The best episode of TNG - Part One

[BlueStuff]

Okay Trek fans, here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations before you eliminate another one. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Season One

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Code of Honor
The Last Outpost
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[sbk1234]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Code of Honor
The Last Outpost
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

Symbiosis - Too slow. Preachy. Dull.

 

[BlueStuff]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
The Last Outpost
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

Code of Honor - embarrassingly bad.

 

[Mojochi]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
The Last Outpost
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

Angel One - Rather mediocre story, a slough of forgettable guest actors, & featured some of the least interesting main characters, doing next to nothing to keep my attention. Plus, the secondary story is barely memorable. I think the crew got the flu or something

 

[Trek Survivor]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
The Last Outpost
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

Justice - it was embarrassing watching it when it was first made, absolutely excruciating now. It clearly has the mark of Gene Roddenberry, featuring aliens/machines who think they're god, and lots and lots of (implied) free sex and titilation for the crew.

 

[Harvey]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
The Last Outpost
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

Datalore -- The crew act so foolishly that when Lore asks Data if he wants to be as stupid as his shipmates, it's a legitimate question (thanks to KRAD for reminding me here).

 

[BlueStuff]

Taking out The Last Outpost. The Ferengi in their introduction are made to seem laughable, foolish, and nonthreatening. Considering it was the intention at the time to set them up as the main villains, this was unfortunate.

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[LOKAI of CHERON]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy

The Neutral Zone. Never liked the tone of the episode and hated the guest stars/characters.

 

[Eddie Roth]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
Conspiracy

We'll Always Have Paris starts out intriguing enough with its "temporal hiccups", but devolves quickly into a halfbaked love story and forgets its better parts.

 

[MrPointy]

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil
Conspiracy

The Naked Now - A horribly lazy TOS rehash, making the TNG look like pale imitation of the OG crew in only the 2nd (or 3rd) episode of the series. Also, fuck you Wesley.

 

[OrionKahless]

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin of Evil


Conspiracy - Out of the choices left i felt this was one of the episodes that held my attention the least, parasites that control tou is something that is done over and over not just in Star Trek. It just doesnt compete with the other episodes left in the list.

 

[TroiFan4ever]

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Code of Honor
The Last Outpost
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

Skin of Evil -> Sad episode. Sad the way that black slime thing killed Tasha, and sad how Picard left it there on the planet, all lonely and all. 'Nuff said.

Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations before you eliminate another one. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

I'm sorry but I'm unclear. Can someone or the OP explain this to me?

 

[BlueStuff]

I'm sorry but I'm unclear. Can someone or the OP explain this to me?

You're supposed to eliminate, from the episodes that remain, the one you deem the worst, or your least favorite. Not replace the list from the beginning. So, I assume you're eliminating "Skin of Evil"? Simply copy and paste the list as it stood in OrionKahless' post, and remove Skin of Evil.

What is meant by "leave 2 eliminations before posting again" is that you should wait until at least 2 posters after you have played before you can post again.



So, here's the updated list with your choice removed.

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

 

[TroiFan4ever]

I'm sorry but I'm unclear. Can someone or the OP explain this to me?

You're supposed to eliminate, from the episodes that remain, the one you deem the worst, or your least favorite. Not replace the list from the beginning. So, I assume you're eliminating "Skin of Evil"? Simply copy and paste the list as it stood in OrionKahless' post, and remove Skin of Evil.

What is meant by "leave 2 eliminations before posting again" is that you should wait until at least 2 posters after you have played before you can post again.

Alright. I get it now. Thanks! Now to do this right!

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

Skin of Evil --> This was the saddest episode. 'Nuff said.

 

[Jerikka Dawn]

Removed: "Lonely Among Us"

Riker: "P for Picard?"

This episode was just bad all around, plus the whole thing about beaming only energy, and then they reintegrate that energy with a minutes old copy of Picard. The "B plot" of the Antican and Selay delegations could have been better by far.

Looking at what's left on this list and seeing how hard it is getting to choose really shows that season 1 was not really as bad as it seems.

List:

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

 

[Mojochi]

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Too Short a Season
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

When the Bough Breaks - Begins my series long distaste for children centric TNG episodes, and it's even one of the lesser of that type

 

[Geck]

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

Too Short A Season - Jameson is just completely unlikeable as the guest star, and the old age makeup is atrociously bad.

 

[Supernuke]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

I'm removing Encounter at Farpoint. This was an extremely boring pilot and Troi was very annoying in this episode.

 

[BlueStuff]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

Taking out Home Soil. Out of the ones remaining, I found this to be the least engaging.

 

[Harvey]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
The Big Goodbye
11001001
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

Hard to believe that "Haven" lasted this long. It's painfully sexist at times, and at others just painful.