What Well-Regarded Episode Makes You Dislike TNG the Most?

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

Looking at some other picks from some of the posters, I have to list some more of my own in agreement:

*Darmok
*Best of Both Worlds
*I, Borg

I'll have to go into 'why' later; I'm a bit lazy now...

 

[mirandafave]

Relics because although it showed a Dyson sphere which was great and it brought Scotty into the 24th C i sort felt they cheapened his character somewhat.

Especially the 24th C version of a granny flat or ice flo when Scotty is given a shuttle to go off wandering. I know novels and what not have him returning to work in the Federation but relics make it seem as if he was just patted on the back and left to go off on his own.

 

[Sheliak]

I never really understood the adoration fans have for The Inner Light. It's a planet-wide natural disaster.

 

[captainkirk]

"Encounter at Farpoint" or "All Good Things...". Both were boring and pointless. Why would a superbeing have to judge Humanity? Couldn't Q just flick his fingers and know everything about humans?

 

[Jonesy]

"Clues" I think it was fairly interesting seeing it the first time. Since then, I think it's tedious. I don't see how shifting camera angles on the same (basic) scenes is interesting on repeat viewings.

 

[QuasarVM]

I never really understood the adoration fans have for The Inner Light. It's a planet-wide natural disaster.

That makes two of us...

I found that one rather pretentious and boring...but, hey, that's just me...

 

[cultcross]

Mine would be I, Borg. Here is an episode which in one go:
- Makes Picard appear an idiot
- Makes the Borg appear weak and childlike
- Makes a Borg drone appear a complete idiot - he didn't know Picard wasn't Locutus? Effective collective conciousness you've got going there.
- Gives the Borg a truly pathetic weakness which should have killed them off long ago.
- Makes the Borg innocent and sweet, thus destroying the one still-scary bad guy for the next three years until they were made scary again in First Contact.
- Portrays Guinan in a horrible light both before and after her meeting with Hugh.
- Presents a moral 'dilemma' we've all guessed the answer to. Will Picard commit genocide? Well, let's see now...

And later on, although this is hardly the fault of this episode per sé, we find that by doing the right thing, the outcome we were hoping for happened anyway! huzzah for our side! Or wait, does that make us morally wrong for returning him... Oh this morality stuff is hard...

 

[Colonel Green]

^ Is I Borg highly regarded? I always figured most people didn't like it. Maybe I was projecting.

 

[cultcross]

^ Is I Borg highly regarded? I always figured most people didn't like it. Maybe I was projecting.

I've always got the impression it was well thought of, I saw someone describe it in very flowery artsy prose a while ago, talking about what a wonderful window it was on the morality of the future and how refreshing it was that shows exist which are preapred to tackle such hard hitting drama.

 

[JM1776]

"The Pegasus." ``Admiral Prescott, how could you dare develop an illegal cloaking device that threatens the stability of the quadrant because you felt it inconvenient for the Federation to not have one! Now, LaForge, quick, hook up the illegal cloaking device so we can use to get out of this pesky asteroid!''

First, it's "Admiral Pressman," and second, I think it's fairly easy to distinguish between spending resources on the development of a device made inherently illegal by treaty, and using it on a single occasion to evade treacherous entrapment while simultaneously revealing your organization's dishonorable actions.

It's the difference between the letter of the law and its spirit, which Picard understood.

"The Pegasus" is, in my opinion, excellent Star Trek.

 

[Tulaberry whine]

Relics because although it showed a Dyson sphere which was great and it brought Scotty into the 24th C i sort felt they cheapened his character somewhat.

Especially the 24th C version of a granny flat or ice flo when Scotty is given a shuttle to go off wandering. I know novels and what not have him returning to work in the Federation but relics make it seem as if he was just patted on the back and left to go off on his own.

My problem with Relics is Jimmy Doohan gives a rather bad performance IMO.

I also didn't think much of Cause and Effect. I found it painfully slow moving - one time loop was more than enough to get the jist of what was happening.

 

[ClayinCA]

I never liked Unification that much - I always felt that it squandered Leonard Nimoy (when having him on the show was such a great opportunity) on a morass of contrived Romulan backstory. I would have much preferred, a la Relics, a plot that was actually about Spock in some meaningful way.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I never liked Unification that much - I always felt that it squandered Leonard Nimoy (when having him on the show was such a great opportunity) on a morass of contrived Romulan backstory. I would have much preferred, a la Relics, a plot that was actually about Spock in some meaningful way.

It was a bit talkie in part two and not in any way that really used Leonard Nimoy effectively as an actor. I kinda wished they'd been able to do Tracy Torme's second-season idea for Nimoy to appear on TNG; iirc, it involved Spock of TNG's time and Spock of the movies and the Guardian of Forever.

 

[Mirror_Barclay]

Nothing new, but some points of agreement with what has been mentioned.

"Suddenly Human" - you don't leave a kid with the kidnapper, even if he's happy.

"Inner Light" - dull, if it's the one I think it is.

A couple people mentioned the Worf/Klingon eps. I agree to some extent... but it was mostly on DS9 that this bugged me, because it was done to death on TNG. So I have some tolerance for it on TNG when at least it was new - not my favorite eps, but I don't detest them the way I hate certain DS9 eps for the same reasons given for hating the Klingon Honor eps of TNG.