The Least Disliked Episode 2025 - ENT Final Rounds

[Sakonna]

I will off "Regeneration" and make "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II' the winner.

"Regeneration" is so good but it just cheats A LITTLE too much. Like, a hair. I can't really accept the Borg skipping "we are the Borg" in their usual intro as the fix to preserve continuity. And also Phlox's ridiculous insta-development of a medical treatment that cures assimilation.

But with "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II"... I often watch random Part I's from Star Trek. I am always watching just the first part of "Future's End", "Past Tense", "Time's Arrow", "Year Of Hell" (huh time travel first I guess), "Best Of Both Worlds", "Birthright", "Gambit", etc.

I don't often only watch Part II, but "In A Mirror, Darkly" I always go to Part II first. Even just from that "Previously On" it's incredible (I fucking love the edit of that previously-on). And it just keeps going from there! This episode is a fucking ride. I have no notes really. It's exceptional. It pulls together so many threads from the past and weaves them into this great new piece that totally works as it's own thing.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Just as Empress Sato instructed.

 

[Sakonna]

I also like that we now have both halves of "In A Mirror, Darkly" on the winner board. Part I was the 2019 champion. I don't think we have any other two-parters where each part has taken the prize.

 

[Ghost]

I knew that In a Mirror, Darkly would win, most people here like the Mirror Universe a lot, but it was impressive to see how far Regeneration came as I mentioned before.

Maybe Regeneration does cheat here and there a little such as Phlox's instant assimilation cure but the Borg not introducing themselves is not such a big problem for me as the Borg only started to do that in First Contact. Previously during TNG they never announced themselves.
I do think that Phlox should have picked up their name during the brief time that he was in contact with the collective.
Well continuity got preserved but it got quite bend.

 

[BlueStuff]

I would've voted against Mirror had I been here for the final round - what could've been...

Next up - DISCO.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Maybe Regeneration does cheat here and there a little such as Phlox's instant assimilation cure but the Borg not introducing themselves is not such a big problem for me as the Borg only started to do that in First Contact. Previously during TNG they never announced themselves.
I do think that Phlox should have picked up their name during the brief time that he was in contact with the collective.
Well continuity got preserved but it got quite bend.

And the way the nanoprobes struggle with Denobulan physiology but I guess they had been weakened by the explosion and the deep freeze as the Tarkaleans were also assimilating at a much slower pace than we've seen before.

Next up - DISCO.

These will be interesting especially given DSCs serialised nature.

 

[Ghost]

And the way the nanoprobes struggle with Denobulan physiology but I guess they had been weakened by the explosion and the deep freeze as the Tarkaleans were also assimilating at a much slower pace than we've seen before.

Could be. Any kind of explanation would have been nice but it would probably be considered trivia.

 

[Farscape One]

I don't think ENT could explain why the nanoprobes were assimilating much more slowly simply because they had nothing to compare it to. It's not like they could have gotten information on the nanoprobes from the 24th century and compare it to how the nanoprobes they were currently dealing with were behaving.

This is a case where the audience can simply fill in the blanks themselves.