Game The Most Disliked Episode Directed By David Livingston

[Sakonna]

THE OBJECTIVE: A sudden-death elimination game in which we remove our personal favorite episodes from a themed list, until we arrive at the episode that is, if not the worst, at least the most disliked.

THE RULES: Below is a list of episodes from TNG, DS9, VOY, & ENT directed by David Livingston -- Trek's most prolific director! 62 episodes directed across 4 series.

Eliminate/save your favorite, or the one you deem the ‘best.’
Post something you love about the episode you are saving, and copy-and-paste the list with your choice removed.

You can use any standard you like to judge which option is "best." You can save episodes for being widely recognized “best Trek” classics, or for idiosyncratic qualities that no one appreciates but you.

But -- no tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you don’t think anyone else will, or because you feel it would threaten your preferred episode's chance to “win.”

You can take multiple turns. Leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

New players are always welcome, you do not have to already be a "most disliked game" regular to dive in.

Much thanks and credit to @Farscape One, for having the director credits literally memorized.

Enjoy!

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
TNG Season 5: "Power Play"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 1: "In The Hands Of The Prophets"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 2: "Crossover"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Visitor"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "The Cloud"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 3: "Scorpion, Part I"
VOY Season 4: "Scientific Method"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Sakonna]

I'll start with "Crossover." Still an MU high point. Kira vs Kira is fabulous -- and damn well directed.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
TNG Season 5: "Power Play"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 1: "In The Hands Of The Prophets"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Visitor"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "The Cloud"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 3: "Scorpion, Part I"
VOY Season 4: "Scientific Method"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Summer Solstice]

This is a cool way of comparing some very different episodes. Thanks @Sakonna and @Farscape One for putting the list together.

Saving "The Cloud" for "there's coffee in that nebula", a giant space organism (one of the weird space aliens early on in Voyager that made the Delta Quadrant feel very different to the Alpha Quadrant) and Janeway hustling everyone at pool.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
TNG Season 5: "Power Play"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 1: "In The Hands Of The Prophets"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Visitor"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 3: "Scorpion, Part I"
VOY Season 4: "Scientific Method"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Qonundrum]

My first choice is

TNG Season 5: "Power Play"

It's a nice little action piece with some great character moments.

The only downer is the wallpaper muzak, which tries to hurt the episode with its antimatter (antimusic?), squib-like approach - but somehow doesn't. I blame the actual story and acting being so much better that the farting frog symphony doesn't rain droplets o' yellow on it all.


What's left:
TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 1: "In The Hands Of The Prophets"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Visitor"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 3: "Scorpion, Part I"
VOY Season 4: "Scientific Method"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Sakonna]

I've always been a passionate fan of "In The Hands Of The Prophets", despite it's lack of a cliffhanger (I always dying for those cliffhangers!). It's a beautiful cap to DS9 season 1. I love the weaving together of all the plot threads in this one.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Visitor"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 3: "Scorpion, Part I"
VOY Season 4: "Scientific Method"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Summer Solstice]

I love "Scientific Method". All the characters are involved in the story, and the aliens made a big mistake to try to call Janeway's bluff after stopping her from sleeping and giving her headaches for so long.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Visitor"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 3: "Scorpion, Part I"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Farscape One]

Saving "SCORPION".

A great season finale, and great scene between Janeway, Chakotay, and the scorpion tale. (Personally, I sided with Chakotay on this one. An alliance with the Borg is akin to an alliance with Hitler.)



TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Visitor"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Sakonna]

A great season finale, and great scene between Janeway, Chakotay, and the scorpion tale. (Personally, I sided with Chakotay on this one. An alliance with the Borg is akin to an alliance with Hitler.)

#ArturisWasRight! It's kind of terrible how they just kept making episodes that made this choice worse and worse. She got whole other races genocided, and it was all to stop Species 8472... who ultimately turned out to be a bunch of chill, reasonable guys.

"The Visitor"! STILL makes me cry every time, decades later. Some aspects of it are finally starting to age (the way Old Jake relates to Melanie feels a little dicier every time, not to mention those prosthetics), but I still love it intensely.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Qonundrum]

Up next:

DS9 Season 4: "Sons Of Mogh"

The scene where Sisko admonishes and tears Dax and Worf some new ones alone renders it awesome, helped by the fact the continuing Klingon drama couldn't do anything like this in TNG beyond lipservice.

As always, Tony Todd excels.

The only downer is a bit anticlimactic as far as compromises go - some think it's charming, some think it's a copout. I think it's the only way they could go.

Thankfully the mindwipe gimmick wasn't as regular a fixture as the transporter or holosuite...

What's left:
TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 2: "Deadlock"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Qonundrum]

Saving "SCORPION".

A great season finale, and great scene between Janeway, Chakotay, and the scorpion tale. (Personally, I sided with Chakotay on this one. An alliance with the Borg is akin to an alliance with Hitler.)

The scorpion analogy was cool.

So was John Rhys-Davies.

It's almost edgy in trying to get Janeway to try a deal with this devil. Certainly bold and ambitious.

Pt 2's ending re-using the scorpion metaphor almost makes up for the story straining to do such an impossible task; it was a hard stretch to weave the plot to get the Borg to roll over and beg like that. And the body horror for Harry is suitably creepy (only in "Threshold" did 90s Trek cross the line, but if nothing else it got me to quit my licorice habit...)

"Scorpion" is one of the best Borg stories after TBOBW, though. I need to give it a looksee again.

And I too would have sided with Chakotay.

 

[gweeps]

Thank god nobody picked 'Deadlock'. It's a tense, exciting episode with many great character moments, and some mindbending ideas.

What's left:
TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "Homefront"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[gweeps]

Might I add, man, Livingston directed some stone classics of Trek. If I remember correctly, McNeill and Wang talk about him fondly on The Delta Flyers podcast, and how he loved using different lenses.

 

[Vger23]

Man there are some cool episodes on this list. I’m going to save Homefront (DS9). This was a tense, compelling 2-parter at the onset 9f the Dominion conflict, and I’ve always loved it.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 2: "Maneuvers"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Farscape One]

Initiating evasive "MANEUVERS".

This was a tense episode. Very, very well directed.


TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Shuttlepod One"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Brennyren]

"Shuttlepod One" is the first episode of Enterprise that I remember really enjoying. The way Trip and Malcolm bonded on the not-so-doomed shuttlepod was just so much fun to watch! A good script, well-played.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 2: "The Maquis, Part I"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Vger23]

Another episode from a great 2-parter in DS9; “The Maquis Pt 1” It’s a great episode, unfolds so nicely, and is a nice character challenge for Sisko early on in the show.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "Night"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Captain's Coffee]

VOY Season 5: "Night" a truly great episode that shows the size of Janeway's emotional burden for stranding her crew in the Delta quadrant.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
VOY Seaosn 7: "Author, Author"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Oddish]

I'll save "Author, Author" for the Doctor and Tom's conflicting alternate Voyagers.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
DS9 Season 7: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Farscape One]

Saving "INTER ARMA SILENT LEGES".

His last DS9 one, and what an episode to finish with. Excellent script, well directed, well acted. Tense and turn twisting the entire time. Just brilliant.


TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 1: "Detained"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Good list and thanks as ever for making it!

I'm pulling Detained (ENT) out of the dumpster fire. A nuanced episode with no easy answers, but mainly I'm taking it out for the unofficial Bakula/Stockwell Quantum Leap reunion.

TNG Season 4: "The Mind's Eye"
DS9 Season 1: "The Nagus"
DS9 Season 1: "The Storyteller"
DS9 Season 2: "Rules Of Acquisition"
DS9 Season 2: "Rivals"
DS9 Season 2: "Playing God"
DS9 Season 3: "The Die Is Cast"
DS9 Season 4: "The Muse"
DS9 Season 5: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 Season 6: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 Season 6: "Change Of Heart"
VOY Season 1: "Emanations"
VOY Season 1: "Learning Curve"
VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
VOY Season 3: "Flashback"
VOY Season 3: "Future's End, Part I"
VOY Season 3: "Warlord"
VOY Season 3: "Distant Origin"
VOY Season 4: "Hunters"
VOY Season 4: "The Killing Game, Part I"
VOY Season 5: "In The Flesh"
VOY Season 5: "Infinite Regress"
VOY Season 5: "Nothing Human"
VOY Season 5: "The Disease"
VOY Season 5: "11:59"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY, Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 6: "Alice"
VOY Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
VOY Season 6: "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
VOY Season 7: "Imperfection"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood, Part II"
ENT Season 1: "Strange New World"
ENT Season 2: "The Seventh"
ENT Season 2: "Precious Cargo"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 2: "Regeneration"
ENT Season 3: "Impulse"
ENT Season 3: "Proving Ground"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"
ENT Season 4: "United"