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   From: kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu   
      
   People post "10 best episode" lists every so often, but I am not   
   crazy about Top Ten lists, because maybe there are only 9 that are   
   really worthwhile, or maybe there are 11 excellent choices and you   
   are requiring one to be left out.   
      
   So I came up with an alternate paradigm that I thought might be   
   interesting:   
      
       Suppose you wanted to introduce someone to Star Trek, and you   
       have access to a complete library of all episodes (starting with   
       "The Cage", and running through "These Are The Voyages"), movies,   
       and books.   
      
       Since you don't want to waste time watching stuff that stank,   
       and the person you're assembling a list for doesn't want to   
       watch 200 hours of TV, you're going to be selective.   
      
       Also, some of the shows are obviously dependent in time; you   
       want to show "Space Seed" before "The Wrath of Khan".  You   
       may even want to show "Space Seed", and then another dozen or   
       so epsiodes of TOS, before TWOK, so that you establish a sense   
       of Kirk going on to do other things, and allowing Khan to be   
       somewhat forgotten (since that's what Kirk, and essentially   
       the entire viewing audience, did).   
      
       You may want to include lower-tier stuff in order to fill the   
       dependencies for later items.  Say, if you want to include _Q   
       Squared_, you'd probably want to include "The Squire of Gothos"   
       and "Parallels" beforehand as setup, even if you didn't like   
       "The Squire of Gothos".   
      
      
   Given that setup, what episodes, movies, and books would you recommend,   
   and in what order?   
      
      
   Darren Provine ! kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu ! http://www.rowan.edu/~kilroy   
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    please everybody." -- Bill Cosby   
      
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