Finally had the time to rate all episodes and plot the results!

[NCC-73515]

With the shutdown giving me the unexpected opportunity to do what I thought I'd never have time for, I finally rated all episodes and plotted all the shows. 1 is excellent, 2 is good, 3 is average, 4 is bad, 5 is horrible. I always wanted to do this, and someone here showed the same a while ago (Garth?), so consider yourself my inspiration to finally try it. There are quite a few surprises for me: I thought that TNG was my number 1, with VOY a close 2nd, and DS9 getting the bronze position, but I apparently find DIS and ENT a tiny bit better than DS9 and PIC gets gold! TOS, TAS, and DIS have a negative trend, and VOY remained pretty much the same, while the rest kept improving.

 

[Lord Garth]

I always wanted to do this, and someone here showed the same a while ago (Garth?), so consider yourself my inspiration to finally try it.

You're welcome!

 

[NCC-73515]

You're welcome!

I couldn't find your post anymore, do you still have your data?

 

[Lord Garth]

I couldn't find your post anymore, do you still have your data?

I do. I've been re-watching older Star Trek. So I'm in the middle of re-rating it, but these were my ratings for TNG on the re-watch for Picard. This is on a four-star scale:

Spoiler

S1
Encounter at Farpoint – 2
The Naked Now – 3
Code of Honor – 1
Haven – 2.5
Where No One Has Gone Before – 3.5
The Last Outpost – 2
Lonely Among Us – 3
Justice – 1
The Battle – 3
Hide and Q – 2
Too Short a Season – 1.5
The Big Goodbye – 3
Datalore – 4
Angel One – 2
11001001 – 4
Home Soil – 1
When the Bough Breaks – 2
Coming of Age – 3
Heart of Glory – 3.5
The Arsenal of Freedom – 3
Skin of Evil – 2.5
Symbiosis – 2
We’ll Only Have Paris – 3
Conspiracy – 4
The Neutral Zone – 3
Average: 2.52
Median: 2.5

S2
The Child – 2
Where Silence Has Lease – 3
Elementary, Dear Data – 3.5
The Outrageous Okana – 2
Loud as a Whisper – 2.5
The Schizoid Man – 3
Unnatural Selection – 2
A Matter of Honor – 3
The Measure of a Man – 4
The Dauphin – 2.5
Contagion – 3
The Royale – 2.5
Time Squared – 3
The Icarus Factor – 2
Pen Pals – 2.5
Q Who – 4
Samaritan Snare – 2
Up the Long Ladder – 3
Manhunt – 2
The Emissary – 3.5
Peak Performance – 3.5
Shades of Grey – 1
Average: 2.70
Median: 2.75

S3
Evolution – 3
The Ensigns of Command – 3
The Survivors – 3.5
Who Watches the Watchers – 3.5
The Bonding – 2
Booby Trap – 3
The Enemy – 3.5
The Price – 2
The Vengeance Factor – 2
The Defector – 4
The Hunted – 2.5
The High Ground – 3
Deja Q – 3.5
A Matter of Perspective – 3
Yesterday’s Enterprise – 4
The Offspring – 4
Sins of the Father – 4
Allegiance – 3
Captain’s Holiday – 3
Tin Man – 2
Hollow Pursuits – 3
The Most Toys – 1.5
Sarek – 3.5
Menage a Troi – 3
Transfigurations – 2
The Best of Both Worlds, Part I – 4
Average: 3.02
Median: 3

S4
The Best of Both Worlds, Part II – 3.5
Family – 3.5
Brothers – 3
Suddenly Human – 2.5
Remember Me – 3
Legacy – 2.5
Reunion – 4
Future Imperfect – 3
Final Mission – 3.5
The Loss – 3
Data’s Day – 3.5
The Wounded – 3.5
Devil’s Due – 3
Clues – 3
First Contact – 3
Galaxy’s Child – 3
Night Terrors – 3
Identity Crisis – 2
The Nth Degree – 3
Qpid – 3
The Drumhead – 4
Half a Life – 2.5
The Host – 3
The Mind’s Eye – 3
In Theory – 3
Redemption, Part I – 3
Average: 3.08
Median: 3

S5
Redemption, Part II – 3
Darmok – 4
Ensign Ro – 3
Silicon Avatar – 2.5
Disaster – 3
The Game – 3
Unification, Part I – 3
Unification, Part II – 3
A Matter of Time – 3
New Ground – 2
Hero Worship – 2.5
Violations – 2
The Masterpiece Society – 2.5
Conundrum – 3
Power Play – 3
Ethics – 3.5
The Outcast – 3.5
Cause and Effect – 4
The First Duty – 4
Cost of Living – 2
The Perfect Mate – 2.5
Imaginary Friend – 2
I, Borg – 3.5
The Next Phase – 3
The Inner Light – 4
Time’s Arrow, Part I – 2.5
Average: 2.96
Median: 3

S6
Time’s Arrow, Part II – 2.5
Realm of Fear – 2
Man of the People – 2
Relics – 3
Schisms – 3.5
True Q – 3
Rascals – 2.5
A Fistful of Datas – 3
The Quality of Life – 3
Chain of Command, Part I – 4
Chain of Command, Part II – 4
Ship in a Bottle – 3
Aquiel – 3
Face of the Enemy – 4
Tapestry – 4
Birthright, Part I – 3
Birthright, Part II – 3
Starship Mine – 3
Lessons – 4
The Chase – 3
Frame of Mind – 3.5
Suspicions – 3
Rightful Heir – 3.5
Second Chances – 3.5
Timescape – 3
Descent, Part I – 3
Average: 3.06
Median: 3

S7
Descent, Part II – 2.5
Liaisons – 2.5
Interface – 2
Gambit, Part I – 3
Gambit, Part II – 3
Phantasms – 2.5
Dark Page – 2
Attached – 3
Force of Nature – 2
Inheritance – 3
Parallels – 4
The Pegasus – 4
Homeward – 2
Sub Rosa – 1
Lower Decks – 4
Thine Own Self – 3
Masks – 3
Eye of the Beholder – 3
Genesis – 3
Journey’s End – 3
Firstborn – 3
Bloodlines – 2.5
Emergence – 3
Preemptive Strike – 3.5
All Good Things – 4
Average: 2.90
Median: 3

Series Average: 2.896
Series Median: 3

For each season of TNG, it came out to...

1st Season: 2.52
2nd Season: 2.70
3rd Season: 3.02
4th Season: 3.08
5th Season: 2.96
6th Season: 3.06
7th Season: 2.90

 

[Lord Garth]

This is an old one I put together in 2018 (that I updated in 2019 for DSC S2), that's based on a 10-scale. But bear in mind I hadn't seen a lot of these episodes since the '90s and '00s. So my memory was faded. I have TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and DSC on here.

TOS

Spoiler

TOS Season 1
The Cage – 10
Where No Man Has Gone Before – 10
The Corbomite Maneuver – 8
Mudd's Women – 6
The Enemy Within – 10
The Man Trap – 6
The Naked Time – 10
Charlie X – 7
Balance of Terror – 9
What Are Little Girls Made Of? – 8
Dagger of the Mind – 7
Miri – 5
Conscience of the King – 9
Galileo Seven – 10
Court Martial – 10
The Menagerie, Part I – 8
The Menagerie, Part II – 8
Shore Leave – 10
The Squire of Gothos – 8
Arena – 7
The Alternative Factor – 5
Tomorrow Is Yesterday – 10
Return of the Archons – 7
A Taste of Armageddon – 9
Space Seed – 9
This Side of Paradise – 10
Devil in the Dark – 7
Errand of Mercy – 7
City on the Edge of Forever – 10
Operation: Annihilate! – 8

TOS Season 1 Average: 8.27
TOS Season 1 Median: 8
TOS Season 1 Standard Deviation: 1.10

TOS Season 2
Catspaw – 6
Metamorphosis – 7
Friday’s Child – 7
Who Mourns for Adonais? – 7
Amok Time – 10
The Doomsday Machine – 10
Wolf in the Fold – 7
The Changeling – 7
The Apple – 7
Mirror, Mirror – 10
The Deadly Years – 7
I, Mudd – 9
The Trouble With Tribbles – 10
Bread and Circuses – 8
Journey to Babel – 8
A Private Little War – 8
The Gamesters of Triskelion – 7
Obsession – 8
The Immunity Syndrome – 8
A Piece of the Action – 9
By Any Other Name – 9
Return to Tomorrow – 10
Patterns of Force – 7
The Ultimate Computer – 8
The Omega Glory – 7
Assignment: Earth – 8

TOS Season 2 Average: 8.04
TOS Season 2 Median: 8
TOS Season 2 Standard Deviation: 0.92

TOS Season 3
Spectre of the Gun – 7
Elaan of Troyus – 5.5
The Paradise Syndrome – 8
The Enterprise Incident – 10
And the Children Shall Lead – 3
Spock’s Brain – 7
Is There In Truth No Beauty – 6
The Empath – 10
The Tholian Web – 9
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky – 9
Day of the Dove – 10
Plato’s Stepchildren – 4
Wink of an Eye – 6
That Which Survives – 7
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield – 6
Whom Gods Destroy – 6
The Mark of Gideon – 6
The Lights of Zetar – 5
The Cloud Minders – 8
The Way to Eden – 7
Requiem for Methuselah – 8
The Savage Curtain – 7
All Our Yesterdays – 8
Turnabout Intruder – 6.5

TOS Season 3 Average: 7.04
TOS Season 3 Median: 7
TOS Season 3 Standard Deviation: 1.01

TNG

Spoiler

TNG Season 1
Encounter at Farpoint – 6
The Naked Now – 8
Code of Honor – 3
Haven – 7
Where No One Has Gone Before – 9
The Last Outpost – 4
Lonely Among Us – 6
Justice – 2
The Battle – 8
Hide and Q – 3
Too Short a Season – 4
The Big Goodbye – 7
Datalore – 10
Angel One – 5
11001001 – 10
Home Soil – 3
When the Bough Breaks – 3
Coming of Age – 8
Heart of Glory – 10
The Arsenal of Freedom – 8
Skin of Evil – 5
Symbiosis – 4
We’ll Only Have Paris – 6
Conspiracy – 10
The Neutral Zone – 7

TNG Season 1 Average: 6.23
TNG Season 1 Median: 6
TNG Season 1 Standard Deviation: 1.45

TNG Season 2
The Child – 5
Where Silence Has Lease – 7
Elementary, Dear Data – 7
The Outrageous Okana – 5
Loud as a Whisper – 6
The Schizoid Man – 7
Unnatural Selection – 3
A Matter of Honor – 8
The Measure of a Man – 10
The Dauphin – 7
Contagion – 7
The Royale – 6
Time Squared – 8
The Icarus Factor – 5
Pen Pals – 4
Q Who – 10
Samaritan Snare – 6
Up the Long Ladder – 7
Manhunt – 6
The Emissary – 9
Peak Performance – 9
Shades of Grey – 5

TNG Season 2 Average: 6.68
TNG Season 2 Median: 7
TNG Season 2 Standard Deviation: 1.20

TNG Season 3
Evolution – 8
The Ensigns of Command – 8
The Survivors – 9
Who Watches the Watchers – 9
The Bonding – 5
Booby Trap – 8
The Enemy – 9
The Price – 5
The Vengeance Factor – 7
The Defector – 10
The Hunted – 7
The High Ground – 7
Deja Q – 9
A Matter of Perspective – 7
Yesterday’s Enterprise – 10
The Offspring – 10
Sins of the Father – 10
Allegiance – 8
Captain’s Holiday – 8
Tin Man – 5
Hollow Pursuits – 8
The Most Toys – 5
Sarek – 9
Menage a Troi – 7
Transfigurations – 6
The Best of Both Worlds, Part I – 10

TNG Season 3 Average: 7.85
TNG Season 3 Median: 8
TNG Season 3 Standard Deviation: 1.16

TNG Season 4
The Best of Both Worlds, Part II – 8
Family – 9
Brothers – 9
Suddenly Human – 6
Remember Me – 9
Legacy – 6
Reunion – 10
Future Imperfect – 8
Final Mission – 7
The Loss – 7
Data’s Day – 8
The Wounded – 9
Devil’s Due – 8
Clues – 9
First Contact – 8
Galaxy’s Child – 8
Night Terrors – 7
Identity Crisis – 7
The Nth Degree – 7.5
Qpid – 8
The Drumhead – 10
Half a Life – 7
The Host – 6
The Mind’s Eye – 8
In Theory – 7
Redemption, Part I – 8

TNG Season 4 Average: 7.87
TNG Season 4 Median: 8
TNG Season 4 Standard Deviation: 0.94

TNG Season 5
Redemption, Part II – 7
Darmok – 10
Ensign Ro – 9
Silicon Avatar – 7
Disaster – 8
The Game – 7
Unification, Part I – 7
Unification, Part II – 8
A Matter of Time – 8
New Ground – 6
Hero Worship – 4
Violations – 5
The Masterpiece Society – 5
Conundrum – 8
Power Play – 8
Ethics – 9
The Outcast – 7
Cause and Effect – 9
The First Duty – 9
Cost of Living – 6
The Perfect Mate – 7
Imaginary Friend – 5
I, Borg – 8
The Next Phase – 9
The Inner Light – 10
Time’s Arrow, Part I – 7

TNG Season 5 Average: 7.42
TNG Season 5 Median: 7.5
TNG Season 5 Standard Deviation: 1.03

TNG Season 6
Time’s Arrow, Part II – 7
Realm of Fear – 6
Man of the People – 5
Relics – 8
Schisms – 8
True Q – 8
Rascals – 7
A Fistful of Datas – 8
The Quality of Life – 7
Chain of Command, Part I – 9
Chain of Command, Part II – 10
Ship in a Bottle – 8
Aquiel – 7
Face of the Enemy – 9
Tapestry – 10
Birthright, Part I – 9
Birthright, Part II – 7
Starship Mine – 8
Lessons – 10
The Chase – 8
Frame of Mind – 10
Suspicions – 8
Rightful Heir – 9
Second Chances – 9
Timescape – 9
Descent, Part I – 8

TNG Season 6 Average: 8.08
TNG Season 6 Median: 8
TNG Season 6 Standard Deviation: 0.96

TNG Season 7
Descent, Part II – 7
Liaisons – 7
Interface – 7
Gambit, Part I – 9
Gambit, Part II – 8
Phantasms – 7
Dark Page – 6
Attached – 7
Force of Nature – 6
Inheritance – 7
Parallels – 10
The Pegasus – 10
Homeward – 6
Sub Rosa – 3
Lower Decks – 10
Thine Own Self – 7
Masks – 7
Eye of the Beholder – 7
Genesis – 8
Journey’s End – 7
Firstborn – 7
Bloodlines – 6
Emergence – 7
Preemptive Strike – 9
All Good Things – 10

TNG Season 7 Average: 7.50
TNG Season 7 Median: 7
TNG Season 7 Standard Deviation: 1.13

DS9

Spoiler

DS9 Season 1
Emissary – 8
Past Prologue – 7
A Man Alone – 7
Babel – 7
Captive Pursuit – 7
Q-Less – 6
Dax – 9
The Passenger – 7
Move Along Home – 7
The Nagus – 8
Vortex – 7
Battle Lines – 6
The Storyteller – 6
Progress – 7
If Wishes Were Horses – 7
The Forsaken – 7
Dramatis Personae – 9
Duet – 10
In the Hands of the Prophets – 10

DS9 Season 1 Average: 7.15
DS9 Season 1 Median: 7
DS9 Season 1 Standard Deviation: 0.91

DS9 Season 2
The Homecoming – 9
The Circle – 10
The Siege – 8
Invasive Procedures – 7
Cardassians – 8
Melora – 6
Rules of Acquisition – 8
Necessary Evil – 9
Second Sight – 7
Sanctuary – 7
Rivals – 7
The Alternate – 7
Armageddon Game – 8
Whispers – 9
Paradise – 7
Shadowplay – 7
Playing God – 8
Profit and Loss – 7
Blood Oath – 7
The Maquis, Part I – 10
The Maquis, Part II – 10
The Wire – 10
Crossover – 8
The Collaborator – 7
Tribunal – 8
The Jem’Hadar – 9

DS9 Season 2 Average: 8.00
DS9 Season 2 Median: 8
DS9 Season 2 Standard Deviation: 0.96

DS9 Season 3
The Search, Part I – 8
The Search, Part II – 9
The House of Quark – 9
Equilibrium – 7
Second Skin – 8
The Abandoned – 6
Civil Defense – 8
Meridian – 6
Defiant – 8
Fascination – 6
Past Tense, Part I – 9
Past Tense, Part II – 10
Life Support – 6
Heart of Stone – 7
Destiny – 8
Prophet Motive – 8
Visionary – 8
Distant Voices – 7
Through the Looking Glass – 8
Improbable Cause – 9
The Die Is Cast – 9
Explorers – 9
Family Business – 7
Shakaar – 7
Facets – 8
The Adversary – 9

DS9 Season 3 Average: 7.85
DS9 Season 3 Median: 8
DS9 Season 3 Standard Deviation: 0.94

DS9 Season 4
The Way of the Warrior – 10
The Visitor – 10
Hippocratic Oath – 7
Indiscretion – 8
Rejoined – 8
Starship Down – 8
Little Green Men – 10
The Sword of Kahless – 9
Our Man Bashir – 10
Homefront – 9
Paradise Lost – 9
Crossfire – 10
Return to Grace – 8
Sons of Mogh – 8
Bar Association – 9
Accession – 7
Rules of Engagement – 6
Hard Time - 10
Shattered Mirror – 10
The Muse – 6
For the Cause – 8
To the Death – 8
The Quickening – 7
Body Parts – 8
Broken Link – 7

DS9 Season 4 Average: 8.46
DS9 Season 4 Median: 8
DS9 Season 4 Standard Deviation: 1.05

DS9 Season 5
Apocalypse Rising – 8
The Ship – 10
Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places – 9
Nor the Battle to the Strong – 9
The Assignment – 7
Trials and Tribble-ations – 10
Let He Who Is Without Sin – 1
Things Past – 7
The Ascent – 8
Rapture – 7
The Darkness and the Light – 7
The Begotten – 7
For the Uniform – 10
In Purgatory’s Shadow – 8
By Inferno’s Light – 9
Doctor Bashir, I Presume? – 7
A Simple Investigation – 6
Business as Usual – 7
Ties of Blood and Water – 7
Ferengi Love Songs – 7
Soldiers of the Empire – 8
Children of Time – 7
Blaze of Glory – 8
Empok Nor – 7
In the Cards – 8
Call to Arms – 10

DS9 Season 5 Average: 7.65 (7.92 without "Let He Who Is Without Sin")
DS9 Season 5 Median: 7.5
DS9 Season 5 Standard Deviation: 1.19

DS9 Season 6
A Time to Stand – 9
Rocks and Shoals – 10
Sons and Daughters – 7
Behind the Lines – 8
Favor the Bold – 8
Sacrifice of Angels – 9
You Are Cordially Invited – 10
Resurrection – 5
Statistical Probabilities – 8
The Magnificent Ferengi – 8
Waltz – 10
Who Mourns for Morn? – 8
Far Beyond the Stars – 10
One Little Ship – 7
Honor Among Thieves – 7
Change of Heart – 6
Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night – 6
Inquisition – 9
In the Pale Moonlight – 10
His Way – 8
The Reckoning – 7
Valiant – 6
Profit and Lace – 6
Time’s Orphan – 7
The Sound of Her Voice – 9
Tears of the Prophets – 9

DS9 Season 6 Average: 7.96
DS9 Season 6 Median: 8
DS9 Season 6 Standard Deviation: 1.13

DS9 Season 7
Image in the Sand – 8
Shadows and Symbols – 9
Afterimage – 8
Take Me Out to the Holosuite – 9
Chrysalis – 7
Treachery, Faith, and the Great River – 8
Once More Unto the Breach – 8
The Siege of AR-558 – 10
Covenant – 7
It’s Only a Paper Moon – 10
Prodigal Daughter – 5
The Emperor’s New Cloak – 4
Field of Fire – 7
Chimera – 8
Badda-Bing Badda-Bang – 8
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges – 9
Penumbra – 8
Til Death Do Us Part – 8
Strange Bedfellows – 9
The Changing Face of Evil – 10
When It Rains – 8
Tacking Into the Wind – 10
Extreme Measures – 5
The Dogs of War – 7
What You Leave Behind – 9

DS9 Season 7 Average: 8.00
DS9 Season 7 Median: 8
DS9 Season 7 Standard Deviation: 1.06

VOY

Spoiler

VOY Season 1
Caretaker – 8
Parallax – 8
Time and Again – 6
Phage – 7
The Cloud – 7
Eye of the Needle – 10
Ex Post Facto – 6
Emanations – 6
Prime Factors – 9
State of Flux – 8
Heroes and Demons – 8
Cathexis – 7
Faces – 8
Jetrel – 7
Learning Curve – 7

VOY Season 1 Average: 7.50
VOY Season 1 Median: 7.5
VOY Season 1 Standard Deviation: 1.00

VOY Season 2
The 37s – 6
Initiations – 5
Projections – 10
Elogium – 6
Non Sequitur – 9
Twisted – 8
Parturition – 6
Persistence of Vision – 6
Tattoo – 6
Cold Fire – 6
Maneuvers – 8
Resistance – 6
Prototype – 8
Alliances – 7
Threshold – 1
Meld – 8
Dreadnought – 8
Death Wish – 8
Lifesigns – 7
Investigations – 7
Deadlock – 9
Innocence – 7
The Thaw – 7
Tuvix – 8
Resolutions – 8
Basics, Part I – 8

VOY Season 2 Average: 7.04
VOY Season 2 Median: 7
VOY Season 2 Standard Deviation: 1.04

VOY Season 3
Basics, Part II – 8
Flashback – 7
The Chute – 8
The Swarm – 8
False Profits – 7
Remember – 9
Sacred Ground – 8
Future’s End – 9
Future’s End – 9
Warlord – 8
The Q and the Grey – 7
Macrocosm – 8
Fair Trade – 6
Alter Ego – 8
Coda – 7
Blood Fever – 8
Unity – 7
Darkling – 7
Rise – 6
Favorite Son – 7
Before and After – 10
Real Life – 7
Distant Origin – 9
Displaced – 8
Worst Case Scenario – 9
Scorpion, Part I – 9

VOY Season 3 Average: 7.85
VOY Season 3 Median: 8
VOY Season 3 Standard Deviation: 0.90

VOY Season 4
Scorpion, Part II – 8
The Gift – 8
Day of Honor – 8
Nemesis – 6
Revulsion – 8
The Raven – 8
Scientific Method – 8
Year of Hell, Part I – 10
Year of Hell, Part II – 8
Random Thoughts – 8
Concerning Flight – 7
Mortal Coil – 10
Waking Moments – 8
Message in a Bottle – 10
Hunters – 9
Prey – 8
Retrospect – 7
The Killing Game, Part I – 8
The Killing Game, Part II – 7
Vis A Vis – 7
The Omega Directive – 8
Unforgettable – 7
Living Witness – 10
Demon – 6
One – 8
Hope and Fear – 9

VOY Season 4 Average: 8.04
VOY Season 4 Median: 8
VOY Season 4 Standard Deviation: 0.87

VOY Season 5
Night – 9
Drone – 10
Extreme Risk – 8
In the Flesh – 7.5
Once Upon a Time – 7
Timeless – 9
Infinite Regress – 7
Nothing Human – 5
Thirty Days – 4
Counterpoint – 8
Latent Image – 4
Bridge of Chaotica! – 6
Gravity – 7
Bliss – 8
Dark Frontier – 7.5
The Disease – 2
Course: Oblivion – 6
The Fight – 5
Think Tank – 7
Juggernaut – 6
Someone to Watch Over Me – 8
11:59 – 7
Relativity – 10
Warhead – 5
Equinox, Part I – 8

VOY Season 5 Average: 6.58
VOY Season 5 Median: 7
VOY Season 5 Standard Deviation: 1.20

VOY Season 6
Equinox, Part II – 7
Survival Instinct – 7
Barge of the Dead – 6
Tinker Tenor Doctor Sky – 10
Alice – 7
Riddles – 7
Dragon’s Teeth – 8
One Small Step – 7
The Voyager Conspiracy – 9
Pathfinder – 8
Fair Haven – 7
Blink of an Eye – 7
Virtuoso – 7
Memorial – 7
Tsukantse – 7
Collective – 6
Spirit Folk – 7
Ashes to Ashes – 7
Child’s Play – 7
Good Shephard – 8
Live Fast and Prosper – 8
Muse – 7
Fury – 5
Life Line – 5
The Haunting of Deck Twelve – 7
Unimatrix Zero, Part I – 7

VOY Season 6 Average: 7.12
VOY Season 6 Median: 7
VOY Season 6 Standard Deviation: 0.80

VOY Season 7
Unimatrix Zero, Part II – 7
Imperfection – 7
Drive – 8
Repression – 7
Critical Care – 9
Inside Man – 7
Body and Soul – 8
Nightingale – 7
Flesh and Blood – 7
Shattered – 7
Lineage – 10
Repentance – 7
Prophesy – 8
The Void – 7
Workforce, Part I – 7
Workforce, Part II – 7
Human Error – 8
Q2 – 7
Author, Author – 10
Friendship One – 6
Natural Law – 7
Homestead – 7
Renaissance Man – 7
Endgame – 7

VOY Season 7 Average: 7.42
VOY Season 7 Median: 7
VOY Season 7 Standard Deviation: 0.83

DSC

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DSC Season 1
A Vulcan Hello – 7
Battle at the Binary Stars – 7
Context Is for Kings – 8
The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lambs Cry – 8
Choose Your Pain – 9
Lethe – 10
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad – 9
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum – 7
Into the Forest I Go – 10
Despite Yourself – 10
The Wolf Inside – 7
Vaulting Ambition – 10
What’s Past Is Prologue – 8
The War Without, the War Within – 7.5
Will You Take My Hand? – 9

DSC Season 1 Average: 8.43
DSC Season 1 Median: 8
DSC Season 1 Standard Deviation: 1.01

DSC Season 2
Brother – 8
New Eden – 8
Point of Light – 9
An Obol for Charon – 7
Saints of Imperfection – 10
The Sound of Thunder – 9
Light and Shadows – 8
If Memory Serves – 10
Project Daedalus – 8
The Red Angel – 9
Perpetual Infinity – 7
Through the Valley of Shadows – 9
Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I – 10
Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II – 9.5

DSC Season 2 Average: 8.68
DSC Season 2 Median: 9

For the heck of it, I might as well throw in...

PIC

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PIC Season 1
Remembrance - 9
Maps and Legends - 8
The End Is the Beginning - 7
Absolute Candor - 8
Stardust City Rag - 10
The Impossible Box - 9.5
Nepenthe - 10
Broken Pieces - 8.5
Et in Arcadia Ego, Part I - 7
Et in Arcadia Ego, Part II - 10

PIC Season 1 Average: 8.7
PIC Season 2 Median: 8.75

So those averages are...

TOS S1 --> 8.27 --> 8.5
TOS S2 --> 8.04 --> 8
TOS S3 --> 7.04 --> 7

TNG S1 --> 6.23 --> 6
TNG S2 --> 6.68 --> 6.5
TNG S3 --> 7.85 --> 8
TNG S4 --> 7.87 --> 8
TNG S5 --> 7.42 --> 7.5
TNG S6 --> 8.08 --> 8
TNG S7 --> 7.50 --> 7.5

DS9 S1 --> 7.15 --> 7
DS9 S2 --> 8.00 --> 8
DS9 S3 --> 7.85 --> 8
DS9 S4 --> 8.46 --> 8.5
DS9 S5 --> 7.92 --> 8 (I'm not counting "Let He Who Is Without Sin"! )
DS9 S6 --> 7.96 --> 8
DS9 S7 --> 8.00 --> 8

VOY S1 --> 7.60 --> 7.5
VOY S2 --> 7.04 --> 7
VOY S3 --> 7.85 --> 8
VOY S4 --> 8.04 --> 8
VOY S5 --> 6.58 --> 6.5
VOY S6 --> 7.12 --> 7
VOY S7 --> 7.42 --> 7.5

DSC S1 --> 8.43 --> 8.5
DSC S2 --> 8.68 --> 8.5

PIC S1 --> 8.70 --> 8.5

Just remember: except for DSC and PIC, these ratings are outdated.

I stopped watching after VOY S5 and didn't revisit it again until 2008. When I've said before that I don't stick around for things I'm not enjoying, I meant it. If I'm frequently giving out ratings below 7, I'm out. Which is why I've never understood the hate-watching mentality. Makes no sense to me at all. And doubly so when there's a pay-wall.

 

[NCC-73515]

Now make some plots and then let's compare them! XD

 

[Lord Garth]

Now make some plots and then let's compare them! XD

I've never actually done it before. But I guess there's no time like the present to learn how to do something.

Well, not the present present. I'll work on it tomorrow. Why am I still up? Why? Because I'm an insomniac, that's why.

 

[1001001]

 

[Forbin]

Voyager being almost dead flat is hilarious.

 

[Lord Garth]

If I can inspire someone to be as bad as me and I can learn how to make fancy graphs in the process, my job is done.

 

[Syn]

Now I want to do this...

Great visualization.

 

[Lord Garth]

Now make some plots and then let's compare them! XD

I've thought about it, and I'm not going to do it until I finish ENT. I'm toward the end of the third season. Might as well finish it so I can include it.

 

[NCC-73515]

If I can inspire someone to be as bad as me and I can learn how to make fancy graphs in the process, my job is done.

Now I want to do this...

Great visualization.

It's just Excel

 

[Forbin]

I spent years prettying up Excel graphs for government proposals and powerpoints - electronic frequency ranges, stress test results, program schedules - it's nice to see Excel finally used for something sensible.

 

[Kor]

So are these general consensus ratings, or your own personal ratings of the episodes?

Kor

 

[Tribble Threat]

And is the number scale just based on how much you like the episode, or do you rate it based on multiple factors you add up? And why did you decide on a scale where big numbers are bad and small numbers good? And why no 0?

And Lord Garth, can you explain your number scale?

 

[Lord Garth]

And Lord Garth, can you explain your number scale?

Yeah, cutting and pasting from here.

Part I: How My Rating Scale Works
Cutting and pasting a post of mine from two years ago. These are how I rate episodes and the rationale behind the ratings:

10 = Outstanding. This isn't necessarily "perfect", nothing is [see the explanation in Part II], but it evoked a strong emotional reaction from me, it moved me, and I wanted to watch it again immediately.

9 = Excellent. The best you can get but without being as powerful as a 10. It's more entertaining and satisfying than necessarily moving or draining.

8 = Great. Better than just "good". I liked it a lot. This is what gets me hooked on a show or makes me a fan.

7 = Good. This is what I rate something if I like it and I thought it was solid, but there wasn't enough there to push it passed that. Whatever drawbacks there might've been don't effect my overall enjoyment.

6 = Okay. I kind of liked of it. It killed time. There were probably some drawbacks but nothing too serious.

5 = Mixed, Mediocre, or Neutral. There was either as much good as there was bad or the show did absolutely nothing for me at all. It was just there. I didn't feel anything about it good or ill.

4 = Poor. I didn't particularly care for it. The positives don't outweigh the negatives.

3 = Bad. This isn't any good. Or I just didn't like it. But I don't hate it and I didn't think it was unwatchable.

2 = Terrible. This is where it becomes hard to sit through. Unless maybe I give it the MST3K treatment.

1 = Atrocious. I really, really had to resist the urge to turn it off. It took sheer will-power to get through the whole thing.

0 = Bottom of the Barrel. I couldn't watch it all the way through. I had to turn it off. This is pure trash. I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy.


Part II: Is a 10 really a 10?
And here's an explanation for why I curve ratings. This is from a post I also made two years ago:

Interstellar is a film I watched where, towards the end I was bawling my eyes out. It never happened before when I went to see a movie, at least not to that extreme. It was intense. The crying was so bad, as I was leaving the theater I had to get out of there as fast as I possibly could while hoping no one I knew saw me. It was that powerful of a movie. Clear 10.

Nothing in Discovery comes close to that. Nor am I expecting it to. So that's why I curve. I look at what's the best for this series and compare everything else in the series to it. Otherwise, nothing would get a 10.

The Passion of the Christ was an intense film. Another clear 10. I don't ever want to watch it again. I saw it, it made its point, and that one time experiencing it is all I feel I needed.

I wouldn't want to watch a season with a constant, steady stream of episodes like DS9's "The Visitor" for instance. It's riveting but watching something like that all the time is too much.

I had some friends over the other day. We were celebrating Abraham Lincoln's birthday. It was a silly thing but it was a good excuse to hang out. I thought about putting on Lincoln, the Steven Speilberg film from 2012, but given the overall vibe, I decided against it. We didn't want to watch something like that on a Monday night while we were all just hanging out.

EDIT: If you want to know how my 10-scale converts into a four-star scale, it would be:

4 stars = 9 or 10
3 stars = 7 or 8
2 stars = 5 or 6
1 star = 4 or less

This is approximate, not exact.

 

[Tribble Threat]

Oh, so are you saying a 10 in Discovery in your scale is very different from a 10 in TNG in your scale?

 

[Lord Garth]

Oh, so are you saying a 10 in Discovery in your scale is very different from a 10 in TNG in your scale?

More or less. TV in the late-'80s and early-'90s is different from TV today. Also, TNG is a family show and episodic and DSC isn't, so the goals are different. I judge a show based on the context of when it was made, who it was targeted to, what they wanted to do, and how well they did it.

 

[Tribble Threat]

I see.

NCC, do you do that with your scale too?