Game The Most Disliked Episode Directed By A Trek Actor, 2025 Edition

[Farscape One]

Saving "COGENITOR". (Because it didn't save itself.)

Despite the fact it made Trip's character look really bad, it was a good dilemma episode. And it gets debated now and then today, so by that barometer alone, it can't be considered a bad episode.

(Rather fitting that Burton directed an episode about teaching how to read, considering his hosting of READING RAINBOW.)



VOY Season 2: "Parturition" (Jonathan Frakes)
VOY Season 4: "Unforgettable" (Andrew Robinson)
VOY Season 7: "Nightingale" (LeVar Burton)
VOY Season 7: "Q2" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 1: "Fortunate Son" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 1: "Cold Front" (Robert Duncan McNeill)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)

 

[Sakonna]

I guess the alien lizard baby puppet in "Parturition" is kind of cute.

VOY Season 4: "Unforgettable" (Andrew Robinson)
VOY Season 7: "Nightingale" (LeVar Burton)
VOY Season 7: "Q2" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 1: "Fortunate Son" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 1: "Cold Front" (Robert Duncan McNeill)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I like the temporal wars stuff so I suppose Cold Front will get my save for introducing several elements like Daniels.

VOY Season 4: "Unforgettable" (Andrew Robinson)
VOY Season 7: "Nightingale" (LeVar Burton)
VOY Season 7: "Q2" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 1: "Fortunate Son" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)

 

[Cyfa]

I quite like ENT: "Fortunate Son" (LeVar Burton) because it shows how dangerous freight running on the frontier can be. And it's another episode that gives Travis a bit more to do.

VOY Season 4: "Unforgettable" (Andrew Robinson)
VOY Season 7: "Nightingale" (LeVar Burton)
VOY Season 7: "Q2" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)
ENT Season 3: "Chosen Realm" (Roxann Dawson)

 

[Sakonna]

This is a rough final five! I guess if you held a gun to my head and told me I had to watch one, I'd go with "Chosen Realm." There's a little bit of something potentially interesting going on in this one.

VOY Season 4: "Unforgettable" (Andrew Robinson)
VOY Season 7: "Nightingale" (LeVar Burton)
VOY Season 7: "Q2" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)

 

[Seven of Five]

Yikes what a yukky final few to choose from.

Unforgettable Is entirely forgettable, but I'd rather watch it than the other three.

VOY Season 7: "Nightingale" (LeVar Burton)
VOY Season 7: "Q2" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Q2 may be the second worst appearance of Q but at least it has one or two good lines from de Lancie.

VOY Season 7: "Nightingale" (LeVar Burton)
ENT Season 2: "Bounty" (Roxann Dawson)

 

[Sakonna]

Q2 may be the second worst appearance of Q but at least it has one or two good lines from de Lancie.

What's the worst one?

 

[Detached Nacelle]

What's the worst one?

The Last Generation

 

[Farscape One]

Saving "BOUNTY", because we at least got to be with a Tellarite for most of the episode, which is rare outside of PRODIGY.


"NIGHTINGALE" wins because it made Kim look like an idiot as a leader.

 

[Cyfa]

A worthy "winner"!

If I'd got here 10 mins earlier (I was watching Steven Universe ) I would have saved "Bounty" for the same reason as you, @Farscape One. Having a Tellarite doesn't quite make up for the awful, cringey scenes with T'Pol undergoing early pon farr in the decon chamber, though. Poor Jolene

 

[Detached Nacelle]

What a rollercoaster this game was. But yes no semblance of injustice found over Nightingale taking the inauspicious crown here.

 

[Sakonna]

The Last Generation

Oh yeah! Also, this is a well-timed reminder. I was just thinking about running "The Most Disliked Q Appearance" soon and I totally would have forgotten to add that.

Personally, I did like it, though.

 

[Sakonna]

The 2022-2023 winner of this game was DS9: "Profit & Lace"

MOST DISLIKED WINNERS, 2025
'HEY, THIS PLANET IS JUST LIKE EARTH!': TOS, Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
MAJEL BARRETT APPEARANCE: TAS, Season 1: "The Ambergris Element"
THR'S 100 BEST TREK EPS: TNG, Season 4: "Brothers"
WRITER RONALD D. MOORE: TNG, Season 6: "Aquiel"
DIRECTOR LES LANDAU: TNG, Season 7: "Bloodlines"
JEFFREY COMBS APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 6: "Profit & Lace"
GARAK APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 7: "The Dogs Of War"
WRITER MICHAEL PILLER: VOY, Season 1: "Time And Again"
FERENGI: VOY, Season 3: "False Profits"
3RD SEASON: VOY, Season 3: "Rise"
WEDDING: VOY, Season 3: "Favorite Son"
DIRECTOR DAVID LIVINGSTON: VOY, Season 5: "The Disease"
5TH SEASON: VOY, Season 5: "Warhead"
6TH SEASON: VOY, Season 6: "Fair Haven"
DIRECTOR WINRICH KOLBE: VOY, Season 7: "Drive"
DIRECTED BY TREK ACTOR: VOY, Season 7: "Nightingale"
7TH SEASON: VOY, Season 7: "Natural Law"
COUPLE: VOY: Seven/Chakotay
KLINGON: ENT, Season 2: "Marauders"
TWO-PARTER/DOUBLE EPISODE: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front"
VISIT TO EARTH'S PAST: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"
THREE-PARTER: ENT, Season 4: "Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments"
4TH SEASON: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
HOLIDAY: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
SEASON FINALE ANTAGONIST: ENT, Season 4: Holographic Recreation Of Unnamed Alien Criminal, "These Are The Voyages..."
MIRROR UNIVERSE: DIS, Season 1: "The Wolf Inside"
SECTION 31: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
HOLODECK: DIS, Season 3: "Su'Kal"
DIRECTOR JONATHAN FRAKES: DIS, Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
TRILL: DIS, Season 4: "Choose To Live"
EXIT OF A REGULAR: DIS, Season 4: "All Is Possible" (Sylvia Tilly)
SEASON PREMIERE: ST, Season 1: "Runaway"
GUINAN APPEARANCE: PIC, Season 2: "Monsters"
ANIMATED TREK: PRO, Season 2: "Ascension, Part II"
REGULAR CHARACTER: PRO: Drednok

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