Two-Part Season Finale Cliffhangers - A Star Trek Compilation

A compilation of the cliffhangers in Star Trek two-part season finales.
Sources are the TNG episodes "The Best of Both Worlds", "Redemption", "Time’s Arrow" & "Descent; VOY episodes "Basics", "Scorpion", "Equinox" & "Unimatrix Zero"; and ENT episode "Shockwave".
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[@mysterion3182]

Many years later, I still get chills when Riker tells Worf to fire.

[@ericdunn360]

The three most hated words in television history.

[@AndrewChapman]

Only if it's season finales.

[@jauregi2726]

This is the best of ANY world! Thanks for the upload.

[@OptimusWombat]

Interesting. I don't think it ever occurred to me that DS9 didn't have any season ending cliffhangers. The show definitely had multi-part episodes, but none of them ended a season and then started the next.
You could argue that a few of the season finales were cliffhangers (5x26 "Call to Arms" comes to mind), but none of them had the "To Be Continued ...."

[@mnaglich]

Agreed. DS9 definitely had direct continuation episodes between some seasons, but not true cliffhangers like TNG.

[@kallemattila5870]

Call to Arms most definitely was a cliffhanger, even without the magic words. And IMO it was the closest they got to the impact of Best of Both Worlds.

[@bachilles3285]

You could argue that the season 6 finale (Tears of the Prophets) as being a better example of a DS9 cliffhanger, since Jadzia's death and Sisko's crisis of faith lead into the first 2 episodes of season 7 (Image in the Sand/Shadows and Symbols).

[@brucemanly]

That last enterprise one. Oh boy.

[@don312000]

I see what you did there!!!! I wonder if anybody gave any thought to having Archer mutter that as it faded out??

[@brucemanly]

@@don312000 surely they must have joked about it on set. I remember shouting at the TV "say oh boy"!!

[@don312000]

@@brucemanly Now that you mention that, I think I did too! LOL

[@MIDI_Player_Kion]

5:50 back when I was a kid I saw a To Be Continued blue text bar and no sound but I made the Star Trek the original series Season 3 closing song

[@bachilles3285]

There was The Prophet of Tears from Deap Space 9 season 6, but that doesn't have a To Be Continued screen, despite its ending leading into season 7's Image in the Sand/Shadows and Symbols via Sisko's crisis of faith and Jazia's death, so that's most likely why that episode didn't make it in.

[@kenwynn3871]

What about Gambit?

[@AndrewChapman]

It wasn't a season finale/premiere 2-parter, it's Episodes 4 and 5 of Season 7.

[@kenwynn3871]

@Andrew Chapman oh yes you're right, I always forget that it was mid season feels so much like a finale cliffhanger

[@MIDI_Player_Kion]

7:58 8:03

[@don312000]

That second one was a total red herring--Sela's sly grin was meant to make us believe she was actually Tasha!! Btw--no DS9?

[@darthplagueis4626]

No season finale cliffhangers involving two-part episodes ;)

[@don312000]

@@darthplagueis4626 IDK..."Cadet, you took the words right out of my mouth" was pretty good.

[@AndrewChapman]

Although most season finale episodes of DS9 were part of story arcs, none of them actually ended with a 'To Be Continued...' caption. Only some episodes within seasons had the caption.

[@MIDI_Player_Kion]

4:51 4:52 4:53 4:54

[@mr.doctor-reginaldbernardb2904]

Cmon! The DS 9 Season 5 ender with the Defiant and Rotarran joining the Allied Federation /Klingon fleet after evacuating the station??? Really??

[@darthplagueis4626]

Not officially a two-part episode though ;)

[@mr.doctor-reginaldbernardb2904]

@@darthplagueis4626 You're right Darth.

[@MIDI_Player_Kion]

4:48 4:49 4:50

[@clark85]

dam lura, battur and tasha yar too many hot evil babes in 1 room

[@MIDI_Player_Kion]

6:50 6:54 6:55

[@MIDI_Player_Kion]

4:44 4:45 4:46