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They've made us laugh, they've made us cry, they've made us say, "What the Hell were the writers thinking?!?!?"
I'd like to hear some nominations for your favorite Trek scenes in the catagories of humor, f/x, action, and drama.
This all sprang from my thoughts about my nomination for the comedy scene below.
I'll start it off:
Comedy: The whole end of the TNG episode where Q loses his powers and comes aboard the ship. The Mexican band and the women for Worf and Riker were great. That was Q at his most precocious.
Special F/X: Voyager crash landing on the Ice Planet in "Timeless" I still have to watch the thing 3 times whenever I watch the tape.
Action: Any of the fight scenes with the Jem'Hadar. Especially Dax and Sisko. The martial arts moves they do are pretty killer.
Drama: Sisko being pulled from his cabin on the Saratoga leaving his dead wife behind in "Emissary". Actually, that whole opening sequence was pretty cool.
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Comedy: In the episode Qpid when Worf get so irritated with Laforge's Guitar like thingy that he smashs it against a tree, then he hands it back to LaForge while flatly apologizing. I also love that part when Worf was crying out "I AM NOT A MARRY MAN!"
Action: This is a tough one. With me, it's a tie between the battle scene in ST:FC and the scene where Janeway crashes Voyager into Annorax's timeship.
Special F/X: This is also a tough one. I have to get back to you on this one.
(This is beside the point, but didn't SF:FC get nominated for best visual F/X in the acadamy awards? Along with nominations for best music, best sound F/X, and best make up? A vaugly remember ST:FC getting nominated for at LEAST 2 of the 4 catagories I mentioned.)
Drama: I'm going to have to get back to you on this catagory as well. sorry.
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Comedy: That scene in "The Dauphin:" *fade in* Worf: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!" Wesley: "So you're saying I should go ROAR at her?" Worf: "MEN do not roar, WOMEN roar." Wes: "What else do they do?" Worf: "They... hurl heavy objects... *gets dreamy look* and claw at you..." Wes: "What does the man do?" Worf: *still dreamy* "He reads... love poetry... *comes back to his senses, glances around* He ducks a lot." Wes: "Thanks Worf, but I think I'll try something a little less dangerous." Worf: "Go to her door. BEG, like a Human."
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I rather enjoyed the scene in "Ensigns of Command", where Picard demands that the situation between the Federation and the Sheliak be arbitrated by a species who is in the middle of their hibernation cycle ... and then cuts the Sheliak off before they can respond.
Or, from "Menage 'a Troi", where Picard counts down to the destruction of Tog's vessel while quoting Shakespeare.
"Now we get to go look for clues!" "And ... that's fun?" "YES!" Picard & Guinan on the Holodeck in Clues.
For Drama, when the Enterprise faces off against Tomalock's ships in "The Defector."
"You have thirty seconds to decide."
"I do not require one, Tomalock!"
"Captain Picard, I implore you! Consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause."
"If the cause is just, and honorable, they are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalock?"
"I expected more from you than an idle threat, Captain Picard."
"Then you shall have it. Mr. Worf...?"
At which point three Klingon battleships decloak.
"Klingon warships -- armed, and ready."
"You will still not survive our assault!"
"And you shall not survive ours. Shall we die together?"
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As far as drama goes, my two favorite scenes are from "The Visitor" and "Sacrifice of Angels" respectively.
In the former, my most favorite scene (and there were many) was when old Jake tells Sisko that he's been given a second chance, right before he dies and the scene reverts to the Defiant's engine room.
In the latter, pretty much the last half of the episode, starting from when the Klingon ships arrive on the scene (straight out of the Millennium Falcon at the end of Star Wars), through the trip into the wormhole, Sisko's meeting with the Prophets, the Jem'Hadar fleet vanishing, and the retaking of Deep Space Nine.
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The Italian food debate in TVH, Troi and Riker explaining the Phase to Picard in "Manhunt", most of the Kirk/Spock/McCoy stuff from TFF, most of "Deja Q" -- but especially Data laughing, Troi's 'what's a core breach' scene from "Disaster" -- oh wait... that wasn't meant to be comedic...
VFX:
The refit E-D swooping up on the Klingons in "All Good Things...", the first time the Defiant fired phasers in "The Search, Part 1", the final scene in "Call to Arms", the whole sequence from the cut to the orbital office to the launch of the Enterprise in TMP.
Action:
Stealing the Enterprise in TSFS (hey, I count it), the assualt on Paradise City in TFF, the fight at the deflector dish in FC, the run for the caves in INS, Worf's calesthenics progam in "Where Silence Has Lease"... Surprisingly few actually. I'm tough to please when it comes to action sequences.
Drama:
Most of "The Wounded", most of "The Measure of a Man", most of "Best of Both Worlds, Part 1", most of "Family", most of "Chain of Command" -- both parts, most of "In the Pale Moonlight", most of "The Meld", most of "Living Witness", most of "Duet", the destruction of the Enterprise in TSFS, most of the interaction between Picard and Anij in INS, the E-D coming upon the Horatio's debris field in "Conspiracy", the E-D demolishing the Lantree in "Unnatural Selection", Riker's bits aboard the I.K.C. Pagh in "A Matter of Honor", the discovery of the Borg corpse in "Blood Fever", the rest of "The Neutral Zone" -- from where Ralph decides to find out whats going on, Tasha's memorial in "Skin of Evil", most of "The First Duty"... I have quite a few in this category...
--Jonah
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Which explains nicely why threads like this always become pointless - sooner or later someone has to list damn near everything. At once. Christ almighty, why can't people just pick ONE scene?
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FX: The whole sequence of the Defiant's "run" from SoA.
Action: The boarding fight scenes from "Way of the Warrior".
Comedy: Riker explaining the computer to that stupid Ferengi in "Rascals": "Don't touch that or you'll blow up the firomactal drive!"
Drama: Hard choice between "The Visitor" and "Jetrel". I'd suggest the latter. I thought that whole episode was really touching.
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VogonPoet: Why is it whenever someone has a problem with one of my posts, it's you? *heh* I admit I'm a compulsive list-maker, but in this case I was narrowing it down drastically. After sleeping on it, I've got the list originally requested. Sorry to make you read for that extra MINUTE, but:
Comedy -- Data laughing VFX -- The "AGT" E-D pass... Action -- Stealing the Enterprise Drama -- Finding the destroyed Horatio
Better?
--Jonah
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But now I�ve brought Star Trek into it again, haven�t I. Sorry."
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