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ST: The worst of the worst

Pick your least favorite episodes


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"Enterprise" doesn't count as Trek for me (in fact it should have never existed), and I'm not familiar enough with the TOS and D.S.9. episodes to make a call
You don't count ENT as Trek, yet you've never even seen the best of Trek in the first place? What's your basis of comparison?

You've obviously seen TNG, and I can tell you, ENT is more similar to it (and to Voyager and TOS FTM) than DS9, and yet DS9 'owns' some of the finest hours of Trek in general.
 
Where the hell is Plato's Stepchildren? I thought it was pretty unanimous around here that the majority considers it one of the worst. In my opinion it's the worst episode out of "Star Trek", TNG, and DS9. I haven't seen much Voyager or Enterprise, so for all I know they have worse episodes than that one, but I doubt it. That episode made me so angry. I really believe if that was the first episode of any Star Trek series I'd ever seen, I may have never watched another episode of any of them.

I dislike a lot of the TNG and DS9 episodes on that poll, but I think the only one that comes even close to being as bad as "Plato's Stepchildren" is "And the Children Shall Lead". Those are just PAINFUL to watch. The bad TNG and DS9 episodes are mostly just irritating rather than unwatchable...well except maybe "Skin of Evil". I don't think I could bring myself to watch that ever again.
 
Why are Where Silence has Lease, Skin of Evil, Bounty and Exile even on that list and Genesis, Masks, The Muse (DS9), Endgame, Elogium, and Two Days and Two Nights not?
 
Why are Where Silence has Lease, Skin of Evil, Bounty and Exile even on that list and Genesis, Masks, The Muse (DS9), Endgame, Elogium, and Two Days and Two Nights not?
I used the previous similar thread as a base, and may have missed some episodes (not on purpose).

Your (only) post in that thread doesn't even mention Genesis, The Muse, Elogium, or Two Days and Two Nights.
"Sub Rosa" is the awfullest piece of shit in all of Trek, IMHO. "Threshold", "TATV", "Let he who is without sin", "Endgame" and "Fury" are also aweful.
"Masks" also springs to mind, but that's more of a "what were they smoking when they wrote this?" episode.
"Meridian"'s A-plot is crap, but the B-plot saved the episode from appearing on my list.

As for Masks and Endgame, I apologize, I'm only human.

[edit] BTW, Endgame, as a standalone episode, is not that bad, but as a finale it fails miserably. I agree with everythin Admiral Pike said in the post below.
 
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Um, why is the solid episode Fury included among Voyager's worst, but not Endgame? I can understand if Kes fans disliked Fury, but a lot viewers found it a very entertaining and interesting episode, packed with action, drama, mystery and exciting scenes. By the same token, you should have included the universally hated Endshame in your poll; by far the worst episode of the series, at least from many fans opinion.

And thing is, I have no real personal issues with The game or even Threshold as being part of trek (though Threshold does suck immensely). If an episode is crap, I just don't watch it and that's that. But Endgame is different, since it's the series finale, and because it so utterly ruins the character Janeway, cheats us with a badly thrown together story of time travel, reset buttons and gimmicks, as well as giving us an ending that isn't really an ending at all. To give you some examples:
What happened to the half of the crew - the maquis - who were traitors and war criminals? Were they sentenced to a penal colony for 20-30 years, or were some of them pardoned?
What happened to the (villain of starfleet) BORG 7 of 9 when starfleet got their hands on her? Did they hold her captive, pick her apart, and do experiments on her...? Or were she given limited or even complete freedom?
What happened to the starfleet property the holographic EMH doctor? Remember in an earlier episode when they said that holograms wasn't considered as individuals by the federation. Was he given individual rights, or did he end up slaving in the dilithium mines?
And what the hell happened to Janeway/Chakotay?
Or for that matter to Seven/The doctor that had been building for a long time? The Chakotay/Seven pairing was such a huge slap in the face to many Voyager viewers that it's by far most disliked romance in all of star trek.
And where is Libby - Harry Kim's earthbound girlfriend - in the finale?
And then what happened with their lives on earth after they got back home, something that we'd been waiting to see for seven long years?

Thing is, there are just so many threads unresolved and questions left unanswered by the end that are so important to this series, and there's so much crapola, and plot-holes that a borg cube could drive through. There are so many missed opportunities, unresolved questions, and a huge dissapointing anti-climax at the end. And finally, Endshame alters the continuity of star trek for no reason at all except as a way of faking together a semi-dramatic moment devoid of any plot logic or characterisation that we recognize from the past 7 years. For these very reasons and more, I will never even consider Endgame as part of my personal canon.
 
Nothing wrong with two women (or men, if that's your thing) fighting to the death, but really, it should have been in a big tub of vanilla pudding.
 
What's the Voyager episode where all the decks get rearranged by some sort of anomaly and the crew just wanders around the ship getting lost . . . ?

That's gotta to be up there.

At least "Spock's Brain" or "Threshold" are so goofy they're fun.
 
"Enterprise" doesn't count as Trek for me (in fact it should have never existed), and I'm not familiar enough with the TOS and D.S.9. episodes to make a call
You don't count ENT as Trek, yet you've never even seen the best of Trek in the first place? What's your basis of comparison?

You've obviously seen TNG, and I can tell you, ENT is more similar to it (and to Voyager and TOS FTM) than DS9, and yet DS9 'owns' some of the finest hours of Trek in general.

TOS re-runs here are at times I'm usually in bed, and ones that aren't are those remastered ones with redone special effects and added scenes and what not -- I don't want to watch those.

D.S.9. hasn't bee in re-run here for a long while now. So in short I just can't recall the episodes listed well enough to make a vote.

TNG still airs in re-runs here.
 
I don't think we can run such a poll. Everybody has there preference and you'll find some actually liking what you consider the worst and vice-versa, much like the movie poll where some like Nemesis and others hate Wrath of Khan. And we certainly can't do a poll with 29 seasons of 24 episodes...
 
Write-in votes: "Genesis" and "Miri"

I also agree with Greg Cox's mention of "Twisted."
 
Write-in votes: "Genesis" and "Miri"

I also agree with Greg Cox's mention of "Twisted."


"Twisted" . . . that was the title! Thanks.

(I can't help wondering if the author of that ep got lost at a science fiction convention once and decided, "Hey, this could be an episode!")
 
I'm surprised "The Royale" isn't on the list. I find the episode thoroughly amusing and entertaining ... but it really is sketchy. LOL

As for worst of the worst, I'd add: "Too Short A Season" and "Violations" from TNG and "Move Along Home" from DS9.
 
Whoever left out "Plato's Stepchildren" should be flogged with a wet noodle. At least "Spock's Brain" had a plot and some decent character moments, while "Plato" forces Kirk and Spock to dance around on all fours. What was the message? That bullies are bad people and all their bullying will come back to haunt them?
 
I'm surprised "The Royale" isn't on the list. I find the episode thoroughly amusing and entertaining
I do too. That's why I don't think it belongs among the worst of the worst.

Whoever left out "Plato's Stepchildren" should be flogged with a wet noodle.
Where the hell is Plato's Stepchildren?
Hmm, you may be the first one to mention this ep, but this is definitely an oversight on my part. Sorry.
 
I always thought that The Way to Eden tied And the Children Shall Lead for the worst...
 
Aw, the "Genesis" hate saddens me. :( Yeah, it's a silly episode, but I thought it was campy fun. It's actually the only TNG episode that reminds me of the original "Star Trek" at its campy best. I love all the crazy make-up on the cast members, especially Caveman Riker, Fish Troi (her jumping out of the bathtub and exhaling creepily like a fish still scares me), and that awesome "BOO!" moment with Spider Barclay. Riker's look of complete bewilderment as he starts literally getting stupider by the minute is fun too.

Obviously it's not the most dramatically effective or maturely written episode, but still a very amusing little monster movie of an episode, in my opinion. Picard's terrified reaction to Worf while Data casually remarks, "it is large" as de-evolved Klingon Worf tries to break down the door in front of them was one of my favourite childhood memories of a hilarious line on TNG. This is the last season 7 episode I really liked before "All Good Things...".
 
Um, why is the solid episode Fury included among Voyager's worst, but not Endgame? I can understand if Kes fans disliked Fury, but a lot viewers found it a very entertaining and interesting episode, packed with action, drama, mystery and exciting scenes. By the same token, you should have included the universally hated Endshame in your poll; by far the worst episode of the series, at least from many fans opinion.

Endgame is hardly universally hated, and one could argue that it is far more exciting and entertaining than Fury. I didn't like Kes at all, and I found it an appalling episode.

I'm surprised "The Royale" isn't on the list. I find the episode thoroughly amusing and entertaining ... but it really is sketchy. LOL

A friend of mine actually stopped watching TNG after that episode.


My only addition to the list (since I enjoy almost all Trek episodes) would be "Rejoined".
 
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