The least disliked episode of TNG - Season Six

This is a game that was played here a couple of years ago, and it proved to be a lot of fun, spanning across each Trek series, as well as a great way to mentally revisit those episodes you may not have thought about in a while. With that in mind, why not play again?

So, here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners
Season One - Heart of Glory
Season Two - Q Who?
Season Three - Deja Q
Season Four - The Drumhead
Season Five - Disaster
Season Six -

Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Man of the People
Relics
Schisms
True Q
Rascals
A Fistful of Datas
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Aquiel
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Birthright (II)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Suspicions
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Decisions, Decsions. I'll go with "Man of The People" As for why just don't care for it.

Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
True Q
Rascals
A Fistful of Datas
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Aquiel
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Birthright (II)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Suspicions
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Birthright II The only reason I liked part one was the DS9 crossover and Data's story. They dropped it completely in this one. And Shatner did the Klingon/Romulan colony thing much better in Ashes From Eden

Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
True Q
Rascals
A Fistful of Datas
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Aquiel
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Suspicions
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Dropping Aquiel... just a boring episode, even if it is hilarious how Geordi blunders yet again with all women. Though I say even he can do better than her.

Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
True Q
Rascals
A Fistful of Datas
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Suspicions
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Weird... I'm finding it hard to pick one here, not because they're all great, or terrible, but that they're all somewhat equal. It was mostly between Realm of Fear or Suspicions. I think I'll shoot down Suspicions. Beverly doesn't hold this episode together very well. It's not awful, but I dislike it more than the others

Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
True Q
Rascals
A Fistful of Datas
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

I'm knocking True Q out. I was never a great fan of this installment, and I find Amanda awfully twee.

Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Rascals
A Fistful of Datas
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Knocking out Rascals... let's turn the crew into kids, have Ferengi take over the Enterprise with stock footage, then have the kids save the day... what an awesome episode.... no.

Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
A Fistful of Datas
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

I have to knock off A Fistful of Datas. The episode was okay but Data sounded like Bob Wheeler from Night Court.


Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Going to have to ditch "Ship in a Bottle" I've never cared for the Holmes episodes, and this one is no exception.


Time's Arrow (II)
Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Incidentally, Ship in a Bottle won season six last time this game was played.

I'm booting Time's Arrow (II), never been a fan of that two parter or Samuel Clemens.

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (I)
Chain of Command (II)
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

I'm booting Quality of Life. I barely even remember what this episode was about.

 

Weird, I always considered season 6 a weaker season than 3-5, but I'm finding it hard to knock an episode off. These are all decent episodes.

I vote Chain of Command (I). I haven't seen this in a while, but it felt like the whole episode was Riker bitching about Jellico, and Picard/Crusher/Worf fumbling through caves. Part 2 was a much better episode.

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Birthright (I)
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Birthright was a terrible two-parter, happy to wipe it off.
The second part was unbelievably boring and the first part...well, what was it even about? I forget...some dream crap and Worf stuff. Also if they were gonna go to DS9 for the only time in the show, couldn't they do something a bit more exciting?

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Second Chances.... twice the Riker, three times the jerkiness.

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Rightful Heir
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

I'm removing Rightful Heir. The story is just unbelievably ridiculous. And you'd think that a clone of Kahless serving as the figurehead emperor would have some lasting repercussions in the Empire, but he got one throwaway mention in a later episode and was never seen or heard from again.

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

I feel bad but I'm booting Face of the Enemy. I generally like Troi episodes and thought it was a good concept but I thought the Romulans were astonishingly foolish. I mean, Troi was a bad choice - she has a Betazoid accent (possibly, could never wor hat out. But no Romulan has that accent) and the Betazoid black eyes which they left when they changed her face. Also, after the initial shock of looking like a Romulan, she barely protests that she's been kidnapped, drugged, had her face changed and is being forced to impersonate a Romulan.

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Tapestry
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Timescape
Descent (I)

 

Are you gonna do this contest for other series as well?

 

Descent (I) The season-ending cliffhangers dipped in quality each time. BOBW was excellent, Redemption was great, Time's Arrow was OK, and Descent was ho-hum. Once again, the Borg are downgraded into just another alien race, and Data spends the whole episode confused. And once again, Lore plays Data for a sucker (more of that in Part 2).

Realm of Fear
Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Tapestry
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Timescape

 

I'm going to drop "Realm of Fear", seriously biting worm things in the transporter stream? even though you're broken into atoms and cannot perceive anything (which would require your brain and sensory organs to be assembled), and thus you and the "worms" should just be bits in a matter stream.

Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Tapestry
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Timescape

 

Some really good episodes left. I'll get rid of Starship Mine just because the others are better.

Relics
Schisms
Chain of Command (II)
Tapestry
Lessons
The Chase
Frame of Mind
Timescape