Game The Most Disliked Episode Directed By David Livingston

[Oddish]

Proving Ground is my next choice. Because, you know, Shran is awesome.

VOY Season 2: "Non Sequitur"
ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"

 

[Summer Solstice]

Saving "Non Sequitur" for seeing the real Sandrines and I wonder if Harry's friend Danny Byrd was B'Elanna's not friend Danny Byrd mentioned in a much later episode.

ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"
ENT Season 4: "Kir'Shara"

 

[Seven of Five]

Oops, just realized that Kir'Shara is from the excellent Vulcan arc, and should have been saved earlier. My bad. Possibly the weakest of the three episodes, but some good moments in it.

ENT Season 2: "Stigma"
ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"

 

[Cyfa]

Saving "Stigma". While the main story about the ramifications of T'Pol's Pa'nar Syndrome becoming known to some small-minded Vulcans was a little too lumpen, finding out more about the Denobulans courtesy of Phlox and Feezal (and Trip!) was a delight!

ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 3: "The Council"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I've no idea why ENT Season 3: "The Council" is in the final four. It's the episode where Archer finally gets to meet the Xindi Council after a season of trying to find them and the away team is attacked by a giant robot arm! Well I liked it anyway.

ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"
ENT Season 4: "Borderland"

 

[Farscape One]

My final vote for the game is "BORDERLAND".

Because we got Brent Spiner.


ENT Season 2: "The Crossing"
ENT Season 3: "Harbinger"

 

[Seven of Five]

Borderland is an average entry compared to some of the other season 4 efforts, but Brent Spiner really sold me on his role.

EDIT: Ninja'd!

I can't decide between these, they're both terrible. I guess I'll give the edge to Harbinger as it has the stupid Trip/T'Pol/Amanda thread, and whatever nonsense Reed and Hayes were up to,

ENT Season 3: "Harbinger" is the big loser.

 

[Oddish]

I think I skipped that one when I watched the Xindi arc... sounds like I didn't miss much.

 

[at Quark's]

Hmmm... the last 6 remaining were all ENT episodes ....

 

[Seven of Five]

I guess a TV Director is more reliant on the quality of a script, and isn't allowed to change much. Feature Directors have more freedom.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Congratulations to Harbinger for being the most disliked episode! It really put in the work and earned this win, and I can't think of any story that deserves it more. Well okay, maybe one or two.

 

[Oddish]

Hmmm... the last 6 remaining were all ENT episodes ....

Surprised Voyager's "Non Sequitur" and "Spirit Folk" didn't finish higher. SF is widely regarded as a stinker, and NS is just... "Harry is home, he's got a gorgeous fiancee, and he's up for lieutenant, no more 70 year voyage on a tin can with no action and zero chance of promotion... and he spends the whole @#*$!-ing episode trying to get back."

Harbinger must've REALLY sucked.

 

[Sakonna]

"Harbinger" is TRASH. And utterly enraging. "Enterprise" features a lot of characters acting like pathetic idiots in a toxic masculinity way, but this one might be the worst. The main story is Reed getting all pissy and compromising their mission to SAVE HUMANITY FROM EXTINCTION because his ego isn't getting stroked juuuuuust the right way. The character could not possibly come off as more petty, small, spoiled, whiny, and insufferable in this. It's like watching the bitchiest Real Housewife. It's just awful. I cannot imagine what they were thinking with this one.

"Spirit Folk" was the 2020 winner of this contest.

Next up: "The Most Disliked Jeffrey Combs Appearance"

MOST DISLIKED WINNERS, 2022
MAJEL BARRETT APPEARANCE: TOS, Season 3: "And The Children Shall Lead"
'HEY, THIS PLANET IS JUST LIKE EARTH!': TOS, Season 3: "Plato's Stepchildren"
ROMANCE-OF-THE-WEEK: TNG, Season 6: "Aquiel"
KLINGON: TNG, Season 6: "Birthright, Part II"
HOLIDAY: DS9, Season 3: "Meridian"
CARDASSIAN: DS9, Season 6: "Sons & Daughters"
MIRROR UNIVERSE: DS9, Season 6: "Resurrection"
FERENGI: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
COMEDIC/LIGHT-HEARTED: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
HOLODECK: VOY, Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
MAQUIS: VOY, Season 7: "Repression"
BARCLAY: VOY, Season 7: "Inside Man"
2-PART/DOUBLE EPISODE: VOY, Season 7: "Flesh And Blood"
RECYCLED TITLE: ENT, Season 1: "Terra Nova"
DIRECTOR DAVID LIVINGSTON: ENT, Season 3: "Harbinger"
SEASON PREMIERE: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"
VISIT TO EARTH'S PAST: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part II"
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 BEST EPS: ENT, Season 4: "Home"
TIME TRAVEL/TRAVELER/LOOP/ANOMALY: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
DIRECTOR JONATHAN FRAKES: DIS, Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
TREK NOIR: PIC, "Broken Pieces"
CAST CROSSOVER: PIC, "Et In Arcardia Ego, Part 1"
BORG/XB: PIC, "Mercy"
COUPLE: LD, Carol Freeman/Admiral Husband
REGULAR CHARACTER: PRO, Drednok

TOTAL SHOW WINS
TAS, ST & Movies: 0
LD & PRO: 1 win each
TOS, TNG, & DIS: 2 wins each
PIC: 3 wins
VOY: 4 wins
DS9 & ENT: 5 wins each

 

[Oddish]

Wow, Voyager is fading in the stretch.