I would add "In The Cards" from DS9, a simple episode with Jake and Nog trying to help Sisko get through a stressful time by getting him a Willie Mays baseball card, and they end up helping the entire cast in the process.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Excellent point!
@tilasole3252
5 күн бұрын
DS9 Treachery, Faith and the Great River is a comfort episode for me. Yes, there is a bit of sadness, but we see the range of Jeffrey Combs and more about the Vorta. And of course Nog trading everything to get what they need for the station and even the captain's desk back. Which in the meantime, we see O'brien trying to deal with everything is hilarious.
@Ghostie.
Ай бұрын
Carbon Creek is a bona fide BANGER!!! The synthy bass that plays between scenes lives rent free in my mind.
@tilasole3252
Ай бұрын
Both Levar and Brent felt their handicaps held them back in acting for Star Trek. LeVar due to his visor always hid his eyes, and facial (eye) expressions really help in acting. And Brent, obviously because he was an unfeeling android. I heard LeVar agreed to do the movies, because they allowed the character to have an operation to not need the visor anymore and thus show his eyes. An operation was offered to him before, which would also remove his headaches, but he said he would lose some of the special features. So either he lost those feature or they were reduced. Or a new procedure would allow him to see the same. And I have no doubt that Brent requested more free reign, which is why he acts the way he does in the movies. It's due to the chip malfunctioning in canon, but I believe it was Brent's power to demand him have more human qualities. Not sure you have ever seen Night Court, but Brent was a comedian and there is a video on KZitem about it. So I think he felt greater participation when he played Lore or a malfunctioning Data.
@DepressedPanda303
2 ай бұрын
For me, I love watching pathfinder because it’s such a ray of hope for the voyager crew when they finally hear from home after so many seasons
@careyjohnson919
8 ай бұрын
Great list. I'd add ds9's treachery, faith & the great river ... but only the Nog/Chief storyline. That's actually how I watch it now :)
@josepha.r5839
8 ай бұрын
Yes! I only watch the Nog/Chief storyline. Absolutely agree.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
I can see that! There are some pretty good comfort plotlines in Trek, even if the rest of the episode isn't great. The Storyteller is pretty bad, but the Nog/Jake/Varis plot is pretty fun.
@TearyEyesAndersonReacts
8 ай бұрын
"Sub Rosa" was basically a TNG retelling of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches, series of novels, mostly the first one. But instead of a pendant it was a candle. I didn't think I'd enjoy 'MW', Tv series, but found it so much better, and can almost.. appreciate "Sub Rosa".
@graydation
4 ай бұрын
Measure of a Man is my all time favorite episode
@tgif1345
8 ай бұрын
Great list. One of my comfort episodes is "Q2" from season 7 of Voyager. Just the crew having to deal with an omnipotent child for the episode makes me laugh. Though I definitely agree with "Riddles" and "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy". I actually remember seeing both episodes for the first time when they originally aired in 1999. I also have "Fair Haven" and "Spirit Folk" on that list as well, because, I guess Voyager is my comfort Star Trek dating back to when it was first on in reruns when I was in high school in the early to mid 2000s. I lived in a rural community and my friends and I were scattered all over the township, so I didn't get to see them very often except at school. But, I had a TV in my bedroom and I had the ability to watch Star Trek. Lots and lots of Star Trek. So that's what I did. Hell, I even remember watching a Voyager rerun over the phone with a friend of mine one time because that was the only Star Trek series that she liked.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
I don't get why people hate the Fair Haven episodes. They're nice little episodes (also strong candidates for another Ten Comfort Trek list). I really need to go through Voyager again. In fact, I would have done a Top Ten Voyager Episodes list except that I really need to do a rewatch of it.
@tgif1345
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz Right? I don't understand people's aversion to Voyager in general. I mean, sure, season 1 is rough and they didn't do nearly enough with certain aspect of the show's core concept, but it's still an enjoyable show, with a crew whose interests are more diverse than just listening to jazz music, or playing Shakespeare characters on the holodeck or whatever Kirk and his crew were into on their time off. Lol. I also love Voyager because its a show about misfits and that's something I can relate to. Yeah, I need to do a rewatch of Voyager this year too. I actually just finished reading The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway as I got it for my birthday from my sister and it was really good.
@roberthelme8000
8 ай бұрын
We had a lousy 2023 too. Thanks for the great suggestions!
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Anytime!
@Peaceforall20111
5 ай бұрын
Your picks are fascinating to me. I’m not a big fan of carbon creek, ds9 Vick expose, or the feeengi episode but Dena Q And tinker doctor are 2 of my happy episodes. I find your preferences across series very intriguing.
@hcmv007
8 ай бұрын
Last year the bad outweighed the good, hopefully 2024 is better for you, Janelle! The Tribble episodes are definitely comfort, glad that in the OS DVD it has the 2 live action and 1 animated episode to go with it. But for me, comfort means more action oriented episodes, but it's a great list! Just need to see DS9.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Hope your 2024 is better as well! I definitely recommend DS9. It can be a little darker than the other Trek shows, but it's very good and even has some great comedic moments.
@josepha.r5839
8 ай бұрын
Carbon Creek, Deja Q (perhaps), and Fistful of Datas (my favorite on this list). The others ... ok. As for Ferengi .. I really like the episodes/scenes when Quark really becomes a good bartender when he chats away with customers. (Such as when Esri are hatching over the 'old days' of Jadzia. Quard in.a stand-up scene.) Really haven't liked Trouble with Tribbles when it first premiered ... BUT really, really like Tribbles and Tribulations. Very smartly done.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Trials and Tribble-ations is a pretty great episode! Including it with Trouble with Tribbles on this list would have been a little redundant, but it's definitely a good comfort episode.
@tilasole3252
Ай бұрын
Everyone- Swing batter batter batter batter Worf- Death to the opposition! 😅
@Redgatetrek
8 ай бұрын
I haven't spent as much time thinking about this as you have but on the surface, I think the only one on that list that I don't know belongs is Paper Moon. Understanding that most of the Vic episodes are fantastic, I feel like Nog's issues just make the episode a bit too heavy. Knowing its easy to criticize and harder to offer useful critique, I wonder if a valid substitution for "Its Only A Paper Moon" would be "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang". Still a Vic ep with great music. Tackles Sisko's personal issues with the Fontaine program while still providing a comical parody of "Oceans" style movies. Satisfying conclusion with brilliant surprise musical ending. Otherwise, really good video Waz!
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Fair points. I even considered My Way or Badda-Bing on this list. I guess I ended up going with Paper Moon in spite of what Nog goes through in it just because of the heartwarming moments that are in it. It's Nog healing and finding his footing again, getting back to his life again. But kinda like with Riddles on Voyager, there are some tougher moments in the episode.
@AB0BA_69
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWazJapan got hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake on Jan 1st. Strap in for the ride!! 😂
@tilasole3252
8 ай бұрын
I think anything with Vic Fontaine makes any episode better. 😅
@teammartin95
8 ай бұрын
Hey, I've seen all of these except the Enterprise and Voyager episodes I watched through DS9 with my mom a decade ago, and I remember her saying "This is depressing" during It's Only a Paper Moon
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
I admit Paper Moon was kinda a controversial pick where something like "His Way" would have maybe been a better choice. But I didn't like the whole "Vic tells Odo he's on a date with holo-Kira but it's the real Kira" plot, which was probably why I don't see it as a comfort episode for me.
@VaderReviews
8 ай бұрын
Happy New Year Commander!! Loved the list, the Magnificent Ferengi was always one of my favorite DS9 episodes when I was a youngling! When you started talking about Q's Phenomenal Cosmic Power, I said "Ity bity living space..." then seconds later you made the same joke haha excellent video as always!
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Happy New Year to you too, Vader! I think Magnificent Ferengi was the episode that got my Mom into DS9. Moogie really is the best. 😁 Now I kinda want to see John De Lancie's spin on the Genie in Aladdin... Not like what Will Smith did in 2019 Aladdin trying to be Robin Williams. I mean John De Lancie does his own spin on the Genie.
@VaderReviews
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz Haha you know he would make an interesting Genie! I'd imagine he'd be the type to berate you for making a stupid wish. Creating anything at the snap of the finger is well within his wheelhouse too!
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
@@VaderReviews John De Genie: Really? A Prince? You humans are so unimaginative. Wouldn't you rather have powers beyond your wildest imagination? You could simply make Agrabah yours!
@VaderReviews
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz I like the sound of this Genie! Although he also might have been a pretty good Jafar as well now that I think about it 🤔
@AB0BA_69
8 ай бұрын
12:31 TFW you'll never get headpats from Janeway 😢
@tilasole3252
8 ай бұрын
Comfort Star Trek episodes- #1 "The Trouble with Tribbles"... Unless you're Klingon 👀
@joe9739
8 ай бұрын
Insurrection and Final Frontier are comfort Trek for me. No Galactic threats, just get to see my peeps hanging, Trekkin' across the stars. Kinda like 'Diet Trek' I guess.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Insurrection ranks pretty low for me, but I can see why people enjoy it. Final Frontier had a really solid middle (also, every so often, I have to quote, "What're you standing around for?! Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?!").
@joe9739
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz Trust me, out of the 10 movies, Insurrection ranks #10 lol. But it's an easy watch. Riker Maneuver part is awesome,and Data whippin' ass in the beginning is cool. Jerry Goldsmith doing the music.. if it came out nowadays, it'd be movie of the year lol
@claytonberg721
8 ай бұрын
I would remove it's only a paper moon, because the subject manner and tone is so heavy and replace it with the western episode from enterprise. Also I'm here for cake making tuvok.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
We're all here for Cake Making Tuvok. 😁 I've only seen it a couple of times, but I'm not a super big fan of North Star. I don't remember it being bad, but it was one of those episodes that didn't leave that big of an impression on it.
@claytonberg721
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz Unlike most I'm not a big fan of season 3 of ENT. The Sim episode, Carpenter Street, for me that's it. Leland Orser is an under rated character actor that everyone is seen in something. It's got the standard great fish out of water star trek time travel stuff, crewman Daniels makes an appearance and it's just a solid story. Those are really it... The western, Sim, and Carpenter St, for me that's the only three eps of season 3 I really like and I'm a big ol' ENT fan. I found the whole Xindi arc to be a labored 9/11 metaphor at best. Why test the weapon on the people you're using it on? Could the reptilians be just a little more cartoonish?
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Back when I first watched Enterprise, I liked the Xindi Arc and thought that was when the show started to find its footing. Now, I can do without it. Enterprise Season 4 is pretty great, though.
@claytonberg721
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz agreed, 4 is good. Truth be told some of the two and three parters I'm luke warm on but as a concept, where the season is several 2 or 3 episode arcs is a fantastic idea. I'm such a weird fan in that I like season 1-2 the best. First Flight is to me nearly as good as carbon creek, and another good comfort episode.
@tilasole3252
8 ай бұрын
Do you know what episode is the complete opposite of comfort? VOY Real Life 😮 Absolutely heart breaking 😭 Even more feelz than TNG Offspring with Lal... 😢
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Omg... That's one of the few TV episodes that makes me cry.
@tilasole3252
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz yea... My "allergies" usually start up when watching for some odd reason. The whole episode, once the family is made to be more realistic, was just one set back after the other. Marriage problems. Parenting problems. Disobedience/rebellion. The accident... Then no way to save the daughter... 😓 Not sure he ever goes back to that program again or tries a different family or reverts the program back to an earlier save to prevent the accident. 🤔
@NerdilyDone
8 ай бұрын
The Magnificent Ferengi is good, but it also bothers me. It does a lot of things that really should have negative consequences for both the Federation and Starfleet. 1. Starfleet gives up someone who had gone to them for asylum. No matter how big of a jerk that Vorta was, this still is Starfleet showing a lack of integrity or kindness. 2. By antagonizing the Dominion, these Ferengi single-handedly obliterated relations between the Dominion and Ferengi. By tricking and capturing the Vorta they negotiated with, they provoked a nation that can do real damage to Ferengi as a people. As someone who read a lot about the Cold War, if something analogous had happened between the US and Soviet Union, it would be a huge deal.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
What I would hope (though it's not stated in this episode) is that Quark's mission was off the record, so if the Dominion called the Ferengi out on it, their government could say they knew nothing about it, they acted alone, etc.
@NerdilyDone
8 ай бұрын
@@JanelleWaz True, but the Dominion won't necessarily believe it, and that still doesn't change the fact Starfleet is immoral for handing over someone who was granted asylum.
@tilasole3252
8 ай бұрын
I meant to ask you to possibly do a video on DS9 Past Tense. They deal with poverty and differences in classes.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Past Tense isn't a super favorite episode of mine, but I'll think on it.
@joshuaweston6531
4 ай бұрын
Some really good episodes here. Trouble With Tribbles is classic, and It's Only A Paper Moon is one of many of DS9's finest hours. The only one I would most definitely omit, is...the baseball one. I don't wanna be THAT guy, but I just can't take an episode about the senior staff playing baseball with Vulcans seriously. Especially when there's not only a war going on, but everyone's smack dab in the eye of the maelstrom...
@JanelleWaz
4 ай бұрын
Good point about the baseball episode. Although I don't mind episodes like that because it helps break up the gravity of the war.
@tilasole3252
8 ай бұрын
You did a video on Arthur and Wishbone, but were you a Ghostwriter series fan on PBS?
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
I wasn't, but a friend of mine is. I might have seen an episode or two.
@suiko2fan2
8 ай бұрын
Your audio quality is good, but might need to turn down the volume a little bit too.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for letting me know. I'll see what I can do.
@gammaknight2215
8 ай бұрын
#1 has a sequel to it in the animated series.
@JanelleWaz
8 ай бұрын
Oh, that's right! I forgot about that!
@NerdilyDone
8 ай бұрын
My comfort episode is The Quickening from DS9. It's a very simple episode with a very simple premise, but it's so well acted and directed. What I love about it is that the antagonist isn't a villain, he's just trying to help people in a flawed way, but the only way he knows how. And once he gets a chance to spread life instead of death, he's so happy and delighted about it. The sweeping shot of him holding the baby as the camera transitions to Bashir is absolutely perfect. Lol, gotta disagree on Fistful of Datas. Bit cringe, really. And I disagree about the baseball episode of DS9 as well. That episode the crew was needlessly obnoxious to the Vulcans, and I found it very strange that a franchise like Trek would make a "the aliens all look alike!" joke. That seems waaaay outside of Trek's MO. Going with In the Cards would have been a better one, I think.
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