You might also enjoy the Stargate SG-1 Season 4 episode "Window of Opportunity"

@@Hawkeye26 Stargate reimagined the plots of a few Star Trek episodes. The Nox, for example, is almost a beat by beat remake of the The Original Series episode Errand of Mercy.

@@lindenstromberg6859 That's nice, Window of Opportunity was the only one I saw the entirety of, and I enjoyed it but don't have the resources to check out the rest (yet). I was just trying to provide a helpful suggestion. :-)

Couldn't agree more. I was thrilled the first time that episode aired.

John McHugh great epic episode!! Lol woof! I love Urgo episode as well! I actually met all the cast of SG1, including all the system lords villains.

Yes. My whole family through what was left of the popcorn at the TV. I couldn't believe it.

I remember watching it with my SO. The music which built to a crescendo as Riker said "Fire!", and as the screen went dark, just sent a chill through both of us. We both yelled out loud "Nooooo!" and then she started calling our friends, who all related similar reactions. Best cliffhanger ever...

@@Anglotiger The most amazing thing about that cliffhanger was that it ended with Riker actually giving the command. I expected to be kept in suspense as to whether Riker was going to give the order.

I remember watching it when it came out. I remember the place I was at to. Big Falls Minnesota at a friend's place. The Best of Both Worlds was the best. Couldn't wait till BoBW number 2.

Those were the days :)

That episode gets me every time. But so does 'The Offspring'

The Voyager episode where Tom Paris crosses the warp 10 barrier and has lizzard babies with Janeway made me cry aswell.

@@Superiorer Haha, yes that was pretty bad. I forgot about that one, now I remember, thanks a lot. ;)

Picard lived a full lifetime within a matter of minutes: with a devoted and spiritually caring wife, kids, and grandkids, in the midst of a race about to be destroyed. All remembered through the song on a flute. Very charming story!

Patrick Stewart said it was his fav ep in an interview.

Mark Lennard was incredible in that.

@@BigBubbaloola He always brought great dignity and gravitas to every episode he was in.

Neither would make my list

Nailed it! Definitely one of my favorites if not the favorite.

It’s got one of the most important lessons at the end that always hits me quite hard

@@zacharycat603 well aren't you the grumpy kitty?

We learn from failure and hubris just as much as we learn from all the good choices we make, you're right! Reminds be of Bioshock Infinite, where the protag was forgiven for his sins in one major facet of fate and the other basically drank and wallowed in his crimes. The one that was forgiven went on to become a massively racist tyrant where as the one that rejected forgiveness became - well - a useless drunk and not a person who'd cause the deaths of so many people,- but a man with a better moral compass in the end game

Me too, my absolute favorite. My second fave is "Darmok."

Love inner light - great episode. Touching, and an amazing concept… to live an entire lifetime on kataan in the space of just 25 mins on the Enterprise. The melody from Inner Light is phenomenal too. I love how it resurfaces in the episode “Lessons” in the following TNG season.

I realize this is a 2 years old comment but I wanted to say I agree. It's my favorite episode. Something about him crying and admitting he wasn't good enough still touches a deep place in my heart

It's absolutely my favourite episode

That episode is honestly a little hard to watch Seeing Picard so vulnerable, in a setting that is relatively mundane and modern, which in this show makes it almost alien, feels so unsettling.

If I remember correctly that episode's actually called Brothers and would make my top 10 list of best all-time Star Trek episodes. I'm glad I'm not the only one

Nice episode

remember me was so freaky & unsettling. i loved it

I love the Chase simply for how it tried to explain why all of the aliens in the galaxy were humanoid.

The episode has nothing to do with time or time warps. It’s parallel universes. It’s right there in the name of the episode.

YES! I love that episode.

That episode is called “Parallels” and is one of my favorites too.

In a bedroom with your "wife" Deanna Troy?...I wouldn't want to leave!!!

@@dr.christinaboiano5493 One of my favorites from the final season.

That was a great ending; it showed that even our heroes are not invulnerable.

Best ending ever. Shows how susceptible humans are to manipulation. But, with intellect, experience and intelligence we can stand above it, have a sense of clarity.

@@Mintylight It's a great episode but I don't think he was able to "stand above." I think the point is that certain things like torture break everyone. He tells Troy that he was about to tell them whatever they wanted to know and was luckily rescued at the last minute. He mentions that he even saw five lights meaning his brain was broken. I think this episode leaves us with a sense of how vulnerable we all are.

@@BeierFilms That's what I meant. He saw it, but he knew it wasn't true from before, and so he kept to his original memory, and by that he outplayed the tortureres.

My interpretation was that he saw an image of Jesus.

Darmok is best watched at Tinagra, preferably with Shaka, when the walls fell.

@@catjudo1 crockett his eyes open!

What is so exciting about Darmok unless you are an English Major?

@@arcadewill7011 I *was* an English major.

@@arcadewill7011 So was I.

Nothing else to add lol

At least you can see his demise in Picard. But it is not a good end for him.

Absoutley! "The Drumhead"

Yes. And it should be in the top 5. I literally used Picard's quote (of Judge Satie) from that episode in a paper I wrote in college.

It's not even on the top 25 list (which frankly contains a few questionable choices).

Replace Measure of a Man with Drumhead and this is pretty perfect list.

Thats my number one episode.

I'd argue all of them on this list do.

Not good enough damnit, not good enough! ... Oh it was good enough. I cannot forget that scene.

I want a (proper) series set 10-25 years after ST6, with the red uniform and maybe a 4 nacelle Enterprise-C look-alike... Maybe after ST pulls itself together again

Can you explain to me how Picard has a change of clothes in "Ship in a Bottle"?

Temba, his arms wide! Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

Jalad, when the wall's fell

The Beast at Tenagra....

I'm 30, and I still cheer when the Klingons decloak

I actually re watched it today at work!

I still do that as an adult. So awesome.

I'm so glad that was the first episode I ever saw, really set the standard well

I remember when Haftel comes out of the room and attempts to explain that data's hands were moving so fast from one failure to another trying to stay to stay ahead of it. Always hits that cord with me.

That one made me cry

said no one ever

"I cannot grieve for you." "I will feel for the both of us." *cries profusely*

Dillion Taylor the line that always stuck with me was “I’m having to rediscover that THIS is really my home.” Everything he thought he knew was gone, he had the heavens at his fingertips but all he wanted was his children. You can’t beat character development like that.

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@@nittany272 I always wondered that after the probe - or whatever it was - shut down, would Picards' family still be in there? I mean, as AI's, his children had some come from him a bit somehow personality-wise.

Parallels was amazing. Imagine trying to make sense of a reality that kept changing on you...

@@Anglotiger This is my favorite episode. I assumed there was something wrong with me.

That was a great great Episode and cant belive The inner light was in The list insteed of Paralles Inner light for me was soooo boring

They weren't mirror universes, though, just alternate timelines.

​@jihad4realniz What do you mean by the Inner Light being boring?!! The Inner Light is most arguably one of the most popular and most powerful Episode's in the Next Generation, if not the entire Franchise in a whole!!!

Being boned by Space Ghost? I think only Phantasms and Outrageous Okona felt lower....

Romulan Mora J'Trell lol

I always wished there were more defectors in that universe. Starfleet was an ideal, not a race.

I did actually write one right after this (I think the term I used was overrated or under appreciated, something along those lines). You are correct it was MUCH easier. -25 article author :)

I watched a RedLetterMedia episode on new Trek being action fluff; they said you could see why the episode makers made the Borg Cube go into self destruct; it would be a pretty anticlimactic ending if the Borg Cube just turned off and sat there floating in space, then the end credits came on.

Yea, I watched the worst episodes before this one and came up with my own list in like five minutes. And the list included only 3 of the ones they listed. Watching this and coming up with my own list, I would need a few days lol.

It's also one of Sir Patrick's!

It's the reason I came here. Just to see if it made the top 10.

I loved this episode

That was a creepy episode. My only gripe is I thought Troi spent waaaay too long hollering, “Where are you?” when she was just supposed to say, “Now!”

@@krazyglue60 hate that episode. hate it hate it hate it. Troi is SO annoying in this episode. The ideo of the story is cool. The director must not have had any coffee at all that week ...the episode sucks.

What so exciting about Darmok? So many people list this one?

@@arcadewill7011 Its not an exciting episode, not a great deal of action here. Its about the exceptional acting, the complexity of communication, and the willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice to achieve a greater good. Paul Winfield had to make that language completely believable, in all its emotional complexity. From a character standpoint, Picard is tested in all the ways we admire him the most...protecting his crew, meeting and understanding new civilizations, finding empathy and common ground with someone completely unknowable.

@@arcadewill7011 Because it shows that a great story doesn't have to be exciting. It can also be thought-provoking.

The Sherlock Holmes episodes were fantastic ,as were the 'Dixon Hill' episodes.

Darmok isn't even on the top 25 list?! Heresy!

tapestry is fantastic

How do you miss Lower Decks? That episode is amazing.

Yes to Tapestry.

Japanthewoman 25 article author here... Darmok and The Offspring are my two big regrets, especially considering Gambit did make it (I was young and naive clearly) the truth is I hadn’t watched them all the way through yet, only bits and pieces. In retrospect, heresy is right...

I loved The Most Toys episode also, I watched it so many times and it's always great. My best line "Kivas finds a way to get what he wants from his people. His rewards for loyalty are lavish. His punishments for disloyalty are LAVISH!".

I agree.... well, maybe episode wasn't that even....but the very ending is, I say, one of THE DARKEST moments in TNG and in Trek general....if you get it

I like it, too!

Well said on Who Watches the Watchers, it's absolutely superb and pretty much right on point with Roddenberry's beliefs.

And half the plot was ripped off for Star Trek: Insurrection.

She doesn't even recognize that she was on that episode.

@@scottrabie - Well, if only someone would remind Ms. Judd in an interview about her experience on "ST:TNG." That would certainly help.

She was lovely and it was a great episode, but some of Wesley's dialogue in it was especially cringe-worthy (even for him).

@@BrightOranje - Really? Well, I guess you had forgotten that what happened on that "ST:TNG" episode, that it was the WRITERS that came up with the dialogue for Wil Wheaton's character.

Yes! That one! The one where Wesley and Ashley Judd are so busy flirting with each other they miss getting mind controlled like everyone else on the Enterprise! I also liked the episode where Wesley joins a cover up to a Star Fleet investigation into a fatal accident at the Star Fleet Academy.

Or "If we're to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are."

Plenty of letters left in the alphabet.

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Times Arrow is my favorite also! Full circle-Guinan's words! Just PERFECT! Gambit, Parallels, Disaster, ....

None of them made the top 25 either, which makes both lists complete garbage.

Darmok was really great.

Agree, and Patrick Stewart said it's his fav in an interview.

It is ranked higher on many other top 25 lists.

🙄 I guess not

Jelico was absolutely the right Captain for that mission, and he right with every decision and action he took. Riker was terrible in this episode, like a spoiled child. The XO's job with enforce and support the Captain, even if he disagrees. Those objections are to be raised in private, and Jelico even sought out Riker in his Cabin, in private to ask him to pilot the Shuttle and Riker just rubs it in by snarkily saying "You're welcome." As he leaves. It further demonstrates that Riker was indeed not ready for command at that point.

Reactions the writers clearly enjoyed writing stories around Data. They also quickly realized that Geordi was a good partner for him.

I like The Arsenal of Freedom, too.

Well.... CGi was not up to the mark...

ex equo, I'd say.

Both are great episodes, but Best of Both Worlds is a clear number 1, even if it's not my personal favorite either

I was happy it made the list also, I didn't know many people had a love for it, I don't see it talked about or referenced often, but it's a solid episode.

@@Maximillian200HP "Even the heavens are denied me here!" One of my favourite lines in all of TNG...alongside "Too afraid to live, too scared to die!" (Neutral Zone...another Romulan episode, go figure!)

@@Hawkeye26 "My daughter will grow up thinking her father is a traitor...but she WILL grow up." That's one of those episodes that stings a lot more on a re-watch because you know he had good intentions and his actions carry more weight while you KNOW he was trying to do the right thing.

One of mine also. I think of so many episodes of ST:NG that ranked high on my list when I was going through this or that experience (in life in general) that an episode addressed. I wonder if I'm guilty of being experientially influenced. "Menage a Troi" is a good example -- mediocre episode but i was rather torn about where to go for grad school, so the Wesley subplot was always nostalgic.

Redemption is under rated. I loved that one also

The Riker/Klingon episode you're referring to is called "A matter of Honor". A fine episode.

And the only Episode that does not show the Bridge!

Sadly, that's pretty much the definition of Troi as a character.

@@DarkPhilosopherOG The character was never utilized properly. It was better when they put her in a regular starfleet uniform and had her doing regular bridge duties.

Me neither, and I must have seen it no less than 50 times.

She's in it at the very beginning and at the end on the bridge, during the "real" timeline. During a major war, I guess a counselor is frivolous, at least on the bridge. Or something happened to her during the war.

Not a war time consigliere.

I Loved that One! .... I was at a Star Trek Con where Jerry Hardin who played Mark Twain in the Episode did a full One Man Show one Evening for free dressed exactly as he in the Episode! The opening Twain Quote is my Favourite .... " Man is the only Animal that Blushes --- Or has any need to!"