The funniest moment for me is when Data is telling Worf how to care for Spot. He's saying stuff like "You must provide her with feline supplement 39 twice per day. You must give her affection 3 times per day. You must tell her she's a good cat, and a pretty cat". Worf looks at Data with murder in his eyes and says "I will feed her".

The scariest for me is still Best of Both Worlds, Part 1. I was literally an infant when it first aired, but I remember seeing it in reruns when I was maybe five or six years old.

When I was a child, Captain Picard was almost a god to me — not in a hero worship kind of way, but almost a literal sense. He was firm but kind, intelligent but humble, and always did the right thing no matter what it meant for himself. And Patrick Stewart even sounds like what I thought God's voice might be like.

The Borg had been looming in the background all episode, and then when they finally show up they stole Picard, corrupted him, made him into a monster that wanted to hurt everyone Picard cared for, and forced Riker (who I vaguely remember believing as a kid was Picard's son) to kill him... it felt like the whole world was crashing down. And worst of all Captain Picard wasn't going to be there to put it back together, because the Borg just took him.

ETA: and when the away team is trying to explain to Riker what they saw, Worf sounds so lost and angry when he just shouts "He is a Borg". It was a terrifying, almost traumatic experience for me.

And then the episode just... stopped. I was so young I'd never experienced a cliffhanger before. And to this day I bet I could count on one hand the number of cliffhangers that hit me as hard.

Gonna back off a bit today.

Please don't! The Fediverse needs content, and while I guess I can't speak on behalf of the whole community I will say that I've really come to appreciate yours.

The ones with data can be really funny. For example the one where he tries to understand humor.

Scary - I would say the double episode the best of both worlds. Just how unprepared they are for dealing with the borg, and just how entirely invulnerable they are.

Personally for me the borg are a metaphor for the corpos that have lost themselves entirely in the machine of civilization. Culture is irrelevant. It's inefficient. Etc.

Shades of Grey is the funniest, because lol, they made a clip show, and they even came up with a plot reason for it to be a clip show, and it’s still somehow worse than if it was just like a regular “hey remember the time when” clip shows that sitcoms do.

It’s also the scariest because they keep switching between bearded and beardless Riker, and the emotional rollercoaster that it puts you on is really bad for your mental health.

I've stopped watching the news and instead started watching Trek for my mental health. My anxiety is better and honestly I think I've watched every episode at least three times by now.

Would rather hear the intro to Enterprise than some talking head explaining how the world is going to burn and no one really cares. We have lived in the garden of Eden and burnt it to the ground.

Deja Q is one of the funniest episodes for me.

Don't forget, even in the Star Trek main timeline, Earth had to suffer through the Second American Civil War, the Eugenics Wars, World War III, and the post-atomic horror before her people were able to start building a utopia. We're right on track! ☢ 👽 🐬 🛸

My favourite funny TNG episode is A Fistful of Datas. For non-TNG, I really like Bride of Chaotica from Voyager, which has a similar vibe.

We just decided to rewatch DS9, but interrupted it, 2 episodes in, to watch TNG (s6e10/11) Chain of Command.

Enjoy your journey

Schisms is freaky indeed. I love that even in the 24th century humans are getting abducted.

How about "Frame of Mind" for another scary one?

Frame of Mind is the scariest!

I guess I have a low bar but TNG Q episodes were all very funny, Deja Q if I were to say #1.

I'm an atheist though so I wont get scared by ghosts/horror stuff, but I guess the "worst feeling" moment was actualy TNG Best of Both worlds. I think the realization that the doomsday scenario is actually coming, it is real and inevitable, our chances are extremely low, the very moody soundtrack made it a very sober experience for me the first few times I watched it.

Your post reminds me of an interaction I had in the train last week. This old guy sat next to me and asked me if there was a toilet on the train. I said there wasn't on short tracks like these. That rubbed the old man the wrong way and he started complaining how there used to be toilets in his time and that train service used to be better. Eventually his rant turned to the government and how the train was a jew train and life as a whole was nothing but an annoyance to him. All I coudl keep say was that he was right, everything sucks, so that's why I was on my way home to grab a beer and watch some netflix and maybe he should do the same. I told him to write a letter to the government as well. I hope he does, maybe they'll put him on some list.

Anyways. Life is short and you've only got one as far as you know, so you've gotta make it the best life you can. You ain't got time or energy to worry about things you can't affect and things that don't matter.

I haven’t actually finished TNG yet, but here are my picks for funniest and scariest so far.
Funniest: Deja Q
Scariest: Identity Crisis

I know the feeling, thats why I rewatch tv shows, you want to be relaxed in know ground where it's just comfortable to watch.

I just recently watched for thre first time Voyager, I loved it, has a very bad stream of episodes but at the end was worth it

Rascals and Night Terrors

Are you my son? If not you might be his twin!

Funniest for me is Starship Mine, for several reasons.