The Least Disliked Episode 2025 - PIC 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: Picard
Hall of Champions
2021 - Remembrance
2023 - Imposters
2025 -

Season 3
The Next Generation
Disengage
Seventeen Seconds
No Win Scenario
Imposters
The Bounty
Dominion
Surrender
Võx
The Last Generation

 

[Detached Nacelle]

The Last Generation can fuck right off for pissing on the whole franchise. The regression of the TNG cast to roles they advanced from decades ago, the disrespect to the Titan, making Enterprise a name you slap to any old ship instead of honouring their own deeds. Nepotism to unrealistic degrees. Disrespect to the previous seasons of the show and attempts to fit in done horrendously wrong like Raffi's granddaughter.

This is probably the worst season of the entire franchise.

The Next Generation
Disengage
Seventeen Seconds
No Win Scenario
Imposters
The Bounty
Dominion
Surrender
Võx

 

[Farscape One]

Best season of the series, hands down. And best of the current serialized seasons... not even a contest. (Between 5 DISCO seasons and 3 PICARD ones, it was the ONLY one that was consistently AND stuck the landing. The franchise really needs to stay away from such severe serialization for their seasons with a record of 1 great, 2 good/decent, 2 meh, and 3 absolute disasters.)



Taking out "Vox".

While I LOVED seeing the Enterprise again, I HATED the Borg returning. They were already used for 2 seasons.


The Next Generation
Disengage
Seventeen Seconds
No Win Scenario
Imposters
The Bounty
Dominion
Surrender

 

[Sakonna]

Wow, two of the top episodes, from one of Trek's top seasons (certainly the top season of all modern Trek), are first out!

I'll ax "Imposters." I must have been distracted for this to win the championship last time. It's the only episode from this season I only watched once. It's still VERY good, like everything this season, it's just the only segment that was lacking that "rewatch" power.

The Next Generation
Disengage
Seventeen Seconds
No Win Scenario
The Bounty
Dominion
Surrender

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I'll cut off the top and tail and erase The Next Generation for crimes against continuity. It's very clear during the writing stage they intended for Riker's Titan to have for no real reason been a Constitution class ship and no one had the sense to modify the script so it doesnt seem like a disjointed mess.

Disengage
Seventeen Seconds
No Win Scenario
The Bounty
Dominion
Surrender

 

[Quinton]

Wow, two of the top episodes, from one of Trek's top seasons (certainly the top season of all modern Trek), are first out!

I was pretty stunned, myself! Just goes to show, it’s a divisive season - it’s just, lots of us really like it. Certainly, to a degree in which the other two seasons’ fans probably do not rival. We’re outspoken to the point that the other half of TrekBBS likely finds it irritating, so I try to hold it in. :P

Anyway, goodbye, “Dominion”. The only episode I dislike is “Imposters”, and even then, only to a point; “Dominion” simply isn’t all that far ahead of it.

Disengage
Seventeen Seconds
No Win Scenario
The Bounty
Surrender

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I had considered abstaining from this round given my strong emotions regarding this season but after the Discovery and the previous Picard season rounds I was convinced they had a place.

 

[Quinton]

I had considered abstaining from this round given my strong emotions regarding this season but after the Discovery and the previous Picard season rounds I was convinced they had a place.

Oh, for sure, they absolutely do!

 

[Farscape One]

All good ones. Hard to pick.

I'll take out "Surrender". Only because it ended on Jack STILL not knowing what the damn thing is.


Disengage
Seventeen Seconds
No Win Scenario
The Bounty

 

[Sakonna]

The de-aging CGI in "Seventeen Seconds" is a horror show. That scene I literally can not watch, I have to look away from the screen.

Disengage
No Win Scenario
The Bounty

 

[Detached Nacelle]

For poorly conceived continuity in flashbacks that serve only to fuel the fanfiction that is this season, No Win Scenario has indeed not won.

Disengage
The Bounty

 

[BlueStuff]

I love both those episodes (and this season) - I’ll make The Bounty the winner for expanding the scope a little more, growing the cast, and nailing the feel of an additional TNG season. Needless to say, I don’t think it’s fanfiction!

 

[Sakonna]

Aside from the finale, "The Bounty" is my next favorite episode of the season. It's flawless.

Truly, it's a near-perfect season of television. And I'm not sure the perfect season of television exists. This is as good as it gets!

There are few things I hate more than a showrunner who describes their season as "a long movie." (If your idea is a long movie, THEN MAKE A LONG MOVIE AND DO NOT MAKE A TV SHOW) When they started teasing this season as the final movie for the TNG crew, I got nervous.

But damn was I impressed with how perfectly it managed to be a long movie AND ALSO A TV SHOW. Forget just Star Trek, I'm not sure I've ever seen any other TV show manage that balance perfectly. Each piece of PIC S3 is a discrete episode. Each episode satisfies on its own, as TV should. Yet it also all adds up to an epic film.

Just a brilliant ten hours of work all around. So impressive. I also kept marveling over how smartly they spent the money. Early Discovery has that vibe of "how many millions can we burn on pointless bells & whistles?" It's like they're trying to waste money. But on PIC S3 every dollar is on screen.

One of the great ironies of the streaming Trek era is that it made this huge commitment to serialization, then almost exclusively hired writers who were aggressively incompetent at specifically serialization. Year after year, they kept doubling and tripling down on the very thing they were worst at, though they also kept making progress little by little. And then they finally reach Picard S3, and FINALLY get it right - EXACTLY as the streaming bubble bursts and the era ends. At least serialized live-action Trek went out on a high note!

 

[Detached Nacelle]

The diverse range of opinions is quite fun isn't it

 

[Quinton]

The diverse range of opinions is quite fun isn't it

Absolutely. I wish more folks felt similarly!