "Oh...Quick and painless, please."
Phlox (obviously disappointed): "Oh. Well...All right. Just relax, Commander, this won't hurt a bit."
Trip: "WHAT! NO! Gee whiz, Doc, I don't mean NOW!"
Phlox: "Oh dear. I never get to have any fun..."
Trip: "Ain't we got that Tholian pris'ner the Cap wants to interrogate?"
Phlox (brightening): "Ooh. Yes, Commander. I take it back. That WOULD be fun!"
Trip: "Enjoy."
Dax in that TOC uniform. Talk about heavenly bodies. 💙💜
The Menagerie wasn't made due to "laziness", but due to how long the opticals (now called visual effects) were taking to complete. The Menagerie didn't need any new visual effects so it was easy.
i remember seeing course oblivion for the first time and having no idea that the crew and even the ship were replicants ... they handled the bait and switch so well that i was completely shocked
SERIOUSLY! It was a callback to, what? Like 20 episodes ago, and most of that _after_ a season break? It just hit us out of nowhere, and it isn't until well into the episode you have any chance of actually connecting the dots. They played the audience _expertly,_ it was _diabolical!_
I remember watching it when it aired like "omg, what are they doing?! They killed off B'Elanna?! But her and Tom just... WHAT'S GOING ON?!" practically screaming at my shitty little TV... 😂
In the years since, many people have put forth the question: How many of the intervening episodes were actually following the "Silver blood Voyager"... Gets ya thinkin', don't it? 😏
@@Bakamoichigei Yes, VERY clever!
That episode actually made me cry.
The balance of terror was my favourite og series episode, absolutely loved the quality of mercy and the direction they went with it
Balance of Terror was truly great.
Funnily enough I had just watched Balance of Terror the night before Quality of Mercy had released. Tripped me out that they'd went all in on an episode I had just watched the first time.
Well, there was the DS9 episode that called back to all three of the original series Klingon antagonists... having Kor, Kang and Koloth (played by the original actors) hanging out with Dax. ;)
9:24 Trials and Tribble-ations from DS9 was a brilliant episode.
The Emmy was well deserved!
This was a good video. There was a fun nod to the last episode of Enterprise in the Lower Decks comic book series' first issue. They said there was a glitch that only lets you go there as a cook.
The conversion of The Cage into a two part episode had nothing to do with laziness. The show was getting further & further behind delivering episodes on time, as it was like shooting half a film per week Costumes, sets, FX; all offered major challenges compared to a contemporary police show or medical show.
The Menagerie was seen as a "break glass in case of emergency" scenario if the show found itself too far behind in delivering new episodes. It took about one week to shoot the framing scenes and edit the original pilot as needed, but resulted in two episodes. This allowed the show meet its season one commitments.
Plus, it saved money because they got a return on the original pilot which would otherwise have been wasted money
@@Michael-bk5nz well, not so much money, as the actors of course got still payed for two episodes - but yes, they ad least could use the Cage material and it wasn't waste in the end.
Lower Decks may have just redeemed These Are The Voyages. When the holodeck doesn't know what is supposed to be going on it just starts making stuff up. So that must be what happened when the NX-01 simulation couldn't handle all that Riker. And that would make Demons/Terra Prime the real Enterprise finale which I think would be a much better choice.
Lower Decks redeems the modern era of Star Trek! ;)
@@PetersonZF along with Strange New Worlds. These two are just awesome. I hope the toxic fans will see it in time, same with Enterprise
@@honzasenbauer612 Yeah, Strange New Worlds is infinitely better than shite like Discovery or Picard, but it still craps on canon and that bugs the hell out of me. :\
@@PetersonZF mistakes are bound to happen in a franchise this old and vast. There are things that are just wrong, but in my opinion they are not that serious most of the time
@@honzasenbauer612 I'm not referring to minor mistakes. They didn't care about completely changing literally everything about the Gorn except 'reptilian'. And that's not a minor race seen in a little known TOS episode. It's the main villain of arguably the most famous TOS episode and completely ruins the climax and moral message of that episode! They could have simply introduced a new race that behaved the way they needed for the story they were writing. There's no point using the name Gorn for familiarity it you're going to change everything about them.
Compare that to the clever way Lower Decks uses the Pakleds where them behaving differently (ie. being much more powerful) is literally made a plot point.
Always loved the way Star Trek, in all its forms would do these intra-canon links and crossovers. The Tribbles one had me agog in laughter and delight as I viewed it for the first time, so enraptured was I by the great job they did of interweaving the two episodes.
In TOS, By Any Other Name calls back to events happening in Where No Man Has Gone Before and Taste of Armageddon. I always liked those continuity touches in that episode.
My favorite callback to not make this list is from Voyager S3E2 "Flashback", calling back to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. It was impressive that instead of simply using clips or vague references from the movie, they re-enacted scenes from the movie using some of the original cast, and then incorporated the Tuvok story into new scenes. It was also cool to bring Kang into the mix, and give a little nod to the past dealings with Sulu and Kang.
They could gladly do that, as the sixth movie and the episode were only 5 years apart - they still had some of the stuff in the storage from the movie and could redo most of the stuff missing for the excelsior bridge.
TNG episode 'The Naked Now'(season 1, episode 3) deals with the same disease first encountered with Classic episode 'The Naked Time' (season 1, episode 4) . I think Crusher even references old files by dr. McCoy and Kirk's Enterprise...
A good one as well is that Probable Cause calls back to Defiant and the secret fleet Thomas was looking for.
Yeah, that's really never mentioned in the show, either. I didn't spot that the first time I watched DS9.
I'm honestly surprised that Trials & Tribblations wasn't at number one.
5:30 "The Menagerie" was hardly produced "out of laziness." During the first season, the production staff were killing themselves to put out what was basically a 1 hour SFX-heavy movie every week. Remember that back then, shows didn't go "on hiatus" or rerun episodes in the middle of the season. It was basically 30 shows straight from September to May, after which you had re-runs over the summer until the next season started. Star Trek actually did the unthinkable and missed a deadline, re-running "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" in early February. Rodenberry was just being a good producer and he made two shows using the 60 minute pilot, and only having to shoot about 30 minutes of new footage. As a bonus, there were very few SFX shots in the new footage as most of it was a courtroom drama.
In the good old days, it was 26 one hour episodes, then 26 weeks of reruns. 30 episodes a year would make 90 total episodes, and not the actual 79 episodes. A lot of us discovered Star Trek when it was immediately syndicated.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 - You are correct regarding Star Trek, but I was referring to the broadcast industry in general. Other programs of the era, e.g. "The Addams Family," "Thriller," "The Outer Limits" (all of which I have the complete series of) would have 30 or more shows in a season. The Addams Family, in particular, had 34 shows it's first season, but that was only a half-hour comedy shot largely on a sound stage, which made it easier.
Mirror, Mirror occurred in Season 2 of Classic Trek; The Tholian Web was a 3rd Season show.
Chronologically, The Tholian Web happened first in continuity.
Great presentation by Bree.
You’ve missed a pairing that really deserves to be on this list. DS9 episodes Ties of Blood and Water and Second Skin. Both thoughtful and beautifully acted and written throughout.
My guess is there was a criteria that it had to be a call back from a different series. I also like both of those DS9 episodes too though. I had initially thought of Encounter at Farpoint and All Good Things... Not that Encounter At Farpoint wasn't flawed, but how directly and well executed they called back specifically to that episode in AGT.
Phenomenal Lineup!
Mirror Reality is my absolute favorite.
This video was really well thought out. Good job
This puts a bow on so many knots. What an insightful and intriguing list. Thank You
Trials and Tribble-ations also used a clip from Mirror, Mirror, where Sisko says goodbye to Kirk. They replaced Moreau with Sisko.
Which worked, especially Uruha checking Sisko out...
The Menagre was not born out of laziness! It came about because the series was pressed for scripts and they had spent and enormous amount of money on "The Cage" and wanted to get something out of it.
They also had fallen behind on the optical effects and were getting close to missing airdates!
To be fair to “these are the voyages” you have to understand that much of the crew had been working on Star Trek since 1987 and the inclusion of Riker was like going full circle to where they started.
My friends and I had a saying about VOY (adapted from the Simpsons): "There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Janeway. Which is just the wrong way but inexplicable." The number of times she could have gotten home but didn't was almost a trope. Ostensibly it's to protect Starfleet values, but often she could have done both if the plan were just thought through a bit more.
I am still waiting for a follow up on the TOS episode "A piece of the action" That episode left one of the biggest cliffhangers out there.
That’s the gangster planet episode, right? It’s not “Alpha” canon, but it _did_ get a sequel story in the Star Trek: Year Five comic book series!
@@Popcultureguy3000 Yeah it's the gangster episode. I haven't read the comic books, but if there ever was a premise that needed a revisit or at least a nod back that would be it.
Maybe they still don't know how to play Fizzbin on Tuesday.
My hopes for sequels include two creepy TNG episodes: Schisms, with the shadow dimension click creatures experimenting on sleeping Starfleet personnel) and Conspiracy--the necktail body controllers.
@@jimcarey7150 technically Schisms has a sequel of sorts.
The Star Trek Online MMO has an adventure arc that revisits that story and references the episode more than once.
EXCELLENT WORK!!! I enjoyed this very much!!!
"A Piece of the Action" would have been fun for another Trek series to revisit in order to gather the Federation's "cut."
Could have spun another story where Picard and others would have been drawn in and played Chicago-style old-school gangsters, too.
Hilarious possibilities.
And in Trials and Tribble-ations, recreating the funny bar-fight scene and Kirk interrogation scene of the bar-fight participants was one of the best things ever done in Trek.
Awesome.
One of the Next-Gen comics revisited "A Piece of the Action". I remember my mother having a copy of it.
If memory serves, the books tried doing that.🖖
That was what the Tarrantino project was going to be about, the piece of the action planet.
In 1990, super Star Trek scribe Peter David wrote The Trial of James J Kirk for all those Prime Directive violations. Bela comes to testy for Kirk, returns McCoys heater untouched, and to give Kirk his piece of the action!
I don't think that would have worked due to how A Piece of the Action ended with concerns about McCoy's communicator potentially changing the course of the civilisation.
Unless the world were revisited and they had formed their own version of Starfleet or something along those lines.
It was "Through the Valley of Shadows" that convinced me that 2020s Pike could carry a series (1960s Pike, with all due respect to the late Jeffery Hunter, could not), and that "Strange New Worlds" would be worth watching.
Anson Mount is a hell of an actor. While Inhumans sucked, his portrayal of Black Bolt in it was one of the few things that did *NOT* suck. The man can act with the best of them, even when he's not allowed to speak (Black Bolt deliberately has taken a voice of Silence because a mere whisper from him can kill someone, which unfortunately included his own parents).
Strange New Worlds is light years ahead of Discovery. It is written in true "Trek" Canon...at least in my opinion.
I wish "Quality of Mercy" would go one step meta and cast James Frain (Sarek in Discovery) as the Romulan captain.
iirc Sean or whoever was doing the Ups and Downs for the ep said the same thing; that for the sake of consistency (and because it'd be a right laugh) they should have had it be the actor playing Sarek on Disco and _just never address it whatsoever._ 😂
@@Bakamoichigei addressing wouldn't be needed.
I like the novel "Sarek" referencing the reason the Romulan commander looked so much like Sarek. Kinda of like how in another book there is a reference to Una being the template for the Starfleet computer, since in the real world Majel Barrett did both.
Sort of why I had hoped that SNW would use the same actress to play Number 1 and Chapel.
"Defiant" also may have called back to "The Wounded", where Captain Benjamin Maxwell infiltrates Cardassian space, trying to uncover the rearming of the Cardassians.
And by extension, the season 3 two-part arc Improbable Cause / The Die Is Cast could be seen as a continuation of Defiant (where the secret Cardassian fleet is finally revealed)
The scene where Sisko met Kirk at the end of "Tribble-ations" was actually re-used from the final scene of "Mirror, Mirror."
A good video and all the examples are excellent. I think I'd have switched 1 and 2 esp as the Discovery in the other dimension is likely also the reason the Empire was to become so much more dominant when Kirk goes there. The one lacking, although you touched on it, were the ENT episodes referencing the look of the Klingons. Trekkers have begrudged the change of the look of the Klingons in TMP from the beginning simply for no reason other than the Director's whim. Yes we got used to the skeletal ridge over time but if anything, it made TOS episodes just feel worse. So the ENT story arc bridged TOS to TMP to TNG and onwards including the DSN tribbles episode. Sadly DIS destroyed that with their new look for Klingons. Plus the ENT story arc was both a connection to Space Seed and TWK plus set up Soong's decision to go into artificial life forms. It just revisited so much more than one other episode. There should have been honourable mention for LWD as most episodes revisit other episodes.
0:30 "Here are the 10 best star trek episodes" that revisited other episodes
0:43 "These are the voyagers is notorious for possibly being the worst episode of enterprise"
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In #3, you neglected to mention that TAS visited tribbles, too, in "More Tribbles, More Troubles."
Trials & Tribble-ations doesn't feel as special nowadays since we live in a post-Strange New Worlds & post-Kelvin world but it's such a great and loving callback to the Original series. No updates, reworks, recasts, or changes to the aesthetic; just pure 1960's love.
A Quality of Mercy is one of the best episodes of Star Trek. I don’t remember the last time we had an episode of that caliber, Enterprise’s Terra Prime episode?
How can you not mention Yesterday's Enterprise and literally every following episode with Sela in it!? :)
Brilliant catch
I was thinking the same. Reunification I and II also call back to Yesterday's Enterprise.
Another list is definitely needed! lolol
Because who gives a hella Sela?
I love "If Memory Serves" It's such a great "mid-quel" turning "The Cage" to "Menagerie" into a trilogy.
Trials and Tribblations/Trouble with Tribbles should have been #1. In addition to all the things listed in this video, it also included Charlie Brill reprising his role as Arne Darvin.
Thank you... Those were Amazing episodes !!!!
"The Menagerie" was NOT the result of "laziness"! 😡 It was born of necessity!
The first season of Star Trek was very difficult! Nothing like it had ever been done for television before! The optical effects were very complicated at that time, and they fell behind--meaning that it was only a matter of time before they missed a scheduled airdate! This would NOT be a good thing in the eyes of the network or the sponsors of the show! They had to do something--and fast! Gene Roddenberry came up with the idea of using "The Cage" footage as a kind of flashback--and wrote "the envelope" (that's what they called it!) story of Pike's accident and Spock's Court-Martial. The end result was that they bought themselves some breathing room, brought in two episodes for less than the price of one, and to top it off: a "Hugo" Award (Science Fiction's equivalent of The Oscars) for Best Dramatic Presentation of Science Fiction for 1966!
This was not the first time pilot film footage had been utilized in this way. The year before, Lost In Space's producer Irwin Allen had done a similar trick with their pilot footage and had gotten 3 or 4 extra episodes!
Course: Oblivion is probably my favourite Voyager episode. The ending is just poignant and surprising in a perfect way.
I get that, but it was a slap in the face to the actors of Enterprise.
The TOS "aesthetics" were first embraced by the later shows in TNG's "Relics".
What you forgot to say is "in a mirror darkly" was episode 700 of the STAR TREK franchise, and pt2 was episode 701
Very enjoyable, nice job!
This was great! These are some of my favorite episodes!
The first one must be I, Mudd following up Mudd's Wives. There was also the animated episode More Tribbles, More Troubles.
Mudd's Women, not Wives. With the great Riger C. Carmel!
You're kidding me? No Janeway and Tuvok meeting Capt. Sulu in Undiscovered Country?
Technically that wasn't a revisited episode, so maybe that's why it wasn't mentioned.
@@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326 if retcons and guest appearances aren't valid, then none of these episodes count. Don't have double standards bud!
One thing I don't understand is that you mentioned that "These are the Voyages " is considered one of the worst episodes in Star Trek. However you have it this list of the "Best episodes that revisited other episodes. "
I would definitely not have this on the list. There are many other episodes that are above this one that revisited other episodes in the history of Star Trek.
If we read the books based on Star Trek, a lot of their stories are continuations from stories based on lore ( not him, but you know what I mean)
I'm appalled that you put the 2 tribble episodes on the 3rd spot... It had everything, it was funny, witty, had some great lines, it made fun of star trek itself, and was expertly made. Its easily one of my top 5 episodes in the entire franchise.
Dax as the Everyman was excellent. She was us, gushing at how much she loved the classic 23rd century design, wanting to be a part of it again, experiencing the nostalgia. It was all quite perfect
A Quality of Mercy, was sensational! 👏 👏 👏
6:45 THE MANAGERIE/FALOS IV: Not only that the Pre-Pilot episode also sponsored a couple of very well written nevels around Captain Pike and his crew. -Still avilable on the Second Hand Market - and that not only in English but even WORLDWIDE!
Would love to see more episodes in the mirror universe
Or better yet an entire series in the mirror universe
DS9 had a number of them.
@@martyklestadt6766 true but would be cool to see more even ones outside the current series crossovers
@@cliffcorson4000 I hear you. However, I like the current amount(what they've done with the use of the mirror universe in all of the series)--any more would not be my cup of tea.
But to each their own. I can't get into any of the current series either, except for Lower Decks, although I only saw Season One of that (on DVD), and I'm not going to get Paramount Plus just for that.
Yuk, that's like making dessert mandatory for every meal. Sounds great but then dessert becomes less special.
That was really interesting. Thanks 🙏🏻
The bit on Lower Decks where Riker shows up on the bridge after having just finished his Enterprise binge.
Theres an episode of the Shuttle Pod where Rick Berman explains the reasoning for "These are the Voyages" and in retrospect the reasoning is sound enough. Execution could have been better -Riker on the Titan (Ala Lower Decks) would have fitted in much much better
Regardless, the Pegasus story interfered with the real story on "Enterprise" and "killed" off Trip as well as the show. If it had proceeded w/o Riker's "help", we would have seen that Trip faked his death to undergo a new mission for Section 31-infiltrating the Romulans during the Romulan War. We would also have seen T'Pol meet Trip under the steps during Adm. Archer's speech. A continued series could've been done with seasons 5-7, but maybe we fans should be lucky to read more novels like "Rise of the Federation", etc.
@@virginiaconnor8350 - what you have to remember is that this episode had to see out over 20 years of Trek (with no idea if it would ever get picked up again). Given the time frame they had to write the episode with that knowledge, it definitely feels better.
To a point, but he also basically apologized (in a round about way)for the episode.
How can you include the tribble episodes but not include The Undiscovered Country and Flashbacks from Voyager?
I suspect that it's because this video focuses on television episodes, not on movies.
@@willmfrank true but i still feel like it should have been included. They did so much to mirror those scenes perfectly, down to the actors and similar tea cup and everything.
@@thedragonauthority With any luck, TrekCulture will produce a sequel "10 MORE Times..." that will include both television and motion picture callbacks...'cause, there's...y'know...a lot.
A Quality Of Mercy is the best non TOS Trek Episode I have ever experienced. I had no idea the Star Trek franchise could still pack that great a punch. I was speechless. My favorite Star Trek episode is still City On The Edge of Forever, but Errand of Mercy was way up there for me. To dig deep into it with an alternate future was captivating. (Mirror Mirror and Devil In The Dark still delight me). Because City on The Edge is so powerful, I really yelped out loud when Burnham and Georgiou approached the Guardian in Discovery. Amazing moment. .. but Quality of Mercy still stands out as the best.
How is The Next Generation’s “Lower Decks” and “The First Duty” not on this list? At least top 5, especially if you count Star Trek “Lower Decks” series.
“The Naked Time “ and “The Naked Now”
The Demon planet episodes were indeed some of the saddest Treks (shows) I have ever seen. The philosophy is so deep. It still bothers me to this day, and has affected how kind I try to be to others, hoping to learn a little something from everyone I meet. It has made me even more aware of how fragile life really is.
Dax in a TOS uniform is priceless
Oddly left out... The writers of 'Discovery' incorporated TOS Mirror Mirror with TOS [critically acclaimed] City On The Edge of Forever, where mirror universe 'Emperor' / captain Philippa [maybe there's an Enterprise backstory?] deal with a 'Guardian' of the forever 'time tunnel' [taken from another 60's sci fi show ]. Writers Ellison, Fontana and Coon of City on the Edge of forever, originally pitched the TOS episode to Roddenberry as beings who were 'guardians' of the forever 'time tunnels' within the accents ruins. Thus 'Carl', on the Discovery series, reflects the original concept for the TOS episode City On The Edge Of Forever.
These are the Voyages was an insult to the fans who stuck with Enterprise for 4 years And why Trip?
DS9s Tribble episode was the best.
The best part of Trials and Tribble-ations was seeing Terry Farrell in the original series uniform. Very sexy
...and women wore less.
Great video Trekculture. Thanks Brie.
In The Tholian Web, TOS, Spock says no Starfleet Officer has ever been convicted of mutiny.
False: his sister, Burnham.
Which adds so much depth to Discovery and Strange New Worlds, Spock is keeping the secret.
Discovery isn't canon. Because it sucks lol
@@scinnyc
I liked it
In Course: Oblivion the silver blood crew had to return to a Y-class planet because radiation from their enhanced warp drive was causing the to destabilize. The Maquis were a group of Federation civilians, Starfleet officers, and people who just wanted to fight/kill that fought against the Cardassian Union, not the Federation.
I love it when there are trek crossovers esp when cast from tos are involved
couldn't number one also include Number One?
STOS: "Where no man has gone before." and Strange
New Worlds revealing Number One passed through
the same barrier as Gary Mitchell did in the STOS
episode I referenced.
Course Oblivion makes me wonder if some other episodes were in fact the "Demon" crew's voyages. Actually reminicient of a Doctor Who story with a similar tale of people trying to return to a place their ancestors had never been.
A while back I was working on a fan theory that "Threshold" was a Demon episode and not strictly speaking a VOY episode. But then I dropped it.
Um.... How'd you guys get the Course: Oblivion plot so wrong? The Silverblood crew weren't dying because they were native to a Y-class planet. They were dying because of the interaction between their Silverblood biology and their newly enhanced warp drive.
Trials and tribulations should have been #1
Here is a more light hearted callback: ST:TOS 's "Amok Time" and ST:SNW's "Spock Amok". I love how Strange New Worlds recreates the scene and music of Spock's ritual combat with Kirk, down to even the choreography of the fight, in SNW Spock's dream about whether he is human or Vulcan and hence worthy of T'Pring.
That show is crap and an abomination.
Next time you do a list like this, I'd include Star Trek: First Contact and Regeneration from Enterprise.
Missing: Gary Seven in both TOS S2.E26 Assignment: Earth and STP S2.E5 Fly me to the Moon.
I thought is that Jeffrey Hunter? He was the original Captain Pike. He was considered for their lead role in the entire series then William Shatner came along. Believe he's dead I just checked it out, died in 1969? Really blows me away! The guy was just in the Star Trek pilot two or three years before that then he lost his wife of 10 years and then remarries in 69 and died in the same year, like a deathbed marriage. Unbelievable, I mean cuz he's so healthy looking!!! I Love Star Trek because it has the element of the past and the future as parts of the plots and so you can resurrect anyone. It's beautiful and it's brilliant. It's almost like a Christian belief baked into a science fiction fantasy world that has no boundary's.
Hunter, a very handsome guy and a talented actor, could certainly have grown into the role. It would have been great to have him in a few episodes.
He fell down a short staircase, hit his head, had a brain bleed, and passed away. He had been injured some time before in a stunt on a film and suffered a concussion. He was only 42.
All that can be hard to follow. Thanks.
nice coverage. do you cover fan films?? You'll know what I mean.
When all is said and done the various trk series were mostly consistent with only minor problems in the timelines
An episode of discovery referenced the defiant. The star trek film undiscovered country was also shown in voyager.
"The naked now" vs. "The naked time"
"More tribbles, more troubles" vs. "The trouble with tribbles"
"The counter-clock incident" vs. "All our yesterdays"
"Tuvok's flashback" vs. "The undiscovered country"
"Emissary" vs. "Best of both world"
"Concerning flight" vs. "Requiem for methuselah"
"Generations" vs. "Q who"
... list is endless...
What was the last one, i think i did not get the name of the show...