I was watching "A Private Little War" from TOS last night, and Spock is in sickbay trying to recover from a gunshot wound. Dr. M'Benga (the Vulcan specialist doctor) tells Nurse Chapel to do whatever Spock says. Spock is fighting consciousness and tells the nurse to slap him. She hesitates, but eventually does what he says. Instead of going "Poor Spock!" I started cracking into hysterics. Then Scotty stops Chapel...and M'Benga takes over the slapping.

I can't believe anyone could've taken that seriously.

For me, it was always the line from DS9's "In the Pale Moonlight":

"It's a faaaaake!"

Was it "bonk bonk" or some stupid sound during 'Miri,' its been so long since I've seen it. Most of TOS was utterly ridiculous if you think about it? Scotty's accent, I'm Scottish and its just weird. The dummy version of Balok in 'Where No Man Has Gone Before.' Melvin Belli in 'And the Children Shall Lead.' The reveal about Vulcan inner eyelid in 'Operation Annhilate.' "Don't you see? He's white on the wrong side!" In 'Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.' There's too many to count.

I don't think they were trying to make us laugh with the whole "I feel love!" thing in 'Encounter at Farpoint' or maybe they were? The Ferengi in 'Last Outpost' because its like, they can't honestly think that would work right? The thought of Marina Sirtis with a Winchester rifle. Deanna flying the Enterprise in 'Generations'. I can't remember what episode it was in but Deanna and Beverley were working out and doing the girl talk and the work out was unspeakably funny. Bit of a pattern here....

The 'villagers with pitchforks' thing with the gathering on the Promenade in 'A Man Alone.' And possession by Prophets that makes me have flashbacks to Faye Dunaway in 'Supergirl' for some reason in 'The Reckoning.' I don't think we were supposed to find the Intendant funny persay but she was hilarious to me. Avery Brooks pontificating. The Klingon wedding had me in hysterics, the whole "Klingon heart" crap and the outfits, Hail Mary!

"A curse {eyes bulge} on your house." eyes bulge, in-fact anything Gowron says when his eyes do that funny thing.

Voyager's technobabble, just ridiculous. Janeway's ever-changing hair-dos, so we are supposed to believe there's an amateur barber on-board? Most of what the Doctor says when he is trying to be serious. Harry Kim's trouble with the ladies and tendency to be injured or diseased in some way. Lori Petty in 'Gravity.' I don't think animal spirit guides were supposed to be funny either.

How does one even begin with Enterprise? Trip's put on Southern boy thing is just too thick sometimes. The fact that Travis doesn't actually do anything? Forrest taking a good 'showing whose boss' from Soval every two minutes. Archer being so serious and yet having a dog named after a swash-buckler, the fact that Hoshi can pick up languages that quickly just seems weird as well. Didn't watch enough Enterpise to go into real specifics.

Was "Night Terrors" supposed to be funny? Because it succeeds so well at self-parody it's nonstop laughs from beginning to end.

Few DS9 ones here :

'Our Man Bashir' - "Julian, you destroyed the vorld!" Did somebody bet NV that she couldn't come up with the WORST faux Russian accent in history or something? Its hilariously bad. And was Avery Brooks supposed to be the campest Bond villain of all time?

The hop-scotch in 'Move Along Home', in-fact the WHOLE FRIGGIN' EPISODE. I just can't watch it without feeling embarrassed for the actors, which is way too much.

The "who needs dinner?" rant/kiss-athon in 'His Way'. The first time I saw it I was sort of cheering Odo on because its like FINALLY, its an Oprah "you go girl!" moment. You know? And now its hilarious so the impact is kind of diminished because its like, "okay the two characters with the biggest rods up their backside on the whole show (in the running for Trek history) having the most profound moment of their entire relationship on the Promenade shouting and screaming at each other and then snogging? Is that not just weird and funny?" And if you know all the dialogue....

Prophet sequences, just very poe-faced, even a little pretentious but in-particular the one in 'The Reckoning' when the Archaeologist-Prophet, Kira-Prophet and Jake-Prophet keep passing by Sisko constantly, like walking past him deliberately for some peculiar reason. The staging is just strange. I can see it now, new script, great stuff, actors all checking out to see what they get this week coming and its like "of f**k its another Prophet vision!" Just how many Prophet visions did these people perform? Crazy.

I think the answer to both questions is yes. The entire episode makes fun of Bond movies, which are notorious for having characters with questionable accents. And how can a character named Hippocratus Noah not be the campiest Bond villain of all time?

Chakotay, 7th-season-Voyager-episode "Imperfection":

"It's not every day we go looking for the Borg".

Actually, Chuckles, on this show it is. Particularly since you just last week wrapped up last season's cliffhanger regarding the Borg.

Deanna's "I feel pain and loneliness!"

The man wearing the dress in Encounter at Farpoint

The space jellyfish holding hands feeling "Joy and gratitooood."

Scotty bringing the dead crewman to the bridge in Wrath of Khan is a comedy touchstone for me and my friends. I mean, he couldn't have taken the poor kid to sickbay?

Wasn't that his nephew? Maybe it's tradtition to drag around dead relatives for a minute in his family.

Lord knows Scotty needed the exercise.

Here's one: Data pushing Beverley into the sea in Generations. I mean, it trivially was funny, but apparently it wasn't supposed to be funny, since Geordi (with back up from Deanna) get on his case about it.. This does interestingly though make everything which happens in the film, including the destruction of the Enterprise Geordi's fault.
If he hadn't ragged on Data, he wouldn't have installed the emotion chip, and so would have easily stopped Sorren from launching the probe instead of cowering and have had Sorren safely in the brig before The Duras' sisters picked him up.

I don't remember the name of the episode, but it's from TNG. There are these people, from some planet or something. Anyway, there's this chick, who Riker becomes enamored of, and he's staring at her like a creepy stalker, and she says, "What's the matter? Ain'tcha never seen a woman before?" To which Riker replies, "I thought I had." That line is so spectacularly funny. And horrible.

I also love all the nonsense dialogue from the Voyager ep Nemesis. Tremblings to rages! Glimpses! Fathom! Good times.

That's Dirty Foot Woman, aka Brenna, from the Irish colony in the episode "Up the Long Ladder."

HA HA HA! I've got to work that into my answering machine message somehow.

Almost anytime Troi "felt great pain" cracked me up ... especially the last few minutes of "Shades of Gray."

Anytime Troi detected some emotion. Simply because it's something the audience already figured out.

My personal favorite is when she asks him, "Don't you like girls?"

That whole episode is a laugh riot. The cloners' revulsion at old-fashioned procreation. Brenna contemplating three husbands. The pregnant girl cuddling the goat. I love it!

"Hi, you've reached SnippyScholar. Please leave me a message after the beep. And if you remember to tell me your name and number, you will have earned my gratitooood."

No joy in there, though. I'll have to give this some more thought.

"Hi! You've reached Snippy Scholar. Remember I'm half Betazed. I sense that if you leave a name and phone number, I'll experience great joy and gratitooood!"

The funniest unintentional moment is the way Archer gets mad at Reed in the Klingon Smooth Head eps in S4 ENT, and he grabs Reed's wrist and elbow and pulls him in close. I die laughing and start making kissing jokes. "Capt, you could use an Altoid!" "Archer, I always wanted you to hold me closer tiny dancer!" "Some Binaca, perhaps?" When I'm mad at somebody, I grab them by their collar. It's supposed to be intense, but it's so awkward!

Hee, you guys! I think I'll netflix the episode so I can get the real voice of Troi to work into it.

Oh, this will be better than, "I can't come to the phone right now, because....I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP!!"

Data with that silly gray mask, trying to look like godlike but only coming across like he didn't have time to paint his costume for the Mardi Gras parade.

Any time the ship is under attack in TOS, it's hilarious to me. In one episode, Uhura walk-falls all the way from her station to the doorway of the turbolift, and Spock run-falls from his console to the front of the bridge and back again. In another, McCoy falls on top of some random redshirt.

I notice that they do it in TNG, but it's not the same. Except for the episode where an "insane" Betazoid (he can't turn off sensing emotions) is on the ship and they get attacked which has Counselor Troi flying down somewhere, TNG tried too hard to not bust their asses and go overboard with their "ship under attack" moments.

I haven't watched enough of DS9, VOY or ENT to comment on them, so hands down the original cast gets first prize for going all out in those silly scenes.

I know it's supposed to be sad, but in the DS9 episode "The Emissary", I chuckle when Avery Brooks says, "We just can't leave her! Arrg!"

In the ST:TNG episode "Where Silence Has Leased", the alien face investigates what Polaski is, and he makes her do this weird twirly thing across the floor. That had me in stitches.

Just for reference sake:
In TOS, the ship-shake was done by shaking the camera and having the cast fall around as described (usually with Uhura "falling" the opposite direction as everyone else). But for TNG, the bridge set was built with either hydraulic or pneumatic lifts underneath. So when the scene called for shipshake, they really shook the set.

Still makes the TOS shipshakes funnier.

Doesn't Worf also "arrggh" a bit at the beginning of First Contact, banging on some control panel? Then he bellows, "Prepare for ramming speed!" when, supposedly, nothing works.

My favorite ship-shaking wasn't on the bridge; it was the people in the corridors. Ten or 15 extras falling across a hallway, somebody going the wrong way, and a few of them were always in the shot of the bridge too.

Only in the films, not for the series. Actually IIRC, that's why the bridge and ready room sets aren't connected in Generations like they are in the series.

The moment that kills me is in TOS "The Naked Time", when Sulu is brandishing his sword. Kirk puts his hand on the end of the sword and then looks so affronted when it pricks him. His expression is hysterical. Like, Kirk, honey? What did you expect? He's such a moron sometimes, I love it.

I still act this out to make my family laugh. What gets us is when Worf rushes over to... what? She's obviously unharmed! You can't protect her from something that already happened!

My favorite is from TNG "Cause and Effect" - it starts with Picard gyrating in his chair screaming, "All hands abandon ship! All hands abandon ship!" and then the Enterprise blows up.

Genius.

Every time we see any show that deals with a time loop the hubby and I do our mock imitation of Picard and then giggle.

One of my all time favorite UFM is the line:

Ugly! Bags! Of! Mostly! Water!

Saavik from Star Trek III:

"Captain- David, is dead."

Jeez, Lieutenant Blunt- I can see why you didn't become a counselor there...

Ahhh, one of my favorite lines ever. *snerk*

Which, of course, leads into my favorite "classic" line: "Klingon bastard! Klingon bastard, you...killed my son! " Hell, I may love that even more than the more oft-quoted "KHAAAAAAN!!!"

I love it anytime that Kirk fights. The specific moment that comes to mind is in "The Apple." This guy is advancing toward Kirk, so he drops to the ground and log-rolls into the guy's legs! Seriously, has that ever worked on anybody?

And then I believe it is in "Journey to Babel" when Kirk does the infamous flying-leg kick into the pseudo-Andorian. He propels himself off of the wall and kicks him right in the face. That kills me every time.

Every chance I get, I use the lines, "Storage compartments? Storage compartments?"

Nobody ever gets it.

Lately my kids (well, mostly my son) have gotten into watching TOS, and it's true, everything is hilarious. The best, though, is the one he re-watches most often, "The Arena," because my husband and I have been totally ruined by Galaxy Quest. Every time Kirk starts looking around for stuff to kill the Gorn with, we shout, "Can you fashion some kind of rudimentary lathe?!"

I guess that's not a pure Star Trek funny-moment, since it takes the GQ reference to raise it to comedy gold, but that's the scene that makes me laugh the most these days.

God, I just watched "Coda." This is actually one of my favorite episodes, and I've watched it like 10 times, but I can't believe I just caught one of the all-time worst line readings in history by none other than Captain Kate Mulgrew. She finally figures out her father is actually an alien impersonator, and she looks at him... arches the slowest eyebrow in the universe and says,

"Are you an alien being of some kind? (DRAMATIC PAUSE, AND ADDITIONAL EYEBROW ARCH)

Is that it?"

She's so Shatner it makes me cry. But I'm not sure if it's with pride or shame.

TNG:

From Encounter at Farpoint, the scene where Deanna sits in Picard's chair and says "Farpoint Station! Even the *name* sounds mysterious!"

Same ep: the fact that Groppler Zorn has a stained-glass window in his office with the English word "Zorn" on it cracks me up.

The episode with the creepy 'invisible friend' little girl who attacks Deanna. Deanna is playing along with the real girl and looks in the closet, only to be attacked.

DS9:

"The Visitor" (one of my favorite episodes). At the end, when Sisko confronts aged Jake (Tony Todd) and says, anguished, "Jake, you're like three hundred years old!"

The final episode - Kai Winn is holding the Book of the Prophets and yells "Emissary!" but the Book is magically whisked out of her hands! Hilarious!

VOY:

Pilot - Kate Mulgrew's hair goes from mussed to done up in a bun...while she's on her way to the bridge...during red alert!

Tuvok's notorious booger in the mind-meld Paris-accused episode.

TAS:

Many, many examples.
Kirk (in overacting agony): "They're...destroying...my mind!"
Spock (new scene): "Captain, we are being probed."
McCoy (of a woman): "Well, that's the prettiest equation I did see."
Kirk/Spock slash scene in "Mudd's Passion", where they're holding each other and Kirk calls Spock his 'best friend.'

ENT:

Nazi dinosaurs?!@

ENT S1 "Shuttlepod One"

Trip and Reed are running out of air, and Trip tries to climb out the airlock to give Reed a few more hours. Reed pulls him back into the pod at gunpoint. Trip shouts "Friends don't shoot each other!"

I never fail to correct him from my couch. "Uh, dude? Sometimes they do. Sometimes it helps." Followed by a crossing of fingers that he would then return to the ship and shoot Archer.

Yeah, Scully shot Mulder.

Yesterday, I was watching "Who Watches the Watchers." There's a scene where some villager with a bow and arrow is chasing Riker. Shot of Riker. Shot of villager. Shot of Riker. Shot of villager. Shot of Riker. Shot of villager. Pan up from villager to the top of a large rock formation where a large bird flies by and calls out like a hawk. Shot of Riker. Shot of villager. The bird bit was just so random, I started giggling.

Ooh, isn't that the one where Picard shows the villager they've beamed aboard someone dying in Sickbay?

That was hilarious! "We just happened to have this person who's about to expire, so why don't you have a look?"

I keep finding my self giggling at the hideously bad security in TOS. I detailed one example here in my post about Dagger of the Mind. Armed to incapacitated in 0.8 seconds every single time. Night watchmen at cranberry storage silos are harder to take down than the average TOS red shirt.


Also making me laugh for the wrong reason was the way Yeoman Rand pressed up against Kirk right before they thought the Romulan Plasma torpedo was going to kill them all in Balance of Terror. What the hell was that all about?

Well, we all know that women- all women, including well-trained military personnel- just need a good strong man to take comfort in when they're scared.

Feh. I know it was the 60's and all, but the sexism in TOS sometimes gets to me.

Seriously. I love that TOS couldn't wrap its head around allowing female captains, but they were fine and dandy with a Russian on the bridge IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COLD WAR.

Tolerance is mighty shifty, no?

What I love about this is that they actually show her fixing her hair as she's marching down the corridor. She clearly had an excellent sense of priorities.

The Captain can't afford to look less than perfect, what would the Klingons say?

I covet that ability like you would not believe. Janeway seemed to spend a lot of time in the early seasons magically tucking all that hair back into a perfect bun every time the ship lurched, and on one level I think it's funny, but on another I'm just really, really jealous.

Me too EM. I have long hair and it will not stay up, no matter what.

Now I'm imaging a hair care class with Janeway: How to keep your cool and look fab during a battle in five easy steps...