Several Star Trek Episode Names

August 18, 2008 4:37 PM

How do I find the names of several Star Trek Episodes? I know what happens in the episodes, but I don't know the names of the actual episodes. ex: In one TNG episode, 4 or 5 crew member go to the holodeck and have the computer make a table or bed they all dreamed they were tortured on. I've got several questions like this!

Another ex: Captain Picard debates in court the status of Data's humanity.
And again: The LCARS computer system is introduced and demonstrated. Heavy use of the computer to do research.

posted by libraryman to society & culture (12 comments total)

mr. wiki is your friend. Start here and make your way through all the episodes from the various series...
posted by ddaavviidd at 4:41 PM on August 18, 2008

The first episode you mention is Season 6, Ep. 5, "Schisms."

Couple ways you can find these:

Wikipedia's list of ST: TNG episodes.

Memory Alpha's episode list.
posted by googly at 4:44 PM on August 18, 2008 [1 favorite]

You could try typing in key words into Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.

Your first example is Schisms.

Your second example is The Measure of a Man.

I don't remember anything like your third example, do you have any more information?
posted by demiurge at 4:44 PM on August 18, 2008

On postview: following up on what ddaavviidd says, the seasonal episode lists are more helpful than the master list I linked to. See here.
posted by googly at 4:47 PM on August 18, 2008

As ddaavviidd said, but slightly more direct: List of Star Trek episodes.
posted by atbash at 4:57 PM on August 18, 2008

Record time! W00t! I have spent several hours reading guides trying to find those first two you mention. Thank you VERY much!
*whew*

The other examples I need are mostly related to people interacting with the computer. Asking it for things and the computer saying "can you be more specific" or asking for clarification. A lot of times the computer just gives them what they ask for, but realistically the computer would likely need more clarification to be realistic, imo. I know this happened in the "torture table" (Schisms apparently:), but also happened in other situations.

ex:"Computer, give me tomato soup" Computer replies: "Hot or cold?".

Situations like that are what I'm after...Basically, slightly more realistic hci (and AI) primarily.
posted by libraryman at 5:02 PM on August 18, 2008

Well, you can start with this google search of the scripts for "computer voice" to find the places where the computer talks back. Refine the search for specifics.

That site has all the scripts available for download (full season in a zip, if you want to take them offline for some real data crunching.
posted by team lowkey at 5:20 PM on August 18, 2008

There are so many of those, I doubt you would want a complete list. One that springs to mind is Riker's creation of the jazz club (and his perfect date) in 11001001. You can check out the scene here.
posted by demiurge at 5:25 PM on August 18, 2008 [1 favorite]

Also, don't forget how to leverage Google: "blah blah blah site:memory-alpha.org"
posted by mysterious1der at 6:46 PM on August 18, 2008

Not to mention, this voice (Majel Barrett) spanned 4 of the series and just to put it out there Deep Space 9 had some good ones like that too where the ships computer played a little more of a role than just beeping and whizzing.
posted by TeachTheDead at 5:18 AM on August 19, 2008

The other examples I need are mostly related to people interacting with the computer. Asking it for things and the computer saying "can you be more specific" or asking for clarification. A lot of times the computer just gives them what they ask for, but realistically the computer would likely need more clarification to be realistic, imo. I know this happened in the "torture table" (Schisms apparently:), but also happened in other situations.

ex:"Computer, give me tomato soup" Computer replies: "Hot or cold?".

The first Voyager ep has a great example of that:

PARIS: Tomato soup.
COMPUTER: There are 14 varieties of tomato soup available from this replicator; with rice, with vegetables, Bolian style, with pasta, with--
PARIS: Plain.
COMPUTER: Specify hot or chilled.
PARIS: Hot. Hot, plain, tomato soup.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:36 AM on August 19, 2008

Yes! That soup example is exactly what I was after. First Voyager episode, eh? Perfect! Thanks again all! I'll follow up on each on of these and appreciate the answers quite a lot.
posted by libraryman at 4:17 PM on August 19, 2008