The Least Disliked Episode 2025 - VOY Final Rounds

[Oddish]

And Deadlock is... dead.

Welcome to the bridge... PFOOOOM!!!

I've tried to get rid of One Small Step for so many rounds and now you almost do it while I'm not looking.

Yeah, that one held out a long time, then went down fast.

State of Flux. Again.

Faces - 0
State of Flux - 1
Year of Hell, Part I - 1
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[BlueStuff]

List updated.

Faces - 0
State of Flux - 2
Year of Hell, Part I - 1
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I think I will be going for State of Flux but only just. Seska was great.

Faces - 0
State of Flux - 3
Year of Hell, Part I - 1
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[Akiraprise]

I really don't have anything bad to say about any of these, YoH is such a banger I always hope it wins. Scorpion gives us Seven and doesn't neuter the Borg yet. Faces is a creepy horror type episode with great character work for Torres and features the Vidiians as they were meant to be, conflicted and creepy, although I'm surprised it's made it this far. So that leaves State of Flux to get the unfortunate axe only because I prefer the other three more.

Faces - 0
Year of Hell, Part I - 0
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[Takeru]

Year of Hell again, same reason as before.

Faces - 0
Year of Hell, Part I - 1
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[Akiraprise]

This round I'll go with Faces. The other two are just iconic VOY episodes.

Faces - 1
Year of Hell, Part I - 1
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[BlueStuff]

Agreed, let's get going on The Changing Face of This List.

Faces - 2
Year of Hell, Part I - 1
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[Seven of Five]

I just love the other 2 more, sorry Faces.

Faces - 3
Year of Hell, Part I - 1
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[Farscape One]

Voting "YEAR OF HELL" again.

Same reasons as before.


Faces - 3
Year of Hell, Part I - 2
Scorpion, Part II - 0

 

[Oddish]

Voting Scorpion, not that I think it'll matter.

Faces - 3
Year of Hell, Part I - 2
Scorpion, Part II - 1

 

[Detached Nacelle]

It's the Face(s) off round now. I adore Scorpion and Year of Hell and it's interesting it's a part 1 vs a part 2.

While the pay off of Scorpion gives us a whole new status quo and changes the entire franchise with the introduction of Seven of Nine, as a standalone installment 1v1 I think the set up and mystery of Year of Hell is more exciting.

Fractions of a percentage in it, but I vote Scorpion.

Year of Hell, Part I - 0
Scorpion, Part II - 1

 

[Seven of Five]

I agree, Scorpion Part 2 is slightly weaker than Year Of Hell Part 1.

If would have voted the other way round if Part One made it.

Year of Hell, Part I - 0
Scorpion, Part II - 2

 

[BlueStuff]

I always loved Year of Hell too much to go against it.

Year of Hell, Part I - 0
Scorpion, Part II - 3

 

[Sakonna]

Wow! I am happy to come along at the right moment to off "Scorpion" and make "Year Of Hell" the winner!

I was hoping for "Year Of Hell" to win this whole time, but thinking it probably just wouldn't make it there, so I'm pleasantly surprised by this.

Yes, it's all a big reset button, but as the whole series is plagued with that, there's something I appreciate about how big YoH goes with it. And at least this reset button is built into the story itself, rather than being the "everything was fine again somehow" cheat we're used to.

I used to be annoyed Voyager wasn't doing "Year Of Hell" as a full season story, but a few decades later, I appreciate the escapism of how weirdly light Voyager insists on being, despite the grimness of their circumstances. In the 90's that was frustrating, but these days I find it refreshing.

So that also makes me like "Year Of Hell" a lot more. I'm glad we don't have to sit through a season of this, and I think a big crazy dark two-parter is actually exactly the right form for this story after all.

 

[BlueStuff]

Year of Hell stole the win; it was getting votes several rounds ago, then it gets to the final and somehow the people who’d been voting against it were all away. Drama!

 

[Akiraprise]

I do wonder if two-parters should just be counted as one episode in totality. They are one longer story meant to be considered together. That might shake things up in the results department. Is Scorpion as a whole better than Year of Hell? Does the reset button heavy YoH trump the franchise altering Scorpion? Maybe we need a least disliked two-parter spin off contest.

 

[Sakonna]

Maybe we need a least disliked two-parter spin off contest.

I run a Most Disliked version of that, but we already did this years.

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THE OBJECTIVE: A sudden-death elimination game in which we remove our personal favorite episodes/movies from a themed list, until we arrive at the episode that is, if not the worst, at least the most disliked. It's a framework to say positive things about episodes from across the franchise...

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[Oddish]

No point in running them as full episodes, we split them and they were still the top two. The only one and done episode ("Faces") squeaked a bronze.

If we ran two-parters as two-parters, they'd always win.

 

[Akiraprise]

Faces was certainly the odd ball this time. It's good but I've never considered it top 3 good.

 

[BlueStuff]

Plus when you consider episodes like TNG’s Birthright, you have situations where one part is vastly better than the other. And do you consider DS9’s Circle Trilogy a single episode? Assessing each part individually is fair and valid, for me.