Favorite "STAR TREK: DISCOVERY" Season One Episodes

[Dee1891]

1. (1.07) "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" - While the Discovery crew enjoy a party, an unwelcome visitor boards the ship to seek vengeance and bring about a series of bringing about a twisted sequence of events that involves a time loop. This episode has been recently nominated for a Hugh Award for writing.


2. (1.09) "Into the Forest I Go" - While ignoring Starfleet's orders, U.S.S. Discovery's commander, Captain Gabriel Lorca decides to use the ship's new core drive in an effort to help end the Federation's war against the Klingons.


3. (1.02) "Battle at the Binary Stars" - Incarcerated in one of the U.S.S. Shenzhou's brig for disobeying an order, First Officer Burham struggles to escape, while the ship is under attack by the Klingon Empire. Later, she joins her commanding officer, Captain Georgiou, in an audacious plan to prevent war.


4. (1.13) "What's Past Is Prologue" - With the U.S.S. Discovery still stuck in the mirror universe, Captain Lorca plots a coup against the Terran Empire's ruthless leader, the Emperor Philippa Georgiou. Meanwhile former Starfleet officer Michael Burnham struggles to find a way for the Discovery's return to their universe.


5. (1.11) "The Wolf Inside" - As the crew continue its deception as being a part of the Terran Empire, Burnham undergoes a merciless mission in hopes of helping the ship return home.


What are your favorite episodes from Season One?

 

[Vger23]

I love S1 of DSC, but it is admittedly a little uneven. It's still my favorite season of the series so far, though.

5 favorite S1 DSC episodes, in no particular order:

Context is for Kings
The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry
Lethe
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Into the Forrest I Go

 

[Lord Garth]

"Context Is For Kings"
"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
"Despite Yourself"
"What's Past Is Prologue"
"Will You Take My Hand?" <-- Hey, I have to have one controversial choice in there!

Juuuuussssst missed it: "Into the Forest I Go". This came really close. If I had it in there, the one I would've dropped would've been "What's Past Is Prologue".

Even though it didn't crack into my Top 5 Episodes, one of my favorite scenes of the whole season is when Discovery swoops into the rescue at the end of "The Butcher's Knife".

Can't believe I left out "Lethe". Okay, I'll stop now. Or I'll list the whole season.

 

[dupersuper]

I'm not a huge fan of the show, especially the first two seasons, but I'll play:

Lethe
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

My choices are extremely normal:

1. What's Past is Prologue
2. Into the Forest I Go
3. Despite Yourself
4. Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
5. The War Without, the War Within

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It's like DS9 for me. I fall more in love with arcs as opposed to individual episodes so it's really difficult to choose.

Edit -

I guess for Season 1 I'd say:

1: Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad
2. Into The Forest i Go
3. The Wolf Inside
4. The Vulcan Hello
5. Will You Take My Hand?

 

[Uhura's Song]

I will play. The start of S1 (and S2 start + S4 end) are my favorite parts of the show.

1. Into the Forest I Go
2. Context Is For Kings
3. Choose Your Pain
4. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
5. The Wolf Inside

Mudd, the Tardigrade Episode, and Battle at the Binary Stars just miss out.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

I like many, if not all, of the episodes, but there is little point for me to decide which over which when Magic ranks so much higher than everything else. It's the only DSC episode from that season I will put on randomly to rewatch.

 

[DigificWriter]

This is a harder question to answer than it ought to be, but here goes (episodes listed sequentially):
"The Vulcan Hello"
"Context is for Kings"
"Choose Your Pain"
"Despite Yourself"
"Will You Take My Hand?"

Honorable Mentions: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", " What's Past is Prologue", "The War Within, The War Without"

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I thought the time loop was the best executed episode.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Seems like almost everyone likes the time loop episode.

The current top 3 (after 10 comments) is:

1. Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
2. Into the Forest I Go
3. Context is for Kings

 

[donners22]

1) Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
2) Vaulting Ambition
3) Context Is For Kings
4) Into the Forest I Go
5) The Wolf Inside

I loved S1; it's one of my top few Trek seasons.

 

[FederationHistorian]

It’s not my favourite season, but I’ll play.

In no particular order:

Battle At The Binary Stars
Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad
Into the Forest I Go
What’s Past Is Prologue
Will You Take My Hand?
Honourable Mentions: Choose Your Pain; Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum; Despite Yourself

 

[Nyotarules]

The Vulcan hello
Context is for kings
Choose your pain
Magic to make the sanest man