Scenes that make you cringe....

[ED-209]

What scenes throughout all Trek make you cringe at how cheesy/lame they are?

For me the ultimate on is the whole "I hope I haven't jeopardised our friendship" discussion between Data and Worf, I mean who the hell talks like that?? I have to mute it/fast forward it every time I watch the episode.

 

[at Quark's]

Well, Data does talk like that, most certainly. So the scene doesn't feel unnatural to me as far as he is concerned. I agree that I don't think the dialog fits Worf entirely, though.

First 'cringe' scene that comes to mind for me is the brief 'it's a faaaaaaaake' scene from Senator Vrenak.

 

[1001001]

Yar and Wesley's Anti-Drug PSA

 

[ED-209]

Any "my people have a saying..." speech from Chakotay - talk about stereotyping.

 

[Farscape One]

"THE RECKONING", when Sisko tells Dax he has faith in the Prophets to protect Jake.

UUUGGGHHHHH!!!!

Horrible, horrible damage to his character. Always makes me cringe.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Data and holo-Joe Piscopo making mentally handicapped noises on the holodeck.

Does anyone find that funny? If so, please block me now. Thanks.

 

[Oddish]

The Data/Jenna romance scenes in "In Theory". Urghhh.

 

[Qonundrum]

Dang, so many I've consciously tried to block...

Thankfully, there's always that one eternal gem that's simply impossible:

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*shudddddddddder*

And now, you're stuck with that in auto-loop forever too.

 

[Greg Cox]

"Row, row, row the boat . . . ."

 

[Qonundrum]

As for others...

In 11001001, everyone gives these hokey little nods as if they all survived lunch hour serving hamburgers with fries... the rest of the episode picks up, thankfully.

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(note that they end up in starbase 47, I mean starbase 74... )


Every dirty joke in "The Naked Now".

Okay, everything in "The Naked Now" except for two scenes:

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(Though the contraction the director didn't scream "CUT! RETAKE AND THIS TIME REMEMBER WHAT WON'T BE SAID UNTIL TEN EPISODES FROM NOW IN THAT YOU DO NOT USE CONTRACTIONS! GRR!" Followed by "Scene 6, take 47: ACTION!")


The horrid "penalty box" scene in "Hide & Q", even if it's a snarky double entendre as said box is the bridge of the Enterprise! (The scene starts decently enough but then slaloms into cheap mawkishness faster than you can say "Winter Olympic event" after drinking a sip of extra-strength coffee.

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(skip to 1:50 if it gets too much to bear, I know some of these clips are positively dreadful...)

Thankfully Q shows up just in time to save that sinking star drek from glugging to the ocean floor by refreshingly insulting humans yet again... (What, wait, there's no rimshot emoticon with the little smiley face beatin' a drum and cymbals as a symbol? Shucks...)

 

[Qonundrum]

"Row, row, row the boat . . . ."

Oh yeah! And TNG blessed audiences by taking the time to one-up STV and belch out something that manages to be even more curdling:

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(It's so bad that even at the 0:26 mark, Picard's giving the finger to it all in anticipation...)

Not even the Move Along Home song from DS9 is anywhere as remotely awful as those two singalongs... partly because it's a lot shorter, too...


Which reminds,

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Yeah, I like aspects of the episode and even the main song, but that knuckle crackin' ditty's just too much. Kudos to Charles Napier for making the scene come across better than it deserves to, actually...

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Tripp and T'Pol slathering lube all over each other in decon...

I felt embarrassed for both performers.

 

[donners22]

The Red Squad chant in Valiant. So forced and unnatural (like much of that episode).

Insurrection has plenty, but the bit where they pan across our heroes as they try to make tough faces is the absolute pits.

 

[DonIago]

Allamarain!

Also when things get serious in "Plato's Stepchildren"; it's really uncomfortable to me to see Our Heroes controlled and humiliated in that manner. Which is obviously the point, so well done.

 

[Captain's Coffee]

Profit and Lace… just all of it.

 

[DS9forever]

Janeway's diss of Kirk in "Flashback". She is a Saint apparently. "Of course, the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet today".

 

[at Quark's]

I don't see that as a diss. Simply as an acknowledgement that times have changed, and that some of the very things that made Kirk famous simply wouldn't be acceptable anymore by the standards of Janeway's time. Much as we can acknowledge the greatness of some figures from history while not denying that some of their actions would not fly anymore today and might actually have caused the end of their careers had they lived today.

 

[Brennyren]

Speaking of things that wouldn't be acceptable anymore....

"The intruder had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, Yeoman?" Even Back in the Day, that was pretty cold.

 

[BillJ]

I don't see that as a diss. Simply as an acknowledgement that times have changed, and that some of the very things that made Kirk famous simply wouldn't be acceptable anymore by the standards of Janeway's time.

Yet Janeway acted very much like Kirk most of the time.

 

[at Quark's]

Yet Janeway acted very much like Kirk most of the time.

True

I still wonder whether she had to face a few hard questions after her return home about some of her decisions. But given that she next appears as a vice admiral, I suspect not too many of those.