"Great" episodes that you don't really care for

[2takesfrakes]

TNG's utopian fantasies are the very reason why I love it, as I do! But I really do not care for "Relics." Trotting out the elderly & bloated Scotty, just to remind us that he's been put out to pasture, so as to make Geordi look brilliant, was a rather dubious honour. But ... Jimmy Doohan couldn't refuse, as desperately as he needed a job. Why did they have to half-ass it, though? ... Why?! Any Fan Fiction writer could've come up with a better crossover than this. But it's such a fan favourite because, "oh! Ah! Scotty's onboard!" Ehhhhh ....

 

[Armus]

TNG's utopian fantasies are the very reason why I love it, as I do! But I really do not care for "Relics." Trotting out the elderly & bloated Scotty, just to remind us that he's been put out to pasture, so as to make Geordi look brilliant, was a rather dubious honour. But ... Jimmy Doohan couldn't refuse, as desperately as he needed a job. Why did they have to half-ass it, though? ... Why?! Any Fan Fiction writer could've come up with a better crossover than this. But it's such a fan favourite because, "oh! Ah! Scotty's onboard!" Ehhhhh ....

Like Scotty, this episode hasn't aged well at all.

 

[2takesfrakes]

... Agreed!

On the surface, Fan Service seems to make sense. TNG wants good ratings. Somehow, though ... and don't ask me how ... but they get the impression that fans don't really care whether the show's good, or not ... they just want to see Scotty! "All of our work's done ... no need to bust our asses, on this show. These Trekkies are gonna eat it up!" That's just stinkin' thinkin' ...

 

[Gaith]

I hate, hate, hate Star Trek Beyond. It ranks right down there with Tomorrowland and Terminator Genisys as total grade-F fiascoes of the past decade.

Regarding "In the Pale Moonlight", I entirely agree with Michelle Erica Green:

I must say that I think the flashback-via-diary structure for this episode was a mistake, because I had a really hard time not laughing at Avery Brooks' earnest, emotional monologues in Sisko's personal logs.

[...] If he was really feeling guilty about the dead enemy agent and the man the Klingons were going to execute anyway, his skin isn't nearly tough enough for him to be a captain during wartime.​

 

[Isolinear]

Wrath of Khan. It's a good movie, don't get me wrong. But it's not the best Star Trek movie and certainly not the masterpiece some people claim it is: It ripped off the submarine warfare from Balance of Terror. It reused an existing character from a fantastic TOS episode and ruined said episode in the process. It killed a main character just for dramatic tension. Cheap. Fun to watch. But cheap.

 

[Maurice]

Die hard TOS fan here. For myself, everyone seems to love/applaud "City on the Edge of Forever".

While I love the concept of and scenes with The Guardian of Forever, I've never cared for the rest of the story nor find the Kirk/Edith 'romantic' dynamic compelling or interesting. In the end, were they successful, she'd be LONG DEAD to Kirk whether she died in that car accident or not. Unless he and Spock were content living the rest of there lives in the 20th century - Kirk could NEVER have had any type of long term relationship. She was dead centuries before he was born; so yeah, I never got his angst over the whole situation with her.

Kirk found her "most uncommon, Mister Spock." He should have brought her with them to the future.

Kor

If Kirk and Spock don't succeed they're not coming back. The Guardian says they'll be returned if they succeed. There's no option given for bringing Edith with them. They have to fix what McCoy broke to get pulled back to their time. That's the drama. If she lives they're stuck back then, which is maybe great for Kirk since he's in love, but a lousy fate for Spock. Kirk HAS to let her die.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

She has to die in that accident, be found and buried somewhere, maybe autopsied. The driver has to have hit her, because maybe it changes him, too, in ways that ultimately lead to something else, and so on.

 

[Nyotarules]

Anyone read the Pat Foley fanfiction story where Edith Keeler is NOT the temporal trigger? Kirk, McCoy and Spock spend their days living right up to when Uhura shows up to the 1970's....

 

[Kor]

Edith was a time traveler too, who didn't belong in the era Kirk and co. found her in. That's why she had 1960s hair in the 1930s, and she acted so excited about going to see a Clark Gable movie when he was not even a well-known leading man yet.

She was navigating a time that she wasn't all that familiar with, so she was getting the details wrong. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Yeah.

Kor

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

So they allowed the death of someone that was messing with the timeline?

Gracious, has anyone told Lucsly?

 

[TheTraveler]

No doubt I will be called a heretic but I do not particularly care for TNG Darmok , which is always on everyone's favorite list.

 

[NinjaRaiden2005]

I don't know if any of these in particular were considered good or not but I feel the need to say them anyway.

1. Sons and Daughters from DS9. Kira and Dukat take forty minutes to discover that they hate each other. So basically the episode ends with Kira having the same stance she did when it started making this a pointless, horrible addition to an otherwise fantastic story arc.

2. Any episode of Voyager with the plotline of "will they make it home?" Even as a kid I knew they never would. If they did the show would be over and it's not the end of the season. They even had the audacity to do this in the first season. More episodes that do nothing but wastes the audience's time.

3. Captain's Holiday from TNG. You gotta love any episode that was pitched with the phrase, "get the Captain laid." Patrick Stewart gets to do something besides make a big speech but it really feels like they made sure not to make villains of the episode too big of a threat by making it the Ferengi - an enemy even Naomi Wildman could take on in a fistfight. This episode gets a double negative for leading to the equally stupid Qpid.