Episodes you refuse to watch...

[JesterFace]

We all here like or love TNG but I think everyone has to admit, there are some episodes that are just bad, so bad that there's no reason to watch them again, maybe ever.

Is there something you just can't stand?

I have a few that I can name but there might be more that are just so weak that when I watched them the last time I decided, OK, that was the last time for that one...

Recently I watched 'Half a Life' and that might have been the last time for that... it barely even had any regular cast, just two guest stars talking.

Also, I knew that 'The Price' might not be good... it wasn't even that, Deanna having a romance with that weird dude and foot rubs? What? I remember thinking long ago that 'Man of the People' was the worst TNG episode ever, but it has been years since I've watched it, and now, 'The Price' has taken that title. NEVER AGAIN!

Others worth mentioning, meaning they're not worth the energy it takes to power the TV and DVD player...

Captain's Holiday
Ménage à Troi
Devil's Due
Qpid
Cost of Living
The Perfect Mate
Man of the People
Rascals
Sub Rosa
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines

Like I said, many of those left me with the feeling "not this again", so I really don't remember for certain how awful they were...

But even the best of musicians make weak songs and so on, everything can't be awesome. If it is, perspective has been lost...

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Last time through I skipped a lot more episodes but this time through I'm only skipping a handful.

So far, Code of Honor, Justice, Outrageous Okona, Up The Long Ladder, Shades of Grey. Probably the rest of my skip episodes will be some of the season 7 episodes like Sub Rosa.

 

[JesterFace]

WHOOOPS, I forgot to mention the ones I skip from the first two seasons...

Well, basically everything except 'The Measure of a Man' and 'Q Who'.

 

[tharpdevenport]

"Code of Honor"
NEVER AGAIN.


"The Outrageous Okona"
Embarrasingly bad.


"Sub Rosa"
Boring, boring, boring. Shouldn't have been made.


Off the top of my head.

 

[Terok Nor]

I never want to see The Outrageous Okona ever again. I can deal with the rest of the series but I probably wouldn't choose to watch a few other episodes like Up The Long Ladder and the pointless Shades Of Gray.

 

[Triskelion]

I never watch "The Inner Light", "Frame of Mind", and "Yesterday's Enterprise".



Ok, maybe I should qualify that. Except on rare occasions - because of the emotional toll they take to watch. I'll watch the bad stuff, no problem!

 

[Mojochi]

Code of Honor
You can debate its offensiveness, but there is no debate on it's awfulness

When the Bough Breaks
Episodes with a kid in general tend to wear on my patience. This example proves the effect is cumulative

Shades of Gray
The production low point for the entire show

Menage a Troi
It's like they calculated all the things that would make an episode suck for me & then made it

Imaginary Friend
It's pretty special when you can be both simultaneously dull & annoying

A Fistful of Datas
Just embarrassing, & cringeworthy. Nothing is more uncomfortable & soul sapping than a comedy miss that goes on too long

Cost of Living
I'll see your Menage a Troi & raise you one Alexander. You win

Sub Rosa
Stupefyingly, jaw-droppingly bad. Might be a writing low point for the whole show for me

Masks
The acting low point of the show for me

I don't watch any of those, & I may be adding "The Child" to that list as well. So what's that, like 6% of the show I consider unwatchable? That's not that bad, really

 

[SPCTRE]

No one has ever forced me to watch an episode, so I never had to refuse.

 

[stardream]

Sub Rosa.

An episode written for the women? As a longtime Trek watcher who happens to be a woman I don't know whether to feel insulted by this or saddened. Where did they get the idea that we would want to watch such drek? News flash. Trek fans who happen to be female don't NEED romance in our stories to like them. (Most of who are into Tolkien didn't 'need' that silly dwarf/elf 'romance' in The Hobbit movies either. Gah.) A well written well paced romantic story line is fine but this wasn't one of them.

What makes me sad is the idea that they believe this is the sort of thing we would want. Dress it up like pretty smoke if you want in an attempt to hide it but its about assault.

Do us a favor future Trek writers. If you think you it might be a good idea to write something 'for the girls'....don't.

 

[Lance]

"Shades of Gray". Simply because it's completely irrelevant. When I rewatch TNG, I usually end S2 with "Peak Performance" and then skip straight onto S3. A clip show isn't necessarily something that can't be done, but unfortunately TNG just hadn't had enough time to build up anything near a good enough library of 'moments' to fill the hour.

 

[Mojochi]

No one has ever forced me to watch an episode, so I never had to refuse.

If they forced you, then you wouldn't be able to refuse. That's what forcing is. They did offer an episode though

Refuse: To decline to accept something offered

 

[CrazyMatt]

Basically, I refuse to watch about half of the first season. Amazing how much GR's idealism had come to destroy his ability to tell a good story. Instead, we got too many preachy stories from Rev. Roddenberry.

My "never watch" list includes:

Code of Honor
The Last Outpost
Justice
Haven
Angel One
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
Skin of Evil
The Neutral Zone

 

[iMike]

When I purchased the Blu Ray sets I did rewatch every episode all the way through, just because the restoration work was astonishing and I thought it only fair to give the episodes on my "Do Not Watch List" a new shake. Having said that there are still episodes that went back on that list after the first BR viewing.

Sub Rosa - a real embarrassment, in my opinion. This episode was a total waste of what little character development Beverly Crusher received each season. Gates McFadden (and us fans) deserved a better Crusher story.

Masks - I just can't. Hats off to Spiner for attempting all these characters but some just do not work.

Code of Honor - Probably one of the reasons Denise Crosby wanted off the series.

The Loss - Oh look, it's another episode for one of the females to be all emotional and get in touch with her feelings. Blah.

A Fistful of Datas - Really?

Imaginary Friend - Were the writers having a creative slump?

Shades of Grey - I realize there was a writer's strike and they needed to save money, but surely there was a better way to execute a flashbacks episode?

 

[Granola Gwen]

Inner Light (because of emotional impact)
Shades of Grey
The Last Outpost
Too Short A Season
borderline The Price because of the romance scene
Violations

Any episode that gets way too focus on Klingon honor and warriors can be a turn off for me as well.

 

[HarryM]

There's quite a few but these stand out...

Angel One
Justice
Code of Honor
Masks (though this one is somewhat amusing, the "Way to Eden" of TNG).

Some that people consider bad I actually enjoy watching, The Royale, Captain's Holiday are 2 that come to mind.

 

[Grant]

Honestly , I love the characters and the actors and many things about TNG but I don't wish to see the vast majority of episodes again.

I bought seasons 1-6, watched them and gave them to my kids.

I am waiting for them to release themed episode box sets---Klingon, Romulan, Borg etc., and I will buy those and then watch those from then on.

If they don't then I will do without. Too many filler episodes that were written simply to give an actor a spotlight.

"Remember Me" and "Sub Rosa" were simply written to give Gates the spotlight.

Thank god we didn't get any terrible Uhura episode just so she could be the star.
If you have a great episode that happens to feature one of the cast in he spotlight---great, but don't bother to give them a solo if it sucks.

 

[jimbotron]

Code of Honor - Why casting directors are so important
Justice - I would have just left orbit.
Angel One - Even on planets where women rule and men are diminutive, they are no match for Riker's chest.
The Neutral Zone - when TNG gets peak 20th century bashing
The Outrageous Okona - I'm a noid by this episode.
Samaritan Snare - Gave us backstory for Tapestry, but Riker's stupidity in this episode hurts
Shades of Gray - Couldn't we have just had a 21-episode season instead?
The Game - Wesley saving the day for the stupid adults. Again.
Imaginary Friend - meh
Rascals - Too much stupidity and incompetence is required for this story to work. The idea needed a rewrite.
Birthright Part II - No DS9, no Data, and 40 minutes of sulky Worf, no thanks.
Sub Rosa - To its credit though, it's in 'So Bad, It's Good' territory
Journey's End - The one where Wesley drops all pretense, and is actively a dick to everyone

 

[JesterFace]

There's something surprising happening, for me, in this thread. 'Imaginary Friend' gets a lot of hate. Am I weird... because I like it.

 

[Green Shirt]

Justice - I would have just left orbit.

For real. That and When the Bough Breaks would have rid them of the Wesley problem.

 

[Kruezerman]

Pen Pals: It should've been sweet, should've been a hero story, instead the crew come off callous and cruel. Humbug.

There's more, of course, the majority of Season 1 & 2 basically.