Cringe-Worthy TNG scenes worth forgetting/rediculing

[Mysterion]

Pretty-much any time they let Tasha Yar speechify. The "just say no" screed she delivers to Wesley, the "get down on your knees" speech about the Feddies in the pilot. I don't know if Crosby deciding to leave TNG in the first season was a good carrer move for her, but it was a good thing for the show she was gone. IMO. YMMV.

 

[Finn]

Elementary Dear Data
For one line in Picards log entry at the very beginning. Basically he says, "we've arrived early at the rendezvous point and have absolutely nothing to do". I think any thinking person aboard a futuristic starship, the most powerful in the Federation could think of something interesting to do.

It’s Human nature. We all fell the same in places/slow days time to time, that folks from the 17th Century would be awe-struck. Picard is so used to all those things we think would keep us entertained indefinitely.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Oh! how could I forget the Traveler telling Picard Wesley was special and has potential powers? Cringe!

Riker telling the androgynous alien he's barely known for longer than it takes to crack a fat, he has strong feelings for he/she/It's Pat. Cringe!

Tasha's "sexy walk". Cringe!

Beaming a large orject out like a tree and destroying it to prove their might, as suggested by Lore disguised as Data. EPIC CRINGE!

 

[Tenacity]

Major sections of the dialog from Masks, the worst.

 

[Noname Given]

From TNG - "The Naked Now":

TASHA: Geordi? Geordi? Lieutenant Yar in the Observation lounge. Send a team here now. Medical's been worried about you.
LAFORGE: Help me. Help me to not to give in to the wild things coming into my mind,
TASHA: Geordi, my job is security,
LAFORGE: Tasha, please.
TASHA: Alright. Alright, helping is more important. Geordi, how can I help you?

and

WESLEY: See how I reversed the fields on this, Commander? I made it into a repulser beam.
DATA: If we just had one minute more, sir,
WESLEY: If this were a hundred times more powerful than it is. Why not try it with the real thing? Why not reverse fields on this, Ma'am? If we just need an extra minute,
MACDOUGAL: It would take weeks of laying out new circuits.
WESLEY: Why not just see it in your head? Come off the main lead, split off at the force activator, then, then. If I could just think straight about this,

 

[Samuel]

Pretty-much any time they let Tasha Yar speechify. The "just say no" screed she delivers to Wesley, the "get down on your knees" speech about the Feddies in the pilot. I don't know if Crosby deciding to leave TNG in the first season was a good carrer move for her, but it was a good thing for the show she was gone. IMO. YMMV.

IIRC, it was writer/producer Maurice Hurley who inserted the "just say no" speech in at the last minute because he (having teenage kids at that time I think) was worried that the message of the episode seemed to justify drug abuse.

 

[F. King Daniel]

IIRC, it was writer/producer Maurice Hurley who inserted the "just say no" speech in at the last minute because he (having teenage kids at that time I think) was worried that the message of the episode seemed to justify drug abuse.

It does seem especially odd considering Roddenberry's state at the time.

 

[Finn]

Major sections of the dialog from Masks, the worst.

Yeah, though I found the image of that temple ship after they vaporized the rock that accumulated around it more cringe-worthy.

 

[USS Excelsior]

Tasha explaining to Wesley as to why people abuse drugs.

 

[at Quark's]

It does seem especially odd considering Roddenberry's state at the time.

Well, chainsmoking parents forbidding their children to smoke weren't exactly a rarity back then...

 

[f14peter]

Speaking of Code of Honor ... Wesley lurking in the turbolift door, after being banished from the bridge stating, "
I haven't stepped one foot on your bridge, Captain..."

 

[Tundra Saint]

-Tasha Yars outburst in "Encounter at far point" along with most of Troi's dialogue in the pilot.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Maybe it's just me, but...

Bearded Geordi. Some cringe there.


Oh, those giant aliens that looked like upright fish -- cringe. And man, how cross was Picard over that murder, huh? It's like somebody bumped into him with a coffee cup. Cringy.

 

[flandry84]

Perhaps it was a fever dream but I seem to remember Lwaxanna and Alexander sharing a mud bath.....a new level of squick!

Now if only I could forget it..

 

[Jedman67]

Perhaps it was a fever dream but I seem to remember Lwaxanna and Alexander sharing a mud bath.....a new level of squick!

Now if only I could forget it..

Not a dream
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Cost_of_Living_(episode) You're Welcome!

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Cost of Living was cringeworthy from beginning to end.

 

[Herbert]

I strongly disagree. His character on "Night Court" was awesome, and he's pretty wacky to good effect at a lot of convention appearances, too.

Bob Wheeler!

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[Herbert]

Geordi trying to impress Miss Christy Henshaw on the holodeck may not be cringe worthy but it's pretty embarrassing.

 

[Gary7]

Spiner: "We were seduced by the glamour of it all!"

I remember when I first saw that, laughed my head off.

 

[My Name Was Taken Twice]

Season seven episode where a guy jumps into the warp drive/nacelle, when they talk to his girlfriend she says "It's just so unlike him".........