Most awkward "cringeworthy" moment in TGN?

[Trekker4747]

Most awkward "cringeworthy" moment in TGN?

Beverly, essentially, rubbing one out over the intimate details in of her grandmother's diary, Troi seemingly being okay with this, and then Beverly hooking-up with and getting off on/with her grandmother's surviving boyfriend. (Really a ghost/entity that leaches off the women in her family.)

 

[Orphalesion]

How are "Code of Honor" and "Angel One" not on this list?

Because then there'd be no competition, it'd just be 100% Code of Honour/Angel One.

As it is I voted for Goerdi and Leah. Guy creates a holo fantasy girlfriend based on a real person and then is upset if the real life version doesn't comply with his fantasy or spreads her legs for him. Ew.

 

[Karzak]

Troi being mind raped by the Ulian Jev

That wasn't awkward, that was goddamn horrifying.

 

[wulfio]

It'd be the scene from Transfigurations where Wesley is having dinner with his mother and they engage in a discussion about Beverly's crush on her alien patient.

That was probably the worst dialogue in the show, coupled with the worst acting.

 

[JeffinOakland]

Code of Honor aka "The racist episode" is one long cringe worthy moment

 

[BillJ]

Troi being mind raped by the Ulian Jev

That wasn't awkward, that was goddamn horrifying.

I've always counted "Violations" as one of TNG's best episodes.

 

[BillJ]

Back to the question at hand...

 

[Armored Saint]

The Last Outpost with the Ferengi acting like chimpanzees on cocaine.

 

[jimbotron]

You're a droid, and I'm a 'noid.

 

[Granola Gwen]

Tasha and Data having ever had that experience in The Naked Now. I'd also say Lwaxnna's naked wedding (or her mud bath scene with Alexander). Or Picard being intimate with his former young friend in Tapestry. Don't forget Riker's explanation of love in The Outcast.

 

[Amaris]

You're a droid, and I'm a 'noid.

This. So many times this. For the love of Gort, Whoopi was a popular comedian! This is the best they could give her? This?!
Every time Guinan says it's funny, I yell back at the TV "No! No it isn't! It's not funny!"

I have no life.

 

[Orphalesion]

Troi put a brave face on it, but her self-worth must've been questioned being dumped, entirely, for a homely, rubber-headed androgyne. He was going to go rogue over this and quite STARFLEET, whereas with the beautiful Deanna, he just beat feet and disappeared on her! You know, I applaud Jonathan Frakes being such an Artist in wanting to be the first to approach the subject of homosexuality in STAR TREK, but ... this episode wasn't the way to do it and it shouldn't have been Riker, anyway. It was completely contrary to the character. This should've been a Barclay episode, perhaps ...

Because the standard definition of "hotness" is the only reason anybody would be attracted to anybody else
Only worthless "beta males" like Barclay are so messed up that they might like someone for who they are instead of their bra size.

 

[jimbotron]

You're a droid, and I'm a 'noid.

This. So many times this. For the love of Gort, Whoopi was a popular comedian! This is the best they could give her? This?!
Every time Guinan says it's funny, I yell back at the TV "No! No it isn't! It's not funny!"

I have no life.

I think I read somewhere that she wrote that joke herself.

 

[Amaris]

You're a droid, and I'm a 'noid.

This. So many times this. For the love of Gort, Whoopi was a popular comedian! This is the best they could give her? This?!
Every time Guinan says it's funny, I yell back at the TV "No! No it isn't! It's not funny!"

I have no life.

I think I read somewhere that she wrote that joke herself.

I refuse to believe it on the grounds that the year before she uttered that line, she made "Burglar," and the year after that line she was in "Ghost," and she killed it in both!

*weeps*

 

[2takesfrakes]

Only worthless "beta males" like Barclay are so messed up ...

I didn't mean it quite that way, Orphalesion. The episode was just words on paper, completely disregarding the truth of the character of Riker, presenting him, finally, in name-only. He was the studd, so shoe-horning him into this situation was somehow going to make the drama more "impactful," was the idea. In this way, it subtracted, in a sense, from the character, because it is such an anomaly. Had the TNG universe been at all applied to the episode, none of this would've ever come up.

Barclay, on the other hand, was much less secure about himself in - seemingly - almost all areas. Outside of that and some rather odd Holodeck fantasies, Barclay's very thin, as a character. For him to grab this story by its junipers and finally assert himself in such a desperate way would've very likely enriched his character by giving him way more depth. Artistically, maybe it wouldn't have been as satisfying as trying to deconstruct a regular character, but it would've been much more believable and just as impactful as what they were trying to go after. As it was, the episode only brought up the subject to incite Riker's rebellion, it had no intention of being explored, investigated ... none of that. It was just "brought up." Whereas had Barclay been the character involved, this could've become a pivotal turning point for him, at the very least.

 

[hux]

^I'm not sure what you're saying exactly.

Riker was the perfect choice. The fact that he's the alpha male makes his openness to the possibility of a relationship based less on physical gender-norms and more on personality and chemistry, all the more powerful.

If it had been Barclay, then it would inevitably slide into slightly patronising territory. In other words, it's OK for a pathetic, confidence-lacking beta male to explore his sexuality but NOT for a handsome, all-American, real-man like Riker.

Riker was the right choice. The actress was possible the wrong choice but that's a different discussion.

 

[Leviathan]

2 words spring to mind:

Sub frickin Rosa.

 

[USS Firefly]

aren't those three words

 

[stardream]

We are going through TGN again at the moment. We finished DS9 and will go onto Voyager.

Husband does not keep track of the episodes. I do. I can see train wrecks like sub rosa coming so when he is at work (I work from home) I will simply go on the site and skip ahead to the next episode. He is none the wiser.

 

[Amaris]

I just watched "Loud as a Whisper," so my answer is currently "Loud as a Whisper."