No joke: Best scene EVER in Star Trek's lengthy and tedious history:

[Deja Q]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NcKqi_YhPk&feature=related

[hellbound-liberal]

1. That was a powerful scene, but here's my favorite. From the Wrath of Khan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyl4GxBzEw

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. That is a great one - wonderful lesson on passion, drive, motivation

of course, I'm sure there are some liberals who would say it's too Ayn Randian, but I call bullshit on them.

I think that if we had a world in which people really were encouraged to be passionate, driven, and motivated - and were given the opportunity to be so - we'd be a lot calmer, happier, and less violent world.

I am always saddened by people who set low goals for themselves, and then live up to them by the time they're twenty, and spend the rest of their lives hovering there.

[Deja Q]

3. Oh, I wouldn't argue any of that...

That might have been Ayn's point as well, though that Donahue episode shows she seems more like a nazi than anything else...

We all would be happier if we were encouraged to be passionate and driven, than to be made dumbed down and/or pigeonholed.

But passion for using God's gifts granted us, or passionate to make, earn, and/or take money... that just seems wrong.

[oregonjen]

4. My favorite most moving was Spock's death and eulogy

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. No, I liked the one where Worf said he'd disembowel Picard if he weren't Captain...

And, as you can tell, I'm too damned lazy to hunt it down and post it here (if, in fact, it ever made it to YouTube)...

...but the context was basically that Picard accused Worf of being somewhat less than "heroic" and Worf responded with the "if you weren't Captain" line.

:toast:

[pokerfan]

6. my favorite

Wesley gets run through!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcPi-kGZvD4

[rcrush]

7. I liked Siskos monologue to the computer in that episode where

He used Garak to kill that Romulan senator to get the Romulans into the Dominion war.

[laconicsax]

16. Best. Episode. Ever.

With the notable exception of "Far Beyond the Stars."

[MrPerson]

8. I would have guessed - KHAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!

[Juche]

9. My favorite episodes are either

Deathwish on Voyager or Parallels on TNG. I never got into the original, enterprise or DS9 so I'm sure there were some good episodes there too but I haven't seen them.

Parallels has a vibe similar to the episode the OP posted.

[billyoc]

10. The Drumhead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZlextkcDI

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. OMG, yes! Great philosophy, as well as Jean Simmons and Stewart acting together

Two of the greatest of all actors sharing a scene, and they are so brilliant i get giddy!

That's what acting fucking looks like, George Lucas.

[laconicsax]

18. Oh, come on. Just look at the intensity in Hayden Christensen's face!

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Isn't that the face that Lucas got Natalie Portman to make?

Or is that Samuel Jackson?

I can never tell them apart when Lucas directs them.

[billyoc]

21. She was awesome in that scene.

:hi:

[Captain Hilts]

22. I loved it. nt

[Orsino]

11. Here's the most moving scene, perhaps, in the entire canon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuQCt5xWeDc

After McCoy berates Spock for not understanding the joy and pain of love, Spock goes and has a look for himself. There's a subtle, beautiful moment where we see him read Kirk's pain, just before "Forget."

[slay]

12. I remember John de Lancie from his time on Days of our Lives the sopa opera

Great ST:TNG scene btw. On Days he was some crazy inventor guy named Eugene who made a time machine in his basement or something and just vanished one day! lol.. oh and the chick who played his wife on Days is the voice of Harley Quinn in Batman:TAS. Good stuff. :)

[Kat45]

24. I remember him on Days as well. That's the first time I saw him.

His wife's character on the show was named Calliope and she was also a screwball.

[slay]

28. Ha yeah she was!

Just as big a screwball as she is playing Harley Quinn! Look proof - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E360x70Nlos

:silly:

[blogslut]

13. I'd advise youse to keep dialing, Oxmyx

There are many wonderful Star Trek moments but I'm partial to this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUWyAtqdwzc

[ccharles000]

15. is that bald dude the same one from x-men

[Deja Q]

17. Yep. Patrick Stewart. Played Cap'n Picard and Professor Xavier.

Mr Stewart did say, back in 2002, he was done playing Picard...

Thanks to X-Men III being such an underachieving mess, I doubt he'd be in X4 - if that will be made... (X3 did have real potential, but preferred to remain shallow... partly due to the change of director; Bryan Singer decided to leave the X-Men movie series to do "Superman Returns", though I still can't understand why since "Superman Returns" is a partial rehash of the 1978 movie starring Christopher Reeve and (IMHO) wasn't very good. Great movie poster, but the actual remake flick was a real wretch. :( )

Like X-Men, the Spider-Man movie series also had a change of director for its 3rd movie and put in too many baddies and making the whole thing convoluted and unfocused. A shame...

[WildEyedLiberal]

36. According to a recent interview with Jonathan Frakes, Stewart would be open to the idea

I don't have the link for the interview, but it was from February, I think. Frakes mentioned that he'd been speaking with Patrick Stewart recently and Star Trek came up and Stewart said he wouldn't mind doing another film. It's very possible he could've changed his mind over the past seven years - in 2002, he'd pretty much been doing Picard consistently for 15 years, and Nemesis sucked, so he was probably burned out. But maybe he and the others would like a chance to do one more film/special and give their characters a proper sendoff.

I mean, I doubt there will ever be another TNG film, but I think that has more to do with TPTB at Paramount than it does with the cast.

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. I was expecting the woman on the episode "Spock's Brain"

"Brain, brain, what is brain?" Brilliant!!!!

[Swede]

23. My favorite episode was the Inner Light.

Here is a synopsis of the episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=606Vk2iSFNk&feature=related

[LostInAnomie]

26. They had a big Star Trek auction a few years ago...

... where one of the most sought after items was that flute. Someone paid something ridiculous for it. The funny thing is that it doesn't actually work.

[pinniped]

25. This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBnflnDArlk

[RandomThoughts]

27. Comment posted a few days ago

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt

I hope the new Trek film is good, trailer looks pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gty9tLOXpwk

[RandomThoughts]

29. And to say it again

Carpe Diem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppqb0t_B0KY

[petronius]

30. Although I quibble with you use of the word "tedious," I agree that was an excellent scene

One of my few major disappointments with DS9 was how they caricatured Q.

It's been a while since I saw that episode - did one of Picard's classmates die in either version of that fight?

[UndertheOcean]

31. Star Trek is boring ...

I used to like it when I was 12 ,not much after that. I don't think my blood pressure can tolerate sitting through a whole episode though right now. Some rare episodes of TNG where good , but that was the exception rather than the rule .

Give me Solaris or Stalker or Fantastic Planet any day over the shit Americans think qualifies as science fiction

[OmahaBlueDog]

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Wrong thread

[TK421]

32. I thought you were going to mention the episode where Spock whips out his 9 inch weiner

but....whatever

[LostInAnomie]

34. I saw that one

For some reason it had pointy ears too.

[lazyriver]

35. My favorite...from Darmok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukMNfTnI5M8

Picard at his finest.