Actually... I quite like that episode.

[retroenzo]

I'm curious if anyone likes episodes that are usually held up for ridicule in the community?

Are there any fans of TNG's 'Justice' or 'Shades of Gray'?
Is Voyager's Prototype on your must see list every time you rewatch the series?
Can you watch 'The Way to Eden' with a straight face?

Personally, my guilty pleasure is 'Move Along Home'. Yes I know. I do love the story and the 'Allamaraine' sequence is so funny! I love the discomfort in Kira and Bashir's faces when they have to do it.

So come on, get it off your chest, which is the episode that you will always think, "Actually I quite like that episode" when people start slating it? Let's be civil and on this occasion leave the movies to one side.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I don't mind "Threshold". I'd watch it over dull TNG fare like "The Masterpiece Society" any day

 

[1001001]

I'm curious if anyone likes episodes that are usually held up for ridicule in the community?

Are there any fans of TNG's 'Justice' or 'Shades of Gray'?
Is Voyager's Prototype on your must see list every time you rewatch the series?
Can you watch 'The Way to Eden' with a straight face?

Personally, my guilty pleasure is 'Move Along Home'. Yes I know. I do love the story and the 'Allamaraine' sequence is so funny! I love the discomfort in Kira and Bashir's faces when they have to do it.

So come on, get it off your chest, which is the episode that you will always think, "Actually I quite like that episode" when people start slating it? Let's be civil and on this occasion leave the movies to one side.

I loved Prototype.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Prototype is OK. Although the robots look kind of ridiculous (the old 1970's Battlestar Galactica Cylons looked way better than these guys). But I liked it when Torres mentioned Data as a fellow artificial life form.

Um, I've read a couple of negative reviews of Voyager's Renaissance Man (although not on here I think). But it's one of my favorites. Maybe some people think having such a funny episode as the next to the last wasn't a good idea. But anyway I like it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

"A Night in Sickbay" is too bizarre to be hated.

 

[Gary 11's]

Are there any fans of TNG's 'Justice' or 'Shades of Gray'?

Shades of Grey is pushing it a bit

 

[retroenzo]

Shades of Grey is pushing it a bit

You never know.

 

[stardream]

I kind of like Renaissance Man although I agree with the placement problems. Perhaps it would have worked better earlier in the season.

I don't mind the first thirty minutes or so of Threshold...that is until we get to the lizard baby thing.

 

[jamestyler]

Profit and Lace. I don't love it, but I don't get the hate for a general Ferengi caper.

 

[TheSeeker]

After slowly making my way through the TNG Blu-Rays, I have discovered there are a lot of first and second season episodes that I like a lot more than I thought I would. The Royale is one I liked more than I thought I would.

 

[Greg Cox]

I know that my fondness for "Catspaw" is not shared by everyone, but, hey, it's the STAR TREK Halloween Special, written by Robert Bloch no less. What's not to love?

(Okay, the giant cat effects have not aged well . ...)

 

[wayoung]

I know that my fondness for "Catspaw" is not shared by everyone, but, hey, it's the STAR TREK Halloween Special, written by Robert Bloch no less. What's not to love?

(Okay, the giant cat effects have not aged well . ...)

It was always popular in my house too. Even my little sister would watch it when it was on TV.

 

[Paradise City]

Not an episode but Star Trek III TSFS often gets a tough time of it which baffles me. Threshold has some excellent acting from McNeill. Unfication gets a tough time too. Most of the first two seasons of DS9 are downplayed unfairly. I liked the 5th season one with Worf in the mudbath but I must confess I do skip over it. The Hunted (TNG) doesn't bother me neither does Data's Day. Both sometimes get dogs abuse but I think that's unfair.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I can watch Way to Eden, but not with a straight face. I'm basically invested in the musical ditties.

 

[JoeCabby]

Personally, my guilty pleasure is 'Move Along Home'. Yes I know. I do love the story and the 'Allamaraine' sequence is so funny! I love the discomfort in Kira and Bashir's faces when they have to do it.

Yes, I love this episode, but I still cringe at the allamaraine sequence. You can just see the disgust in Avery Brooks face as he skips and sings. And the face of Kira as she finishes, it's as if Visitor was just thinking, thank you this scene is done. But I enjoyed the rest of the episode a lot.

The TNG episode where they all become kids.

Identity Crisis too in TNG when Geordi is turning into an alien and he examines the video of where he got infected in the holodeck.

Profit and Lace. I don't love it, but I don't get the hate for a general Ferengi caper.

I also liked most of the Ferengi episodes in DS9.

 

[retroenzo]

I also liked most of the Ferengi episodes in DS9.

Controversial opinion? I'll take a Ferengi episode over a Klingon episode any day.

 

[at Quark's]

I quite like Threshold (and I've said so several times on this board before). While the elements of infinite speed and of the lizard evolution are beyond ridiculous, Duncan McNeill gets to show a lot more emotional range in this episode than he usually is allowed, and the Paris character is taken on quite an epic voyage (in more than one sense). Also, say what you want about this episode but at least it isn't boring, mediocre, or predictable. You never know what's going to happen next when you see it the first time. It still has the merit of keeping me entertained when I watch it today.

I guess I don't really mind episodes that have ridiculous "science" or serious flaws in logic. I have more issues with episodes that seem uninspired, or feel like a writer had to make the deadline and pulled cliche plot #385 on me. Or those that contain concepts I find actually offensive, like Homeward, or Fury.

 

[JoeCabby]

Controversial opinion? I'll take a Ferengi episode over a Klingon episode any day.

I agree with you on that one. I heard a few people say they hated Ferengi episodes, maybe I mistook that as popular opinion.

 

[retroenzo]

I agree with you on that one. I heard a few people say they hated Ferengi episodes, maybe I mistook that as popular opinion.

Personally I find the Klingon "culture" quite samey and repetitive. The Ferengi "culture" always felt fun. Plus I loved seeing how the likes of Pel and Ishka tried to put one over on the misogynistic males.

 

[jamestyler]

I love Klingon episodes (DS9 ones, at least). But the Ferengi were a nice break, and - accidentally or intentionally - a wonderful piss take of our own modern culture. Space Yuppies - who'd hate them?