What are your favorite time travel episodes? Also what are your least favorite?
I’ve always considered time travel to be something of a plot cheat code so such episodes aren’t often favourites. But that said we’ve been watching Enterprise lately and recently got to S03E11 “Carpenter Street” and it had some good moments.
Top of mind is Archer driving a truck and T’Pol exclaiming “Turn Starboard at the next street!”
Incidentally I’ll never understand how they could possibly think taking an alien back in time to Earth is a good idea. T’Pol is the second last crew member that should have been on that mission (just slightly ahead of Phlox)
I’ll vote for Prodigy’s Time Amok.
The premise was really creative and it was delightful seeing the cast work together while not sharing the spot light with each other. And oh Gosh… poor Rok-Tahk.
Relativity and if we somewhat widen the definition, Shattered.
TOS: City on the Edge of Forever - Written by Harlan Ellison with Joan Collins as Edith Keeler.
One of the all-time best episodes of all of trek.
I’ve always had a soft spot for “Future’s End”. I’m a fan of Sarah Silverman though so I might be biased.
Favourites: Yesterday’s Enterprise, Troubles and Tribbleations, Past Tense, Time’s Arrow, All Good Things, and Star Trek IV.
Lease favourites: Literally all of the rest.
Perfect list
Time’s Arrow is really fun
@GuyGamer234 I love “Future’s End” from VOY and “Past Tense” from DS9.
Time’s Arrow (Part 1 & 2). There’s nothing like Data being the pimp he is. Picard meeting Guinan.
I have always enjoyed the themes of Tapestry.
Our past defines us. Both the good and the bad.
I just love trials and tribbleations. The glee of the cast is just so lovely as well as the near seamless integration. Least favourite, to stay with ds9, is little green men because it was too predictable
Trials and Tribbleations, and Little Green Men.
(the goofy ones, I know, but they are my favourites)
Favorite: Tomorrow Is Yesterday
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“A Quality of Mercy” (SNW S01E10)IMHO a clever reference to the TOS episode (without messing with the canon) and not the usual “we have to prevent this to save the future” plot.
Yesterday’s Enterprise, if I had to pick one.
Some more obscure ones that I like and I haven’t seen mentioned thus far in this thread:
- I will always pull for Time Amok from Prodigy. It’s where in my eyes the series really started opening up. It touches on the deepest themes of Star Trek while still being a fun sci-fi concept.
- Terra Firma from Discovery is basically Tapestry, mirror universe edition. Might have worked better as a one parter but it was fun deconstructing how the prime universe had changed Emperor Georgiou.
- Timeless from Voyager set some bad precedents for time travel, but it was a good Harry Kim episode.
- Shattered is probably where I’ll stop any future Voyager rewatches. A fun retrospective on the series, and Chakotay actually gets to do something for a change.
Side note, have we not had any time shenanigans in Lower Decks? I know it’s technically coming by way of SNW, but still.