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This probably shouldn't be here, but what the heck, it's not like this Forum is groaning under the weight of traffic, anyway.
So, as discussed here, please suggest all the episode titles you like from any show (not just Trek, or SF) that you like, as many as you like.
Feel free to explain why you think your nominations are so good. Are they funny, or very clever, or make some clever allusion to something that most people would never get? Or are they just so plain stupid they achieve a brilliance of their own?
B5: "A Late Delivery From Avalon" "Sleeping in Light" "Objects in Motion/Objects at Rest" "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" "Sic Transit Vir" (Just 'cause of the horrible pun) "Intersections in Real Time"
Andromeda: "Una Salus Victus" (just 'cause I'm a sucker for Latin) "Immaculate Perception" (...and for slight modifications of common phrases...) "The Lone and Level Sands" (...and for "Ozymandius"...)
Farscape: "Liars, Guns and Money" "Self-Inflicted Wounds: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a/Wait for the Wheel" "Infinite Possibilities: Daedalus Demands/Icarus Abides" "We're So Screwed" (Nothing quite beats naming a massive season-ending trilogy "We're So Screwed")
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B5: "The Geometry of Shadows" just because "The Illusion of Truth" "The Very Long Night of Londo Molari" had a few of those. "The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father" for those who like Parthenogenesis
DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations" Too much fun.
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Hmm...
B5: (in addition to the ones listed by Omega) The Parliament Of Dreams And The Sky Full Of Stars A Voice In The Wilderness A Race Through Dark Places The Long Twilight Struggle Passing Through Gesthemane Falling Towards Apotheosis The Exercise Of Vital Powers Between The Darkness And The Light Meditations On The Abyss And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder Movements Of Fire And Shadow
DS9: In The Hands Of The Prophets Nor The Battle To The Strong In Purgatory's Shadow By Inferno's Light Ties Of Blood And Water Far Beyond The Stars Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night In The Pale Moonlight Tears Of The Prophets Treachery, Faith, And The Great River Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges The Changing Face Of Evil Tacking Into The Wind
SG1: Children Of The Gods The Torment Of Tantalus There But For The Grace Of God Within The Serpent's Grasp Forever In A Day 2001/2010 (yeah, so, I dig Clarke references) Wormhole X-Treme (so corny that it's cool)
And, of course...
TOS: Where No Man Has Gone Before (DUH!) The City On The Edge Of Forever For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Requiem For Methuselah
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Marge Simpson in "Screaming Yellow Honkers".
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Married With Children: When Marcy's lesbian cousin visits
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"Slouching Toward Bethlehem"? Boy, "The Second Coming" is a popular source for ep titles, Andromeda also used "It's Hour Come Round at Last", "The Widening Gyre" and "Pittiless as the Sun". Back when she show was, y'know, good.
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Perhapos Michael T might like to spend a couple of minutes at epguides.com and find out what these episodes were called, unless that Charmed ep really WAS called "The One Where Shannon Doherty Dies"?
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Nobody's mentioned the X-Files either. Probably justy as well since I looked in epguides and found that while some of them sound nice, very few of them give any idea what the ep is about - or at least none that I can understand without heavily researching each one. There used to be a really good site, I think at fandom.com, that summarised each ep, had images and quotes, and explained the title's meaning. But here are a few. . .
"Die Hand Der Verletzt" "Fearful Symmetry" "Dod Kalm" "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" "War of the Coprophages" "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" "Talitha Cumi"/"Herrenvolk" "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man" "Zero Sum" "Unusual Suspects" "Kitsunegari" "Schizogeny" "Drive" "Tithonus" "Two Fathers"/"One Son" "Monday" "Sein und Zeit"/"Closure" "all things" "Je Souhaite" "Redrum" "This is Not Happening"/"Deadalive" "Jump the Shark"
" The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Being poetry, it can be interpreted in many ways, but the most obvious interpretation to me is that it refers to the coming of the Antichrist, i.e. the Beast in Revelation, also associated with the Man of Sin elsewhere. But that may just be my perspective.
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"The Widening Gyre" is probably my fave Andromeda title, saw a book called that as well recently. I'd completely forgotten it was from a Yeats poem though. Nice one Omey. 8)
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