December meme: Star Trek favorites

sineala asked me to post about my favorite Star Trek episodes, which is only fair since I asked her first (though I wrote this before reading her post).

I guess first I have to define my terms. If favorite means "best", then I suspect a lot of us fans would have similar lists, and I don't disagree with the usual suspects.

But if we're going to talk about episodes that are sentimental favorites, then that turns into a different list. And perhaps a more important list, because the lasting appeal of Star Trek is pretty obviously not about it being consistently "good" by any reasonably objective standard; it's about love, and love is an illogical human feeling. So I'm going to answer this by talking about a few eps that mean something to me even if they're not the ones you'd show to a non-fan to prove that Star Trek Is Quality Television.

( Memories: First, bittersweet, and happy )

You can still give me questions/topics on LJ and DW.

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