BEST OF THE BEST IS UNDERLINED
Best Episodes:
TOS - Balance of Terror
TNG - Darmok
DS9 - The Way of the Warrior 1 & 2
Voy - Thaw (For the Clown)
Ent - Divergence
I'd rank the main series like this -
1) TNG
2) TOS
3) DS9
4=) VOY
5=) ENT
Rank the Captains is difficult. There is only one clear Worst (Archer) The Others is more subjective
1) Picard (seems to be the best, though not my Favorite Janeway)
2) Kirk (A cowboy, he had smart moments and dumb moments)
3)Janeway (Is my favorite actor and likely the best actor out of all of them.)
4) Sisko was good but seemed to prejudice and sometimes a hypocrite
5) Archer (The worse portrayal not sure if he's the worse actor)
I'd rank the XOs like this:
1) Spock
2) Nerys (more like 1a and 1b) She suffered from 1st officer writing but clearly the best next to Spock
3) Riker
4) Chakotay (I couldn't tell he was a man.)
5) T'pol (I couldn't tell if she was alive)
Best Characters From Each Series-
1) Worf (DS9, his character is finally flushed out)
2) Seven of Nine (she was Spock only more aggressive and condescending)
3) Scott (the richest character per line in the secondary areas)
4) Data (but unfortunately his character's value was destroyed in the movies
5) Trip (All of the Secondary Characters were extremely average with this exception)
Best Recurring Characters From Each Series -
[1)Weyoun (for the actor and the character)
2)Guinan
3) Chapel
4) Shran
5) Icheb
Best Villain from Each Series
1) Dukat
2) Seska
3) Q
4) Kang
5) Duras
Films by Rank
1) The Undiscovered Country *** Best Plot and Execution
2) Wrath of Khan *** Best Theme and Execution
3) The Voyage Home *** Best Continuation
4) The Search for Spock *** Best Drama
5) Into Darkness *** Best Style & Humor
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6) Generations *** Worst Concept
7) The Motion Picture *** Worst Pacing
8) Insurrection *** Worst Story
9) The Final Frontier *** Worst Execution, Worst FX
10) Star Trek (2009) *** Worst use of Contrivance & Plot Devices, Worst Villain
11) First Contact *** Worst Character Use, Worst Character Development & Worst Drama
12) Nemesis *** Worst Plot
Best Speeches
Picard
'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured...the first thought forbidden...the first freedom denied--chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom...and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
Sisko
"When I first took command of this post, all I wanted was to be somewhere else. Anywhere but here. But now, five years later, this station has become my home. And you've become my family. Leaving this place, leaving you, is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. But this war isn't over. I want you to know that, while we were keeping the Dominion occupied, a Starfleet/Klingon task force crossed the border into Cardassia and destroyed the Dominion shipyards on Torros III. Your sacrifices, our sacrifices, made that possible. But no victory can make this moment any easier for me and I promise, I will not rest until I stand with you again. Here. In this place. Where I belong."
Janeway
"You know, I'm really easy to get along with most of the time, but I don't like bullies and I don't like threats, and I don't like 'you', Culluh. You can try and stop us from getting to the truth but I promise you that if you do I will respond with all the 'unique technologies' at my command."
Kirk
"They used to say that if man could fly he have wings. But he did fly, he discovered he had to. Do wish the first Appolo mission hadn't gone to the moon, then to mars and the nearest star? That's like saying you wish you'd still opperated with scapels and sewed up your patients with cat guts like your great, great, great, great grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this but I'm not because Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantasticaly advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities..the potential...for knowledge and advancement is equally Great! Risk! Risk...is our business."
Archer
"Up untill a hundred years ago there was one question that burned in every human. It made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them. "Are we alone?" Our generation is priveleged to know the answer to that question. We're all explorers driven to know what's over the Horizon, what's beyond our own shores, yet the more I've experienced the more I've learned, no matter how far we travel or how fast we get there, the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us to each other. The final frontier begins in this hall. Lets explore it together.
