Yesterday's Enterprise would/could have been such a kick ass movie.

Adam, you might really love it when I tell you the names of the two “time police” from “Trials and Tribbleations.” Their names are Dulmer and Lucsly. Their names are anagrams of Mulder and Scully. I just thought that you might enjoy that.

DS9 had the best time travel episode in history with TOS! Warf’s non-explanation of Klingon evolution was hilarious!

Voyager's "Blink of an Eye" was unique in that it was a time quandary rather than time travel. In one hour it combined history, religion, evolution, biology, meteorology, sociology, humanism, chronology, and philosophy. One of the best ever Trek episodes.

I don't quite understand why Time's Arrow gets so much hate. Samuel Clemens and his pet cigar are possibly two of the greatest guest characters ever.

Leader: What do we want!? Crowd: A time machine! Leader: When do we want it!? Crowd: That is irrelevant.

The Visitor is, by far, my favorite time travel episode. It really drove home how close Benjamin and Jake were as father and son. It was Avery Brooks strongest performance of the series, in my opinion. Cirroc Lofton and Tony Todd both gave excellent performances aswell, but Avery Brooks put on an acting clinic in this episode. It literally brings me to tears everytime I watch this episode. This episode is "The Inner LIght" of DS9.

Worth noting that "Trials and Tribble-ations" was a special episode to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek

The one with the bell riots was my favourite.

"Captain Kirk doing the greased weasel tango with painted ladies" .. is literally one of the most fantastic sentences that I have ever experienced.

"The Visitor" makes me cry every time I watch it. Such a good episode, great performances, but so sad.

This list is illogical as the Vulcan Science Directive has deemed time travel impossible.

I know they don't technically travel through time, but Shattered is such a great episode. Traveling through the ship to help stop Seska is just 😍

Voyager's Year of Hell was a solid entry into the funky time shenanigans category. I read that they wished they could have had a full season arc with the concept, which would have been AMAZING. What I loved about Year of Hell is that Voyager finally had some real stakes and real adversity rather than problem of the week and "reset". To be honest, I really wish they had thought of the Voyager concept in today's TV world because the show could have been properly dark, suspenseful and made better use of the concept.

One of the paradox's of Q's character is that as annoying as people found him he ultimately liked humanity and eventually saved them. I don't believe anybody else in the continuum would have even cared.

Worf eating that omelette and loving it was hilarious

The omission of DS9's Past Tense is criminal.

Yesterday's Enterprise has one of the best Captain Picard lines of all time "Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise." I'd like to think that the commander of every ship named Enterprise has said this line. If not... well put it on the time travel bucket list.

Riker: "Your gonna call my bluff right?" That really tripped my head out when he said that with the great camera work.

"All Good Things..." was the absolute best way to end Next Generation.

Yesterday's Enterprise and All Good Things are probably my second and third favourite TNG episodes. Both utterly fantastic.

City on the edge of forever has one of my most favorite lines: "Killers! Assassins! I won't let you!" *McCoy sees a bum drinking milk* "You! What planet is this?!" - McCoy

Picard is possibly the only one Q found worthy of toying with. I love his line, "exploring the uncharted possibilities of existance!"

Voyager Relativity is one of my best, for similar reasons as you explained for your top episode.

Trials and Tribble-ations has always been one of the best DS9 episodes and a personal favorite. Plus we got to see Jadzia Dax in a TOS uniform. What is not to love.

The best thing about ALL GOOD THINGS was the Z-Axis attack by Admiral Riker's ship. That alone made it a legendary episode.

The picture of Kirk and Edith Keeler at 12:01 looks, from a 2020 perspective, as though they would be taking a selfie 😁

Yesterdays Enterprise is one of my favourite TNG episodes as we get to see the missing link, the Enterprise C. Admittedly we don't see the Enterprise B until Generations, but... still. Enterprise C quickly became my favourite Enterprise

"Open hailing frequencies, Lieutenant. This is Captain Morgan Bateson of the Federation starship Bozeman... I'm listening. Sherry, Miles? 🍸"

You missed the DS9 Episode where Chief O'Brien keeps getting pulled a few hours into his own future then sent back over and over.

Captain Bateson is a central character in the novel Ship-of-the-Line. At first we’re shown the events of the episode from his viewpoint and of how he ended up going through the anomaly in the first place: he was trying to fight a Klingon heavy cruiser that has crossed the border to destroy a Federation outpost. It was a suicide mission, so they were buying time. After crossing over they learned that Kirk and the Enterprise showed up to drive the Klingons away, saving thousands of lives. The Bozeman’ screw was assumed destroyed and got heroic funerals. Years later, Bateson spearheaded the construction of the Enterprise-E and maneuvered himself into the position of her first captain. Then his old Klingon enemy (still alive) came back to settle an old score and capture the Federation flagship in the process. In the end, Bateson hands the command over to Picard and gets a new ship, the Bozeman II. The book ends with the opening to First Contact and Picard musing that the new Bozeman is present at the battle with the cube. Bateson also briefly appeared in one of Shatner’s novels, sitting in a cafe with Kirk and Scotty in the 24th century

I thought 'City on the Edge of Forever' was the best Trek ever. It won the Hugo Award and was most memorable for young impressionable people of the '60's. Other ones mentioned were also excellent and had various flavors to the time travel genre of a number of Trek series.

Jadzia really looked smokin' in a TOS uniform.

As if there's no 'Year of Hell', 'Relativity' or 'Future's End' on this list, and only an honourable mention for 'Timeless'. What do you have against Voyager? I mean, you could argue that 'Year of Hell' isn't technically time travel, but neither is 'The Visitor', and that made the list.

"Cause & Effect" is one of my FAVORITE ST:TNG episodes. I have it on my DVR & try to watch it every time it airs. It's like Dr. Who ""Blink"...I could watch them both a million times & NEVER get tired of them.

No “Past Tense”??? What it loses in time travel antics it more than makes up for in sociopolitical relevance

I'd say Timeless is better than Endgame. It's one of the only good Harry Kim episodes.

personally i would put "The Sound of Her Voice" from DS9 on the list. its a very unique "time travel" story.

Through a Mirror Darkly deserves to be on the list. Ties in to TOS, from the Terran Empire perspective, the opening theme and visuals being changed, brings back the tholians and the defiant...

The two investigators in Trials & Tribblations were Lucsly and Dulmer (a nod to Scully and Mulder)

Riker: "Tough little ship..." Worf: "Little?!" I love that exchange! Love love LOVE, The Defiant!

Timeless needs have been on this list it is better than end game. Missing this off was criminal.

Children of Time was the most bittersweet episode of Trek for me. The biggest take away from that episode was that it showed how indifferent to humanoid life Odo could have been if it wasn't for his connection to Kira. The Odo of that colony lived with those people for centuries and yet he "killed" them all without hesitation because his love for Kira was all he cared about.

The Inner Light, is the greatest Star Trek episode, and technically it is a time travel episode

"The Visitor" and "Tapestry" are too low..and as a previous post stated, "Year of Hell" is a better choice than "Endgame". I preferred "Timeless" to "Endgame".

I remember Trials and Tribble-ations when it first aired, and it got me hooked on DS9. It got me to learn to watch the TV Guide channel to find out when DS9 would air, and I'd stay up late to catch up on the episodes in syndication.

Excellent listing. End Game was the best ending to any series so far. Janeway deserves all the praise that is heaped on her.

“Well? What year is it? Am I in Fraser or am I in Cheers?”

This list: *exists* Time's Arrow: "Am I a joke to you???"

'yesterday's enterprise' is my second favorite tng episode, right behind 'the inner light' which i thought might make this list, considering there is a time travel element to it...

So happy this popped up on my feed!!! Great videos y'all!! Thanks for doing these!!

I now need to go and watch all these again.

"Blink of an Eye" Voyager. It's a different kind of time travel.

I don't understand how Past Tense is not on this list.

I always felt that whenever the writers were feeling lazy, or someone was on vacation, "TIME WARP, MFER!". Great video and commentary!

Your description of "Tapestry" (7:13) describes almost every Q episode and I love it.

There was that time travel episode in the animated series with Spock. We also got to see his pet!

If you listen closely, they had to dub over with '200' at several points

One of the things I love about "Children of Time" is that it's a time travel episode in which no one actually travels through time during the course of the episode

Yesterday's enterprise is the definitive time travel episode of all of star trek

Raves about how perfect a show the City on the Edge of Forever is and only lists it #2. Well not only is it #1 it may be so good as to negate even adding another 9 to the list.

"City on the Edge of Forever" is IMO the absolute best not just within Star Trek but it is among the best Sci-Fi stories ever written. It's one of the very few stories that won critical acclaim outside television. I am also surprised that you did not rate "Assignment Earth". This would have been in my top 5 easily maybe higher. It was such a complete story with so many elements; it's easy to see why it was proposed as a pilot for an entire series. I don't get the fascination with DS9 which I thought was just meh within the ST Universe and descended into a soap opera at times. I also thought that ST Voyager's "Shattered" was a superb episode that would have made my top 10. Voyager was underrated on your list. I would also add "Year of Hell", fantastic storytelling.

If anyone's interested and doesn't want to read the article (written by Simon Gallagher, by the way), there's more entries listed: #15: Time's Arrow - TNG #14: E2 - ENT #13: Tomorrow Is Yesterday - TOS #12: Timeless - VOY (which really isn't about time travel but about making sure a big mistake never happens from the future) #11: Little Green Men - DS9

Great to see time travel episodes like this revisited.

No mention of "Past Tense". An incredible DS9 episode, and so relevant today.

I know some people won’t consider this a time travel episode but “Our Man Bashir” because it’s during the Cold War and based off of a James Bond movie

That omelet had me crying....its like 6 eggs and supposedly it's going to be a meal.....with a story of how he became such a good cook....Riker does not lack confidence 🤣🤣🤣

What about TOS episode where the Enterprise went back to 1960's Cape Canaveral, got chased by a fighter jet, spotted by the pilot, and had to set things right? I like the way they showed actual NASA footage of the space program that was happening at the time of filming TOS. Things like that made Star Trek more interesting and believable that we would eventually make it into space.

In “Time Squared”, I always thought the alien shocking Picard on the bridge towards the end was it telling Picard to not go through with it, as it had failed previously. It was actually trying to help. Probably rolling it’s eyes and saying “geeez human, can’t you figure this out”?

RIP temporal directive

Carpenter Street from Enterprise is pure gold. Almost feels more like a modern cop drama than a Sci Fi episode.

These time travel episodes were all good with rewatching value.

Dammit, now I want to watch all of them. And pretty much all the other episodes. This may take some time...

I am really shocked "Time's Arrow" is not on this list.

For just TOS the episode "City on the Edge of Forever" is definitely the best time travel episode. The late Harlan Ellison was arguably one of the greatest Sci-Fi authors around. He was also a conceptual consultant / consultant for B:5. However there were two other TOS episodes that definitely need mentioning. The first being "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and the second "Assignment: Earth". Gary Seven: "That, Miss Lincoln, is simply my cat." IMHO that one line made the entire episode. Great video, thanks for posting!

I remember when Cause and Effect first aired. I didn't see the preview for the episode, so when the Enterprise blew up from the get go... I screamed.

I still believe that Magic to make the sanest man go mad is worthy of this list too. It's a standout episode of Trek and Discovery, and also shows the extents to which Michael would go for the federation in the worst case scenario

"Trials and Tribble-ations" was more a one off show-casing episode what could be done with NLE those days...I think they did pretty good. ;) oh, btw.: those guys from TI are Dulmer (or Dulmur) and Lucsly, which are actual anagrams of one "Mulder" and one "Scully"...wonder who they are :p

Trials and Tribble-ations is tied with Little Green Men as my favourite time travel episodes.

Love your vids!! This was the best!!

Should have definitely included at least some of these; 'Timescape', 'Past Tense', 'Visionary', Carpenter Street', 'Time & Again', 'Eye of the Needle', 'Before & After', 'Shattered', 'Cold Front', 'Azati Prime', 'E²', 'Zero Hour'. No Enterprise entries whatsoever, despite its entire arc around the temporal cold war.

I'd put *The Visitor* at number 1

I could not have come up with a better list myself. Well done!

One I think deserves an honourable mention is the one in voyager where time is split into 37 and only chakoty can travel through them all. It's such a great episode I love to rewatch

All Good Things is the best series finale in all television in my opinion.

Poor Voyager can’t get the love some of its time travel episodes need. I enjoy Voyager and stand by its quality as a series still today. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊

Being a fan of all four types of original star trek series, not counting enterprise. I think you hit it out the park.

The best time travel Star Trek story of a televisual nature hasn’t been made yet ! ☠️

Year of Hell from Voyager should be on this list.

A lot of great picks. I did also think about the DS9 episode "Visionary". O'Brien keeps jumping several hours into the future because of radiation he absorbed during an Engineering accident. It's a great episode because the stakes keep getting higher. First, it's just a case of seeing himself having an argument with Quark, then a bar fight in Quark's bar before (more seriously) his own death in various ways. It's also the ONLY episode we see the destruction of the station, as one of the time-jumps sees him fleeing DS9 in a Runabout shortly before it gets torn apart. Eventually, he's able to make a more-controlled time-jump to just a few hours into the future, so he can find out what happened to the station. He arrives in Ops with his future self just in time to see a Romulan Warbird decloak and begin attacking. However, O'Brien's too sick from radiation poisoning to make the return journey to the present and instead has to get his future-self to go in his place. So, every episode from that point on has an alternate O'Brien!

i like the one with 7 of 9 repeatedly going back in time to stop Voyager from blowing up, and also the one where Kess was reliving her life backwards

It isn't stolen Borg tech in Endgame. It's future Starfleet tech to defend against Borg.

What would be your honorable mentions? 1. Tomorrow is yesterday 2. Assignment earth

Had Yesterday's Enterprise not been on this list I straight up would have blocked the channel lol

The thing that has always stood out about cause and effect is how the original series era ship smashes the D like a full size 1950's Ford having a head on with a Prius

Oh, man......yesterday's Enterprise.....I still remember how I felt as a kid when I saw it for the first time! "Let's make sure history never forgets, , the name, Enterprise"......SO EPIC! Picard would have been a badass wartime CPT!

its crazy how Tasha is featured in two of these episodes.

This was a pretty */200/* nice list overall :-)

The two Star Trek movies that dealt with time travel (The Voyage Home and First Contact) were definitely above the episodes listed. The Voyage Home was probably the BEST time travel story in the Star Trek universe.

Voyager's Future end is my all time favourite time travel episode from any of the classic series.