The best episode of TNG - Part Two

Okay Trek fans, 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 before you eliminate another one. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners:
Season One - The Arsenal of Freedom
Season Two -

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
Loud as a Whisper
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
The Dauphin
Contagion
The Royale
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
Manhunt
The Emissary
Peak Performance
Shades of Gray

 

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
Loud as a Whisper
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
The Dauphin
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
Manhunt
The Emissary
Peak Performance
Shades of Gray

Taking out 'The Royale' to start. I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it. Any time I've tried to watch it in the last five years, I've had to give up 20 minutes in.

 

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
Loud as a Whisper
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
The Dauphin
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
Manhunt
The Emissary
Peak Performance

I don't normally participate in threads like this, but I figured I would do everyone a service and remove "Shades of Grey".

I mean...duh!

 

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
Loud as a Whisper
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
Manhunt
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Eliminated: ---> The Dauphin

One of the worst Wesley-centric episodes ever. Just so humdrum.... IMHO.

 

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
Loud as a Whisper
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
The Emissary
Peak Performance

I eliminated Manhunt because the story meanders around pointlessly, goes nowhere, and when it ends the audience is left saying, "That's it? That's all there is?"

 

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
The Emissary
Peak Performance

I eliminated Loud as a Whisper because it's boring IMHO.

 

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
The Emissary
Peak Performance


As for myself, I'm taking out The Outrageous Okona. More like "The Excruciatingly Painful, Unbearable Okona."

 

I would vote to remove Shades of Grey. It is just a filler clip show.

 

Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Removed "The Child". The worst episode of TNG IMHO. Sexist and just a creepy and weird plot.

 

Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Time for Up the Long Ladder to get pulled. It's just too campy

 

Elementary, Dear Data
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
The Emissary
Peak Performance

I removed Where Silence has Lease - I just never got that episode.

 

Elementary, Dear Data
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Taking out Time Squared. It's got decent/good buildup for 45 minutes and then the ending comes out of nowhere and makes no sense. I've always found it unsatisfying.

 

Elementary, Dear Data
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
The Emissary
Peak Performance

The Schizoid Man is eliminated hands down. Brent Spiner playing evil has always been annoying to me. Other than that, there isn't much to say about the episode. Except that it drags. Out with the trash!

 

Elementary, Dear Data
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Eliminated Samaritan Snare. "Make it go..." away!

 

Elementary, Dear Data
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
The Icarus Factor
Q Who?
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Eliminated: --> Pen Pals

Data and his adorable little alien pen pal. A "feel good" episode, but not as likable as the ones remaining.

 

Elementary, Dear Data
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
The Icarus Factor
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Removed: "Q Who?"
Reason: Q is so freakin' annoying! I dislike every episode having to do with him, on the exception of Season 1's "Hide and Q"

 

Elementary, Dear Data
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Removed: The Icarus Factor
Reason: This could have been an episode of any show. A deadly dull trudge through Riker's issues with his father which are resolved in an entirely predictable way by the end of the episode.

ETA: I can't believe you removed "Q Who?", for me it's one of the top two or three episodes of the season.

 

Elementary, Dear Data
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
The Emissary
Peak Performance

Wow, I thought "Q Who?" would be one of the last ones standing. I think I'll take out "Unnatural Selection". I don't dislike Pulaski, but I don't find her interesting enough to be engaged with an episode in which she's the focus. Also, the solution to the aging problem was very lame.

 

^^ I'm sorry guys, it's just that I'm so tired of Q. He is on my last nerve.

 

Elementary, Dear Data
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
Contagion
Peak Performance

Q Who out? Boo! But here's another shock for y'all, I bet: I eliminate The Emissary. Seems to be a popular one, but I was always meh about it. Klingon relationship problems could never take an episode to a season's number 1 spot in my book. Goodbye.