The least disliked episode of VOY - Season Three

[BlueStuff]

This is a game that was played here a couple of years ago, and it proved to be a lot of fun, spanning across each Trek series, as well as a great way 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 - Balance of Terror
The Next Generation - The Measure of a Man
Deep Space Nine - In the Pale Moonlight
Voyager -

Season One - Phage
Season Two - Death Wish
Season Three -

Basics (II)
Flashback
The Chute
The Swarm
False Profits
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
The Q and the Grey
Macrocosm
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Favorite Son
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I will do the honor of eliminating False Profits, for being the worst episode in Star Trek history.

It's pure fail in every imaginable way. Besides being a 'Voyager screws up another chance to get home' episode, they only fail because they locked up the Ferengi in a cell with no security and put no security anywhere near their ship. It also features the stupidest sentient creatures in the Star Trek universe, and their prime directive excuse for why they couldn't just take the Ferengi away and explain to them they'd been DUPED was absurd.

Although with the stupidity level of this local population (WINGS OF FIRE! WINGS OF FIRE!), without the Ferengi they probably died of exposure within a week for failure to dress themselves in the morning.

Basics (II)
Flashback
The Chute
The Swarm
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
The Q and the Grey
Macrocosm
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Favorite Son
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[jimbotron]

I remarked that Death Wish was the best Q episode in Voyager. Q and the Grey, on the other hand, is really bad. The Q are having a civil war. Therefore it will look like the American Civil War. Clever.

The Q go to war because Quinn killed himself? So it's a no-no for Q to commit suicide, but execution (True Q) is perfectly acceptable. Uh huh.

And what a waste of Suzie Plakson. Though she gets to call Janeway a dog (let's just assume she really would have said bitch), which was awesome.

Basics (II)
Flashback
The Chute
The Swarm
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Macrocosm
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Favorite Son
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[R. Star]

Macrocosm... macro virus... micro plot.

Basics (II)
Flashback
The Chute
The Swarm
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Favorite Son
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I remove The Chute, a terrible "buddy episode" for Paris/Kim.

Basics (II)
Flashback
The Swarm
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Favorite Son
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[DevilEyes]

Basics (II)
Flashback
The Swarm
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)


Favorite Son - another awful Kim episode, another awful Kim-having-love-interests episode, and another episode where people's DNA changes (?!)

 

[Dream]

Goodbye Flashback. The repressed memory virus plot was garbage, should have just time traveled if they wanted to revisit TUC so badly.

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[Seven of Five]

Alter Ego was a very dull episode.

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Remember
Sacred Ground
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Fair Trade
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[KaraBear]

I'm taking out Sacred Ground. I would have just left Kes in the coma

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Remember
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Displaced
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I will eliminate Displaced because it just took too many contrivances.

Their crew is gradually being replaced and they don't suspect until there are only a few people left that this is something intentional? And nobody ever tries to program the ship to beam away any new person who appears or lock down the corridors with forcefields? How'd they get the command codes anyway? And then they manage to get them to give up their whole operation by holding two people hostage?

Points for actually using Chakotay well for once, but among a mediocre season, the problems stand out the most to me.

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Remember
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Warlord
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[KaraBear]

I'm taking out Warlord. Too big of a part of Jennifer Lien to handle. She came accross to me as a little girl playing dressup in her mother's clothes

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Remember
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Fair Trade
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Goodbye "Fair Trade". I disliked Neelix so didn't want to learn anything about him or his past. Besides, if he didn't know space ahead, why not just say? He wasn't about to be hung, drawn and quartered for his lack of knowledge (unfortunately).

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Remember
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Alter Ego
Coda
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

There are another six episodes I could happily cut right now without a second thought, but guess that'll have to wait.

 

[teya]

"Coda": a waste of a terrific guest actor. And Beltran over-emoting. Wooden is better in his case.



Basics (II)
The Swarm
Remember
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Alter Ego
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[Melakon]

I mentioned this not long ago, but "Remember" was so unmemorable, I can never remember what it was about.

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Alter Ego
Blood Fever
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[jimbotron]

Blood Fever - so Klingons get Pon Farr too? Vorik fights B'Elanna to the death for the right to mate with .... B'Elanna. Apparently that's within Vulcan law, which Tuvok confirms. But hey, this show has made much larger leaps in logic before, so this is small potatoes.

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Alter Ego
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Before and After
Distant Origin
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[KaraBear]

I'm taking out Before and After, since it never really happened anyway


Basics (II)
The Swarm
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Alter Ego
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Distant Origin
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I eliminate Distant Origin, because the premise was stupid, and if they were going to introduce a race like that it should have had actual ramifications in future episodes.

Basics (II)
The Swarm
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Alter Ego
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[MacLeod]

"The Swarm", So much for respecting other races right to not have people enter their space.

Basics (II)
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Alter Ego
Unity
Darkling
Rise
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[Seven of Five]

I removed Alter Ego a while ago but it got added back in, so I've corrected the list. I'll also remove Rise, which I'm surprised got so far. It's terrible.

Basics (II)
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Unity
Darkling
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)

 

[teya]

"Darkling." All for the love of Kes. Ugh.

Basics (II)
Future's End (I)
Future's End (II)
Unity
Worst Case Scenario
Scorpion (I)