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I have always though it came across as more of a short film, both in theme and in how it was shot. The 2 parter "Year of Hell" on Voyager is similar, in this way.
Adam, you might really love it when I tell you the names of the two “time police” from “Trials and Tribbleations.” Their names are Dulmer and Lucsly. Their names are anagrams of Mulder and Scully. I just thought that you might enjoy that.
“I’ve always thought (Mark Twain quote everyone’s heard of),” (actor who looks nothing like Mark Twain in very bad old age makeup.) “Golly mister, my name’s Jack London. Can we go out onto the backlot and talk with three people in bad costumes?”
@@KingfisherTalkingPictures eh, Twain's long ago enough that nailing how he looks isn't super important. But that _voice!_ That's _totally_ how I always imagine Mr. Clemens speaking.
Who hates Times Arrow?..I mean I respect others opinions but if u don't like times arrow u must not be a trek fan...how could u not like such a great time travel story with data at the center?
@@Keithustus They just shaved. After they grew their hair back they looked like TNG Klingons. Still dont look like humans in TOS, but better then nothing.
Voyager's "Blink of an Eye" was unique in that it was a time quandary rather than time travel. In one hour it combined history, religion, evolution, biology, meteorology, sociology, humanism, chronology, and philosophy. One of the best ever Trek episodes.
Did you see the original idea for that episode? Instead of going back in time, they were going to visit the Gangster Planet from TOS... except now, instead of copying 1920s gangsters, they were all copying Kirk, Spock, et al. It was Trekkie planet, basically. People cosplaying as Kirk and wearing fake pointy ears.
The Visitor is, by far, my favorite time travel episode. It really drove home how close Benjamin and Jake were as father and son. It was Avery Brooks strongest performance of the series, in my opinion. Cirroc Lofton and Tony Todd both gave excellent performances aswell, but Avery Brooks put on an acting clinic in this episode. It literally brings me to tears everytime I watch this episode. This episode is "The Inner LIght" of DS9.
yeah, but it was kinda ruined with ST:Picard...geez...that series is so uneasily dark...I really hate and like it at the same time...still got some episodes to watch... Icheb vivisected, Seven murdering the one responsible, the federation being transmuted into some militaristic organisation...mmmh...no...this is not what Picard should've been...
@jdslyman, I really like TMP. Sure it’s not a great film, but it’s a decent Star Trek theme.....explore, find that 20th Century Voyager did some sci-fi stuff, resolve problems not through combat. Plus the music is great.
Voyager's Year of Hell was a solid entry into the funky time shenanigans category. I read that they wished they could have had a full season arc with the concept, which would have been AMAZING. What I loved about Year of Hell is that Voyager finally had some real stakes and real adversity rather than problem of the week and "reset". To be honest, I really wish they had thought of the Voyager concept in today's TV world because the show could have been properly dark, suspenseful and made better use of the concept.
One of the paradox's of Q's character is that as annoying as people found him he ultimately liked humanity and eventually saved them. I don't believe anybody else in the continuum would have even cared.
He had more interactions where he was helping them in ways they couldn't even understand that anything else.... he just presented it in the absolute worst way possible.
I often read Q as not being humanity's judge from the Q, but their attorney. 'Let me test them! Let me give them a chance to prove if they are worthy or not.' It's just... he's ALSO a giant dick.
Yesterday's Enterprise has one of the best Captain Picard lines of all time "Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise." I'd like to think that the commander of every ship named Enterprise has said this line. If not... well put it on the time travel bucket list.
special place in my heart since I was in the Navy and served almost 5 years on the Enterprise (CVN 65). Though I think the WW2 Enterprise did enough good work to be remembered, at least by WW2 history nerds like me.
"never forgets"? Between the real-life Enterprises and the Star Trek Enterprises ... 100 years after our civilization has gone away (hopefully not in an apocalyptic fashion), any human alive in what was once known as North America (& likely some other regions of the planet) will be re-counting the myths of the legendary 'Enterprise'!
@@jimmym3352 huh... Could swear it was kid rock, or maybe they wanted kid rock for the episode but it fell through. meh. Anyway OP yeah, Bell Riots was a great ep too. Where they go to a period of earths history where we stick all the poor people in one neighbourhood and have the police physically remove anyone who doesn't own a home. Ha, that'd be so ridiculous and inhumane. Ha! HAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! fuck reality
@@kjamison5951 yes, but Miles O'Brien was the joke I was making in that last part. I couldn't resist. Though really, Barclay is the Niles of the Trek universe.
Trials and Tribble-ations has always been one of the best DS9 episodes and a personal favorite. Plus we got to see Jadzia Dax in a TOS uniform. What is not to love.
We noticed that people were heavier in USS Enterprise in Trials & Tribblations than thinner USS Enterprise crews in the 1960's Star Trek classic series.
Timeless from Voyager & Times Arrow from STNG should be on the list. In fact, you would do series fans a good turn by creating a video that lists ALL Time Travel episodes from all five series. Timeless is tied with City on the Edge of Forever as my favorites. Harry Kim rose to Hero status in Timeless, demonstrating how guilt and regret remain the most punishing of human emotions. Good video, a thumbs up and a new subscriber earned!!!
@@theremixproject907 Common sense at last. I have converted many a non Trekkie to Star Trek through Timeless. Completely original storyline with some of the best acting from any Star Trek character post TNG.
Yesterdays Enterprise is one of my favourite TNG episodes as we get to see the missing link, the Enterprise C. Admittedly we don't see the Enterprise B until Generations, but... still. Enterprise C quickly became my favourite Enterprise
I thought 'City on the Edge of Forever' was the best Trek ever. It won the Hugo Award and was most memorable for young impressionable people of the '60's. Other ones mentioned were also excellent and had various flavors to the time travel genre of a number of Trek series.
@@lelandframe1029 Agreed! 'City...' though had the conflict about the 'needs of the many', duty vs. personal love interest and futurist person for the restoration to the time line. In my opinion, 'City...' raises philosophical questions to ponder about humanity, if there's really choice or we're given some script to fulfill.
@@mosespray4510, I agreed, especially our baby boom generation! HELL YES! The City on the Edge of Forever is the best Star Trek classic of time-travel story of all time. Today's youth generation sucks! They had been excessively brainwashed by leftist propaganda, and so, they rejected the Star Trek classic and conservationism.
City on the edge of forever has one of my most favorite lines: "Killers! Assassins! I won't let you!" *McCoy sees a bum drinking milk* "You! What planet is this?!" - McCoy
As if there's no 'Year of Hell', 'Relativity' or 'Future's End' on this list, and only an honourable mention for 'Timeless'. What do you have against Voyager? I mean, you could argue that 'Year of Hell' isn't technically time travel, but neither is 'The Visitor', and that made the list.
@@Leavemealone670 don't get me started on futures end cuz that's one my all time favorite trek episodes too...I love how the team splits up and they all get their own little adventure and then the Dr getting the mobile emitter and seeing them back on earth(which who knew we wouldn't ever get to see them back on earth in their own time)... starling was such a asshole too that I couldn't wait for them to take him down
relativity was a good one. year of hell, kind of depressing.....whichever that one where Capt Archer can't remember much after the Xindi zaps Earth (not to mention, they still suffer losses when under attack)
" All good things" in my opinion is just another retelling of " A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Past Picard, present Picard, future Picard. " Hey, boy, what day is it?", "" What day is it?, " Why it's Christmas day!!". " Lt. Worf, what star date is it? ". I mean it's the same plot. , even Picard changes at the end by joining Riker and all to a poker game which he never did before. " God bless us, one and all" " Thank you Q !", " Hey,..........Don't mention It ,"
@@iriswaldenburger2315 not time travel, but the one that always puts me in the fetal position is voyager-real life. Doc gets a family... good lord. Puddle of emotions
Through a Mirror Darkly deserves to be on the list. Ties in to TOS, from the Terran Empire perspective, the opening theme and visuals being changed, brings back the tholians and the defiant...
I think "In a Mirror Darkly" was *the* best Episode of Enterprise, ever. But was it actually a time travel episode? Yes, some time travel was necessary for the plot, but that time travel took place with another ship, *before* the events of the episode.
"Cause & Effect" is one of my FAVORITE ST:TNG episodes. I have it on my DVR & try to watch it every time it airs. It's like Dr. Who ""Blink"...I could watch them both a million times & NEVER get tired of them.
BLINK is easily the best "stand alone" Who episodes ever - from any era. My main issue is that they never did anything with it. Talk about a wasted opportunity.
Captain Bateson is a central character in the novel Ship-of-the-Line. At first we’re shown the events of the episode from his viewpoint and of how he ended up going through the anomaly in the first place: he was trying to fight a Klingon heavy cruiser that has crossed the border to destroy a Federation outpost. It was a suicide mission, so they were buying time. After crossing over they learned that Kirk and the Enterprise showed up to drive the Klingons away, saving thousands of lives. The Bozeman’ screw was assumed destroyed and got heroic funerals. Years later, Bateson spearheaded the construction of the Enterprise-E and maneuvered himself into the position of her first captain. Then his old Klingon enemy (still alive) came back to settle an old score and capture the Federation flagship in the process. In the end, Bateson hands the command over to Picard and gets a new ship, the Bozeman II. The book ends with the opening to First Contact and Picard musing that the new Bozeman is present at the battle with the cube. Bateson also briefly appeared in one of Shatner’s novels, sitting in a cafe with Kirk and Scotty in the 24th century
Ship of the Line is an excellent story. I highly recommend the audio book version of it narrated by Kevin Conway. I think it's even on RU-vid. Anyway, it's an excellent telling of the back story and what happened after TNG episode ends.
@@ORF5519 thanks! Didn’t know about the audiobook. I mostly listen to Audible, which doesn’t have it. Too bad it’s abridged, but the sound effects are nice
"The Visitor" and "Tapestry" are too low..and as a previous post stated, "Year of Hell" is a better choice than "Endgame". I preferred "Timeless" to "Endgame".
We noticed that people were heavier in USS Enterprise crews in Trails & Tribblations than original thinner USS Enterprise crews in the 1960's Star Trek classic.
No, technically it isn’t, since the probe put the memories of someone else’s life into Picard’s mind, where they played out while he was unconscious for 20 something minutes on the floor of the bridge - he never went anyway physically.
I remember Trials and Tribble-ations when it first aired, and it got me hooked on DS9. It got me to learn to watch the TV Guide channel to find out when DS9 would air, and I'd stay up late to catch up on the episodes in syndication.
"City on the Edge of Forever" is IMO the absolute best not just within Star Trek but it is among the best Sci-Fi stories ever written. It's one of the very few stories that won critical acclaim outside television. I am also surprised that you did not rate "Assignment Earth". This would have been in my top 5 easily maybe higher. It was such a complete story with so many elements; it's easy to see why it was proposed as a pilot for an entire series. I don't get the fascination with DS9 which I thought was just meh within the ST Universe and descended into a soap opera at times. I also thought that ST Voyager's "Shattered" was a superb episode that would have made my top 10. Voyager was underrated on your list. I would also add "Year of Hell", fantastic storytelling.
As much as I love TNG and think All Good Things was the perfect send off, City on the Edge of Forever is without question one of the best episodes of television, one of the best sci-fi stories and the finest episode of Star Trek ever.
@@HardestTargett, I am not sure what you mean? Are you saying you have not seen the episode or that you have seen the episode and don't understand why people rate it so highly? While SciFi nerds can debate where this sits in the hierarchy of all-time Trek, there is little disagreement as to the superb storytelling by Harlen Ellison. The story has it all and presents its final act as a Greek Tragedy. It's also to my recollection the only time you hear Kirk swear at the very end when he is ready to beam back to Enterprise. Very, very tame by today's standards but in the mid-1960s an unexpected bite of anguish over his loss.
Children of Time was the most bittersweet episode of Trek for me. The biggest take away from that episode was that it showed how indifferent to humanoid life Odo could have been if it wasn't for his connection to Kira. The Odo of that colony lived with those people for centuries and yet he "killed" them all without hesitation because his love for Kira was all he cared about.
Odo was a strange and compelling character. I was kind of glad that they didn't overly "humanize" him but in fact he was always kind of an alien even in a show full of them. I didn't like, though, that toward the end of the series they made him into a "good" guy just because the plot required it.
'yesterday's enterprise' is my second favorite tng episode, right behind 'the inner light' which i thought might make this list, considering there is a time travel element to it...
That was a good episode basically a homage to the original using the idea of a what if and to have to fix it but at a price that occurs. Because in the original series he mentioned he had a pet and they decided to include it in this which was great.
Raves about how perfect a show the City on the Edge of Forever is and only lists it #2. Well not only is it #1 it may be so good as to negate even adding another 9 to the list.
I am truly shocked that both "Tapestry" and "All Good Things..." are on this list, for unlike the aforementioned episode, the latter two happened to Picard and him only! The presenter either did not watch even one episode of Enterprise, or did not find a top 10-worthy episode on it.
What about TOS episode where the Enterprise went back to 1960's Cape Canaveral, got chased by a fighter jet, spotted by the pilot, and had to set things right? I like the way they showed actual NASA footage of the space program that was happening at the time of filming TOS. Things like that made Star Trek more interesting and believable that we would eventually make it into space.
"Trials and Tribble-ations" was more a one off show-casing episode what could be done with NLE those days...I think they did pretty good. ;) oh, btw.: those guys from TI are Dulmer (or Dulmur) and Lucsly, which are actual anagrams of one "Mulder" and one "Scully"...wonder who they are :p
@Maria Kelly So in a video about "the best time travel episodes of Star Trek" nobody should care that there isn't any time travel in the here mentioned episode? Then I'd nominate the episode where the Doctor finds the last Dalek being a prisoner in a museum. Oh, wait, that's not Star Trek, that's Doctor Who. But who cares, right?
Not sure it's time travel. Sisko does appear in the future, but there's no indication he travels through time, only that he's absent from time for long stretches.
The argument for it being on the list is that is that time is not running in a standard linear fashion. Regardless of that I still think it's the best episode on the list
In “Time Squared”, I always thought the alien shocking Picard on the bridge towards the end was it telling Picard to not go through with it, as it had failed previously. It was actually trying to help. Probably rolling it’s eyes and saying “geeez human, can’t you figure this out”?
Oh, man......yesterday's Enterprise.....I still remember how I felt as a kid when I saw it for the first time! "Let's make sure history never forgets, , the name, Enterprise"......SO EPIC! Picard would have been a badass wartime CPT!
A lot of great picks. I did also think about the DS9 episode "Visionary". O'Brien keeps jumping several hours into the future because of radiation he absorbed during an Engineering accident. It's a great episode because the stakes keep getting higher. First, it's just a case of seeing himself having an argument with Quark, then a bar fight in Quark's bar before (more seriously) his own death in various ways. It's also the ONLY episode we see the destruction of the station, as one of the time-jumps sees him fleeing DS9 in a Runabout shortly before it gets torn apart. Eventually, he's able to make a more-controlled time-jump to just a few hours into the future, so he can find out what happened to the station. He arrives in Ops with his future self just in time to see a Romulan Warbird decloak and begin attacking. However, O'Brien's too sick from radiation poisoning to make the return journey to the present and instead has to get his future-self to go in his place. So, every episode from that point on has an alternate O'Brien!
I still believe that Magic to make the sanest man go mad is worthy of this list too. It's a standout episode of Trek and Discovery, and also shows the extents to which Michael would go for the federation in the worst case scenario
Should have definitely included at least some of these; 'Timescape', 'Past Tense', 'Visionary', Carpenter Street', 'Time & Again', 'Eye of the Needle', 'Before & After', 'Shattered', 'Cold Front', 'Azati Prime', 'E²', 'Zero Hour'. No Enterprise entries whatsoever, despite its entire arc around the temporal cold war.
Poor Voyager can’t get the love some of its time travel episodes need. I enjoy Voyager and stand by its quality as a series still today. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
@@Keithustus you are one of those haters so people who love this series don’t really care about your opinion. Not trying to be nasty, just voicing my own opinion
That omelet had me crying....its like 6 eggs and supposedly it's going to be a meal.....with a story of how he became such a good cook....Riker does not lack confidence 🤣🤣🤣
@@Keithustus wasn't meant to end anything. It was just an end to the series. They made 4 movies afterward(Generations was already in the can when TNG ended). Voyager was an ending(they came home).
In 'Trials and Tribble-ations' I love that the two temporal investigatyions officers are named Dulmer and Lucsly, anagrams of Mulder and Scully from X-Files.
One of the things I love about "Children of Time" is that it's a time travel episode in which no one actually travels through time during the course of the episode
Did you miss DS9 "Past Tense" off the list because it might be considered too controversial to cover when you uploaded this list? In the two-part Episode, Sisko and Bashir end up in San Francisco in 2024 where the US President of the time (who presumably won in 2020) has turned part of the city into a walled dystopia known as a "Sanctuary District", walled it all off and threw anyone he didn't like in to it - the poor, the sick, anyone who disagreed with him and then left them there to rot. At the same time, Dax ends up with a rich businessman who, along with the other rich, have turning a blind eye to it all and instead found ways to get rich of the suffering and live like kings. Yes, I am not making that up. That is the base setup of this episode from 1995. Look it up if you don't believe me.
I read somewhere that Yesterdays Enterprise, the writers had planned lots of gruesome deaths for the bridge crew as they were fighting the Klingons, but as they had a tv budget instead of a movie budget they had to cut back & we only saw Rikers death instead of Data being Electrocuted, Wesleys head exploding & the rest.. Oh well. 🖖🏻🕶🖖🏻
The two Star Trek movies that dealt with time travel (The Voyage Home and First Contact) were definitely above the episodes listed. The Voyage Home was probably the BEST time travel story in the Star Trek universe.
For just TOS the episode "City on the Edge of Forever" is definitely the best time travel episode. The late Harlan Ellison was arguably one of the greatest Sci-Fi authors around. He was also a conceptual consultant / consultant for B:5. However there were two other TOS episodes that definitely need mentioning. The first being "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and the second "Assignment: Earth". Gary Seven: "That, Miss Lincoln, is simply my cat." IMHO that one line made the entire episode. Great video, thanks for posting!
I was really wondering why it wasn't even in the honorable mentions. I get it may be cheating as it's kinda 2 episodes, and I guess it really doesn't show the crew "time traveling" but it does, 100% show how dangerous it could be via the butterfly effect...
One I think deserves an honourable mention is the one in voyager where time is split into 37 and only chakoty can travel through them all. It's such a great episode I love to rewatch
You lost me after the first few minutes when you eliminated from consideration some of the best time travel episodes. By the way, City on the Edge of Forever is number 1 and there isn't a close second.
If anyone's interested and doesn't want to read the article (written by Simon Gallagher, by the way), there's more entries listed: #15: Time's Arrow - TNG #14: E2 - ENT #13: Tomorrow Is Yesterday - TOS #12: Timeless - VOY (which really isn't about time travel but about making sure a big mistake never happens from the future) #11: Little Green Men - DS9
