Star Trek Episode Roller

White Noise
- Engine Hum
- Bridge Noise

Songs
- Star Trekkin'
- Banned from Argo
- "I Hate You"
- Picard Song
- at the Hothberry
- Tik Tok
- Home ^{[via here]}
- Starships ^{[via here]}

Sketches
- Nimoy vs Quinto
- Voyager Auditions
- Last Voyage

Shatner
- Sha7ner
- Eat Fry Love
- Rocket Man
- Alexander

I think I found this via Popfiend, years ago

In a perfect world, I could dissect all seven or eight hundred episodes to find the Star Trekkiest distribution of Starfleet missions, antagonists, motivations and NPC strategies. Such volume and detail is a sure recipe for burnout, though.

Each new Trek series self-selects what its writers thought was Trekkiest about the previous series, right? So maybe I can approximate the results of all that research by sampling episodes at random and taking different elements from each?

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There's a few other series I could mix in. Babylon 5, Farscape, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Shakespeare... and heck, if even Doctor Who borrows from Battlestar Galactica...

But at some point we stray from the themes and structures essential to Star Trek. Like, your average episode of Firefly has a fistfight, a gunfight, a word fight, some kind of spaceship thing, and involves a moral or ethical dilemma. Not too different from Star Trek TOS. Except TOS also adds a good dose of scientific method to everything - whether the problem at hand is mechanical, social or philosophical, the crew feels it out systematically.