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Least favorite type of episode
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I am currently watching VOYAGER with my wife. Her first time, my... hell, we'll call it 10th.
We are currently playing a game... "Spot the Episode Without 'Some kind/sort/type/form Of' Mentioned".
We just watched "REVULSION", and the ONLY episode to not have it yet is "DAY OF HONOR". It took the show 71 episodes (really 72, because "NEMESIS" was produced before this one) before we got to one absent of that phrase.
I'm actually enjoying the game, despite how frustrating it is to get all the way to the last 3 minutes of an episode, and the phrase gets dropped.
We are currently playing a game... "Spot the Episode Without 'Some kind/sort/type/form Of' Mentioned".
We just watched "REVULSION", and the ONLY episode to not have it yet is "DAY OF HONOR". It took the show 71 episodes (really 72, because "NEMESIS" was produced before this one) before we got to one absent of that phrase.
I'm actually enjoying the game, despite how frustrating it is to get all the way to the last 3 minutes of an episode, and the phrase gets dropped.
I hate episodes that seem to contain some sort of moralistic message but are actually completely empty like Voyager Remember for example or Thirty Days... I also detest any episode where the Captain makes a speech, sometimes including gazelles...
Gettysburg Address
Gehrig's Farewell Speech
Kennedy's Inaugural
MLK's "I have a dream" speech
Jonathan Archer's Gazelle Speech
My top five public speeches of all time, but not necessarily in that order. The Gazelle Speech is truly amazing just like the gazelle itself.
Here's a question... does anyone even see Mayweather make a mistake? At any point in time? Ever?
I often think that as a seasoned spacefarer, he should have been a lieutenant early on. He had more relevant experience than anyone else, and unlike Hoshi and Harry from Voyager (both of whom also should have been promoted), he never seemed to do anything to justify being passed over.
I often think that as a seasoned spacefarer, he should have been a lieutenant early on. He had more relevant experience than anyone else, and unlike Hoshi and Harry from Voyager (both of whom also should have been promoted), he never seemed to do anything to justify being passed over.
Mayweather may have been the least seen (with the fewer lines) main character in a star trek series ever!!!
My point is, we hardly see any of him at all. There's the episode where he goes see his mother and brother and a few episodes where he gets more than one line, like the other episode with a freighter in distress and that's pretty much it.
Especially Trip who's idiocy is often used as a plot device.
- Any episode that uses the Prime Directive as an excuse to justify inaction towards civilizations where horrible crimes are committed just for the sake of so-called cultural relativism and non-interventionism
- Any Captain Proton episode (as much as I like Kim and Paris, they are such a chore to watch!)
- Any episode with children, even more if there is Neelix on it
- Most Ferengi episodes (even though Quark is one of my top 5 characters in all Star Trek)
- Most holodeck episodes
- And... I know I'll be controversial but 90% of Q episodes (Q Who is awesome though)
- Any Captain Proton episode (as much as I like Kim and Paris, they are such a chore to watch!)
- Any episode with children, even more if there is Neelix on it
- Most Ferengi episodes (even though Quark is one of my top 5 characters in all Star Trek)
- Most holodeck episodes
- And... I know I'll be controversial but 90% of Q episodes (Q Who is awesome though)
I actually like those. TV programs where an innocent person is blamed for a crime another did...those just get me angry.
Technobabble is tolerable I guess when it's just background noise, atmosphere so to speak, what I hate is when technobabble is the solution or when it becomes a character of the plot!!! Those are really bad!!! Plus you had better not think about it too much because most of the time it's completely idiotic. Like when Janeway says that she's gonna punch through the event horizon!!! Talk about stupid. Or when Neelix says that he's filled the room with plasma!!!
Those Captain Proton episodes were hard work. I liked the idea and I thought they looked right and played well but it should've been a one episode thing, really. I will contradict myself slightly and add that in one of the later episodes where, confronted by that robot-thing, Seven rips it's wires out saying "I am Borg" was pretty funny, I did like that bit.
The writers toward the middle-end of the Berman era run seemed obsessed with ongoing holodeck arcs. It started with Vic Fontaine, and fed into things in VOY like Leonardo Da vinci and Captain Proton. It's almost as if the franchise was getting stale and the writers were getting bored.
That reminds me, back in the TNG days - imagine an important call from the head of Star Fleet being picked up by a junior officer on the bridge..,
“You’re telling me, Lieutenant, that ALL the senior officers are pissing about on the holodeck AGAIN?!?!?”
Maybe that's why they did it so much... they didn't have to worry about calls from Starfleet.
The episodes I dislike is when a character becomes a relative, a sister, of an iconic one from TOS and the stories hit the retroactivity jargon over and over again which could never match with the series I love. I just wish these showrunners would simply create their character in her own pool than sh*tting on the other one.
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