ENGAGE!
Well, as the 30th anniversary of Star Trek the Next Generation continues to ramp up, we thought it would be fun to have another great “which is the best of the best” discussion. With 178 episodes of TNG to choose from, we figured there will be a great mix of expected episodes, and possibly a few surprises!
But that’s not all! Since we are doing another “ranking episode,” it only makes sense to bring back is Mr. TrekRanks himself – yeah, yeah, the man who actually fired the phasers on the good ole NX-01, Mr EnterpriseExtra, Jim Moorhouse and we are thrilled he is joining us again for our TNG discussion.
As with our previous TOS rankings, we have followed Jim’s lead from his website and listed our episode, followed by a short 5 word description, and then an ultimate hashtag comment for each choice. Below are the choices of Dan and Bill for their Ultimate Top 10, and you can see Jim’s TNG rankings at www.trekranks.com/tng-ranks!:
| Dan | Bill | |
| 10 | Fistful of Datas Good Ancient West Holodeck Fun #EnterpriseRidingOffIntoTheSunset |
All Good Things… Wonderful bookend to Farpoint pilot #GeneWouldHaveLovedIt |
| 9 | Future Imperfect 16 year Riker memory gap #DidntSeeTheMinuetTwistComing |
Thine Own Self |
| 8 | Starship Mine Barion Sweep cleans AND kills #BarionFieldCanCauseSkinIrritation |
Darmok Communication is essential to success #TembaHisArmsWide |
| 7 | The Wounded Great Intro to Cardassian baddies #DanLovesTheSpoonheads |
Unification Spock. Spock. Spock. Spock. Spock. #Spock |
| 6 | Q Who The Federation’s Greatest Threat Arrives #They’reCarvingUsUpLikeARoast |
The Drumhead Salem Witch Trials in 2368 #IveBroughtDownBiggerMenThanYouPicard |
| 5 | The Pegasus Cloaking Device Experiment Gone Wrong #DontTellMeWhatICantDo |
The Pegasus Riker’s loyalty gets completely divided #PointThePhaserAtPressman |
| 4 | All Good Things… Picard must save humanity – again #Great-WeAllCameFromAPuddleOfGooInFrance |
The Inner Light The life Picard never had #ThatDamnedFlute |
| 3 | Best of Both Worlds Borg assimilate Picard – ‘nuff said #BestCliffhangerInTelevesionHistory |
Family Perfect follow-up to Borg aftermath #BrokenPicard |
| 2 | Chain of Command Cardassian torture & Enterprise chaos #HeyRikerGetTheFrickinDeltaShiftStarted |
Best of Both Worlds When it finally came together #BestCliffhangerEver |
| 1 | The Inner Light The best Picard episode ever #PutYourShoesAway #NowWillNeverComeAgain |
Chain of Command Stewart’s best performance as Picard. #GetItDoneWill |
Plus: news on the a new “autobiography” coming out regarding our favorite follicly-challenged Captain, a Star Trek: Discovery cast photo emerges (kind of), several Trek alums are up for Emmy Awards, and yet another amazing update on the DS9 Doc! It’s all in Episode 97 of “Your Independent Star Trek Podcast” and we hope you’ll join us!
FIVE YEAR MISSION
We love FIVE YEAR MISSION and we can’t thank them enough for allowing us to use their music on Trek Geeks each and every episode. We’re huge fans and we hope you’ll become one, too–they’re writing and recording one original song for each episode of the classic Star Trek series from the 1960’s.
Warp on over to their website at FiveYearMission.net and check out each and every one of their incredible albums! You can hear them all: Year One, Year Two, Year Three, The Trouble with Tribbles, and of course, the amazing Spock’s Brain! Plus, don’t forget that they are working on Year Four right now!
These are the Five Year Mission songs you’ll hear in this episode of Trek Geeks!
Themes
The Cage – [Track 1] – Year One
The Trouble With Tribbles 6 – [Track 6] – The Trouble With Tribbles
Bumper Music
Amok Time – [Track 15] – Year Two
Metamorphosis – [Track 7] – Year Three
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