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I was thinking last night whilst watching the DS9 episode "If Wishes Were Horses", what a cool name that was for an episode. Then I got around to thinking that there are many episodes in all the series of Trek that too had cool names.

My question is, what is your favourite Trek episode name? Maybe the favourite one out of the whole lot or your favourite one(s) out of TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT?
Now I'm not talking about the title of your favourite episode. It doesn't even have to be a 'good' episode (though I'm sure that'll help your choice) just the title has to sound cool/clever to you.

For me, it's 'Time's Arrow'. I don't really know why, just sounds very profound :)
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"In the pale moonlight" is very poetic, as is "Sacrific of Angels"
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Either "Let that be your last battlefield" or "By Inferno's Light".
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I think DS9 is going to run away with this one personally! :)
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Probably. I like "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" myself.
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The Tholian Web was always a cool name to me.
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For The World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky.

There's just something about that that sends a little shiver of awe through my brain.
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11001001, FTW

Okay, maybe not. "In Purgatory's Shadow" is great, as was "The Best of Both Worlds"
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Dagger of the Mind
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Devil in the Dark


Both sounded wicked.
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Mikey wrote:Probably. I like "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" myself.
It doesn't hurt that it's in Latin; that lends an air of distinction to it.

Hows about "It's Only a Paper Moon?"
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I always loved the simplicity of "The Search" and "The Chase"
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Bryan Moore wrote:I always loved the simplicity of "The Search" and "The Chase"
TNG often went for simplicity in episode titles. "The Defector," "The Wounded," etc
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Mikey wrote:Probably. I like "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" myself.
I had to look that one up!

"In times of war, the law falls silent."

Very clever, especially for this specific episode! :)
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I like "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" myself.
Seconded.
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I like What You Leave Behind---seems an excellent title for the last episode of a show where the characterization (charicterisation?) was most of the plot and for an ending where at least half the cast is moving on.
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