Episodes that are considered "good" that you actually dislike

1. Measure of a Man I've always felt is boring and over-rated
2. Yesterday's Enterprise was 45 mins of nothing...pretty much the franchise's first "reset button" episode. Not a great distinction.
3. Duet didn't do anything for me.

 

My own list over overrated episodes:

Balance of Terror
Space Seed
Best of Both Worlds
Yesterday's Enterprise
Any of the dumb Voyager two-parters like Year of Hell that people claim are "good Voyager"

Basically, I like the maudlin, dramatic Trek that makes you cry. I hate pew-pew action Trek.

 

There's tons of Trek episodes I adore. Favs from each series:

TOS: Charlie X, Devil in the Dark, City on the Edge of Forever
TNG: The Inner Light, Tapestry, Chain of Command, Lower Decks
DS9: Duet, The Visitor, In the Pale Moonlight, Far Beyond the Stars, and many more
VOY: Living Witness, Barge of the Dead
ENT/DIS: Sadly, while I like some episodes, I can't think of any I love

 

I agree with Space Seed. I don't dislike...but it's vastly overrated.

 

There are FOUR Inner Lights!!!

 

I'm not a fan of "Chain of Command." The premise involves an implausible away mission that unsurprisingly goes awry, and the torture involving four vs five comes off as an unapologetic rip-off of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

 

^I think much of season 6's "classic" episodes are overrated; Relics, Chain of Command, Tapestry; my estimation for all these episodes have decreased.

 

Not an episode but Trek 09. It's a Star Wars movie with 'Star Trek' on the label.

 

Just to be sure, you mean the first movie from the Kelvin timeline, right? In that case, I fully agree, applies pretty much to all of them I think.

 

That's right yeah. Less so as it gets on I think.

 

I think it's fair to say that Space Seed's stature got a boost from THE WRATH OF THE KHAN. It's a good episode, boasting a memorable performance by Montalban, but I'm not sure it was considered a "Top Ten" ep before it retroactively became the prequel to KHAN.

 

One Inner Light was bad enough.

 

everyone seemed to love "magic to make the sanest man go mad", but i thought it represented some of the discovery's worst impulses: it tells (rather than shows) us the war is suddenly going better for the federation, new emotional scars are revealed in burnham but do nothing to tell us who she is, it contains graphic deaths with no dramatic effect, and recycles a tired trope without using its "unique perspective" to make it new again.

 

So Star Trek then?

 

If I call my car a truck does it make it one?

 

That's a false analogy.

Star Trek and Star Wars are built on the same chassis.

 

The solution to everything was to shoot it. Very Star Wars.

 

Uh, no. Just no.

Star Trek and ADF's Humanx Commonwealth are built on the same chassis. Star Trek and Babylon 5 could even be regarded as "built on the same chassis."

Star Wars is built on the same chassis as Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and an old animated series called Rocket Robin Hood (anybody else remember that?), and arguably, the classic legends of Robin Hood and King Arthur.

 

It's all space adventure with laser guns, bizarre creatures, and blue aliens. The common eulogization of Star Trek implying it's anything more than that is pretentious bullshit.

***Heck, I'll even go so far to say that Star Trek is more like Star Wars than Marvel is like DC.