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Photon

Photon

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And they fell all over Move Along Home. Just tortured myself again by watching this episode through.

Allamerain count to 4

4th Shap (wtf is that?)

The Mullets

The Tattoos

The Caves

Those sticks

Fat ass Falon

All makes for utter and raw suckage, this show was why I stopped watching back in 1993.

Amazing that the same company that brought us: Yesterday's Enterprise, Inner Light, Chain of Command, The Visitor, Die is Cast, Pale Moonlight gave the public general this garbage?

It had to be like, well we're a little short of material after a pretty good start-lets just throw some ideas together to get an episode.

I'll stop before I quit holding back what I really feel.
 
I see what you are saying Photon but I can think of episodes from every season of DS9 (and any other Trek show) that are every bit as terrible as Move Along Home. It's not like Move Along Home is a unique occurrence in terms of being a really bad episode despite being made by people who know how to make really great episodes.

Yes, it is shocking though how so many crap episodes ever ended up getting made in the first place by people who know so much better.
 
Oh please. I wanted to blow my brains out after sitting through some season one tng episodes.


Skin of Evil.


enough said.
 
Navaros said:
I see what you are saying Photon but I can think of episodes from every season of DS9 (and any other Trek show) that are every bit as terrible as Move Along Home. It's not like Move Along Home is a unique occurrence in terms of being a really bad episode despite being made by people who know how to make really great episodes.

Yes, it is shocking though how so many crap episodes ever ended up getting made in the first place by people who know so much better.
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yeah all Trek has suckage but this episode coming from a series I adore so much makes it all the worse. This and the psycho clown from Voyager and the semi nude planet on TNG go down as the modern Spock's Brains.

The first formal first contact w/the GQ and they give us the bemulleted Wadi, WTH? Not only that, they want to just...gamble, laugh, and act like fools.

Quark and Odo keeps this one from being worse than if Wishes were Horses.
 
Photon said:
yeah all Trek has suckage but this episode coming from a series I adore so much makes it all the worse. This and the psycho clown from Voyager and the semi nude planet on TNG go down as the modern Spock's Brains.
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I don't know, I recall liking the clown episode.
 
I don't know why everyone keeps knocking it. I love Move Along Home. How cool are those klon peag sticks?
 
I liked "Move Along Home" too! Certainly not a stellar episode especially compared to the great episodes we got, but I thought it was fun in a goofy way.
 
^"The Thaw". Another one of those "populace in suspended animation manifests their fears in a dream, an die when they die in the dream" episodes.
 
No offense to the writers of "Move Along Home", but truly, when I saw that episode for the first time I thought, "crack. It had to be crack."


J.
 
ninetofive said:
I don't know why everyone keeps knocking it. I love Move Along Home. How cool are those klon peag sticks?
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Yeah, I really enjoyed those characters. The fact that they were aliens and didn't care about the same stuff as the Federation people was great! The actor who played Falon (also in Six Feet Under) was terrific.
 
"Move Along Home" is a masterpiece compared with "These Are the Voyages." A truly bad episode makes you want to laugh, cry, vomit and throw the TV out the window all at the same time.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
"Move Along Home" is a masterpiece compared with "These Are the Voyages." A truly bad episode makes you want to laugh, cry, vomit and throw the TV out the window all at the same time.
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"These Are the Voyages" is vastly overrated as a bad episode. At worst, it's a little mediocre, by virtue of the subpar plotting that is de rigeur for far too much of Enterprise. I think much of the venom towards it comes from the fact it's a finale which doesn't resolve anything, it kills off a popular character rather haphazardly, and focused on TNG characters. It's fairly entertaining regardless, but I can see how people who cared about the ENT cast might be ticked off.

"Move Along Home"... is, well, just dull too. There's a nice idea in there but it's not executed terribly well. Neither episode is outright repugnant, but "Move Along Home" is certainly the lesser of the two.

And "Justice"? The ultimate guilty pleasure. Heady, incoherent moralizing that's about as heavy-handed as the sexuality. Nice god-ship design too. "Skin of Evil" has some fairly severe pacing problems, but a great melodramatic villain. A lonely, spiteful, and bored physical embodiment of evil. Don't see that everyday.

"Spock's Brain" is, of course, a camp classic.

Now, really bad episodes? These fellows: "The Way of Eden", "When the Bough Breaks", "Up the Long Ladder", "A Night in Sickbay", "Stigma". These are by turns breaktakingly stupid, repugnant, ugly, or just plain unpleasant viewing experiences; and the episodes already mentioned are lightweights compared to this abyssal heart of darkness.

"Profit and Lace" wasn't a good idea and wasn't executed well either. And I like Ferengi episodes.
 
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