The least disliked episode 2021 - TNG Season One

[BlueStuff]

Our addictive biyearly game of rapid elimination returns - now able to include Disco's third season as well as the debut years of Picard and Lower Decks. 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 just because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Hall of Champions
2011 - The Best of Both Worlds I
2013 - The Measure of a Man
2015 - All Good Things...
2017 - The Best of Both Worlds I
2019 - Yesterday's Enterprise
2021 -

Season One

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Code of Honor
The Last Outpost
Where No One Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[BK613]

I'm goning to remove The Last Outpost. There's not much of a plot, Data can't solve a toy puzzle, and the simian portrayal of the Ferengi with their energy whips is cringe-inducing.

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Code of Honor

Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Swedish Borg]

Hands down, "Code of Honor", which is offensive in every possible way. The idea of a planet with black people is stupid (just as a planet with white people) but in this example, we have all the clichés of racist movies (like jungle movies or great white hunter movies) and the plot is completely unbelievable, I mean people with customs dating back to the stone age have discovered a vaccine for a disease that happens on ANOTHER PLANET!!!

Plus to add insult to insult, Picard says, you know what you people remind me of? The Chinese!!! Yeah right!!!

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
Skin of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[BlueStuff]

Skin of Evil is outta here - the entire second half is so saccharine it beggars belief. It would feel over the top if it were commemorating the death of a beloved character at the end of a full seven-season run, let alone just under a year of Tasha Yar.

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Removing Lonely Among Us.

The diplomats we're transporting are killing and eating each other, ha ha ha what a fun light note to end on.

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Brennyren]

Farewell to "Justice," or, as it used to be known in my Star Trek fan club, "The Planet of Blonde Jogging Bimbos." It's boring and talky, the 80s hairstyles hurt my eyes, and Tasha Yar is shite at assessing planets for shore leave. "The penalty for every crime is death" is a pretty big thing to miss.

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[BK613]

I liked the initial mystery of Aldea, the execution was vastly underwhelming. So When the Bough Breaks is history...

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season

Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Swedish Borg]

"Angel One" because Riker dressing like a manwhore is a bit too much. So what if they were dealing with the Ferengi, should all women go naked? There's a limit to how much you should indulge in stupid customs.


Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Brennyren]

There's no refuge here for "Haven." I was thoroughly turned off by the way everyone accepted it was just Troi's duty to comply with the arranged marriage to a guy she didn't even know -- I'm sorry, I thought this was the 23rd century, not the 19th.

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Orphalesion]

Nothing excuses "The Big Goodbye". It's an episode were Picard larps a crappy noir story. If I wanted to see some "hard boiled detective" nonsense (which I don't) there's enough, better written material, you don't need to derail a SciFi show set on a spaceship into some McDonald's version of a detective story.

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Hide and Q
Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[BK613]

Hide and Q is by far the worse of the Q episodes. (and correcting the list because someone copied the wrong list. didn't realize that someone had posted right before them.)

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle

Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Farscape One]

"The Naked Now" gets clothes and leaves the list.

Doing the exact same plot of a TOS episode so early was not a good idea.


Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Brennyren]

"Symbiosis" fails because of that horrible "Just say no" scene that the producers just had to include. Clumsy and ham-handed are about the kindest descriptors I can come up with.

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Datalore
11001001
Too Short a Season
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[BK613]

Too Short a Season was just too long . De-aging? ugh. A 24th century Starfleet Captain giving away weapons tech? Ugh.

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Datalore
11001001

Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Albertese]

I can never remember what the heck even happens in "We'll Always Have Paris." Bon voyage!


Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Datalore
11001001
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom

Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Takeru]

Heart of Glory, the episode is just annoying, there's zero drama in the question if Worf will help the other klingons to steal half the Enterprise, that plot falls completely flat. And 30 years after watching the episode first it still annoys me how incompetent security is, the klingons just assemble a disruptor out of the parts they had with them? Starfleet security is famously incompetent but how little sense this made was obvious to me even as a child.


Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Datalore
11001001
Home Soil
Coming of Age
The Arsenal of Freedom
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

 

[Farscape One]

"The Neutral Zone" is being violated off this list.

Despite bringing back the Romulans, the plot of the 20th century humans didn't seem to go with the rest of the episode.


Encounter at Farpoint
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Battle
Datalore
11001001
Home Soil
Coming of Age
The Arsenal of Freedom
Conspiracy

 

[BK613]

Where No One Has Gone Before sailed outta the galaxy and beyond. It should have stayed there. What with the fraud engineer, the phasing alien, and the the coronation of Wesley, Boy Genius, it obviously didn't know where it was.

Encounter at Farpoint

The Battle
Datalore
11001001
Home Soil
Coming of Age
The Arsenal of Freedom
Conspiracy

 

[Orphalesion]

I can't believe 11001001 has lasted this long. That episode spends far too much time on Picard and Riker flirting around with a holographic bar floozy. And the scene where Riker selects his wanking material is creepy as all hell.

The Battle
Datalore
Home Soil
Coming of Age
The Arsenal of Freedom
Conspiracy

 

[Farscape One]

"Datalore" is shut down. It made the officers look stupid.

The Battle
Home Soil
Coming of Age
The Arsenal of Freedom
Conspiracy