The least disliked episode 2021 - TNG Season Seven

[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 Seven

Descent II
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Force of Nature
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Homeward
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[BigDaveX]

Homeward. Having the crew say the Prime Directive mandates that they stand by and let a civilization die is one thing. Having them berate the one guy who actually wants to do something about it just gets the episode off to a really sour start that it never quite recovers from.

Descent II
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Force of Nature
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Journey's End
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Orphalesion]

Journey's End. Just...Journey's End. As I described it in another thread: A Bored, Overprivileged White College Kid (tm) seeks "more to his life" (tm), because he feels restless and exams give him tummy aches. So he goes on a vision quest under the guidance of the Wise Nature Peoples (tm) and drops out, taking a giant dump on all the opportunities that had been handed to him over the last seven years to "explore existence" with the creepy [censored] from season 1.
Barf me with a spoon! I'm not sure it's the worst episode of Season 7 (there's a lot of competition) but it's (to me) one of the most rage inducing.
Plus, it's possible that this episode eventually led to the creation of Chekotay, and that's already a serious crime by itself.(Though, yes, Chekotay could have been a good character with a different actor, better writing and if they had hired an consultant who was actually a Native American, instead of a flimflam artist)

Descent II
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Force of Nature
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Masks
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[BK613]

Masks is my least favorite TNG episode period. Sometimes one can overlook the silliness because something in the episode is appealing. Not so with Masks, at least not for me.
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Descent II
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Force of Nature
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self

Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Takeru]

Force of Nature, I appreciate that they tried to do an environmentalism episode but it just doesn't work for me. A warp drive speed limit is a silly idea for a show that requires warp drive for its premise to work. I knew it would be forgotten soon and I was right, they paid lip service to it two or three times and then it was never brought up again. I also don't like they the woman had to prove her point via suicide.


Descent II
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Sub Rosa
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Albertese]

Oh man, here we go... Season 7 was mostly turds in my opinion. And the worst one was "Sub Rosa." This episode is just roundly awful. In more ways than I have time to type about just now.

Descent II
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus

Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Eye of the Beholder
Genesis
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Orphalesion]

Let's get rid of Genesis. Not only is the premise ridiculous and fails biology, genetics and evolution. Not only are the half-"devolved" crew members silly. Not only do people die and yet we end the episode with Troi and Beverly smiling and making quips about Barclay being neorotic. Not only did they change Spot's sex for the sake of the plot.
Not only all that....but Picard and Data just leave Spot's newborn kittens mewling on the floor, without the food, warmth or care they need to survive and which they can't get from their mother, since she's a lizard now!!!
At least deposit them in an incubator in Sickbay you heartless monsters!


Descent II
Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Eye of the Beholder
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Qonundrum]

More wooden acting than in a California forest. Really lame and superficial plot. Elevator music would make better incidental music. Descent pt 2 wasn't even decent.

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(talk about giving Data the finger... and that's one of the story's better scenes. )

What's left:

Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Eye of the Beholder
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Emergence
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Qonundrum]

Oh man, here we go... Season 7 was mostly turds in my opinion. And the worst one was "Sub Rosa." This episode is just roundly awful. In more ways than I have time to type about just now.

If nothing else, Sub Rosa gave us this:

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[Swedish Borg]

So many to choose from, even at this stage, it feels like sophy's choice in reverse...

Let's take out Emergence...

A plot that makes no sense whatsoever. Oh come on, Enterprise develops an intelligence??? Where did it take that from? Not the writers decidedly!!!




What's left:

Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Eye of the Beholder
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Swedish Borg]

Let's get rid of Genesis. Not only is the premise ridiculous and fails biology, genetics and evolution. Not only are the half-"devolved" crew members silly. Not only do people die and yet we end the episode with Troi and Beverly smiling and making quips about Barclay being neorotic. Not only did they change Spot's sex for the sake of the plot.
Not only all that....but Picard and Data just leave Spot's newborn kittens mewling on the floor, without the food, warmth or care they need to survive and which they can't get from their mother, since she's a lizard now!!!
At least deposit them in an incubator in Sickbay you heartless monsters!
..

The most ridiculous part and that means a lot... Is "Picard uncorks the pheromones". Do you realize that if worf-beast had caught up with Picard there would have been some same-sex interspecies humping!!!!

 

[Orphalesion]

If nothing else, Sub Rosa gave us this:

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I love Allison's reviews! And she has similar views on "the Inner Light" as I do, iirc.

Also...cheez, couldn't they at least get a hot guy to play the candle ghost?

 

[Qonundrum]

I love Allison's reviews! And she has similar views on "the Inner Light" as I do, iirc.

Also...cheez, couldn't they at least get a hot guy to play the candle ghost?

I blame the makeup and 80s hair on steroids and meth (aka 90s hair). Duncan Regehr's something of my type... of course, in the following video, who isn't...

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And now for something completely different:

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[JesterFace]

Duncan Regehr = Zorro

 

[Orphalesion]

I blame the makeup and 80s hair on steroids and meth (aka 90s hair). Duncan Regehr's something of my type... of course, in the following video, who isn't...

Well, he's quite a bit younger in that video, though.
And I mean he's not ugly or anything, but he's not Harlequin Romance Novel material. And SubRosa was basically Star Trek's take on a Harlequin Romance novel.
(and I have to admit I have a preference for dark eyed men, so I might be biased here)

Also I never saw the 80s version of V, is it worth watching?

 

[BigDaveX]

Eye of the Beholder. Interesting concept, but it doesn't really go anywhere, and just kinda slowly grinds to a halt instead of coming to anything especially resembling an ending.

Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Firstborn
Bloodlines
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Brennyren]

Terminating "Bloodlines." Firstly, because any character development the episode might have offered Picard is deep-sixed by the revelation that Jason isn't Picard's son. (Quelle surprise!) Secondly, because it creeps me out to think that the Federation has such a comprehensive database that Bok could just look up who Picard was sleeping with umpty-ump years ago. Thirdly, because Picard, like so many fictional unaware dads, never shows any sign of anger at the news that his ex had his son and never thought he needed to know about the kid's existence. Most guys I know would be pissed off over something like that.

Liaisons
Interface
Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Firstborn
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[BK613]

We were already doing ROV stuff so by the time Interface arrived it seemed outdated.
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Liaisons

Gambit I
Gambit II
Phantasms
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Firstborn
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...

 

[Swedish Borg]

Eye of the Beholder. Interesting concept, but it doesn't really go anywhere, and just kinda slowly grinds to a halt instead of coming to anything especially resembling an ending.
.....

Plus its not very 24th century. I mean they sleep together and she thinks he belongs to her!!! Seriously!!! Even in a hallucination, that's kinda weird.

 

[Swedish Borg]

Phantasms is out because if Data's sensors or whatever, detected these creatures along with a method to kill them then why in hell would it have been repressed into his "unconscious" or whatever? I mean that doesn't make any sense. When we repress thoughts (it usually extremely rare btw) but there's always a reason, a traumatic reason. It's once again Data aping humans but completely off the mark!

Also since Data doesn't have feelings. How could he be traumatized? There's no reason or possibility for him to repress an idea. Just as a blind man can't be hurt by a flash light... Data cant' be impaired by an emotion.


Liaisons
Gambit I
Gambit II
Dark Page
Attached
Inheritance
Parallels
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Thine Own Self
Firstborn
Preemptive Strike
All Good Things...