Best 'Irish' episode

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Let's face it: it was never likely. The Scots are clearly superior in every way.

If its not Scottish ITS CRAP!

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Seeing as we have some British Isles people here I have to ask. I am an American and yet I found the character of Ned Quint in TNG:Sub Rosa one of the most ridiculous and offensive characters in all of Trek. I mean to have a character running around talking about "ghosts" all episode in a heavy Scottish accent? This was still a guy living on another planet in the 24th century, not someone in 16th Century Glasgow. After TOS tried so hard to make all their characters retain their ethnic identity but be intelligent, modern people I thought that was a really bad move.

 

[Thor Damar]

^ I'm from the Anglo-Celtic isles and I absolutely agree with everything you have said Dark Journey. It really is offensive how we're often portrayed as a backwards people still living in the 19th century in cute little villages. Or in an idealised London that looks and sounds like Mary bloody Poppins

(also, by 'us' I mean the Irish, Scottish and Welsh of course)

 

[jamestyler]

Seeing as we have some British Isles people here I have to ask. I am an American and yet I found the character of Ned Quint in TNG:Sub Rosa one of the most ridiculous and offensive characters in all of Trek. I mean to have a character running around talking about "ghosts" all episode in a heavy Scottish accent? This was still a guy living on another planet in the 24th century, not someone in 16th Century Glasgow. After TOS tried so hard to make all their characters retain their ethnic identity but be intelligent, modern people I thought that was a really bad move.

In fairness... it was part of the story. Someone needed to be scared of Ghosts. Though I can't remember why it was a Scottish colony.

 

[Mr.bobo]

What would you pick? Would you pick a Miles O'Brien ep from DS9, the stereotyped Irish in Up The Long Ladder, or Janeway's visit to the village of Fair Haven in Voyager or maybe TOS Shore Leave?

...I pick Janeway' s last visit of Fair Heaven...
... I like this episode...
...tell as how we can easily fall in love in fictiv caracter...

 

[Evil_Kirkneivel]

I don't know what the best episode was, but the worst one was Spirit Folk.

 

[TheGodBen]

What would you pick? Would you pick a Miles O'Brien ep from DS9, the stereotyped Irish in Up The Long Ladder, or Janeway's visit to the village of Fair Haven in Voyager or maybe TOS Shore Leave?

...I pick Janeway' s last visit of Fair Heaven...
... I like this episode...
...tell as how we can easily fall in love in fictiv caracter...

It also completely trivialised a very tumultuous time in Irish history by ignoring the aftermath of the famine, mass emigration, the land war, the Fenian movement, and the move towards home rule. I'm not saying that the episode needed to be about these things, but if you are going to do an episode about tired Irish stereotypes then that was a terrible time-period to base it.