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. No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy! Winners The Original Series - Balance of Terror The Next Generation - The Measure of a Man Deep Space Nine - In the Pale Moonlight Voyager - Season One - Phage Season Two - Death Wish Season Three - Worst Case Scenario Season Four - Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Revulsion The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Concerning Flight Mortal Coil Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Killing Game (II) Vis á Vis The Omega Directive Unforgettable Living Witness Demon One Hope and Fear
"Mortal Coil" I alluded to this in the S3 round, Borg nano-probes make one of their save the day appearances. Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Revulsion The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Concerning Flight Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Killing Game (II) Vis á Vis The Omega Directive Unforgettable Living Witness Demon One Hope and Fear
"Unforgettable" was not. Yet another waste of a terrific guest star. Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Revulsion The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Concerning Flight Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Killing Game (II) Vis á Vis The Omega Directive Living Witness Demon One Hope and Fear
Vis á Vis, for more face changes than a Mission: Impossible episode. Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Revulsion The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Concerning Flight Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Killing Game (II) The Omega Directive Living Witness Demon One Hope and Fear
SOme decent episodes this season, making it slightly harder to eliminate but I'm going to go with "The Killing Game, Part II". I don't think it was as strong as Part I. I sall say this only once, Ihad flashes of the TV show "Allo, Allo" for the French cafe/resistance scenes. Didn't they also expnad the holodeck for this two-parter yet it never seemed to be brought up again? Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Revulsion The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Concerning Flight Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness Demon One Hope and Fear
I will eliminate Concerning Flight. The whole setup that gave Davinci the mobile emitter was a little too ridiculous, and the whole Davinci hologram idea seemed like somebody's personal Mary Sue fantasy. Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Revulsion The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness Demon One Hope and Fear
Demon - the opening premise is that they are running low on deuterium, and have to land on an extremely hostile planet. Deuterium is a hydrogen atom with a neutron added. It's extremely abundant in the universe. Remember when Star Trek tried to be scientific? Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Revulsion The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
The quality of episode has gone up this season. I think Revulsion is pretty boring though, so off it goes. Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
"Retrospect", respectively I can't remember this episode. Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis The Raven Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
The Raven... how utterly convenient they just happen to stumble across one ship that got lost half way across the galaxy to develop a character they just happened to pick up. Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Random Thoughts Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
Now it's getting hard... I guess "Random Thoughts" is my least favorite of what's left of a good season... Scorpion (II) The Gift Day of Honor Nemesis Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
I will eliminate Day of Honor There are plenty of good candidates for elimination left and no great candidates for elimination. I could have gone four or five different directions. Day Of Honor was basically a 'trapped in a small space' trope, and I hate when Trek resorts to obvious tropes. Scorpion (II) The Gift Nemesis Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Retrospect The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
Retrospect - was Seven violated? Yes? No? Meh? The 'sexy Borg' is on the show for 15 episodes and they're already doing a rape allegory. And then they make it seem it was all a mistake, and now she has a dead man's blood on her hands. Happy times all around. Scorpion (II) The Gift Nemesis Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
^ Retrospect was eliminated quite a while ago... I'll eliminate Nemesis - yet another useless Chakotay episode... Scorpion (II) The Gift Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Waking Moments Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
Waking Moments.... meh, I really dislike episodes about Chakotay's made up "Indian" tribe and their abilities. Scorpion (II) The Gift Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey The Killing Game (I) The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
It pains me to do this to my Space Nazi brethren, but out goes Killing Game Part I. Great costumes, but they just look ridiculous on rubber face monsters. Scorpion (II) The Gift Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
The Gift - for booting Jennifer Lien just because Garrett Wang made some list. If they were thrown from Borg space, then why do they keep meeting the Borg throughout the rest of the show? Scorpion (II) Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey The Omega Directive Living Witness One Hope and Fear
Goodbye The Omega Directive. The very idea of the super mega powerful Omega molecule and how only Starfleet Captains and higher ranks know about it, while having to constantly keep it as secret from the rest of the crew is stupid as hell. Scorpion (II) Scientific Method Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Living Witness One Hope and Fear
"Scientifc Method" reminded me a bit of a TNG episode. Scorpion (II) Year of Hell (I) Year of Hell (II) Message in a Bottle Hunters Prey Living Witness One Hope and Fear