Worst TNG Episode Ever?

[Vorpal_Blade]

'Masks' kind of reeked.

 

[UnknownSample]

'Masks' kind of reeked.

Wasn't that one basically magic, not SF? That drives me crazy.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Wasn't that one basically magic, not SF? That drives me crazy.

OMG I don't even remember it.

 

[Vorpal_Blade]

Wasn't that one basically magic, not SF? That drives me crazy.

Drives me crazy too.

 

[Vandervecken]

right, what was wrong with that again?

It doesn't happen.

Yes, the idea is something that can be very abused when applied to Earth, and human beings. Racists love this idea, that some peoples are inherently smarter than others, but in context this is not racist.

What inviolable rule or law is there in this universe, that says all intelligent species must have a roughly similar intelligence level? And if we accept that some aliens are more intelligent than us, couldn't some conceivably be less so? It's bound to happen.

To be fair to the franchise, aliens who outclass humans in intelligence are pretty common. Some way more intelligent, like the Q, Organians, Metrons, Nagilum (I think we can take it for granted that species of such transcendent power all outclass humans in intelligence, as well as most corporeal races). I think there is an implication that, for example, Vulcans are a bit more intelligent than humans (doesn't mean inventive), maybe Klingons a hair less. But that could just be the TNG Klingons talking. Kor was anything but less intelligent than any particular human. But I do mean more medians/averages than any one person.

I got the sense that Changelings might be smarter in raw intelligence than most solids.

Wasn't that one basically magic, not SF? That drives me crazy.

Eh, no more than the power of the Q. But Masks is certainly a bore, and Spiner just plain overacts.


Rascals is my personal worst. I just have zero interest in watching a bunch of kids.

 

[Bender Bending Rodríguez]

Sub Rosa or as my gf puts it "The one where Beverly gets it on with a ghost". Terrible episode.

 

[Jedman67]

"Code of Honor" and "Naked Aliens Execute Wesley" are up there as some of the worst. "Gambit" was pretty forgettable, although the ending where Data arrests Riker is quite amusing.
"Descent" had a good premise, but they completely botched the execution.

 

[Jedman67]

What about that episode where Picard, O'Brien and Troi get possessed by shipwrecked alien ghosts?

 

[Lynx]

"Shades Of Gray". It should have been named "Waste Of Time".

"The Outcast" and "Lessons" were quite boring too.

I must also mention the episodes where Lwxana Troi and/or Worf's son Alexander showed up, although "Haven" was a bit funny.

 

[Vandervecken]

Wasn't that one basically magic, not SF? That drives me crazy.

What about that episode where Picard, O'Brien and Troi get possessed by shipwrecked alien ghosts?

I love Power Play!

But that was Data, not Picard, who was possessed (which you would think would be a wholly different deal for the possessing aliens and might have presented at least an obstacle. But nope, easy as humans).

 

[Jedman67]

It's been so long since i've watched any of these

 

[BillJ]

"Descent" had a good premise, but they completely botched the execution.

I see "Descent" as goofy fun. Though beaming the Captain off of the ship and leaving the CMO in charge with the Borg in the area doesn't make a lick of sense.

 

[Jedman67]

I see "Descent" as goofy fun. Though beaming the Captain off of the ship and leaving the CMO in charge with the Borg in the area doesn't make a lick of sense.

If you can ignore the illogical and nonsenical plot, sure it's fun. It's not (with the exception of some Data/Geordi torture) awkward, the acting is pretty straightforward, and it's not like all the borg are African. So no, it's not cringe-worthy like Code of Honor; it's just a poorly constructed mediocre two parter typical of the final season.

 

[UnknownSample]

... and it's not like all the borg are African. So no, it's not cringe-worthy like Code of Honor; it's just a poorly constructed mediocre two parter typical of the final season.

If Code of Honor is racist, you could just as easily go the other way, and say that wanting Trek to avoid an all-black planet is racist.
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People weren't going out of their way to present racist entertainment in the late 1980s. In fact, everyone wanted to avoid any chance of such an accusation. Gene R wouldn't have allowed racism.
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We've seen plenty of all-white planets. A planet of black humanoid aliens seems like a first, perhaps bold attempt to start balancing the scales.
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I find a strange little question mark forming in my head, though, about their having gravitated to the image of black Moors from north Africa , which seems to be the association they're making. It's not racist, but it's... something. ??
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Code of Honor is just very bad. It's not because they're black.

 

[Marsden]

I find a strange little question mark forming in my head, though, about their having gravitated to the image of black Moors from north Africa , which seems to be the association they're making. It's not racist, but it's... something. ??

A bad presentation of Othello?

 

[Jedman67]

If Code of Honor is racist, you could just as easily go the other way, and say that wanting Trek to avoid an all-black planet is racist.
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People weren't going out of their way to present racist entertainment in the late 1980s. In fact, everyone wanted to avoid any chance of such an accusation. Gene R wouldn't have allowed racism.
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We've seen plenty of all-white planets. A planet of black humanoid aliens seems like a first, perhaps bold attempt to start balancing the scales.
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I find a strange little question mark forming in my head, though, about their having gravitated to the image of black Moors from north Africa , which seems to be the association they're making. It's not racist, but it's... something. ??
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Code of Honor is just very bad. It's not because they're black.

It's not that they are all black that is the problem; it's that they were all black portraying extremely offensive stereotypes. On top of that was a very mediocre script and some horrible acting.

 

[Vance]

I think the episode was...

"Tasha Yar won't put out for one of the producers, so let's kill her off by ripping off Creepshow."

Title may have been a little shorter than that, but there it is...

("Skin of Evil", yes yes I know.) While the writing of the show and the episode itself may not be technically the worst to rate, it was easily the most PETTY episode of Star Trek, by far, and stands out as an embarrassment to the production team accordingly.

 

[Jedman67]

I believe that is the ONE episode of TNG I never saw. The monster in the trailer freaked me out as a kid, and I never cared for Tasha period.

 

[BillJ]

I believe that is the ONE episode of TNG I never saw. The monster in the trailer freaked me out as a kid, and I never cared for Tasha period.

"Skin of Evil" is a pretty solid episode of TNG. One of my personal favorites.

 

[Isolinear]

Homeward

What?! One of my favorite episodes from Season 7! Basically Insurrection done right.

Homeward is a masterpiece compared to turds like 'Hide and Q' and 'Sub Rosa'. The only good thing in 'Hide and Q' is Wesley getting impaled.