The least disliked episode of TNG - season five

[BlueStuff]

This is a game that we play every two years, and 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 favorite 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 because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners
The Original Series - Mirror, Mirror
The Next Generation -

Season One - Heart of Glory
Season Two - Q Who?
Season Three - Yesterday's Enterprise
Season Four - The Best of Both Worlds (II)
Season Five -

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
A Matter of Time
New Ground
Hero Worship
Violations
The Masterpiece Society
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
Cost of Living
The Perfect Mate
Imaginary Friend
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Tosk]

Imaginary Friend is first to go. Predictable and tedious.

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
A Matter of Time
New Ground
Hero Worship
Violations
The Masterpiece Society
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
Cost of Living
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Terok Nor]

The Masterpiece Society is unmemorable.

This season is going to be tough. There's only a couple of episodes in it I don't care for.

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
A Matter of Time
New Ground
Hero Worship
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
Cost of Living
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Amaraen]

I did not really like Hero Worship.


Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
A Matter of Time
New Ground
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
Cost of Living
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

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[Terok Nor]

Terok Nor is offline Notify the Moderator

No need to send out a search party. I'm back online now

 

[Tosk]

An episode focusing on Lwaxana and Alexander? The Cost of Living is too damn high.

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
A Matter of Time
New Ground
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Amaraen]

Terok Nor is offline Notify the Moderator

No need to send out a search party. I'm back online now

Oh dear, I have no idea what caused that!

 

[Seven of Five]

New Ground needs to go. Alexander really bugs me, and should disappear.

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
A Matter of Time
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Amaraen]

I will take out A Matter of Time. I did not care for the time travelling character.

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Green Shirt]

Disaster is voted off the island. Another episode with irritating, whiny kids.

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
The Game
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Seven of Five]

The Game is a seriously dodgy Wesley return, so off it goes. The way people kept making pleasurable noises when they did well was embarrassing, and Wesley saves the ship again.

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Amaraen]

I thought Data saved the ship in that episode?

I am going to remove The Outcast. I was sad about the indoctrination at the end (I totally got what they were implying and I thought it was well done).

Redemption (II)
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Vanyel]

Bye,Bye, Redemption II. I don't buy being able to resign your commission and just being allowed back in.

Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Violations
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Seven of Five]

I thought Data saved the ship in that episode?

My bad. Whoever saved the day in the end, it still blew.

Violations is the weakest that's left for me so that's gone.

Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Green Shirt]

The Next Phase goes. Good episode, but the sciency stuff makes me scratch my head. How can they breathe, and why don't they fall through the floor when they can pass through people and bulkheads?

Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Terok Nor]

Ethics because Worf was a selfish jerk and that doctor was a bitch.

Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (I)
Unification (II)
Conundrum
Power Play
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Amaraen]

I am going to remove Unification (I). I like the episode, but I prefer the second half.

Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (II)
Conundrum
Power Play
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
I, Borg
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Shikarnov]

I, Borg is toast -- for beginning the castration of the Borg as a threat (seriously, a weird shape is going to take down the Collective?), for setting up Descent, and for the sheer ridiculousness of watching Captain Picard lampoon Locutus as some sort of undercover agent for the Borg.

Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (II)
Conundrum
Power Play
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Perfect Mate
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Terok Nor]

I'll take out The Perfect Mate. I love Famke Jansen but this episode is a snooze.

Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Unification (II)
Conundrum
Power Play
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)

 

[Amaraen]

I am going to take out Ensign Ro. I liked the character, but I was not very fond of the episode.

Darmok
Silicon Avatar
Unification (II)
Conundrum
Power Play
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow (I)