The best episode of TNG - Part Seven

[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!

Winners:
Season One - The Arsenal of Freedom
Season Two - The Measure of a Man
Season Three - The Best of Both Worlds (I)
Season Four - The Wounded
Season Five - Ensign Ro
Season Six - Ship in a Bottle
Season Seven -

Descent (II)
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Force of Nature
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Geck]

Descent (II)
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Let's start with Force of Nature. A bad idea to start with, with botched execution, surprisingly bad effects, and lifeless performances. Pretty much a failure all around.

 

[Pseudo]

Descent (II)
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removing: Dark Page
Reason: It's as if they thought that the only things wrong with Shades of Gray were that the flashbacks were recycled from previous episodes and that there wasn't enough crying...

...They were wrong.

 

[Canadave]

Descent (II)
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removed "Sub Rosa." Why? Why do you think?

 

[AviTrek]

Descent (II)
Liaisons
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removing Interface, let's start getting rid of the dumb family episodes in season 7...

 

[tomalak301]

Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removing Liaisons. God I hate this episode with a passion with the stupid stuff that happened with Picard and the "love me" chick, and the lame stuff on the Enterprise.

 

[TroiFan4ever]

This is going to piss people off here (like that's something new because I do every time I terminate an episode) but this is just a game so...

Terminating: Goodbye, "Attached!" Down comes this episode.
Why? Every time I tried to watch this episode, my mind would always for me to DE-tach myself from it, and when I actually forced myself to watch it, I found myself wanting 40+ minutes of my life back. Like... not enough Troi first of all, and even if Troi was given more scenes, I'd still probably terminate this episode because its plot made not a lick of sense.

Episodes Remaining:
Descent (II)
Liaisons
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removed "Sub Rosa." Why? Why do you think?

Let me guess...

BeverlyxRonin romance...

Am I right?

Removing: Dark Page

DAMN YOU!

Well... the scene with Troi and Lwaxana in the dark arboretum was kind of sad to watch so I don't really blame you.

 

[TroiFan4ever]

error

 

[Pseudo]

This is going to piss people off here (like that's something new because I do every time I terminate an episode) but this is just a game so...

Terminating: Goodbye, "Attached!" Down comes this episode.

I can't believe that you did that! You've eliminated an episode I don't like! At last!

Removing: Dark Page

DAMN YOU!

Well... the scene with Troi and Lwaxana in the dark arboretum was kind of sad to watch so I don't really blame you.

I almost feel guilty now.

Any-hoo

Episodes Remaining:
Descent (II)
Liaisons
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Goodbye Bloodlines, a tedious and pointless sequel to one of the better episodes of the first series, not that being a relatively good first series episode is anything to be proud of mind.

 

[tomalak301]

Episodes Remaining:
Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Wanted to update the list as I eliminated Liaisons

 

[Danny99]

Descent (II)
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Force of Nature
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removing: Bloodlines, at least I found parts of Liaisons entertaining.

 

[Canadave]

Removed "Sub Rosa." Why? Why do you think?

Let me guess...

BeverlyxRonin romance...

Am I right?

Well, yes, in part, but more because it's generally awful overall, and set on Scottish Stereotype Planet to boot.

 

[Pseudo]

Removing: Bloodlines, at least I found parts of Liaisons entertaining.

Bloodlines has already been removed and it appears that you're using an early version of the list that a lot of episodes have since been removed from. I'll repost tomalak301's list to avoid confusion:

Episodes Remaining:
Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Danny99]

Removing: Bloodlines, at least I found parts of Liaisons entertaining.

Bloodlines has already been removed and it appears that you're using an early version of the list that a lot of episodes have since been removed from. I'll repost tomalak301's list to avoid confusion:

Episodes Remaining:
Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

My bad!

Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removing: Thine Own Self

 

[Pseudo]

Removing: Bloodlines, at least I found parts of Liaisons entertaining.

Bloodlines has already been removed and it appears that you're using an early version of the list that a lot of episodes have since been removed from. I'll repost tomalak301's list to avoid confusion:

Episodes Remaining:
Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

My bad!

Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Removing: Thine Own Self

I've just noticed that Attached is still in there. That's my fault I cross-posted with TroiFan4ever, so the list should be:

Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

Since, I'm taking out Firstborn because two Alexander's are more irritating than one.

 

[KNH]

I'll happily rid us of Masks. I'm usually a big fan of Picard/Data episodes, but Masks was more along the lines of something I'd like to see in, say, Indiana Jones. Maybe Twilight Zone.

Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Danny99]

Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things..

I'll get rid of another Data-centric episode in Inheritance. Just never did anything for me.

 

[TroiFan4ever]

Remaining episodes:
Descent (II)
Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Emergence
All Good Things...

Getting rid of? I'm terminating Preemptive Strike.
Why? Aside from the fact that Troi was only in ONE FREAKIN' SCENE, the rest of the episode seemed kind of rushed. I liked the idea of giving Ro Laren one more episode before ending the show, but its story needed work.

 

[Saturn0660]

Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Lower Decks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Emergence
All Good Things...

Descent II Because i'm tired of Lore..

 

[Geck]

Gambit (I)
Gambit (II)
Phantasms
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Emergence
All Good Things...

Taking out Homeward - I find it boring. I like a lot of the other family-oriented episodes of season 7, but never cared much about Worf's brother.