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The Least Disliked Episode 2023: VOY Season 7

BlueStuff

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Our addictive biyearly game of rapid elimination returns - now with more shows than ever. 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 favourite 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 it would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy! :bolian:

Star Trek: Voyager
Hall of Champions
2011 - Meld
2013 - Living Witness
2017 - Blink of an Eye
2019 - Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
2021 - Scorpion (I)
2023 -

Season 7

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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
 
An obvious first elimination... "UNIMATRIX ZERO PART II".

The Borg horror and terror of assimilation was rendered into nothing because Janeway did so on purpose. It made all of what Picard, Seven, and other former Borg go through meaningless.


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
 
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I’m removing “Endgame.” I just don’t like it as an ending for the journey, for the show, for a number of characters (yes, more than just for the C/7 stuff, promise). It felt like a letdown and somehow all the more for being so bombastic and reality shifting.

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
 
Q2 is agonizing. Casting De Lancie’s son was a terrible call. That performance is unwatchable.

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
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Homestead
Renaissance Man
 
Ahh my beloved Endgame, dead already.

I'm removing Homestead. Pleased that Neelix got a send off episode, just a shame it was so boring.

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
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Renaissance Man
 
Endgame had its moments, even if - oddly - there's no proper code to see our crew get to reunite and all the other predictable mushy stuff. But it was better than U0...

But my first pick is what I think a lot of the audience had attempted:

Repression​

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Yep, they work extra innings to sell the ultimate lie and audience face-slap with what seems to be a cool teaser. Then go watch the episode. Or as much of it as you possibly can. It'll help if you need something to induce vomiting, like after eating the half-cooked Owan egg soufflé with stuffed tribble entree...

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Yes kids, this is what VOYAGER has become - it's own po-faced self-parody, berefit of ideas but loaded with surface level stuff of the sort you need a lot of prunes for, and not in that Worftacular way either...

Tuvok nails the "emotionless" phrase that clearly has the level of apathy-induced disgust we all have for season 7's less-effective outings, in a neat twist of irony. Coppery, too.

Oh well. At least, for this bit of professionally-produced fanfic, they're not seeing magical beings from another universe and dancing "wibbly wobbly gimme teletubby".


What's left:
Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
Workforce (II)
Human Error
Author, Author
Friendship One
Natural Law
Renaissance Man
 
"Friendship One" was depressing af. But what I really hate -- no, loathe -- about this episode is B'Elanna's casual willingness to risk intense radiation exposure for her unborn child for no better reason than that she was bored. It wasn't an emergency; she wasn't the only person who could solve the problem; she was just bored. Yes, I remember they had some anti-rad treatment that would have worked for a certain specific period of time, but the problem with that sort of limitation should be obvious (and indeed, the away team did not get back on time). And her superior officers, the cowards, weren't willing to risk telling her "no"; Tom had to talk her out of it. What idiots!

And then they brought Carey back after six years, only to kill him. Jerks.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
Workforce (II)
Human Error
Author, Author
Natural Law
Renaissance Man
 
Taking out Author, Author. This is one of those times it goes too far for me and I don’t like the Doctor. He hardly summons up basic empathy toward his crew mates. If it were an earlier season I’d take it but this late he just seems like a jerk.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
Workforce (II)
Human Error
Renaissance Man
 
C/7 is an odd relationship, but it seems like with Seven experimenting in the holodeck in Human Error with her implants removed, was a great idea for the development of the character. Then they had the end where the Doctor told Seven that she couldn't live her life properly, which was such a boneheaded move from the producers, trying to portray her as tragic, rather than allowing development. Awful end.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
Workforce (II)
Renaissance Man
 
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Renaissance Man - the way the EMH behaved towards Janeway wasn't great - she's supported him quite a lot over the last 7 years when she could have re-initialised his program and had an easier time of it but he's unwilling to trust her. If this episode had been much earlier in the show then I think that would have annoyed me less.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Nightingale
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
 
Nightingale is the latest bad Harry episode in a very long list. He is just not convincing in the leadership role here, and the episode just plods along.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Flesh and Blood
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
 
Plus, just the whole setup of these random aliens being like "we need you to be our captain!" -- what? why? So dumb.

I've always liked the beginning of "Flesh And Blood", then it falls apart in the middle for me, and I've always thought I was just getting distracted. But on my watch-along-with-Delta-Flyers, I finally figured it out -- these two parts do not connect!

The reason I'm thrown out of the story at the mid-point is because suddenly a bunch of things randomly change, because the Part ! script is on a different page than Part II.

The Iden characterization is the most glaring, in that during Part I he feels very much in the right. Then he's decisively a villain as soon as we cross into Part II, but the story does not show us the progression, a switch just flicks when the writers do.

"Dark Frontier" and "The Way Of The Warrior" and all the premieres and finales work as two-hour episodes because they were designed and written that way.

Producing a two-parter and then editing it into a double-episode does not work, the rhythms are fundamentally different.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Body and Soul
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
 
"Body and Soul" - it really bothers me that the EMH has control of Seven's body and that he does things like get drunk and eat unhealthy food when he's a doctor, clearly YMMV and I think most people aren't bothered by stuff like this. Also, why is he unable to experience these things in a realistic way in the holodeck as a hologram? He's modified his program to be able to sing, he's friends with Seven and she loves cooking, it feels like something someone would have suggested to him before.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
Prophecy
The Void
Workforce (I)
 
I love B'Elanna and Tom's little arc in S7, but Prophecy needs to die. Boring! It's just a dull example of all the other, better Berman-era Klingon episodes, whilst at the same time adding another item to the list of things the ship shouldn't be running into on the way home.

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
The Void
Workforce (I)
 
"Workforce Part I" I actually still have not seen Part II. I always get to the end of Part I, and see no reason to continue with the story.

I really don't understand why the huge, sweeping, epic story of "The Void" is crammed into one episode the week before, while this wisp of a nothing is stretched to within an inch of it's life just to fill this first half.

I can't stop wondering over what the moment must have been in the writers room, when you have on the white board:

"The crew get factory jobs."

"The crew becomes trapped in a dangerous void filled with stranded aliens, and their only chance at escape is to recreate a new Federation."

And everyone's like, "I know which of these is our last epic two-parter"... I don't get it! Baffling!

Imperfection
Drive
Critical Care
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
The Void
 
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Removing Drive. I like Tom and B’Elana and, honestly, those race suits are some of the coolest looking uniforms in all of Trek, but it just feels like mostly filling time. The relationship struggles, the race, the sabotage are all just kind of slap dash problems with easy solutions. It’s like the episode could have delved deeper into any one or put any one as the B story of a different episode. Don’t hate it but it definitely feel like passing time in a season with better B’Elanna episodes.

I also wish that the last Tom-centric episode was a more fulfilling story. An episode about him being a hot rod pilot vs. the great two seconds you get seeing him become a father in Endgame feels like a poor trade.

Imperfection
Critical Care
Shattered
Lineage
Repentance
The Void
 
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