Collected over time, my ratings for the first season of every Trek show. The caveat: Only the first 15 episodes are counted, or 10 in the case of Picard.
TOS:
1)The Cage: 8.00/10
2)The Man Trap: 7.00/10
3)Charlie X: 6.50/10
4)Where No Man Has Gone Before: 8.50/10
5)The Naked Time: 9.50/10
6)The Enemy Within:. 9.50/10
7)Mudd's Women: 5.00/10
8)What Are Little Girls M: 6.50/10
9)Miri: 6.00/10
10)Dagger of the Mind: 7.25/10
11)The Corbomite Maneuver: 9.75/10
12)The Menagerie - Part I: 8.50/10
13)The Menagerie - Part II: 8.00/10
14)The Conscience of the King: 9.75/10
15)Balance of Terror: 10.00/10
Avg Total: 07.98
STNG:
1)Encounter at Farpoint: 6.00/10
2)The Naked Now: 6.50/10
3)Code of Honor: 3.00/10
4)The Last Outpost: 7.00/10
5)Where No Man Has Gone Before: 10.00/10
6)Lonely Among Us: 6.50/10
7)Justice: 4.00/10
8)The Battle: 6.50/10
9)Hide and Q: 4.50/10
10)Haven: 5.50/10
11)The Big Goodbye: 9.75/10
12)Datalore: 9.75/10
13)Angel One: 4.50/10
14)11001001: 10.00/10
15)Too Short A Season: 7.00/10
Avg Total: 06.70
DS9:
1)Emissary: 9.75/10
2)A Man Alone: 7.00/10
3) Past Prologue: 9.00/10
4)Babel: 6.00/10
5)Captive Pursuit: 9.75/10
6)Q-Less: 4.00/10
7)Dax: 5.00/10
8)The Passenger: 6.00/10
9) Move Along Home: 4.25/10
10)The Nagus: 6.00/10
11) The Vortex: 7.00/10
12)Battlelines: 7.00/10
13)The Storyteller: 5.75/10
14)Progress: 5.50/10
15)If Wishes Were Horses: 3.00/10
Avg Total : 06.33
Voyager:
1)Caretaker: 8.50/10
2)Parallax: 6.25/10
3) Time and Again: 7.00/10
4)The Phage: 8.00/10
5)The Cloud: 6.00/10
6)Eye of the Needle: 7.00/10
7)Ex Post Facto: 6.25/10
8)Emanations: 8.00/10
9)Prime Factors: 5.00/10
10)State of Flux: 7.00/10
11)Heroes and Demons: 4.00/10
12)Cathexis: 5.00/10
13)Faces: 8.50/10
14)Jetrel: 7.75/10
15)Learning Curve: 8.00/10
Avg Total : 06.82
Enterprise:
1)Broken Bow: 8.50/10
2)Fight or Flight: 8.00/10
3)Strange New World:. 7.00/10
4)Unexpected: 7.25/10
5)Terra Nova: 6.50/10
6)The Andorian Incident: 7.50/10
7) Breaking the Ice: 7.00/10
8) Civilization:. 6.75/10
9) Fortunate Son: 6.50/10
10)Cold Front: 6.00/10
11)Silent Enemy: 8.00/10
12) Dear Doctor: 8.00/10
13)Sleeping Dogs: 6.00/10
14)Shadows of P’Jem: 7.75/10
15)Shuttlepod One: 7.50/10
Avg Total : 7.22
Discovery:
1)The Vulcan Hello: 8.50/10
2)The Battle at the Binary Stars: 8.50/10
3)Context is for Kings: 9.75/10
4)The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For: 9.00/10
5)Choose Your Pain: 9.75/10
6)Lethe: 9.50/10
7)Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad: 7.00/10
8)Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum: 8.25/10
9)Into the Forest, I go: 10.00/10
10)Despite Yourself:. 10.00/10
11)The Wolf Inside: 8.50/10
12)Vaulting Ambition: 8.75/10
13)What's Past is Prologue: 10.00/10
14)The War Without, the War Within: 9.75/10
15)Will You Take My Hand?: 6.75/10
Avg Total : 08.93
1. Star Trek: Picard "Remembrance"- 9.50/10
2. Star Trek: Picard "Maps and Legends"- 9.50
3. Star Trek: Picard "The End Is The Beginning"- 7.50
4. Star Trek: Picard "Absolute Candor"- 7.00
5. Star Trek: Picard "Stardust City Rag"- 8.00
6. Star Trek: Picard "The Impossible Box"- 8.50
7. Star Trek: Picard "Nepenthe"-9.00
8. Star Trek: Picard "Broken Pieces"- 9.50
9. Star Trek: Picard "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" - 9.00
10. Star Trek: Picard "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" - 9.00
Final grade: 8.65
DSC: 8.93
PCD: 8.65
TOS: 7.98
ENT: 7.22
VOY: 6.82
TNG: 6.70
DS9: 6.33
TOS: 7.98
TNG: 6.70
DS9: 6.33
VOY: 6.82
ENT: 7.22
DSC: 8.93
PCD: 8.65
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Discovery strengths include a pre-planned arc which allowed for fewer filler episodes. A good core writing team (An Academy Award winner, A Writer's Guild Award nominee, a Trek novelist, et al), and a new outlook on Trek, one missing some of the dramatic straight jackets of previous Trek, and production design and execution without peer. Several episodes are now classics. Later nominated for Hugo and Peabody Awards, and winner of several others. Like TNG, this started a new franchise golden age.
Picard: A very solid first season that perhaps lacked a little direction at times. With 10 episodes, the scripts were generally tighter than old Trek, but a re-write/re-edit of 2 early season episodes left it feeling unbalanced, before coming back with 4 excellent entries to finish off. Micheal Chabon's contributions here cannot go unmentioned.
TOS: What can you say, the excellence of season one was "lightning in a bottle". Good sci-fi writers, some motivated producers, and sincere performances led to what became a classic. This was the gold standard of premiere seasons until contemporary Trek!
ENT: Something of a surprise to myself as well as probably others, but this placing is because the grades show while there were few major standouts, there was also none of the extreme lows of the series. Chalk one up for a solid season of Trek.
VOY: There were just enough good episodes here to lift this out of mediocrity into "ok" territory but there were some horrible missteps. Caretaker is still a very good pilot, the most expensive till that time.
TNG: Still my favorite show, and while I like some things about the season very much, there was just too much unevenness in the entire production, so sadly this falls to this place. A Peabody nom for this shows they were trying.
DS9: 3 Excellent episodes and lots of directionless blandness. It's easy to see why so many jumped ship. Seeds were planted for later greatness.
There we have it. The best of first seasons that often had to find their legs later on.
RAMA
TOS:
1)The Cage: 8.00/10
2)The Man Trap: 7.00/10
3)Charlie X: 6.50/10
4)Where No Man Has Gone Before: 8.50/10
5)The Naked Time: 9.50/10
6)The Enemy Within:. 9.50/10
7)Mudd's Women: 5.00/10
8)What Are Little Girls M: 6.50/10
9)Miri: 6.00/10
10)Dagger of the Mind: 7.25/10
11)The Corbomite Maneuver: 9.75/10
12)The Menagerie - Part I: 8.50/10
13)The Menagerie - Part II: 8.00/10
14)The Conscience of the King: 9.75/10
15)Balance of Terror: 10.00/10
Avg Total: 07.98
STNG:
1)Encounter at Farpoint: 6.00/10
2)The Naked Now: 6.50/10
3)Code of Honor: 3.00/10
4)The Last Outpost: 7.00/10
5)Where No Man Has Gone Before: 10.00/10
6)Lonely Among Us: 6.50/10
7)Justice: 4.00/10
8)The Battle: 6.50/10
9)Hide and Q: 4.50/10
10)Haven: 5.50/10
11)The Big Goodbye: 9.75/10
12)Datalore: 9.75/10
13)Angel One: 4.50/10
14)11001001: 10.00/10
15)Too Short A Season: 7.00/10
Avg Total: 06.70
DS9:
1)Emissary: 9.75/10
2)A Man Alone: 7.00/10
3) Past Prologue: 9.00/10
4)Babel: 6.00/10
5)Captive Pursuit: 9.75/10
6)Q-Less: 4.00/10
7)Dax: 5.00/10
8)The Passenger: 6.00/10
9) Move Along Home: 4.25/10
10)The Nagus: 6.00/10
11) The Vortex: 7.00/10
12)Battlelines: 7.00/10
13)The Storyteller: 5.75/10
14)Progress: 5.50/10
15)If Wishes Were Horses: 3.00/10
Avg Total : 06.33
Voyager:
1)Caretaker: 8.50/10
2)Parallax: 6.25/10
3) Time and Again: 7.00/10
4)The Phage: 8.00/10
5)The Cloud: 6.00/10
6)Eye of the Needle: 7.00/10
7)Ex Post Facto: 6.25/10
8)Emanations: 8.00/10
9)Prime Factors: 5.00/10
10)State of Flux: 7.00/10
11)Heroes and Demons: 4.00/10
12)Cathexis: 5.00/10
13)Faces: 8.50/10
14)Jetrel: 7.75/10
15)Learning Curve: 8.00/10
Avg Total : 06.82
Enterprise:
1)Broken Bow: 8.50/10
2)Fight or Flight: 8.00/10
3)Strange New World:. 7.00/10
4)Unexpected: 7.25/10
5)Terra Nova: 6.50/10
6)The Andorian Incident: 7.50/10
7) Breaking the Ice: 7.00/10
8) Civilization:. 6.75/10
9) Fortunate Son: 6.50/10
10)Cold Front: 6.00/10
11)Silent Enemy: 8.00/10
12) Dear Doctor: 8.00/10
13)Sleeping Dogs: 6.00/10
14)Shadows of P’Jem: 7.75/10
15)Shuttlepod One: 7.50/10
Avg Total : 7.22
Discovery:
1)The Vulcan Hello: 8.50/10
2)The Battle at the Binary Stars: 8.50/10
3)Context is for Kings: 9.75/10
4)The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For: 9.00/10
5)Choose Your Pain: 9.75/10
6)Lethe: 9.50/10
7)Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad: 7.00/10
8)Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum: 8.25/10
9)Into the Forest, I go: 10.00/10
10)Despite Yourself:. 10.00/10
11)The Wolf Inside: 8.50/10
12)Vaulting Ambition: 8.75/10
13)What's Past is Prologue: 10.00/10
14)The War Without, the War Within: 9.75/10
15)Will You Take My Hand?: 6.75/10
Avg Total : 08.93
1. Star Trek: Picard "Remembrance"- 9.50/10
2. Star Trek: Picard "Maps and Legends"- 9.50
3. Star Trek: Picard "The End Is The Beginning"- 7.50
4. Star Trek: Picard "Absolute Candor"- 7.00
5. Star Trek: Picard "Stardust City Rag"- 8.00
6. Star Trek: Picard "The Impossible Box"- 8.50
7. Star Trek: Picard "Nepenthe"-9.00
8. Star Trek: Picard "Broken Pieces"- 9.50
9. Star Trek: Picard "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" - 9.00
10. Star Trek: Picard "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" - 9.00
Final grade: 8.65
DSC: 8.93
PCD: 8.65
TOS: 7.98
ENT: 7.22
VOY: 6.82
TNG: 6.70
DS9: 6.33
TOS: 7.98
TNG: 6.70
DS9: 6.33
VOY: 6.82
ENT: 7.22
DSC: 8.93
PCD: 8.65
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Discovery strengths include a pre-planned arc which allowed for fewer filler episodes. A good core writing team (An Academy Award winner, A Writer's Guild Award nominee, a Trek novelist, et al), and a new outlook on Trek, one missing some of the dramatic straight jackets of previous Trek, and production design and execution without peer. Several episodes are now classics. Later nominated for Hugo and Peabody Awards, and winner of several others. Like TNG, this started a new franchise golden age.
Picard: A very solid first season that perhaps lacked a little direction at times. With 10 episodes, the scripts were generally tighter than old Trek, but a re-write/re-edit of 2 early season episodes left it feeling unbalanced, before coming back with 4 excellent entries to finish off. Micheal Chabon's contributions here cannot go unmentioned.
TOS: What can you say, the excellence of season one was "lightning in a bottle". Good sci-fi writers, some motivated producers, and sincere performances led to what became a classic. This was the gold standard of premiere seasons until contemporary Trek!
ENT: Something of a surprise to myself as well as probably others, but this placing is because the grades show while there were few major standouts, there was also none of the extreme lows of the series. Chalk one up for a solid season of Trek.
VOY: There were just enough good episodes here to lift this out of mediocrity into "ok" territory but there were some horrible missteps. Caretaker is still a very good pilot, the most expensive till that time.
TNG: Still my favorite show, and while I like some things about the season very much, there was just too much unevenness in the entire production, so sadly this falls to this place. A Peabody nom for this shows they were trying.
DS9: 3 Excellent episodes and lots of directionless blandness. It's easy to see why so many jumped ship. Seeds were planted for later greatness.
There we have it. The best of first seasons that often had to find their legs later on.
RAMA
