I really liked VOY: "One Small Step" (s06e08) wherein the crew work to salvage the wreckage of an ancient Earth probe from a dark matter asteroid

It's a nice acknowledgement of the reality that space is fucking dangerous, and of the bravery of the men and women who shot themselves into it with little more than a few layers of metal and their wits to protect themselves. All this in the name of advancing science and exploration.

It closes with Seven reading a eulogy for the centuries-dead astronaut who died diverting all power to the sensors so that knowledge would be preserved.

I like TOS Operation: Annihilate! because it presents a situation where a starship captain would be justified in issuing General Order 24. I'm disappointed that they didn't actually mention GO24 in the episode, but my headcanon is that the crew were all reluctant to mention it by name.

I think GO24 is deeply misunderstood. It's only ever been presented as a thing that a bad, crazy captain would order; as grounds for mutiny. So why would Starfleet even have such an order on the books? I think it's actually designed for situations like the one in this episode: to prevent the spread of dangerous life forms.

This interpretation also enhances my enjoyment of another TOS episode, A Taste of Armageddon. In this episode, Kirk actually invokes General Order 24. Scotty understands that Kirk needs leverage to bluff with, and plays along. Bluffing the bad guys by citing a public health ordinance is classic Kirk. See also Corbomite and Fizzbin

Star Trek: Voyager – Repentance. Season 7 episode 13.

Basically because is an allegory to the positivist school in criminology, the idea of the criminal is someone who can be "cured" is interesting, but of course, not everybody get and that people misunderstood ALL the episode.

Is one of my favorites and IMDB is rated as rank 86.

I'm a sucker for day-in-the-life episodes so the first ones that come to mind are:

• TNG S04E11 "Data's Day"
• TNG S07E15 "Lower Decks"

Then there's the disaster episodes:

• TNG S05E05 "Disaster"
• TNG S05E18 "Cause and Effect"

• TOS S2E07 - Catspaw
• TOS S2E16 - The Gamesters of Triskelion

Both of them crack me up for their own reasons, and I've rewatched them idk how many times