Least Disliked Episode of The Animated Series - Season 1...

This is a game that we play every few years or so, and it's generally a lot of fun, providing a chance to mentally revisit those episodes you may not have thought about in a while. With that in mind, why not play again?

So, here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Hall of Champions
2018 - "YESTERYEAR"
2019 - "THE PIRATES OF ORION"

Season One -

BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR
YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES
THE SURVIVOR
THE INFINITE VULCAN
THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS-TU
ONCE UPON A PLANET
MUDD'S PASSION
THE TERRATIN INCIDENT
THE TIME TRAP
THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
JIHAD

 

I'll get the ball rolling with "THE INFINITE VULCAN". Giant Spock... I just couldn't get past that.


BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR
YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES
THE SURVIVOR
THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS-TU
ONCE UPON A PLANET
MUDD'S PASSION
THE TERRATIN INCIDENT
THE TIME TRAP
THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
JIHAD

 

BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR
YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES
THE SURVIVOR
THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS-TU
ONCE UPON A PLANET

THE TERRATIN INCIDENT
THE TIME TRAP
THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
JIHAD

Mudd’s Passion left me feeling frigid. Bye, Harry.

 

I actually like most on this list but I say goodbye to magic

YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES
THE SURVIVOR

ONCE UPON A PLANET
THE TERRATIN INCIDENT
THE TIME TRAP
THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
JIHAD

 

"THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT" goes. Turning them into basically mermaids... just, no.

YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES
THE SURVIVOR
ONCE UPON A PLANET
THE TERRATIN INCIDENT
THE TIME TRAP
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
JIHAD

 

So many of them are fantastic storylines! But of the three weakest entries of the list where it currently stands, MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES gets devoured.


YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
THE SURVIVOR
ONCE UPON A PLANET
THE TERRATIN INCIDENT
THE TIME TRAP
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

 

Almost 4 days and no vote? I was hopibg for a little more action...

 

Say bye bye, THE TERRATIN INCIDENT. Incredible shrinking is fun, but a better cause and solution were needed. It may have been handled more consistently than "Wink of an Eye" from S3 was, but a) that was a low bar, b) "Wink" was loads more fun (because of the chemistry between Kirk and Deela).

YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
THE SURVIVOR
ONCE UPON A PLANET
THE TIME TRAP
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

 

I thought we did one of these for TAS not that long ago.

YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE LORELEI SIGNAL
THE SURVIVOR
ONCE UPON A PLANET
THE TIME TRAP
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

Got ninjaed on "The Terratin Incident" ( I've seen Land of the Giants and this wasn't even as good), so instead "Once Upon A Planet" ends unhappily ever after.

 

"THE LORELEI SIGNAL" goes. While an interesting idea, it just didn't work as well as it could have.

YESTERYEAR
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING
THE SURVIVOR
THE TIME TRAP
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

 

I think that BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR got dropped during one of the copy and pastes...

 

I put "Beyond the Farthest Star" back. I was then tempted to remove it immediately, but I took out "One of Our Planets is Missing" maintaining the theme, since one of our episodes was missing. I find this episode is too much like "Immunity Syndrome". That would not have been enough in comparison to "Beyond the Farthest Star" but when I considered the major physics blunder of claiming matter in other galaxies is composed of elements not in our periodic table, I had to kill it.

BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR
YESTERYEAR

THE SURVIVOR
THE TIME TRAP
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

 

"BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR" goes, then. A cool idea, but not as good as the others left.


YESTERYEAR
THE SURVIVOR
THE TIME TRAP
THE SLAVER WEAPON
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

 

Those are some good ones left. Does anyone have the guts to X one of them? I see my favorite in there, hoping no one kills it.

 

So long to "The Slaver Weapon". Never could get into it, and the Kzinti are about as fearsome as the cats in my house.

YESTERYEAR
THE SURVIVOR
THE TIME TRAP
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

 

YESTERYEAR
THE SURVIVOR

THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

Say goodbye to THE TIME TRAP. Too much 70s Bermuda Triangle/Chariots of the Gods for me.

 

YESTERYEAR
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

The Survivor has finally died. I can buy the Vendorian becoming a sickbay bed but a deflector shield is kind of pushing it a little. Even Odo didn't do that in DS9. Lt. Nored wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed when it came to security either.

 

So long YESTERYEAR. The teddy bear was interesting but I never really felt that they got its death across correctly.


THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
THE JIHAD

 

Two good episodes left. The only way to eliminate one of them is to get nit-picky. So, I reject The Jihad because of Laura hitting on Kirk in the middle of a life/death struggle.

THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Note to future writers. - If adolescent boys are a big percentage of your target audience, don't create a false sense of hope for them by making them think that, when they grow up, pretty aggressive women are going to be hitting on them every 7 minutes.

 

"THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER" is the Season One Winner!!!

I have to say, I was expecting "YESTERYEAR" to be the winner again.

I will post Season 2 shortly. Thank you all for playing, and be sure to vote for Season 2!