The best Start Trek episode EVER just started on TV Land.

[Floogeldy]

The one with Joan Collins, "City On The Edge Of Forever."

Trust me! ;)

[LeftyMom]

1. d00d, it's okay, but it's no The Omega Glory!

:P

[Floogeldy]

2. No way!

Humans reduced to powder? Nah.

The best episodes/movies are the ones where the crew goes back in time. ;)

[LeftyMom]

7. I really do like The Voyage Home.

That's like my second favorite Star Trek movie. Maybe third if First Contact sounds really good for some reason.

[jgraz]

17. E Plebnista!!!

[hatrack]

37. And it's CERTAINLY no "Spock's Brain"!

As I say to myself at work on a nearly daily basis, "Brain and brain, what is brain?!?"

[NYCGirl]

40. LOL!

[NYCGirl]

3. You are so right.

[Floogeldy]

4. Ah, your pic isn't displaying.

:(

You can download the pic to a photobucket account and link it from there. I'd love to see it. :)

[NYCGirl]

5. The one above working? NT

[Floogeldy]

6. Yes, it is. I like this one, too . . .

;)

[NYCGirl]

9. Yep. And this:

[Floogeldy]

10. That is awesome!

Thanks, NYCGirl. :)

[Floogeldy]

14. Be still, my heart.

;)

[Floogeldy]

8. Yea Spock is Chinese and got his head caught in a rice picker!

:rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

11. Arena was my favorite episode then catseye..But I did love c.o.t.e.o.f

Bear skins and stone knives

[NYCGirl]

18. "City" is, I believe, the best written ep — but my fave, for some strange reason,

is "A Piece of the Action." Maybe because I'm a devotee of film noir?

Edited to add: Harlan Ellison would probably disagree about my first statement. He hated what Roddenberry did with his script.

[Guava Jelly]

20. Piece of the action is in my top 10

Fizbin ..Gawd i'm such a nerd :7

[NYCGirl]

23. I guess I'm a nerd, too. But I only like the original series — never watched

more than a dozen eps of the spinoffs.

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Also among my faves

Again, because of the humor.

"I would advise yas to keep dialin', Oxmyx."

:rofl:

Sadly, no one got the next line in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5857655#5857684

(Okay, so I spelled "fizzbin" wrong. Make me hump a Horta.) :eyes:

[NYCGirl]

25. And I love the ep with the mama Horta, too.

Don't you hump a Horta unless you want thousands of those silicon nodules all over the place!
:evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. It was voted 'fan favorite' some years ago

That doesn't make it the "best," but... :shrug:

It's my favorite, though, because it has a lotta little bits of humor.

And my favorite ST line EVarrrr:

"YOU! What planet is this?!?"

[Floogeldy]

15. I did not know that.

Thanks for the info, Oeditpus. :)

[Archae]

13. What's Start Trek?

Is that where someone starts a trek? :P

[Floogeldy]

16. Heh.

Good point. :blush:

[Lethe]

19. yep its good

hard to say if its my favorite though.

a liberal peace activist must die to save america.....

[NYCGirl]

21. Actually, to save more than the US, since if she had not died Germany would

have won WWII.

[Floogeldy]

22. Good post, ikhor.

That is deep. However, doesn't the time period of this episode precede Pearl Harbor and Hitler's biggest invasions?

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. It even precedes Hitler as chancellor

It was set in 1930.

[Floogeldy]

26. Spock: "Edith Keeler must die"

:scared: :cry:

[NYCGirl]

27. And the best closing line in any episode. Here it comes. NT

[Floogeldy]

30. "Let's get the hell out of here."

? :)

[NYCGirl]

32. That's it. You know, I have a copy of Ellison's original screenplay. Roddenberry's

changes made it much better.

[Floogeldy]

34. That goes way beyond my knowledge . . .

. . . I have no clue. Any enlightment will be appreciated.

Suffice to say, it is still my favorite episode. When I watch it, I feel as though I have viewed a full length motion picture in a theatre. There is so much in there, one would think that it should have taken an hour and a half to get it across. Love it!

:)

[NYCGirl]

39. Here's a whole book about the famous Ellison/Roddenberry feud — with

the original script intact.

http://www.amazon.com/Harlan-Ellisons-City-Edge-Forever/dp/1565049640/sr=8-1/qid=1163998244/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3795071-5590420?ie=UTF8&s=books

Ellison wrote a fascinating screenplay (the person who goes through the time portal is a crewmember named Beckwith who is dealing drugs on the Enterprise!), but it was basically unfilmable, and Roddenberry changed it to have more to do with the Kirk, Spock & McCoy triad. Ellison was angry — but not angry enough to turn down the Writers Guild award he won for best teleplay, and the screenplay that Roddenberry changed won a Hugo.

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. A friend who was once married to a SF writer told me

Harlan Ellison is a womanizing asshole.

That's her take, though. :shrug:

[NYCGirl]

44. Sounds about right to what I've heard. A fine writer, though. NT

[Floogeldy]

28. Spock: "He knows, Doctor. He knows."

:cry:

[NYCGirl]

29. "Let's get the hell out of here." The greatest closing line. NT

[Floogeldy]

31. Heh heh.

It was fun watching that with ya. :)

[NYCGirl]

33. It was fun. I always get teary-eyed at the end of that episode. NT

[Floogeldy]

36. Me too. I had to wipe my eyes.

:blush: Very intense emotional and historical interplay. Whew!!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

35. I still like "The Menagerie" best. "Capt. Pike has his illusion, and you have reality."

"May you find your way as pleasing."

Gives me chills to think of it even now.

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. One really cool thing about 'The Menagerie'

It shows Spock as we know him and as he was originally, as Pike's first officer (or was he the navigator?) — an emotional Martian! — in "The Cage."

[hsher]

38. Agreed

That ending is haunting as hell