The least disliked episode 2021 - VOY 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 - Meld
2013 - Living Witness
2017 - Blink of an Eye
2019 - Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
2021 -

Season Seven

Unimatrix Zero II
Imperfection
Drive
Repression
Critical Care
Inside Man
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Q2
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man
Endgame

 

[Orphalesion]

Let's remove Endgame. Borg Villain Decay? Check! Janeway doing something extremely shady which the show portrays as good and righteous? Check! (She erases whole generations from existence to save a couple of close friends) Problems with continutiy? Check! (why isn't the Federation time police stopping Admiral Insaneway?)
And then she can't even be assed to go back a *little* bit further (what was it a few weeks?) to save Lt.Carey and reunite him with his sons. Sorry Carey, you weren't one of Janeways favourites, so your life means nothing!

All that...and then we didn't even see them arriving at home and possibly reuniting with loved ones...or learned what happened to the characters.

Season Seven

Unimatrix Zero II
Imperfection
Drive
Repression
Critical Care
Inside Man
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Q2
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[Claudia]

Unimatrix Zero II
Imperfection
Repression
Critical Care
Inside Man
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Q2
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

I'll remove Drive - space-race coupled with relationshipissues... urgh. Sorry, but B'Elanna and Tom never worked for me.

 

[BigDaveX]

Unimatrix Zero Part II. Seriously, by this point the Borg were making the Kazon look competent by comparison. Maybe it was part of that whole "humans can rise to overcome any challenge because we're so darned special" thing that they had going on back in the Berman era, but doing so by turning the villains into completely incompetent boobs is the kind of thing you'd expect from Power Rangers, not this franchise.

Imperfection
Repression
Critical Care
Inside Man
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Q2
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[Farscape One]

Already, the two I immediately would have eliminated are done. (Premiere and finale.)

"INSIDE MAN" goes. We didn't need another bad Ferengi episode for VOYAGER. (And I truly do love most of the DS9 ones. DS9 was really the only show that did right with them.)


Imperfection
Repression
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Q2
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[oldtrekkie]

"The Void" vacates the premises. Seven is a chef. Life now not only appears but also evolves to sapience in a place where there is nothing. When you have very little and you share it with others who have very little, the whole lot of you will have plenty of everything...

Imperfection
Repression
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Q2
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[Sakonna]

Q2 succeeds only as a warning on the dangers of nepotism. That kid was not up to the demands of this role.

Imperfection
Repression
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[Orphalesion]

Prophecy. I don't even know anymore how I should rephrase my dislike for the way they constantly shoved down Klingon crap down our throats through the whole of 90s Trek.
But not only do we encounter Klingons in the far end of space...no naturally they believe that B'ellana's and Tom's daughter is their mother-fracking Christ Child

Imperfection
Repression
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[Qonundrum]

Shattered - all good things get regurgitated and clipshowed and this episode makes even the more recent booby borg "events" from this season feel like better-handled ideas.

(It takes guts to redo a similar plot trope or sequence of plot events and to make it its own, as opposed to having it come across as feeling "done better before already". If it works, it's truly fantastic. "Shattered" doesn't.)

What's left:
Imperfection
Repression
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Lineage
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[BigDaveX]

Repression. Props for trying to do something with the Maquis again, but the plot they go with in this episode just falls apart the minute you try and think about it in any remotely logical fashion.

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Lineage
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[Claudia]

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

"Lineage"... trying to excise the Klingon half (or quarter) of your baby's DNA??? Talk about a parent's issues being transferred unto the (unborn) child...

 

[Sakonna]

"Friendship One" is such a malevolently mean-spirited episode, I really can't stand it. That Carey death might be the nastiest piece of bullshit in all 7 seasons.

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Removing Natural Law for the same reason it won the 'Most forgettable episode' game last time.

It probably only made it this far because it was too forgettable for anyone to think to remove it.

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[Farscape One]

"FLESH AND BLOOD" is next on the chopping block.

The Doctor actively not only disobeyed orders, but caused damage to the ship. His mistake in going for Iden's cause is not the problem... in fact, it further proves he is not just a program.

But surely he couldn't have been stupid enough to think Iden would just take him only? Oh, wait... he was stupid enough. As much as I love his character, season 6 and 7 rarely did him any favors.



Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Homestead
Renaissance Man

 

[BigDaveX]

Renaissance Man. The second-last episode of a seven year run, and they chose to do a standard-issue Doctor story? And yeah, I know Voyager's supposed to be episodic, that it's not really about long-term story arcs... but the same was true of TNG, and they at least brought back Ro to give her a send-off in their penultimate episode!

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Author, Author
Homestead

 

[Orphalesion]

Author, Author Blergh, more of the Doctor's out of control egotism. Yeah he does get some comeuppance at the end (and there is some laughs to be had curtesy of Tom's spoof novel), but then it is too late and his self-aggrandizing, solipsistic holo-"novel" has already been published.
It also shows how terrible Holo-Novels must be, like the way it was presented it would fail both as a intro-spective of the Doctor (since there is no narration, inner dialogue or some such) and as an interactive experience (since the "player" seems to be beholden to a sort of script...but don't ask me how the user is even supposed to know that script since...again...no narration and such)
So that kinda makes me think that a lot of the holo novels we see are very crappy versions of a typical Bathesda game (a featureless avatar rather than a man character, yet very little freedom in action and exploration)

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Homestead

 

[Seven of Five]

Nightingale is deathly boring. The show's worst character gets a whole hour to himself, which just goes through the motions as it is anyway.

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Human Error
Homestead

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Removing Human Error. Not only did it start the show’s most arbitrary pair, it ended up with the cop out of “Implant make human emotions dangerous!”

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II
Homestead

 

[Claudia]

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Repentance
Workforce I
Workforce II

Removing Homestead - how convenient to discover a Talaxian colony right at the end of the series so that everybody gets his "coming home"-feeling...

 

[May 20]

I'm cutting Repentance because, even with the help of a plot description, I don't remember it. I remember "Unforgettable" and "The Fight," so how do I not remember this one? Clearly this one is the worst of what's left.

Imperfection
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Workforce I
Workforce II