There are nearly 900 episodes of #StarTrek shows now. And with that large a body of work, it's not hard to notice recurring themes. I'm sure all of us know what a holodeck episode is, or a mirror universe episode, or a time travel episode. I got to wondering how many of these easily-recognizable genres of episodes there are. So npub10g4zzrulj4pu53ryl0snmlmfjrgkmqrqv3l2k78h5clswt9nzhlqnta63m (npub10g4…a63m) and I noodled out a list of episode genres.
Each of these genres has at least three episodes it applies to, and should be useful to say something like "I could watch a transporter accident episode today". For example, "alien sex ghost" describes the episodes about Zephram Cochran's shimmery girlfriend cloud, Beverly's candle ghost, Deanna's dream impregnator, and Jake's muse. Some of these include subgenres, like "space creature" includes both "space monster" and "space whale".
- aliens experiment on the ship
- alien sex ghost
- All-Powerful Being
- altered memories
- body snatchers
- character spotlight
- computer runs the world
- courtroom drama
- Devastating Transformation of Crew Member is Endured then Reverted
- evil AI
- good AI
- hijinks
- holodeck
- last of their kind
- mind control parasites
- mirror universe
- Nazis
- old scientist with hot wife
- people out of time
- possibly real afterlife
- Prime Directive
- space creature
- spacetime anomaly
- time travel
- transporter accident
Some of these could use a more pithy name. Suggestions welcome.
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2023-08-25 21:47:53
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