YES!!! Deliberately understated, yet immensely frightening!

10 points if you can tell me what this is in reference of.

@@Rockhound6165 2+2=5 if the Minitru says it is.

@@davidwuhrer6704 you get the cheroot.

@@Rockhound6165 We've always been at war with Eastasia.

He fucked with Harry so she went full mama bear scorched earth on him.

100%.

Agreed! That husky near-whisper. The borderline vindictive, but very understandable, retaliatory ruthlessness. Yikes. You mess with her crew, her family, you're foolish not to expect payback. Great ST-Voyager, great Janeway moment.

@@brandonlink6568 the poor lad never got a promotion on the ship but she always had his back.

Janeway had the idealism of Picard, the swagger of Kirk, & the ethical plasticity of Sisko. She wasn't afraid to go _dark._ Like the time she got angry, interrogated & nearly murdered an officer of the _USS Equinox._ Chakotay is sometimes dismissed as "dull" but, man, Janeway needed a cooler head to hold her back when sh*t got real.

"Computer? Do I have the skills necessary to accomplish this alone? "NEGATIVE!" "HA, Gotchya!!!"

@@aerisgainsborough2141 That made me wanna go watch it again. Season 4. Hulu here I come!

halfway through the episode when wesley is silhouetted in the vortex and you realize SHES in the bubble. awesome.

Well you can't be guessing right up until the end... because they literally explain everything early in the third act, which I really didn't like. Still a good episode, but the way they executed the twist _itself_ makes the episode WORSE.

My favorite part of that episode was when Crusher asked the computer what the nature of the universe was and it answered “The universe is a spheroid region, 705 meters in diameter." 😂

Yes, that was HUGE, Odo never knew who his people were and they were in fact the Founders.

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Yeah I don't know how they could leave this off the list

Agreed. When the truth is revealed and the motivations (and distrust that drives the Changelings and therefore the Dominion) are revealed, you see Odo crestfallen. Adri spending his entire life trying to figure out who he was or where he came from, he gets the answer, only to see that they are more than willing to wage war and kill to protect their own because of how they were treated all those years ago. Although the motivation is understandable, that does not give the Dominion the right to wage war upon the rest of the galaxy.

@@calhoun24 "There are 2 great tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it."

One problem I've always had with "Ship in a Bottle" is where did Picard get his change of clothes.

@@VonWenk I don’t remember the episode that well. But I’m sure we can chalk it up to future magic. Lol

YOU ARE 100% CORRECT

@@Doc-Holliday1851 I remember it well and with the ship inside a ship inside a box inside a cube, it broke my brain. Same with Change Of Mind.

Exactly. He skipped right over the REAL twist!!

That works over here in Britain where we still call a 'show' a programme.

@@stevearmstrong9213 Technically...we still do that here in America. Just not as widely used for some reason... Or perhaps I am one of the few that still uses that term and we're just too old to "get with times"....

Plus there's more talk among scientists nowadays that our universe might just be a simulation, perhaps a simulation inside a simulation inside a simulation...

"Ship In A Bottle" one of my all time TNG favorites.

I'm old fashioned enough to still call a season a series, too.

Always nice to encounter another DS9 fan

Soong being alive after hacking Data to take over the ship to see him.

All good. Torres’s face upon realize the robots killed the builders will always stick with me.

Automated Personnel Unit SirZapdos must be sent back to the Pralor homeworld.

Bashir is a changeling too.

Yeah people always seem to gloss over the implication that we’d been watching Changeling Bashir for a few episodes. Glad someone else realized that too.

Dude, I totally forgot about that. How did I forget about Changeling Bashir??

The best part about Bashir is that when you rewatch the previous few episodes, you can really see a slight difference in his personality

Yeah, changeling Bashir deliverers Kirayoshi O’Brien, and performed complex brain surgery on Captain Sisko to remove his visions.

Wasn't changeling Bashir also present when an infant changeling was discovered on DS9 and adopted by Odo?

My favourite Voyager Episode, super twist at the end, superb!

It always breaks my heart to see Janeway sitting there in the end, devastated, knowing she was absolutely correct in not trusting her newest love interest.

The women on the show got really short changed. It's criminal how badly underutilized they were. We got to see glimpses of how great these characters could be in the later seasons, but not nearly enough.

My favorite Dr. Crusher episode is "Remember Me."

@@cryofpaine No doubt that it was at least part of the reason Denise Crosby left the show. I think we got a Troi or Crusher episode once a season.

She deserved more episodes period.

Agreed. Dr. Crusher deserved so much more. I hope she comes back in Star Trek Picard.

Seriously, suddenly all that scene setting of interstellar politics in the background really pays off!

This was a terrific twist! The look on Tomalok’s face is priceless!

Yeah! Really the best one on the list imo

Yes but really would the Klingons be satisfied with just a standoff? I can see that it would've taken a lot of favours to avoid the Klingons just ambushing the Romulans instead of de-cloaking as a show of force.

The Battle Horns when the Klingons decloak truly made that scene. O.o

Lwaxana was such a complicated character and this revelation was devastating

and then it never got addressed ever again 🤣

@@cptsteele91 it was, kind of, in Picard when Riker and Deanna named their daughter Kestra after her sister. Fun Fact: Kirsten Dunst played Hedril in the same episode.

John Luck Pickard?

I loved the tune he played on his flute. Dr. Marcus's accent changed from American in the 2nd movie to English in the JJ Abrams movie. What happened to continuity?

Yeah, and he ends up sharing that tune with his next girlfriend that ends up dying.

@@redmatrix how lovely!

My favorite episode.

That episode could have been so good but it turned out to be horrible

Mendez and Pardek were both False-Faces, played by “?”, who played False Face on The Batman TV series.

I thought maybe another STAR TREK should be made (A TOS) that ends with KIRK discovering at the end that everything, All STAR TREK episodes, are an illusion created by the TALOSIANS.Not sure how the plot should exactly go but it would be the " Mother of all" TREK twists if it was done right ?!

@@jymfysher7704 That would be Galaxy Quest.

@@freedomtothink9574 Good call !!

LOL! this one goes down as most hilarious as she's not only married but not even a little bit as nice as her hologram

Top 10 Anime betrayals right there 😮

Something he could have easily found out lol

There's the implication that Geordi used the holodeck to behave "improperly" with Leah Brahms.

🥲

Just watched that episode a few days ago and I think it's definitely Top 10 worthy. When he just disappears from the hearing at the end and the Talosian explains how Spock basically told them they better keep Kirk occupied...

Good one! I totally agree! 🙃👏

Oh yeah! Killer reveal. You’re right!

That's a perfectly good honorable mention to this list

Nah, he wasn't insane. Had a moment, just a moment, of grief-driven rage is all. Bad when it happens to a lesser life form, pretty consequential when it happens to one with godlike abilities. Interesting ep, but I always thought that, with powers like that---even if he was generally a pacifistic entity---he could've stopped an attack on the planet by vastly less powerful beings without resorting to lethal force. It was like saying a Q, a Thasian (TOS ep "Charlie X") or an Organian would've had no other option in those circumstances. And, speaking of the Organians, please don't get me started on how ludicrous "Errand of Mercy" was. I mean, what was the deal with creating an environment and presenting themselves as though they were inhabitants of a society at approximately the level of development of Earth's medieval period? It's almost like they were baiting Kirk, Spock and the Klingons into believing they'd be easy pickings.

@@MoreLifePlease Some early expanded universe said they did bait them. It's sort of their "warp speed" bench mark for being an enlightened race.

His confession was a pretty powerful line. I didn’t kill just one, or a hundred, or a million. I killed them all. Not just decimated, but a complete genocide. Picard: we have no law for your crime. (More like, no way to enforce such, but anyway)

But poor Troi. Worst earworm ever

@@MoreLifePlease They set up a labkratpry; the subjects behaved in a certain way; THEN they intervened. I don't think the Organians knew Klingons and Humans, only that there was discord in the space near their planet.

oh yes this episode is amazing

Yeah I just commented on that... But great heartrending ep.

I really liked "Scientific Theory" season 4, When the Captain Snaps and flies the ship through a binary pulsar.

One of the most horrible episodes of Voyager, but yes, it was an underrated series.

It ran from 10s to -10s in quality. Many will unconsciously remember the horrible far more easily than the great.

I think it would've been cooler if you found out it was the Star Fleet guy who was sending messages to the Kazon and Seska stayed on as Voyager's Cardassian crewman.

I don't think these can be considered twists. They are character development in a way that was unexpected, but not entirely opposite of what could be expected, or as the result of information that is held until the climax, and which places characters, or events in a different perspective.

@@imkluu in both examples key information was withheld from both characters and audience until the very last moment for dramatic effect (the twist). Neither example was expected or predictable at the time of first broadcast.

How could I have ever loved you?

I thought Seska was an fabulous Star Trek villain. It's a shame they couldn't have found a way to keep her as a reoccurring character. She was excellent at stirring up trouble!

And to think Gene Roddenberry was totally against casting Patrick Stewart as the captain. He wanted someone younger, with a thick head of hair and a lady's man - like what he did back with Kirk (William Shatner). Thankfully the other producers empathic backing of the British accented "frenchman" won out. Frenchmen in quotes because Picard's backstory has him from FRANCE even though our dear captain clearly talks with a British accent. Hmmm?

I agree. And a briliant performance by the sorely missed Andreas Katsulas.

You should have seen / heard me when the three ships decloaked. The shout of joy I let out... That episode is still one of my favourites.

the Klingon plot twist was my fav

yes,the ending when the defector realizes he's been played.

Almost the entire Q story arc: meh.

So why was Q so damn strict and harsh with Picard/Fedreation, while he let the Borg, Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, Dominion, etc. do whatever the hell they wanted?

@@alanr4447a I think is because Humans are on the path to become members of the Q Continuum, I think a conversation between Picard and Q alludes to this but I can't remember which TNG episode it is.

@@alanr4447a I think that was supposed to be indicative of how "special" humans in general, and Picard in particular, were in the estimate of the Continuum; of how we had a potential that those other slackers supposedly didn't. Still gets a big MEH from me as an over-rated and irksome story arc nonetheless.

If you think about it, it was always true. When the court scenes in Farpoint ended, it was only adjourned. There was no actual verdict or judgment. The entire series was the entire case for humanity. And though they were initially guilty and sentenced to non-existence, they did show that they were capable of more, warranting them to continue. However cruel it was to show this truth and teach this lesson, it was eventually effective.

one of my favourites

I like it.

Denise Crosby was persona non grata, so hiring her would be a problem.

@@SidneyBroadshead ah, that's show biz. I doubt her presence would have fixed the bad writing and directing anyway.

Sela was supposed to be in Nemesis, but her character was replaced by Cmdr Donatra played by Dina Myer.

Dina Myer was a pretty cool Romulan.

I have seen TOS eps so often and for so long I can not recall seeing an ep for the 1st time. But I love watching that Ep and yelling at Kirk to start thinking with the other head. 😆😆😆

"I know how to use this, Captain." Chilling.

As a legitimate trekkie I hated the Motion Picture. Nothing happened very, very slowly. It was however, the first Star Trek film and I think they learnt their lesson. The Wrath of Khan was excellent

The music was great. It was mainly a reason to get the crew together, especially since we fans hadn't seen them for awhile. Some might suggest "Enterprise" have a movie for the same reason perhaps. Maybe. I think the ship and her crew deserve better after what was done- to re-write the end, fight the Romulan War, begin the Federation, explain why Trip faked his death when he returns, explore other worlds and update other stories, and conclude the lives. This would take more than a 2 hr. movie. Hopefully, "SNW" will prompt a new interest in re-booting the series.

that's because Yar was wack!

@@dellytancyl524 Shame she never got the chance to improve, the way pretty much everyone else did.

That feeling when you leave the show because you think you are a star and then come back crawling.

@@glasrazuma933 Gene Roddenberry welcomed her back with open arms because he was very smitten with her. If you've seen her abs in "The Naked Now" you know why.

the first season had good episodes, Duet being one of them .... I also remember Progress, which ends in kinda twist

It's one of the top 10 greatest episodes in all of Star Trek. Harris Yulin gives a performance that should have gotten him some kind of award. Nana Visitor was also superb playing opposite of him. There's a reason Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor, Ira Steven Behr, and many other cast/crew members all consider this one of the best episodes in ds9. It's really a shame it's not even mentioned in this video.

@@urekmazino6519 I laughed at how cheesy and over the top it was.

Another good one was the one where Joel Gray played the guy on that authoritarian planet who went crazy when his wife and daughter were executed and thought Janeway was his daughter.

I love the episode with the Nazi type inspector looking for telepaths, who tries to charm Janeway saying he's changed, but Janeway is no fool and tricks him using the tech he gives her access to

One arm man in The Fugitive.

Exactly the same here!

Tennis elbow my ass lol

Double twist, Guinan plays racquet ball!

@@AdventuresofaGeek Whoa there. I don't need to hear about your bedroom activities.

@@D8W2P4 🤣 lol well sure, nobody 'needs' to hear it.. 😏

@@AdventuresofaGeek Well sure, it didn't put YOU in the hospital. I still get aches....

Ever notice how the ship looks like a Borg unimatrix

@@gremlin21591 & they did say that the Voyager 6 came into contact with a r"ace of living machines". So I'm thinking the Borg. Or those androids that Voyager ran into that tried 2 get Torres to build a prototype.

@@bonusbaby801 The Borg are not living machines, they are cyborgs who have become immortal through technology and treat their bodies as disposable. Originally they were meant to be void-dwellers who care nothing about the planet-colonising empires: They have been everywhere forever, but never noticed because space is so big and the territorial races only look at planets. They could pop up anywhere at anytime to raid anyone by any means. Of course they became just another territorial empire for the Federation (and only the Federation) to fight. One living machine appeared in ST:TOS, in the Doctor Who episode that Haarlan Ellison wrote. But when I hear living machines with interstellar travel technology, I think Hasbro Transformers.

Yeah, that was a good twist, especially because we are primed to think he really is that monster.

The emotion of that scene is forever in my memory, thanks to it being one of the video clips on the Omnipedia/Encyclopedia CD-Rom!

One of my two favourite DS9 eps.

That was a terrific episode. Easily my favourite of Season 1.

Casting Harris Yulin was genius. He absolutely owned the role and gave the storyline the brilliance it deserved.

@Captain Chaos agreed. Kim never got promoted either. I believe his character never got the "growth" everyone else got in the show. It's like barely anything about him changed from the moment they got lost in the Delta Quadrant to when they got back. In fact, the "Ensign Kim" they got back with them wasn't even the "real" Ensign Kim, he was a flippin' universe copy type of clone.

I didn't think Chakotay merely had the hots for Janeway. He esteemed and cared for her. He wanted it to blossom into love. Part of why I really like the character, even though the background for his heritage was a mess and I don't really admire Mr Beltran.

@Captain Chaos for reals! Kim and 7 would have been a great match. 2 sexually inexperienced/naive but brilliant nerds.

Chakotay was such a good lay that Seven is now a lesbian.

@@katmatally You might have to explain to me that "don't admire Mr Beltran" thing. Other than that, it was sort of obvious from the first few early seasons of Voyager that Chakotay already admired Janeway from the get-go. There's also the fact that even though he locks horns with her on some of her hardline policies throughout the show, he'd still be backing her up more often than not.

SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED THAT INSTEAD OF THE STUPID PIGGISH KURTZMAN DRECKS CARTOON.

Not just a murderer and a spy, she betrayed his trust, she betrayed the ship, and her actions and the actions of those she was working for/with had the Federation sacrificing his two dearest friends as well as smearing their reputations.

@@MrGoesBoom All to undercut a potential peace initiative that could save the Klingon Empire from extinction.

I didn't like the mind-meld that Spock forced on her. I call it unethical, whether he thought she was a criminal or not.

Sometimes circumstances force even the best people into shameful acts, even for the best reason. I heard the pain and sadness in Spock's voice. This was not easy for him.

Right? Especially since it really only happened so Soran could verbally nut-shot Picard with the line, _"They say time is the fire in which we burn."_ But then, I'm a partial believer that Picard never left the Nexus.

"i m afraid, yes i know."

My favorite twist was on rewatch, when I realized that the clown was Charles McGill from "Better Call Saul". Just kidding, though I really did love that episode and the realization came as a huge shock.

@Josiah Miller Michael McKean was superb as The Clown.

it was cool in episode but would have worked better if anything had been done to foreshadow it in previous episodes

The odd part was how he regenerated. Do changelings who've spent their lives in the great link not have to turn into a puddle now and then?

The fact the bashir changeling let the baby changeling died is weird too

Bashir was replaced in "The Adversary" (S3: E26) as well. The big twist in that 5th season episode is Martok being a Changeling (methinks the producers & writers did not set him out to be one in "The Way of the Warrior". They did a RET-CON when deciding to bring back the character).

@@Gimleeminigod The baby changeling was dying and could not be saved.

never understood the hate this film received. excellent story, amazing effects, and a true sci-fi conclusion

@@kossttamojaan too many expecting too much action and explosions and the like.

@@NecessaryTruths You have your opinion, I have mine, others have theirs. And effects will always become dated regardless the film. That's the nature of the business.

Not related to the deadlock episode in s2 is it?

@@jebiniv no. It's the ones from the Demon planet, S4.

@@Trekfan04 oh damn i almost forgot about those guys LOL

I got so mad at the real Voyager crew for not conducting a thorough investigation - nope, just log the event and resume course. Whatever distress call they picked up was presumably in Standard, the "debris" they found were liquid rather than solid as expected... and that doesn't raise any red flags? They even pick up the material as being a "dichromate compound", and that doesn't ring a bell in any of them? Not even Tuvok with his Vulcan memory, not even Tom or Harry who were first to encounter it? Nobody even thinks of searching their computers to see if, where and when they've encountered that kind of compound before?

But, my creator, the twist was not that it had sterilised planets for being imperfect due to memory corruption. It was something much more beautiful.

Yes,yes! Very good.

My favourite episode of DS9. So good! It really makes it clear how the lines of morality start to blur when your very existence is at stake. Especially Garak was fantastic in that episode.

*It's a FAAAAAKE!*

Not really a twist episode, just dark as hell. One of the two best episodes of any Star Trek series. Depending on the poll in question, it tends to swap spots with Balance of Terror.

@@jamesbuchanan4414 I think the revelation of Garak's true plan would count as a twist when it plays out.

@@jamesbuchanan4414 "Erase that entire personal log" was a helluva of a shocking way to end the episode, and not something anyone was expecting.

That isn't a twist. It's a reveal.

There were ""three pips" but no Gladys Knight.

How is that a plot twist?

There.. are.. three.. lights!

I liked that one, especially when they asked 'Frasier' what year it was at the end.

Arguably Treks greatest episode with arguably Treks greatest supporting character...

And the coda at the end where Sisko stays quiet about it.

Me either!

Q never bothered Sisko after Ben actually floored him. Picard never got to lay one finger on Q, and Ben could get in a punch. Looking back, that could be taken as a hint. For Q, it could have been a warning. "If one of our kids could give you the bloody nose you were telling Picard about, what do you think the grownups can do to you, Q?"

I don't think it was that deep or complicated, IMHO, Q never bothered Sisko again because Sisko decked him...someone who fights back (literally, physically, in this case) is no fun for a bully, but Q could jerk Picard's chain all day long, and get reactions, without any worry

No he stopped bothering him because he wasn't fun. Also only reason he even bothered Sisko is because Vash was there with the artifact that was actually an alien egg thing.

Well, Q said that Sisko was easier to provoke than Picard, and how that was a good thing for Q.

That ending was so sad. She had been built up so much as a character, not just in that episode, but in a previous episode, and her death...hit hard. I think a lot of writers could learn from this episode about how to make a character's death emotionally resonant as well as meaningful. Like the moral of the novel Redshirts, it's not that killing characters is bad, but that the deaths shouldn't be meaningless stunts that just serve to raise the stakes and escalate tensions for the lead characters. ...I recommend that novel to anyone who hasn't read it, it's a gripping read and plays with the tropes of the genre to great effect.

That's 1 of my favorite EPs. I liked after Worf warned her of the dangers, she said, "I'm Bajoran. No one knows better than me what Cardassians do to their prisoners."

An absolute standout of a TNG episode with wonderful performances.

@@DrTssha typical Berman though, fridging her

Been a Trek fan since the 60's. Enjoy your youth. (lol)

Loved the double twist in that episode. I totally bought that it was a Romulan plot to get info on the Federation and Starfleet from Riker.

The best Garak line is when Bashir asks him which of his stories were true and he tells him they all are Juluan asks "even the lies" and Garak says "especially the lies"

@@stevearmstrong9213 that was the line that made me fall in love with his character, he was so magnificently written and acted by Andy Robinson

The Celestial Toymaker is great. It has Real Maths in it.

The odd part is that the revelation Jobril wasn't dead and it was all a ruse to steal the technology was enough to excuse her violation of another culture's death customs. She only got into trouble in the first place because she autopsied the Ferengi yet, just because she killed the thief, all was forgiven.

@@stevearmstrong9213 She also stole a shuttle craft and disobeyed the captain's direct order to return to the ship. That in itself is a court martial offense, but the captain loves her so all is forgiven.

Maybe Beverley just gave the family a few bars of latinum. Ferengi will forgive anything if the price is right.

@@stevearmstrong9213 My memory's poor. But it could have been that it retroactively made her performing the autopsy necessary for a criminal investigation rather than just a violation of funerary customs. I know that's allowed for many real world medical examiners. Of course future knowledge and vindication making past actions not-criminal is not a good precedent. But it's not too bad for how fast and loose Star Trek plays with legalities, IMO.

And Sisko is put on the spot in the process. The deception and the death should be just antithetical to everything he believes in, yet he can live with it, because it serves the purpose of bringing the Romulans into the war on the side of the Federation. Why this is one of the greatest Trek episodes, ever.

@@garyfrazier5414 Ah, but there's a second, subtler twist to it. Watch the ending again and you'll see this: Sisko pours himself a drink while he gives his monologue and he's just about to drink saying "I CAN live with it"... but he doesn't drink. The implication is that Sisko can live with the consequences, but he will not celebrate them. That is why I love that episode - wonderfully understated.

@@efulmer8675, that is a very astute and telling observation.

Isaac once said that Star Trek was one of the only series that required that the people involved have some knowledge of science.