Most Disliked Episode of TOS, Season 1 - 2025 Edition

[Farscape One]

Welcome to our bi-yearly 'Most Disliked Episode' games! Now that the 'Least Disliked Episode' games hosted by BlueStuff (who inspired me to create these games, so thank you very much for paving the way) have concluded, we can begin the opposite side of that coin.

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 most favorite or the one you deem the 'best.' 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 (or Failures?)
2011 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2018 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2019 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2021 - "THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR"
2023 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2025 -


Season One

THE MAN TRAP
CHARLIE X
WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE
THE NAKED TIME
THE ENEMY WITHIN
MUDD'S WOMEN
WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?
MIRI
DAGGER OF THE MIND
THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER
THE MENAGERIE PART I
THE MENAGERIE PART II
THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING
BALANCE OF TERROR
SHORE LEAVE
THE GALILEO SEVEN
THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS
ARENA
TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY
COURT MARTIAL
THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS
SPACE SEED
A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
THE DEVIL IN THE DARK
ERRAND OF MERCY
THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR
THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
OPERATION -- ANNIHILATE!

 

[Farscape One]

Starting things off by taking out "BALANCE OF TERROR".

This is one of two TOS episodes that are my absolute favorites among all the others.

This episode has everything... great plot, great acting, great action (even by today's standards), and more... this episode was FLAWLESS! And it introduced the Romulans, one of the best races in the franchise!

We get a great look at Kirk and his inner thoughts during his scene with McCoy in his quarters. We have bigotry getting quickly smacked down on the bridge. We have a sympathetic villain. We get a good glimpse of Romulan society on their bridge. We have Shatner performing at his best with no dialogue at the end as he walks out of the chapel and into the corridor.

I can keep going, but I think my point has been made. For me, this was a perfect classic in a season that contained many classics. I will still maintain that TOS season 1 was the best first season of any series in the franchise.



THE MAN TRAP
CHARLIE X
WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE
THE NAKED TIME
THE ENEMY WITHIN
MUDD'S WOMEN
WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?
MIRI
DAGGER OF THE MIND
THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER
THE MENAGERIE PART I
THE MENAGERIE PART II
THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING
SHORE LEAVE
THE GALILEO SEVEN
THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS
ARENA
TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY
COURT MARTIAL
THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS
SPACE SEED
A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
THE DEVIL IN THE DARK
ERRAND OF MERCY
THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR
THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
OPERATION -- ANNIHILATE!