As I look through the titles of each episode, I notice they often choose quite poetic names.
One of my favourites being "For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky". The scene in which this quote is mentioned, is also quite well done.
What are some of your favourites?
Posted May 14, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC
I be always liked the titles “Who Mourns for Adonais?” “Who Watches the Watchers” and “In the Pale Moonlight”
I like your first one, but substituting “Morn.”
Is There In Truth No Beauty?
We'll Always Have Paris
Elementary, Dear Data
Deja Q
Menage a Troi
Qpid
A Fistful of Datas
Who Mourns for Morn?
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Bride of Chaotica
Blink of an Eye
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Author, Author
Terra Nova
In a Mirror, Darkly
For me, it has to have two things for me to like it
It's why I'm not a big fan of many of the voyager and enterprise episode titles; one or two words that reduce an episode to it's most basic premise. "The Thaw." "The Cloud." "Counterpoint." Even ones with more poetry, like The Scorpion, tend to bug me.
Worst one for me happens to be the TNG episode The Battle. Like oh wow, a battle in Star Trek? Never heard of that one!
I like the silly ones. Who Mourns for Morn and Trials and Tribble-ations. It adds a nice amount of self awareness.
Darmok.
Not just a title.
Also one of the best TNG episodes, perfectly encapsulates what TNG was all about.
Can I just pick DSC season 1 as a whole? "The Vulcan Hello", "Context is for Kings", "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "Lethe", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Will You Take My Hand?", etc., etc.
Worst episode titles: TNG, by a mile. "The [noun]", "The [other noun]", "The [third noun]", "The [adjective]", "The [adjective] [noun]", etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
I have not seen Discovery yet but "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" is a great title.
I don't even like Discovery season 1 very much and I can admit it has awesome titles.
I am your direct inverse, as episode titles that sound like panic at the disco songs come off as pretentious, while a direct episode title feels less like it's trying to extort your good job sticker. An episode itself forces you to remember something mundane like "yesterday's enterprise" more fondly than the most eccentric title off the bookshelf.
The Wounded
Hollow Persuits
Ship in a Bottle
Low Decks
Basically every Quark episode has a great title.
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, even if just for how long it is (TOS). The Nth Degree. The Magnificent Ferengi. Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy.
Speaking of poetic, "Where Silence Has Lease" is taken from the classic Alaskan poet Robert Service, from "The Spell of the Yukon" :
"There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting;
It’s luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder,
It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me with peace."
Waaaaiiit...
11001001
Looking for par'Mach in all the wrong places
Ferengi love songs
Starship mine
The Next Phase. Incredibly clever.
Has anyone mentioned "House of Quark" yet?
I'm also partial to "Yesterday's Enterprise"
• Up the long ladder.
• lower decks.
• magic to make the sanest man go mad.
• the Andorian incident.
• the die is cast.
• the squire of gothos.
• city on the edge of forever.
• the tholian web.
• the measure of a man.
• starship down.
• far beyond the stars.
• it’s only a paper moon.
• tinker tenor doctor spy.
• blink of an eye.
• observer effect.
"In Theory" from TNG Season 4. I think it's funnier after watching the episode.
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Course: Oblivion
By Any Other Name
Who Mourns For Adonais? -> Who Mourns For Morn?
Where Silence Has Lease
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
In a Mirror, Darkly
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Context Is for Kings.
In Purgatory’s Shadow/By Inferno’s Light.
In The Pale Moonlight
Far Beyond the Stars
Point of Light
These Are The Voyages. (Like the title, the rest doesn’t exist.)