"Emanations" - Harry Kim gets transported to a world that sends their dead to a rock in space thinking it's heaven or some garbage.
"Phage" - Crazy space alien types steal Neelix's lungs. Hm.
"Caretaker" - 
"Tribunal" - The Cardassians kidnap Chief O'Brien and try to kill him for a crime that they actually framed him for, but then they get caught (whoops).
"The Maquis, Part Two" - I don't understand why Quark is allowed to stay in business if he gets caught selling arms to terrorists.
In this classic episode of Star Trek a bunch of space hippies manage to hijack the Enterprise because they think they've found the garden of Eden and it's a planet. Man, they've got to increase security on the Enterprise if a bunch of lame hippies can hijack it. Anyway, turns out the planet is poison and not so much fun and everybody learns the valuable lesson that hippies are crazy and you can never trust them.
As far as Star Trek fan projects go, Star Trek: Phase II is the "best," in that it has by far the best sets, special effects, and actual cameos by actors from Star Trek. However, despite having special effects a million times better than the show it homages, every episode has been a train wreck of bad writing, bad acting, and a ridiculous cutesy nature that pervaded all of Star Trek for the past decade or so. That said, the latest episode, "Blood And Fire," is actually pretty good. It's still stiff, but it accurately captures the feel of the original series. The plot is something about a disease and stranded ship, but meanwhile Kirk's nephew and his boyfriend decide to get married but it's the 23rd century so that's ok. Check this out, but avoid the other episodes in my opinion unless you want to see Sulu and Chekov played by George Takei and Walter Koenig. Fan films have certainly come a long way since I was doing stop motion animation with Legos in my basement.
"Armageddon Game" - O'Brien and Bashir are helping some aliens get rid of biological weapons, but things go all screwy and O'Brien gets real sick (Boring).
Yes that picture really happens. This episode starts out great, with talking space corpses, space ghosts, space witches, and even a space castle, but then it becomes ridiculous and boring. I like this one part where this space witch/alien holds a toy of the Enterprise over a candle which makes the real Enterprise start to overheat. Anyway, it turns out none of the ghosts were real so this ends up being one of the most reviled TOS episodes of all time.
The original Star Trek is at its best when the episodes are totally bizarre. I mean, sometimes it has legitimately good episodes, but whatevs. This episode centers on some crazy powerful guy named Trelane who kidnaps the Enterprise crew and wants to play host to them because he's been observing Earth, except whoops- he's been observing earth from 600 light years away so he thinks they're still in Napoleonic times. He turns out to be some space baby and whines alot, and the best part is when he sees Sulu and bows to him, calling him "honorable sir," and Sulu just turns to McCoy all angry like and says "Is he kidding?" Anyway, it's fun and weird and Picard doesn't cry like a girl anywhere in the episode that I recall since he isn't in it.
"Second Sight" - Sisko falls in love with some woman's imaginary friend. Terrible.
I'm not going to delude myself into thinking any of you know or care that much about Deep Space Nine, but let me just assure you that it's way better than Next Generation. Anyway, it's a Star Trek show about a space station in a politically unstable area of space made even unstabler by a new wormhole to an unexplored part of the galaxy. Season 1 was ok, but season 2 is largely boring. The show gets way better in season 3. Let me break this disc down:
This is the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, so don't worry about me reviewing any more episodes of this show. This is one of the best finales ever made, and one of the best TNG episodes. The plot is tough to explain, but basically Picard is shifting through time thanks to Q and must save mankind from being wiped from existence. Anyway, it's a typical Star Trek plot, but what is great is the way that the whole thing ties back to the first episode of TNG, Encounter At Farpoint, when Q told Picard humanity was on trial, and also every character gets their own great moment. Maybe that's why the TNG movies sucked - they were basically the Picard and Data show, and we had already had excellent closure with this episode.
I always liked Ro Laren because a) she was hot, and b) she wasn't a goody two shoes like everybody else on the goddamned Enterprise. Anyway, she's a tertiary character at best, and she was always in trouble. In this episode she is asked to infiltrate the Maquis, a terrorist organization against the Cardassians made up largely of Bajorans like Ro herself. Of course, she decides to join up with them at the end and it looks like Picard is going to cry because everybody on TNG is a big fat baby. This episode is pretty good though.
I liked this episode. In my old blog, I reviewed some TOS seasons, and explained that I liked that there could be a gangster world or a cowboy world or a Nazi world. In this episode, there is a gangster and a cowboy, and it's kind of a fun weird episode. Basically, the Enterprise computer starts being a lifeform, and wants to create offspring, but it's consciousness is located in the holodeck in the form of a train carrying a bunch of weirdos. It's stupid fun, but still fun.
Don't worry; I only have three more episodes of TNG to review and then I'm done. I started watching these on Netflix on and off two years ago, and finally I have gotten to the end. Don't get me wrong - it's been fun, but the 7th season really sucks and I'll be glad to get to the fantastic series finale. Man, this show had one of the best. Oh, right - this episode has Picard finding out he has a son but just kidding he doesn't and it is tres boring.
My friend Nick really likes the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but I'm just going to have to go on record here saying that it's even worse than the first season. This episode deals with Worf's son Alexander, and how he doesn't want to become a Klingon warrior (he was raised by his progressive Klingon mother for three years). Anyway, I have to give spoilers here, but Alexander from the future comes and tries to convince him to do it, but it never explains how he got there, or where he went at the end. Also, In this season they spent a lot more episodes just on the ship, so they didn't have to make planet sets. Here, there is one set, but it is really simple and then they reuse it all episode long so lame.
This is the last appearance of Wesley Crusher (thus far - I'm still hoping there will be a Titan tv show in which he appears). A lot of people hate Wesley, but I was fine with him after he stopped saving the ship every episode like in season one. Anyway, he's been off the ship for a while at the academy, but in this episode he returns and is a big douchebag. It turns out he's sick of school, but who cares, because the Enterprise has been ordered to forcibly displace a bunch of American Indians (get it? like happened before?). Don't worry, though, these American Indians are such a group of terrible stereotypes that you don't feel too bad for them, and everything works out in the end, including Wesley becoming a god.
In this episode Dr. Crusher makes an antivirus for borderline schizophrenic Barclay that accidently de-evolves the whole crew. It's a pretty stupid premise, to be honest, but it's a pretty good and freakily executed episode. Data and Picard happen to be off ship and return to find the Enterprise drifting and life signs indeterminate. I do want to point out though that Worf turns into a crazy prehistoric Klingon monster that kills several crewmen, and then at the end of the episode Dr. Crusher is telling jokes about accidentally causing this virus. Whoopsie fucky!
In this episode, a crewman kills himself who was previously showing no signs of depression, so it's up to Counselor Troi and Lieutenant Worf to figure out what's up, and also to get it on with each other. This episode is kind of creepy, and involves empathic echoes and murder, but then they pull a cardinal storytelling no-no and make most of the episode a dream. I'm pretty sure Troi also dreams several scenes she's not in for some stupid reason, and at the end of the episode I can't even remember if she and Worf actually did it or if she just dreamed it, though they do have a relationship throughout season 7 so who knows.
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