Ok so we all know " Trek " has its share of " filler episodes " so I am wondering which one ( from any series ) do you consider the very worst and why.
Just wondering...
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Let's get Shades of Gray out of the way right now shall we? 
Voyager. *rimshot*
A lot of 1st-3d season DS9 seems like filler, but maybe that's only because one's comparing it to the arc episodes which "matter" more (and which, it must be said, are generally better).
TNG's "Masks" really seemed like they needed a script, fast. I mean, I can buy "Genesis" to the extent that someone believed in the idea (and it's a decent episode, in a tremendously goofy way), but "Masks" is really hard to take seriously as anything but filler.
I wonder about the creative process behind all those episodes of TOS based on the premise "it's just like Earth, but!" too.
A lot of 1st-3d season DS9 seems like filler, but maybe that's only because one's comparing it to the arc episodes which "matter" more (and which, it must be said, are generally better).
TNG's "Masks" really seemed like they needed a script, fast. I mean, I can buy "Genesis" to the extent that someone believed in the idea (and it's a decent episode, in a tremendously goofy way), but "Masks" is really hard to take seriously as anything but filler.
I wonder about the creative process behind all those episodes of TOS based on the premise "it's just like Earth, but!" too.
Let's get Shades of Gray out of the way right now shall we?
Shades of Gray is so bad it's actually quite an impressive achievement. I went into it thinking "Yeah, it's a clip show, so it'll suck, but it can't be that painful."
It is that painful.
There are some episodes (VOY Cathexis, DS9 The Sword of Kahless) that I struggle to stay awake while watching. And then there are others (DS9 Let He Who is Without Sin..., VOY Spirit Folk) that just leave me baffled as to what the writers were thinking!
Code of Honor, TNG season One.
A planet inhabited solely by black people, and the first thing they do is kidnap a blonde white woman.
And the worst part was that their skin color wasn't in the script, the director just thought "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if they were all black?"
A planet inhabited solely by black people, and the first thing they do is kidnap a blonde white woman.
And the worst part was that their skin color wasn't in the script, the director just thought "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if they were all black?"
There was a Voyager episode (and quite a few more) where they encounted some prisoners and brought them aboard, discovering that not all prisoners are bad. Talk about a waste of time.
Funnily enough, while Code of Honor is racist shit, it would probably be more plausible if most aliens were black, or at least dark. Strong selection for dark skin for a hairless population, and there's a strong selection for hairlessness with the increase in brain size and waste heat, so... black aliens really ought to be the default.
I mean, whitey's kind of an aberration. (Blondes and redheads? Straight up mutants. And I carry recessive redhead genes, so I know of which I speak.
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I mean, whitey's kind of an aberration. (Blondes and redheads? Straight up mutants. And I carry recessive redhead genes, so I know of which I speak.
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Well, some of that may come from the weirdness that there are discernible races on a planet that's been unified into one breeding pool for ~2000 years.
But, yeah, the reality is that you're drawing from a pool of actors who do have discernible races. It probably is for the best that biology geekery isn't the guiding light of Star Trek casting decisions.
But, yeah, the reality is that you're drawing from a pool of actors who do have discernible races. It probably is for the best that biology geekery isn't the guiding light of Star Trek casting decisions.
Let's get Shades of Gray out of the way right now shall we?
wow first reply nailed the best worst filler of all time. Though
its a bit forgivable given the circumstances the episode was made under.
for the moment I'll add " you are cordially invited " from DS9 and " Fairhaven " from Voyager though really any Voyager Holodeck episode can be considered filler, I thought this was the worst of them.
whoops I almost forgot the worst DS9 filler..." His Way "
The creative process went thus: "Let's use as many standing backlot sets and existing props and wardrobe as we possibly can to keep budgets down."
Not necessarily, "desert" means a lack/absents of air moisture, Antarctica, with a almost constant overcast, is considered a desert. A hundred miles from me, eastern Washington State is high desert, very dry and very cloudy.
During Amok Time the shadows on the ground were very diffuse. Suggesting at least a hazy overcast. Spock's ancestors might have come from higher latitudes, while Tuvok's came from a sunnier climate.
One of my old personal theories is that Spock and T'Pring were second or third cousins, if arranged marriages are the norm for Vulcans, well on Earth to my experience arranged marriages tend to be inside of some kind of group, Tuvok and his wife (name?) were both portrayed by black actors, Spock and T'Pring were not.
Pure dreck? Please, my imagination dwelled on the dialog in this scene for years.
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Wasn't that episode supposed to be an hommage to "Seven Samurai"?
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