TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Need more space Nazis.

[11B4V]

Best TOS episodes no particular order
Space Seed
The City on the Edge of Forever
Balance of Terror
The Trouble With Tribbles

[Sheilbh]

Say what?

Generally plottishness doesn't matter in most films, TV shows or novels if they're doing other stuff to keep you going. The new Star Trek film did - though I disagree with Ide, it could've done with less lens flare

[Ideologue]

Rope is immaculate.  You can't replace Jimmy Stewart with Cary Grant.  For one thing, they mention Cary Grant in dialogue.

But could they replace Rupert Cadell with Scottie Ferguson or LB Jefferies?

Nah.  Rupert Cadell was a gay man who thought fascism was funny.  Scottie was a terrifying sex monster.  LB Jeffries was just a crotchety asshole with a heart partly made of gold.  And the guy in The Man Who Knew Too Much was a nice family man.  Totally different dudes.

[Ideologue]

Best TOS episodes no particular order
Space Seed
The City on the Edge of Forever
Balance of Terror
The Trouble With Tribbles

Space Seed gets raised up on account of TWOK, I think.  Is a really good episode.

I think my 5 (also no order) would be:

Balance of Terror
The Ultimate Computer
The Corbomite Maneuver
The Doomsday Machine
Amok Time (Amok Time has some of the single raddest music I've heard on a TV show ever)

[garbon]

Say what?

Generally plottishness doesn't matter in most films, TV shows or novels if they're doing other stuff to keep you going.

I'm...well, speechless.

[Ideologue]

I half-agree with S.  A formulaic, generic plot isn't a negative.  But an actively terrible, illogical one can create serious issues.

[11B4V]

Best TOS episodes no particular order
Space Seed
The City on the Edge of Forever
Balance of Terror
The Trouble With Tribbles

Space Seed gets raised up on account of TWOK, I think.  Is a really good episode.

I think my 5 (also no order) would be:

Balance of Terror
The Ultimate Computer
The Corbomite Maneuver
The Doomsday Machine
Amok Time (Amok Time has some of the single raddest music I've heard on a TV show ever)

Good choices.
DS9
The Visitor

Voyager
Scorpion

TNG
The Inner Light
Chain of Command

Enterprise
Theme song

[Sheilbh]

I'm...well, speechless.

And, to add to your :os, I generally don't care about illogicality and, as I say, can't think of an actively terrible plot I've ever noticed while watching a film.

Which isn't to say that I don't like a good plot - like Hitchcock or a Wilkie Collins - but people way overworry about it.

Edit: Incidentally, in plotlessness, I've finished Mapp and Lucia. Really very good

[Ideologue]

Infantry: at your favorite Enterprise.

DS9's gotta be Way of the Warrior.  Probably the best space battle in Trek (film or TV), it also represented a real technical leap.  Plus, it had a scope such as had been rarely seen in Trek... and really only previously in DS9.  (Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast is probably my nos. 2, or 2 and 3 if I need two slots.)

TNG's All Good Things, but The Inner Light is up there.  Best of Both Worlds often tops such lists, but I've found the Borg's absolutely atrocious information security doesn't escape me now like it did back in the 90s.

Can't really speak to Voyager or Enterprise.  I don't know if I've ever seen a particularly great episode of either.  Scorpion probably would be my favorite of what I've seen.

[Ed Anger]

Nerds!

[garbon]

I'm...well, speechless.

And, to add to your :os, I generally don't care about illogicality and, as I say, can't think of an actively terrible plot I've ever noticed while watching a film.

Well I won't be as now I know you are just lying to me.

[11B4V]

Nerds!

Psst  

Y181 The Alliance launches Operation Remus: Federation and Kzintis attack Romulans from the west while
Gorns drive from the north. The Kzinti fleet surprises a Romulan fleet at anchor and destroys it.
Reasoning that their mission to guard the flank of the Federation fleet has been fulfilled, and
responding to reports of Klingon attacks on their territory, the Kzintis withdraw without warning,
collapsing an Alliance drive that could have captured the Romulan capital. Facing heavy pressure,
the Gorns are diverted westward and cannot reach Remus. The Federation Fleet reaches Remus
alone; forces of both sides annihilate each other. CVA MacArthur crashes into the planet, rendering
it almost uninhabitable.

http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/Timeline.pdf

[Ed Anger]

I have the game. Played it to death in my younger days.

Pfft. Carriers. Faggot shit.

[viper37]

Enterprise
Theme song

the two episodes before the last one, in the alternate universe.  Greatest Star Trek ever.