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The Least Disliked Time Travel/Anomaly/Loop Story

Sakonna

Rear Admiral
Rear Admiral
Next elimination game list: time travel/time loops/time anomalies! (Excluding time travel that takes us to Earth's past, which was the list we just played)

THE RULES. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. Below is a list of episodes from all series (and some movies). Eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed.

Finally, please leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.


No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode just because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win.

And finally, much thanks to @Farscape One for vetting the list with me!
Enjoy! :beer:

TOS, Season 1: “The Naked Time”
TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 1: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
TNG, Season 2: “Time Squared”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 3: “Captain’s Holiday”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 5: “Relativity”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: "Broken Bow"
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
Thank you for the appreciation, as always, Sakonna.

I'll get the ball rolling with "RELATIVITY". In fact, I just rewatched this the other day. While the episode is fun, and there are certainly others on this list that deserve my wrath much more, this was the first time travel episode that TRULY gave me a headache. It goes.


TOS, Season 1: “The Naked Time”
TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 1: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
TNG, Season 2: “Time Squared”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 3: “Captain’s Holiday”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: "Broken Bow"
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
Ah, I like "Relativity." Oh well.

Anyway, the time-travel coda is kinda incidental to "The Naked Time, " so . . . bye.


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 1: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
TNG, Season 2: “Time Squared”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 3: “Captain’s Holiday”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: "Broken Bow"
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
I've always found "Time Squared" a bizarrely lifeless episode. It's a fine idea, but in execution it's a complete flatline, just so boring.

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 1: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 3: “Captain’s Holiday”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: "Broken Bow"
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
TNG, Season 3: “Captain’s Holiday” - always felt weak. Even the stories I dislike had more potential but dropped the ball elsewhere (hence my disliking them, but they had potential but even those just aren't that all-around bad and/or bland to be the most disliked IMHO.) This TNG escapade, one of season 3's weakest - that season 3 TNG - is just a filler's filler of an episode. "Oh, aliens." "Oh, aliens coming back in time trying to find a baddie." "Oh, aliens coming back in time are the baddies. What. A. Shock. Not." But Ferengi are back- except they are now completely 2D stick figure comedy lampoons rather than being a complex antagonist worth exploring. Nobody cares that everyone wants Picard to get jiggy. Not even Picard. This one I can't even be foreced to dislike, it's just out there and being a ball of nothing. Not unlike somebody proving in a crowd they had too many beans and broccoli for lunch. It's just hovering there and not quite in a good way. Well, broccoli is healthy and even beans are good filler for fiber and minerals so maybe that's not the ideal comparison... pfft.

What's left:

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 1: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: "Broken Bow"
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
"Oh, aliens coming back in time are the baddies. What. A. Shock. Not. But Ferengi are back."
 
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Now I can start killing the ones that had to do with what I hated in STAR TREK... the Temporal Cold War. "BROKEN BOW" goes because it started that damned mess.

(Which is honestly a shame, because it was an otherwise great series premiere.)


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 1: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
We'll always have Paris was boring and forgettable, it's an easy skip when I rewatch TNG.


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
We'll always have Paris was boring and forgettable, it's an easy skip when I rewatch TNG.

I'm always trying to rewatch it to see if I like it more now than I did in the 90's, and I never make it past 10 minutes. It's like being stuck in my own time loop!

I'll eliminate "Fury", which is just such trash. Aside from everything else wrong with it, the time travel logic of it is a complete disaster, more of a hash than alllllll the rest of these. That end move of "oh, I forgot Kes had traveled back in time to kill us all"... uuuggghhhhhh.

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: “Cold Front”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
"COLD FRONT" goes, because of the Temporal Cold War.


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 1: “Eye Of The Needle”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
Eye of the Needle, it was way too early in the series to do a "will they get home?" episode and too much of a coincidence that the first random wormhole they find would lead almost to federation space.


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “Time’s Orphan”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
Time's orphan has fallen into a portal that some idiot just left running in a cave. And you don't let your kids play in caves!


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 1: “Shockwave, Part I”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past IsPrologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
"SHOCKWAVE" goes because of the Temporal Cold War. (Yes, this is going to keep happening. I REALLY hate that arc.)


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “The Visitor”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past IsPrologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
The Visitor, I still hate this overrated episode. It starts with casting Tony Todd as old Jake, he's a great actor but looks nothing like Cirroc Lofton and I want to know how the conversation about this went.

"Hey Cirroc, we're doing a Jake centric episode buuuuut it takes place mostly in the future so we cast Tony Todd as old Jake but don't worry, you're still in it!"
"Oh, that's great, who did you cast for the old versions of the others?"
"No one, we'll put old people make up on them!"
"Why can't you put old people make up on me?"
"... I have a meeting, gotta go."

Then there's Ben acting like a creep, from his perspective only a few hours passed and Jake is an old guy and he sits there and watches him sleep. I also can't forget how much shit Janeway gets for changing the past but everyone seems to praise Jake's selfish behavior because he missed his dad.


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “A Matter Of Time”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past IsPrologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
I think "A Matter Of Time" is just dreadful. Like "Time Squared", it's one of those interesting notions done in inexplicably dull fashion. And it's so badly plotted. And our characters feel like idiots.

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Parallax”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
Eye of the Needle, it was way too early in the series to do a "will they get home?" episode

You got rid of Time and Again as well, which I agree was terrible for episode 2, however I'd have to get rid of parallax as time related episode 1.

Those two episodes set the tone for voyager that it never recovered from.

(there's a lot of missing TOS episodes? from Naked Time to City on Edge of Forever)

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
You got rid of Time and Again as well, which I agree was terrible for episode 2, however I'd have to get rid of parallax as time related episode 1.

Good catch, posting the list with "Time And Again" restored.

(there's a lot of missing TOS episodes? from Naked Time to City on Edge of Forever)

"The Naked Time" was the second elimination, "City On The Edge Of Forever" intentionally left off because we already ran time travel to Earth's past as a separate game.

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
TNG, Season 7: “Firstborn”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
You got rid of Time and Again as well, ...
Oops.:alienblush: I actually like that one, it's not the greatest but pretty good.

I'm getting rid of Firstborn next, adult Alexander trying to save his father by killing his younger self? Even if the plan had worked ne would have ruined Worf's life because his young son was brutally murdered.


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 2: “Shockwave, Part II”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
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"SHOCKWAVE, PART II" goes. Same reason as all my previous ENTERPRISE eliminations on this list... that damned Temporal Cold War.


TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
VOY, Season 7: “Endgame”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
I'll happily remove Endgame. It tries to elements of Timeless and All Good Things... The only problem is that it's a botched mess.

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
ENT, Season 2: “Future Tense”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
"Future Tense", a lesser installment of an already-terrible story arc.

TOS, Season 3: “All Our Yesterdays”
TAS, Season 1: “Yesteryear”
TNG, Season 3: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
TNG, Season 5: “Cause And Effect”
TNG, Season 6: “Tapestry”
TNG, Season 6: “Timescape”
Feature: “Star Trek: Generations”
DS9, Season 2: “Visionary”
DS9, Season 4: “Accession”
DS9, Season 5: “Trials And Tribble-Ations”
DS9, Season 5: “Children Of Time”
DS9, Season 6: “Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night”
DS9, Season 6: “The Sound Of Her Voice”
VOY, Season 1: “Time And Again”
VOY, Season 2: “Death Wish”
VOY, Season 3: “Before And After”
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part I"
VOY, Season 4: "Year Of Hell, Part II"
VOY, Season 5: “Timeless”
VOY, Season 6: "Blink Of An Eye"
VOY, Season 7: “Shattered”
ENT, Season 2: "The Expanse"
ENT, Season 3: “Azati Prime”
ENT, Season 3: “E2”
ENT, Season 3: “Zero Hour”
JJVerse Feature: “Star Trek”
DIS, Season 1: “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad”
DIS, Season 1: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
DIS, Season 2: “The Red Angel” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Perpetual Infinity” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Through The Valley Of Shadows” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
DIS, Season 2: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II” [spoiler tag your elimination reasons]
 
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