The Least Disliked Episode 2025 - DISCO Season 3

[BlueStuff]

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!

Star Trek: Discovery
Hall of Champions
2019 - Project Daedalus
2021 - If Memory Serves
2023 - If Memory Serves
2025 -

Season 3
That Hope Is You (I)
Far from Home
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
Scavengers
Unification (III)
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)
Terra Firma (II)
Su'Kal
There Is a Tide...
That Hope Is You (II)

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

"There Is a Tide..." had all the right ingredients to be one of my favourite episodes, but I found I couldn't give a damn about any of it. Being bored by an episode is bad, but being disappointed and bored is even worse.

That Hope Is You (I)
Far from Home
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
Scavengers
Unification (III)
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)
Terra Firma (II)
Su'Kal
That Hope Is You (II)

 

[Sakonna]

And we have reached Disco's first season that works more than it doesn't! That jump to the 32nd century really did them good.

Though, this season does still fumble the ball in the final segments, so I'll ax "That Hope Is You, Part 2." This finale is not a total failure, much of it does work. But also a lot of the season 1/2 Disco nonsense reasserts itself at the finish line. The stupidity with the DOT "dying." All the fake-out "certain death" scenarios. The incoherence of Burnham's final battle with Osyraa.

That Hope Is You (I)
Far from Home
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
Scavengers
Unification (III)
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)
Terra Firma (II)
Su'Kal

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

"Su'Kal" and the origins of the Burn is one of the silliest things in Trek, and not in a charming way. Begone!

That Hope Is You (I)
Far from Home
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
Scavengers
Unification (III)
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)
Terra Firma (II)

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Far from Home feels a bit redundant, it's basically the same as the premier just from different perspectives and Detmer's haiku about Stamets' blood is just weird and doesnt strike me as a natural ptsd response.

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
Scavengers
Unification (III)
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)
Terra Firma (II)

 

[Sakonna]

"Unification III" It was such a letdown to see nothing of the planet.

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
Scavengers
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)
Terra Firma (II)

 

[Farscape One]

DISCO's best season... with a terrible ending and a stupid cause for The Burn. That lowers the season, unfortunately.

Taking out "Scavengers".

I hate the floating nacelles upgrade of Discovery. It makes no sense.

And Burnham going against orders again. It's tiresome.



That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)
Terra Firma (II)

 

[Poldon]

Removing "Terra Firma Part 2" because I have grown to hate the Mirror Universe. The Guardian is the best part.

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
The Sanctuary
Terra Firma (I)

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I guess Terra Firma 1 is the weakest here, I love Georgiou and Carl but this two parter plays a little too loose with suspension of disbelief. Was history in the Mirror changed? Was this a different permutation of the Mirror? Was it all just an illusionary test?

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
Die Trying
The Sanctuary

 

[Sakonna]

The plot of "Die Trying" involves way too many idiotic coincidences for me to handle. I love Nhan, though.

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
Forget Me Not
The Sanctuary

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Choosing "Forget Me Not". The more Discovery deals with mental health the less interested I am, and I think that's more of a writing problem than a me problem.

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
The Sanctuary

 

[Seven of Five]

I enjoyed DIS in the 32nd century, even if like S1 ad S2 the season fell apart in the final stretch.

The Sanctuary is a pretty boring episode and is easy fodder.

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth

 

[Detached Nacelle]

What an interesting duo to be the finalists. This is a tough one. On the one hand That Hope is You was the exciting continuation from the dramatic cliffhanger that changed the very nature of the series and was a really fun adventure through this new world with tantalising glimpses into it. And Burnham's laughing gas trip. But then People of Earth has the shocking revelation that Earth has left the Federation and there is a whole new status quo in the galaxy.

They are both as consequential as the other so I would have to just them on their individual merits and I think Hope is the better romp so I shall crown it the winner.

 

[Farscape One]

Choosing "Forget Me Not". The more Discovery deals with mental health the less interested I am, and I think that's more of a writing problem than a me problem.

That Hope Is You (I)
People of Earth
The Sanctuary

By the Prophets, I completely agree. It's like the DISCO writing staff hired a shrink to go through every script and it couldn't pass to get filmed unless it had crying, whining, or having some meltdown when a ticking clock was happening. It's why I could never take this crew seriously as professional, Starfleet officers.

Have your cry or meltdown and let it all out... when it's not in the middle of a situation. It's just unprofessional.