The Best Episodes Written By James Crocker

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - No Way Down

   S1:E410/16/1987

   Vincent is blinded after an explosion and must escape a street gang that is holding him hostage. Once he is free he must find his way home.

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   #2 - The Convict's Piano

   S2:E612/11/1986

   A man in prison who insists that he is innocent of a crime discovers a piano that transports him to the old days of gangsters.

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #3 - Patient Zero

   S7:E23/23/2001

   A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threatens to annihilate humankind.

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   7.5/10(31 votes)

   #4 - The Maquis (1)

   S2:E204/24/1994

   Stardate: Unknown. The destruction of a Cardassian ship leads Sisko, Dukat, and Sisko's old friend Cal Hudson to the fact that there is an unofficial war between the Maquis and the Cardassians.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Family Values

   S7:E13/16/2001

   A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.

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   7.3/10(7 votes)

   #6 - The Deprogrammers

   S2:E165/26/1996

   With Earth under alien rule and millions dead, the human race has been programmed to slavery. A small band of rebels kidnaps Evan, alien leader Koltok's personal slave. Trent Davis, leader of the rebels, tries to return Evan to his former self through arduous deprogramming sessions. To aid in the process, Evan is reintroduced to his wife Jill. As his sessions progress, Evan learns of the death of his daughter. He agrees to join the rebels and assassinate his former master - with devastating results.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Abduction

   S7:E168/18/2001

   An alien makes an offer to five high school students.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Shadow Play / Grace Note

   S1:E234/4/1986

   A condemned man, Adam Grant, insists that everything and everyone around him is a dream: one that he can't wake up from. He claims that every time he is executed, he fails to wake up and must relive the whole thing again. His attorney is originally skeptical, but Grant knows all of the "lines" and can predict things that will happen miles away. His attorney tries to get a stay of execution, but is just too late: Grant is "executed" and wakes up at his trial once more. The players have changed roles, but otherwise everything is the same as he must relive the same events over...and over...and over. An opera singer is having a hard time. Her sister is at the hospital dying. Her sick sister leaves a gift: a glimpse into the future when the singer is a world-famous star.

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   6.6/10(27 votes)

   #9 - Cardassians

   S2:E510/24/1993

   Stardate: 47177.2. Political heat rises on the station as Bajorans enter the station with orphaned Cardassians they have adopted.

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    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Decompression

    S6:E136/30/2000

    Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary, upsetting a heavily favored opponent, and he's flying to South Carolina to press his campaign for the Presidency. As the plane files south, it's hit by lightning. The plane and its passengers appear unaffected, but a mysterious woman appears in Brody's private quarters and warns him the strike has damaged the airplane, which will crash on landing, killing him and six others. She explains she is a projection from the future, a virtual time-traveler sent here to save him because his presidency is the key to preventing an apocalyptic future. If he is to live he must shoot out the emergency exit and allow himself to be sucked out of the plane by decompression, whereupon he will be saved by the stranger's sophisticated technology.

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    6.3/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Wordplay / Dreams for Sale / Chameleon

    S1:E210/4/1985

    Salesman Bill Lowery wakes up one morning and discovers, to his horror, that people around him are slowly degenerating their talk into gibberish that he cannot understand. His ability to communicate is needed more than ever when his son becomes sick. Lowery manages to get his son the treatment he needs and discovers he must relearn everything from scratch. On an idyllic outdoor picnic with her husband and their twins a nameless woman becomes confused and disoriented when events begin to repeat themselves. A space shuttle returns from a mission and NASA discovers that something unusual has been picked up. They discover that they have a shape-changing alien in their holding tank that poses a danger to all.

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    6.2/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Shatterday / A Little Peace and Quiet

    S1:E19/27/1985

    A man named Peter Jay Novins accidentally dials his home phone number, and it's answered by Peter Jay Novins. A harried housewife finds a medallion that gives her the power to freeze time.

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    6.1/10(35 votes)

    #13 - Paradise

    S2:E152/13/1994

    Stardate: 47573.1. Sisko and Chief O'Brien discover a colony that lives without technology.

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    6.1/10(26 votes)

    #14 - Fascination

    S3:E1011/28/1994

    Stardate: Unknown. As Lwaxanna Troi visits the station for a Bajoran festival, the crew is stricken with intense romantic attractions to one another.

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    6.1/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Melora

    S2:E610/31/1993

    Stardate: 47229.1. A new arrival to the station with a special gravity-based disability appeals to Bashir's heart; meanwhile an old associate of Quark's comes to the station to kill the barkeep.

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Awakening

    S3:E103/14/1997

    Beth Carter lives in black and white, unable to experience emotions because of a conditioncalled primary alexithymia. But when Dr. Steven Molstad implants a small device in her brain, Beth's world explodes into brilliant color. For the first time in her life, she can truly feel love, happiness and even fear. Beth is thrilled by the transformation, by her feelings of friendship for Molstad's assistant Joan Garrison and her attraction to Joan's landlord Kevin Flynn -- but there are some troubling signs. Beth begins to hear strange voices. She is abducted by aliens only to find herself back in the hospital. Is her brain rebelling at the sudden flow of emotions or is Molstad's implant defective? Or is something more sinister going on?

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    5.8/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Out of Body

    S2:E207/14/1996

    What really happens during an out-of body experience? Husband and wife scientists Rebecca Warfield and Ben McCormick are trying to find out by subjecting monkeys to electric impulses. They see it as pure science, but to religious groups like Family Foremost, it is sacrilege. Desperate for funding, Rebecca decides to run the experiment with a human subject -- herself. She asks her assistant, Amy, to help. Amy, a secret religious fanatic, alters the experiment. Rebecca escapes from her body, but, unless she finds a way to communicate, she will remain trapped in an other dimension.

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    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Haven

    S5:E157/2/1999

    Caleb Vance lives on the 52nd floor of The Haven, a high-tech marvel of an apartment building that is driven by a supercomputer named Argus and filled with machines and appliances that respond to the orders of The Haven's residents. The building's design almost completely eliminates the need for human contact, a desirable feature in an age in which all communication is mediated by one form of technology or another and a strong selling point for the residents of The Haven. But things begin to go wrong...

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    4.6/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Bits of Love

    S3:E11/19/1997

    Aidan Hunter may be the last man on earth after a nuclear holocaust, but he's not lonely. In his subterranean bomb shelter, hes surrounded by his family, friends, lovers, anyone he wants ... Unfortunately, they're holograms -- computer generated people controlled by a beautiful holographic interface named Emma. But when curiosity turns to touch and Aidan makes love to Emma in a virtual reality pod, he quickly learns that trifling with a computers feelings can be dangerous ... and the morning after can be all too real.

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    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Identity Crisis

    S4:E103/27/1998

    Captain Cotter McCoy (Lou Diamond Phillips) is the first of a new breed of soldier. As part of a top secret program overseen by Dr. Greg Olander (Robert Joy), General Langston Chase (Dale Wilson), and Cotter's friend, Colonel Pete Butler (Scott Kraft), the contents of McCoy's brain can be temporarily transferred into an android version of himself. This process creates a virtually indestructible fighting machine with the smarts and experience of a human being. But, one day something goes wrong. During the transfer, the real McCoy's body is blasted with electricity, stopping his heart, inflicting serious brain damage and leaving Cotter's mind trapped in the android body. To make matters worse, the interface between his mind and the android body is flawed. McCoy's motor control is already beginning to break down and the interface will likely collapse within 12 hours.

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    3.2/10(4 votes)

    #21 - The Leprechaun-Artist / Dead Run

    S1:E192/21/1986

    Vacationing in the United States, an Irish leprechaun is caught by three boys. To be freed, he must grant them three wishes. An out-of-work trucker takes on a bizarre job upon the recommendation of a friend: deliveryman of souls to Hell. He soon begins to realize that Hell is essentially out of control, running on momentum, and that the current regime is way too harsh. Resolved, he decides to begin choosing which among the supposed "damned" should try to make their way to Heaven.

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