Cringe-Worthy TNG scenes worth forgetting/rediculing

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  1. Mysterion

    Mysterion Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Pretty-much any time they let Tasha Yar speechify. The "just say no" screed she delivers to Wesley, the "get down on your knees" speech about the Feddies in the pilot. I don't know if Crosby deciding to leave TNG in the first season was a good carrer move for her, but it was a good thing for the show she was gone. IMO. YMMV.
     
  2. Finn

    Finn Bad Batch of TrekBBS Admiral

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    It’s Human nature. We all fell the same in places/slow days time to time, that folks from the 17th Century would be awe-struck. Picard is so used to all those things we think would keep us entertained indefinitely.
     
  3. tharpdevenport

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    Oh! how could I forget the Traveler telling Picard Wesley was special and has potential powers? Cringe!

    Riker telling the androgynous alien he's barely known for longer than it takes to crack a fat, he has strong feelings for he/she/It's Pat. Cringe!

    Tasha's "sexy walk". Cringe!

    Beaming a large orject out like a tree and destroying it to prove their might, as suggested by Lore disguised as Data. EPIC CRINGE!
     
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  4. Tenacity

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    Major sections of the dialog from Masks, the worst.
     
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  5. Noname Given

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    From TNG - "The Naked Now":
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  6. Samuel

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    IIRC, it was writer/producer Maurice Hurley who inserted the "just say no" speech in at the last minute because he (having teenage kids at that time I think) was worried that the message of the episode seemed to justify drug abuse.
     
  7. F. King Daniel

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    It does seem especially odd considering Roddenberry's state at the time.
     
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  8. Finn

    Finn Bad Batch of TrekBBS Admiral

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    Yeah, though I found the image of that temple ship after they vaporized the rock that accumulated around it more cringe-worthy.
     
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  9. USS Excelsior

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    Tasha explaining to Wesley as to why people abuse drugs.
     
  10. at Quark's

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    Well, chainsmoking parents forbidding their children to smoke weren't exactly a rarity back then...
     
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  11. f14peter

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    Speaking of Code of Honor ... Wesley lurking in the turbolift door, after being banished from the bridge stating, "
    I haven't stepped one foot on your bridge, Captain..."
     
  12. Tundra Saint

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    -Tasha Yars outburst in "Encounter at far point" along with most of Troi's dialogue in the pilot.
     
  13. tharpdevenport

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    Maybe it's just me, but...

    Bearded Geordi. Some cringe there.


    Oh, those giant aliens that looked like upright fish -- cringe. And man, how cross was Picard over that murder, huh? It's like somebody bumped into him with a coffee cup. Cringy.
     
  14. flandry84

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    Perhaps it was a fever dream but I seem to remember Lwaxanna and Alexander sharing a mud bath.....a new level of squick!:crazy:

    Now if only I could forget it..:wah:
     
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  17. Herbert

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    Bob Wheeler! :lol:

     
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    Geordi trying to impress Miss Christy Henshaw on the holodeck may not be cringe worthy but it's pretty embarrassing.
     
  19. Gary7

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    Spiner: "We were seduced by the glamour of it all!"

    I remember when I first saw that, laughed my head off. :guffaw:
     
  20. My Name Was Taken Twice

    My Name Was Taken Twice Lieutenant Junior Grade Red Shirt

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    Season seven episode where a guy jumps into the warp drive/nacelle, when they talk to his girlfriend she says "It's just so unlike him".........