Out of all the generally revered episodes and movies (you know, your Yesterday's Enterprises and Bests of the Both Worlds and Cities on the Edge and Inner Lights and Visitors and Wraths of Khan etc etc etc), what is the thing that you DON'T like about them?
TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" - Edith Keeler's "Men are going to go up in spaceships and solve all our problems and that's why you can't let the Depression get you down!" speech. It makes no sense and it's WAY too on the nose. I'd rather it was just something like appealing to man's inherent decency or talking about helping your fellow human beings persevere through the tough times. I'd think that would appeal to Kirk just as much as the spaceship speech is supposed to.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The potential of Saavik and David Marcus as new continuing characters for the franchise went sadly unfulfilled as the next two movies wrote them both out in favor of emphasizing the original crew. And it's a crying shame that Kirstie Alley didn't return as Saavik.
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" - I really wish it'd been an alternate version of Worf commanding the Klingon ship the
Enterprise-D is fighting at the very end. Even if it was just Michael Dorn doing a voiceover as an Easter Egg.
TNG: "Sarek" - Giving Sarek a second wife who's also from Earth makes it seem like Sarek just has a fetish for human women.
TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds" - The second part doesn't quite live up to the first, and it's a drag that everything goes back to the exact same status quo at the end.
TNG: "The Inner Light" - I never got the love for this one. Since we only see brief snippets of Picard's alternate life on the planet, I never got very absorbed into it. So the whole tearjerker ending doesn't work for me.
TNG: "I, Borg" - I found the whole debate about whether it was morally right to eliminate the Borg to be idiotic. The Borg, as portrayed up until that point, destroyed and assimilated and created absolutely nothing in return. Of course it was the right thing to do to take them off the playing field as it would've saved countless lives. I would've loved to see Admiral Nechayev tear Picard a new one for his decision to not release the nanovirus into the Collective.
Nothing's coming to mind for the latter series right now. Maybe I'll have some more hot takes later, though.
