Favorite and Least Favorite

[Brie]

I would like to know what everyone's favorite and least favorite characters and episodes were

Favorite Character: Captain Picard Because well duh, he was an amazing captain.

Favorite Episode: The two part episode "The Best of Both Worlds"

Least Favorite Character: (You guys will hate me) Worf because all his back stories bored the crap out of me (though I loved his character in DS9)

Least Favorite Episode: "Family" I just really did not enjoy it at all

Let's hear yours!

 

[Tosk]

Mine change all the time, but these are my choices for today...

Fave character: Riker.
Fave ep: Lower Decks.
Least fave character: Wesley, 'natch.
Least fave ep: Shades of Grey.

 

[STEPhon IT]

My least favorite character was Deanna Troi.

Her powers seemed to state the obvious in EVERY situation on TNG. I never thought she was relevant on the bridge nor created an impact on episodes. She was... THE EYE CANDY of the show. She had the rank of Lt. Commander, but based on her resume from the series I had questioned how she earned that rank?

There was an episode covering her development flaw but it simply lead her to get Geordi killed in an Officer's training test. After the episode it was same old, same old- -nothing new to advance her new rank or why she should be considered relevant on the Enterprise bridge?

 

[jimbotron]

Favorite episode: Best of the Both Worlds, Part I, but that's pretty common, so next favorite is Cause and Effect
Most hated episode: The Outrageous Okona
Favorite main character: Data
Favorite guest character: Barclay
Least favorite character: Wesley
Least favorite guest character: Keiko

 

[BillJ]

My relationship with TNG is complicated. I'm one of the few who believes the earlier seasons are better than the later seasons and I tend to like the characters more during those formative years of the show.

Favorite character: Will Riker (seasons one and two)

This character was essentially young Jim Kirk. A man with a passion for the captain's chair. They sucked that passion out of him and turned him into Picard's administrative assistant as the series progressed.

Favorite episode: "Q, Who" (season two)

We see just how dangerous space really is.

Least favorite character: Deanna Troi.

She just felt like the least well formed character in the series and they were all over the map with her. I thought Marina Sirtis did a decent job with the material given.

Least favorite episode: "Code of Honor"

Just a mess of an episode. The less said, the better.

 

[bbjeg]

Favorite Character: Riker. He's a good all-around guy.

Favorite Episode: Darmok. It's my definitive Trek episode.

Least Favorite Character: Alexander. His forehead may be bumpy but nothing else about him says Klingon.

Least Favorite Episode: I want to say Enterprise's "These are the Voyages" but I doubt that counts. "Justice" was silly. You'd think an alien world would explain their rules to strangers better, especially that one where if you step on the grass you get the death penalty.

 

[Brie]

Favorite Character: Riker. He's a good all-around guy.

Favorite Episode: Darmok. It's my definitive Trek episode.

Least Favorite Character: Alexander. His forehead may be bumpy but nothing else about him says Klingon.

Least Favorite Episode: I want to say Enterprise's "These are the Voyages" but I doubt that counts. "Justice" was silly. You'd think an alien world would explain their rules to strangers better, especially that one where if you step on the grass you get the death penalty.

I'm so glad you mentioned that episode that ties in with another thread I started which is things in Star Trek that I shake my head at lol

 

[Sybok Was Wrong]

Favorite: Jean Luc Picard (want to say Riker, but Picard was just so layered and had so much depth for a SF character)
Least favorite: Troi ( it didn't take much for Sirtis to expose herself as a limited actress)
Favorite Episode: "The Defector" (great atmosphere, great guest performance, nice cinematography)
Least Favorite: "Manhunt" (80's mess)

 

[Melakon]

Least Favorite Character: Data, though that has nothing to do with what Spiner did with the character.

 

[bbjeg]

^What was wrong with Data?

 

[Melakon]

^What was wrong with Data?

I see him as a gimmick character. It opens up questions of how are we supposed to treat our own electronic devices if they should develop sophisticated artificial intelligence. Does that smartphone in your pocket deserve to be treated as a person if it acquires sentience? Is owning a sentient device that you keep clipped to your belt slavery? Would your computer have the legal right to leave you and find a new owner? But mostly, it's because he's a gimmick. Spock wasn't my favorite on TOS either, so it's an extension of that.

 

[Orphalesion]

Hmmm once again we see that opinions differ and I'm glad they do.

Favourite Character(s): Data, Worf, Troi

Favourite Episode(s): How can I just choose one? Ah-hem! Measure of a Man, Q,Who , The Bonding, The Emissary Yetserday's Enterprise, The Offspring, the Hunted, Hollow Pursuits, BOBW, Family, Suddenly Human, Reunion, Remember Me, the High Ground, Data's Day, Half a Life, Ensign Ro, I,Borg, Face of the Enemy, Thine Own Self, All Good Things.

Least Favourite Character(s): Wesley, Riker

Least Favourite Episode(s): Code of Honour, Angel One Shades of Gray.

 

[Kilana2]

Most disgusting episode: Conspiracy

Favorite characters: Data, Riker, Troi
Favorite guest character: Reg Barclay, also in Voyager
Least favorite character: Wesley, but I´m not one of the haters. There isn´t a TNG character I can´t stand
Favorite guest character: Q
Least favorite guest character: Lwaxana Troi. To her credit, I liked Lwaxana more in DS9

 

[bbjeg]

^What was wrong with Data?

I see him as a gimmick character. It opens up questions of how are we supposed to treat our own electronic devices if they should develop sophisticated artificial intelligence. Does that smartphone in your pocket deserve to be treated as a person if it acquires sentience? Is owning a sentient device that you keep clipped to your belt slavery? Would your computer have the legal right to leave you and find a new owner? But mostly, it's because he's a gimmick. Spock wasn't my favorite on TOS either, so it's an extension of that.

I didn't post in the "Is the Doctor alive" (or something like that) thread but my stance on artificial life is I don't rate them above evolved life but I can respect them just as much. Of course I wouldn't treat a smartphone as a person but if that smartphone was sentient and could walk, talk, interact and process just as good or better than a human, I'd respect the programing and the programmer who designed it. Should it get rights (a question that we here on Earth might have to take serious at the rate we're going)? I'd say not as many but it definitely should have the ability to grow. I would be against another breaking Data down to see if they could make another but if Noonien Soong (was still alive and) wanted to add a part to Data, I couldn't see why he couldn't.

I guess I'm on the fence on the subject.

 

[STEPhon IT]

But THAT'S THE REASON why Melakon thinks Data is his least favorite character, he thinks he's a gimmick character and it opens up questions of how are we, SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, supposed to treat our own electronic devices.

In 1987??? 1988??? 1989??? No wait... maybe 1990??? 1991??? 1992??? or better yet 1993???

How about 1994???

 

[Melakon]

What's with ALL THE SHOUTING?

 

[IrishNero]

Picard rocked. IMO, he and Data were the best of this series.

I never really enjoyed Riker. He was too snippy and stiff at times, and his character seemed superfluous. I also, at times, didn't like his 'wife.' She seemed a bit too preachy. Her character seemed to be too perfect at times. It wasn't until later that her backstory seemed to develop and we began to see her develop more 'human' characteristics (e.g. flaws).

 

[bbjeg]

But THAT'S THE REASON why Melakon thinks Data is his least favorite character...

i wasn't disagreeing with Mel, just stating my opinion on Star Trek AI.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Favorite character: Data
Least favorite: Troi

Favorite episode: Tapestry
Least favorite: Shades of Grey

There are lots of bad episodes to choose from but there's just no excuse for a clip show unless they find a way to tie it into a more interesting narrative. Like, Coming of Age would have been a much more reasonable place to put a clip show when Remmick is interrogating everyone.

There's no legitimate comparison between the question of whether Data has rights and the question of whether your smartphone has rights. Data's circuitry rewires itself the way a human brain does, this is confirmed in Eye of the Beholder when he describes his brief consideration of virtual suicide by reset. No currently existing electronic devices do this.

 

[STEPhon IT]

But THAT'S THE REASON why Melakon thinks Data is his least favorite character...

i wasn't disagreeing with Mel, just stating my opinion on Star Trek AI.

I was joking because his reasons for Data being his least favorite character are preposterous.