Episodes with ONE redeeming feature

[CRM-114]

Can we expand this to include movies? If so, Sybok from TFF. I know a lot of people don't like that movie or the character, but Sybok is a really interesting character. We get a unique interpretation of a Vulcan who is emotional but is not given to the wild, unrestrained behavior that occurs without the disciplines of logic. Sybok is intelligent and charismatic, if ultimately misguided, so you can see why people would follow him anywhere.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Can we expand this to include movies?

I don't see why not.

 

[Mojochi]

I love the weirdness of “The Royale”. If you let yourself in for it, the episode has kind of a 2001 – A Space Odyssey vibe going on.

Don't take that to mean I think it's necessarily a bad episode, just somewhat lame for Star Trek, in the way I feel A Piece of The Action or Little Green Men are lame, for someone hoping to get their sci-fi fix, but they're still enjoyable. In fact, as I can point to episodes like that in other series, as I did, it seems these kinds of episodes are part of the Star Trek experience just as much as the heavier sci-fi stuff. There's a lot of folks who don't like The Royale, & I assume that's the reason why, but even then... long lost NASA astronaut!

 

[Voth commando1]

I don't like 'Prey' (Voyager). I can watch the scene where Janeway reprimands Seven of Nine.

As I understand Prey is a pretty popular and well reviewed episode. I loved it personally.

Wishes were horses-Dax and Bashir, Fascination-I think the midnight passions unleashed by Mrs Troi's cold are an interesting look at the characters subconscious.

I liked the oily monster in skin of evil.

I actually liked the CGI Gorn in a mirror darkly(loved the episodes too)

The doctor's matrix style jumping in Renaissance man is cool even if the rest of the episode is disappointing.

 

[Hey Missy]

"Skin of Evil" when Picard tears Armus apart. One of my favorite Picard speeches.

 

[UnknownSample]

And Children Will Lead has some fairly grownup talk about the kids and their memory loss. It makes you think the ep is actually going somewhere.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Storyteller, the very funny moment when O'Brien tries. "Once upon a time, there was a dal roc!"

 

[Tracy Trek]

But that last montage of the various Enterprises and the weaving together of the Picard, Kirk, and Archer voiceovers is utterly perfect.

I thought so as well. It's a nice tribute to the franchise.

The Alternate Factor, we got Lt. Masters.

I would have liked to have seen more of her.

I love the weirdness of “The Royale”. If you let yourself in for it, the episode has kind of a 2001 – A Space Odyssey vibe going on.

That's what I thought the first time I saw it.

 

[Defiler-Of-Redshirts]

Skin of Evil - It disposed of the worst actress and most boring female in Trek history, Tasha Yar. Every scene in every episode she was in was excruciating to watch.

Star Trek V - Kirk's "I need my pain" speech was far more profound and powerful than anything else in the most incompetent, brain-addled Star Trek movie that doesn't have the name J.J. Abrams on it.

Star Trek 2009 - Even though I walked out of the theater in the last half hour (don't know or care how it ended), Karl Urban did a solid enough job as McCoy.

 

[GNDN18]

“The Way to Eden” is regrettable both for depriving us of Fontana’s Joanna as well as for what actually made air. Except, though, for McCoy’s speech about synthococcus novae and the dressing down he gave Sevrin:

Would you like to run the test, Doctor? You knew you were a carrier before you came aboard, didn't you?

It’s one of the few times McCoy sounded like a real doctor who actually practiced medicine. This is the only highlight of a uniformly dismal episode.

 

[TrekNut87]

Threshold. The one-liners:

EMH: What Did he drink?
Torres: Just a cup of Neelix's coffee.
EMH: Its amazing he's still alive.

Chakotay: I can't tell which one is the captain...
Tuvok: The female...obviously

 

[Tenacity]

Skin of Evil - It disposed of the worst actress and most boring female in Trek history, Tasha Yar. Every scene in every episode she was in was excruciating to watch.

The thing there is I've seem Crosby in other things and she's a good actress, Yesterday's Enterprise shows what she can do if handed decent material.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

"Spock's Brain" gives us a good quotable line "Brain, brain, what is brain?"

I can't help but think that line was cribbed from a writer's room meeting that particular week.

 

[TrekNut87]

Prototype was pretty lame, but that ending scene with Janeway and Torres is heartbreaking.

 

[Tim Walker]

I love the weirdness of “The Royale”. If you let yourself in for it, the episode has kind of a 2001 – A Space Odyssey vibe going on.

Interesting concept-a 2001 vibe.

I thought the episode had a kind of Twilight Zone vibe.

 

[GNDN18]

Interesting concept-a 2001 vibe.

I thought the episode had a kind of Twilight Zone vibe.

I can see that.

Cliff Bole thought it had a Vega$ vibe.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Off the top of my head:

Voy: Bride of Chaotica - Hated this episode, but I did like the conference room scene where Janeway smugly assumes that Seven will play arachnia only to turn around and see Paris looking at her. Also the lines 'I'm a size four' and 'Remember you're the queen!'

Voy: Fair Haven - This has to be one of the worst hours of Star Trek ever produced, It is garbage. However, I give it props for portraying Janeway as something other than Mother hen or Boss bitch CEO type who don't need no man. Turns out she actually does and she is lonely and has needs. It was humanising and relatable.

 

[Tenacity]

Now that image has a Heavy Metal (the movie) vibe.

 

[Brennyren]

TNG's "Menage a Troi" was thoroughly cringeworthy -- but Picard's speech at the end was one of the funniest bits in the series!

 

[Betelnut]

Profit and Lace--love the over the top female Ferangi costumes and jewelry.