Poll Most embarrassing Trek in history?

[Ethros]

To be fair, as a Brit, I (and I imagine everyone else) haven't even heard of Joe Piscopo outside of that episode. So the first few times I saw the ep I didn't even realise it was meant to actually be someone.


A lot to choose from, but I went for the "so fucking cool" option. I'm hardly a prude (I swear like a sailor all the time) but it just came off as so unnecessary, tacky and simply winking "hey look what we can do!"


(also don't get the problem at all with the God starship line)

 

[Tomalak]

To be fair, as a Brit, I (and I imagine everyone else) haven't even heard of Joe Piscopo outside of that episode. So the first few times I saw the ep I didn't even realise it was meant to actually be someone.

I think it might have worked if they'd managed to get Jerry Lewis, but now it's a horribly dated scene with a mulleted nobody who isn't funny. And the episode had Whoopi Goldberg in it! That scene could have been rewritten to use her instead. What a waste.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Yeah...the "KHHHHAAAANNNN" line did come off as weird,like it didn't really fit.

... Agreed!!!
In the deed agreed!

 

[Commishsleer]

I just saw this one again awhile back and damn what were they thinking...

Beverly and the space ghost that already had sex with her grandma, and her mom, and her mom...

No just no.

Agreed
Just the whole episode, And Picard well just letting her go, At least you might think Beverley had been "influenced" by the ghost thing but what was Picards excuse.

But for most embarrassing- Data just had the most cringe worthy lines from an outsiders perspective.

 

[Paradise City]

NuSpock yelling Kahn. I don't think even now my face has shaken off all of the cringe creases from that cheesy moment.

Bev's frisky high jinks on that kitsch Scottish planet with her centenarian grandma's ex- gas boyfriend. I dunno what the writers were thinking with that one.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Tasha's "just say no" speech to Wesley deserves to be on the list.

It was universally condemned by everyone on the set, actors included. Maurice Hurley was the one who made them do it. I think (hope) he regrets it now. (It's sad, really, because I actually like the episode a lot, it's one of my favorite TNG eps. Just that one damn scene... )

I wonder if there would be any way to make Tasha's speech actually realistic. What should she have said to Wesley?

 

[JJohnson]

For me, it was NuSpock's "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan"

I get that they were swapping Kirk and Spock's roles and were paying homage to TWOK, but I remember seeing that for the first time in theatres and the awkwardness of the delivery just totally pulled me out of the movie.

What got me is that I've seen TWoK so much that I was quoting it in the theater as I realized what was going on, thinking 'oh, geez, they're just ripping off TWoK for the engine room scene." The dumb part is, the dialog is almost exactly the same. Lazy writing.

 

[donners22]

The dumb part is, the dialog is almost exactly the same. Lazy writing.

That was the whole point; it was meant to mirror the scene. That's not laziness in that they couldn't think of anything better to write, that's a creative technique.

Whether it was a good choice to make is another matter entirely; I like the film overall, but think that scene was a mistake.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I thought the death scene was great. The scream afterwards was dumb af.

But still, nothing compared to some of Trek's worst moments. It's like saying Darth Vader's "Nooooooooo!" was worse than every Jar Jar Binks scene.

 

[inflatabledalek]

The "KAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNN" thing in Into Darkness felt like something they did for the gag reel that accidentally made it into the real film.

 

[JRoss]

I voted for.. more of these than I thought I would.

A few more:

Picard mocking Q's Marine Corps uniform as a "costume" in Encounter at Farpoint. (F-you Jean Luc, my father wore that uniform too.)

Respectfully, I think that Picard was offended at Q using it as essentially a prop for comedic purposes, not saying that Marine Corps uniforms are costumes.

ETA: As far as the yelling goes, I think that it would have been more effective if they'd just have had Quinto roar inarticulately.

 

[Tomalak]

Respectfully, I think that Picard was offended at Q using it as essentially a prop for comedic purposes, not saying that Marine Corps uniforms are costumes.

No, Picard wasn't offended, except by the suggestion that he and his crew were somehow equivalent to Cold War military.

He was clearly saying that to him, the four hundred year old outfit seemed as outlandish and ludicrous a costume as "fellow ship's captain" Q's doublet and hose, and represented primitive savagery that humanity had now surpassed.

"That nonsense is centuries behind us!"

 

[M'Sharak]

One i think is missing is

I’m with starfleet, we don’t lie.

It makes me die a little inside!

This is it — one continuous cringeworthy facepalm of an episode from beginning to end.

 

[Phily B]

I liked STID, but man that line from Spock just about summed up the third act of the film.

 

[Paul Weaver]

A lot to choose from, but I went for the "so fucking cool" option. I'm hardly a prude (I swear like a sailor all the time) but it just came off as so unnecessary, tacky and simply winking "hey look what we can do!"

In comparison Data's "Oh Shit" line from generations was a highlight of mine

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Any line spoken by Chekov. I laugh during the scene in which he stumbles and falls from the deck of the Enterprise in TVH.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I voted for a few, but a fuck-tacular shitty one is missing:

"Datalore"
Lore, disguised as Data, suggesting to beam am object out into space, like a large tree, and destroy it to prove their might. And Picard agrees to it!

Don't forget the EMH professing his love for 7 of 9.

And another fuck-tacular shitty one is missing, too:
Uhura and the naked fan dance.

 

[Qonundrum]

I voted for Spock's Brain, space hippies, Data & Joe Piscopo, Beverly & the space ghost, firmed up boobs, Quark's sex change, "Get this cheese to sickbay," VOY's Warp 10 salamanders, ENT's decontamination chamber, NuSpock's "KHAAAAAAAANNN!", the Beastie Boy beats (It was cute in the first movie, WAY played out by the third), and Plato's Stepchildren.

I've got a lot to hate.

I remember almost nothing of the 2009 movie, was the Beastie Boy music in the beer room scene with the beer brand product placement logo? (ST:Bey had the music used far more effectively and in a more compelling context...)

Otherwise, yeah, your list pretty much nails the worst of it. The hippies grew on me, though. And seeing Piscopo's sped-up version slowed down was done not to show how fast Data is but to get something past the censors...

 

[Qonundrum]

“Code of Honor” for the win.

Arguably, but Jessie Lawrence Ferguson steals the show and makes Lutan very watchable, especially with some of the dialogue written for Lutan. He's up there with Patrick Stewart with some of the awful season 1 schlock he had to put out!

 

[F. King Daniel]

I remember almost nothing of the 2009 movie, was the Beastie Boy music in the beer room scene with the beer brand product placement logo? (ST:Bey had the music used far more effectively and in a more compelling context...)

It was what young Kirk was playing when he drove his dad's car over the cliff to spite his step dad.