This is a game that we play every few years, and it's generally a lot of fun, providing a chance to mentally revisit those episodes you may not have thought about in a while. With that in mind, why not play again? So, 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, please leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode. No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode just because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy! Hall of Champions 2011 - Meld 2013 - Living Witness 2017 - Blink of an Eye 2019 - Season Five Night Drone Extreme Risk In the Flesh Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Gravity Bliss Dark Frontier The Disease Course: Oblivion The Fight Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
There are several I'd love to ax on here, but I'll start with "The Fight", which just feels like such a wall of nothing. I always hate a Chakotay episode, and the guest appearance of Boothby felt so bizarre and desperate. Why did they feel a need to toss that character into Voyager at all, much less multiple times in a season? Night Drone Extreme Risk In the Flesh Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Gravity Bliss Dark Frontier The Disease Course: Oblivion Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
In my view, this is Voyager's best season... meaning that a royal stinker like The Disease stands out all the more. Credit for trying something new with Harry, but it just went horribly wrong in execution. Night Drone Extreme Risk In the Flesh Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Gravity Bliss Dark Frontier Course: Oblivion Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
So many to choose from but in that list "In The Flesh" really takes the cake. It just doesn't make sense. For example, why would the 8472 they captured kill himself when we know that these are practically invulnerable? What was it trying to hide? That's just stupid. Night Drone Extreme Risk In the Flesh Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Gravity Bliss Dark Frontier Course: Oblivion Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Urgh, I hate In the Flesh. Totally laughable portrayal of Species 8472. Night Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Gravity Bliss Dark Frontier Course: Oblivion Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Hmm, first blood goes to Gravity, a very middle-of-the-road episode. It's just kind of there. Night Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Bliss Dark Frontier Course: Oblivion Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
"Night" is quite a dreary hour for me. I really grew to hate that occasional episode structure of "now we are going to finally deal with the darkness inherent in our premise -- for one week only!" Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Bliss Dark Frontier Course: Oblivion Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Course Oblivion can go into Oblivion as far as I care. What a waste of an episode to have such dramatic scenes and memorable moments only for it to mean absolutely nothing in the end. The Voyager crew certainly won't remember them and I won't either. The episode should have ended differently. Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bride of Chaotica! Bliss Dark Frontier Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Bride of Chaotica!. Just do not care about Captain Proton. I appreciate the lightheartedness and Janeway's badass spider queen outfit, but it's still basically a giant waste of time. Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Dark Frontier Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Eliminating Dark Frontier. The episode that weakened the Borg permanently and made the Borg collective represented in Voyager by a single groan inducing voice. Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Juggernaut Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Juggernaut. Go away Captain Planet villian. Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Thirty Days Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Thirty Days, another stupid prime directive plot. Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Nothing Human Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
I appreciate the ideas they're trying to explore with "Nothing Human", but the premise is so convoluted it's hard to buy into. If you need this guy's knowledge, it's bizarre to think the only way to get at it is via a hologram of his actual body fully decked out with his actual evil personality. Then, once created, it's similar nonsensical to punish him for the actions of the real person. It's as if the TNG characters reacted to Moriarty becoming real by immediately putting him on trial for the crimes his character committed in the novels -- the logic simply doesn't track. And plus the bullshit of that split-decision ending -- we're going to use this ill-gotten knowledge JUST THIS ONCE, and then totally delete it forever, because using it (more than once) would be wrong. Wha? Drone Extreme Risk Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
I was never a big fan of Extreme Risk. I like B'Elanna, but here she's exhibiting the kind of behaviour that would have been better explored over two or three (or more) episodes. As it is, it appears once and is forgotten about instantly. Drone Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Someone to Watch Over Me 11:59 Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
11:59; Shannon O'Donnell's story might have made for an okay subplot in another episode, but it just isn't interesting enough to carry an entire episode. Drone Once Upon a Time Timeless Infinite Regress Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Someone to Watch Over Me Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
I am getting rid of "Timeless" because of its unlikeliness. That a manic-depressive like Harry Kim would spend the remainder of his life ruining it and creating an alternate timeline to assuage his guilt, sounds almost like deja vu, but that he would get someone with a life like Chakotay to go along with it stretches it way beyond believability. Drone Once Upon a Time Infinite Regress Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Someone to Watch Over Me Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Once upon a time. I mostly remember the creepy holodeck creatures, that was supposed to be a program for children? It was nightmare inducing. Drone Infinite Regress Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Think Tank Someone to Watch Over Me Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Think Tank. Not bad but Jason Alexander seems miscast. Drone Infinite Regress Counterpoint Latent Image Bliss Someone to Watch Over Me Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)
Latent Image; the basic idea of the episode is sound, but having Janeway order the entire crew to expunge all trace of Ensign Jetal's existence rather than a simpler solution like reprogramming the Doctor to believe that Kim had a better chance of survival than Jetal just seemed like a ridiculously convoluted solution. Drone Infinite Regress Counterpoint Bliss Someone to Watch Over Me Relativity Warhead Equinox (I)