Game The Most Disliked Episode Directed By James L. Conway

[Bry_Sinclair]

The biggest issue with "THE 37's" was the network using it as a season premiere. It was shot and functioned far better as a season finale.

I'm sure when I first saw "The 37's" it was broadcast as the season end, though that was a long time ago when I tuned into Sky 1 every week for my new Voyager hit

 

[Farscape One]

When it first aired, it was the season 2 premiere. UPN held over 4 episodes from season 1 to use for season 2 so they can start the fall season before other networks. "PROJECTIONS", "ELOGIUM", and "TWISTED" were the others they held back. It's also the reason why the dvds have the episodes like they do.

They did the same for season 2... "SACRED GROUND", "FALSE PROFITS", "FLASHBACK", and "BASICS, PART II" were held over to season 3 for the same reason. It's ultimately why only 22 episodes were actually produced for season 3, particularly since they were retooling the show for season 4. (I actually think this helped the show, because it gave the writers a longer break to work on things and come back stronger, and season 4 ended up being an excellent season, followed up with a fantastic season 5.)

Had they kept to how things normally were, VOYAGER would have ended up with exactly the same amount of episodes as DS9, which was 176.

 

[Sakonna]

The biggest issue with "THE 37's" was the network using it as a season premiere. It was shot and functioned far better as a season finale.

I have a fair number of issues with "The 37's" beyond placement. I always thought it was structured in such an awkward way (the jump over the visit to the human society being the most awkward), and trying to do too many things. There's like 2 or 3 different episodes in here that all became way too rushed when they try to do them simultaneously.

But it still would have made a much better finale than "Learning Curve", which I loathe!

 

[Sakonna]

"Judgment"! Great winner, hideous episode. I still can't get over that the big escape from the most fearsome prison in the galaxy at the end is essentially "just walk out!"

Thanks all for playing! Going up next, another directors list, the director I've been most excited to get to: "The Most Disliked Episode Directed By Jonathan Frakes"

MOST DISLIKED "WINNER"LOSERS, 2020
"HEY, THIS PLANET IS JUST LIKE EARTH!": TOS, Season 1: "Miri"
WRITER GENE RODDENBERRY: TOS, Season 2: "The Omega Glory"
WRITER D.C. FONTANA: TNG, Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
DIRECTOR CLIFF BOLE: TNG, Season 6: "Aquiel"
TREK NOIR: TNG, Season 6: "Aquiel"
SEASON PREMIERE: TNG, Season 7: "Descent, Part II"
PRIME DIRECTIVE: TNG, Season 7: "Homeward"
WRITER RONALD D. MOORE: TNG, Season 7: "Journey's End"
DIRECTOR LES LANDAU: TNG, Season 7: "Bloodlines"
LWAXANA: DS9, Season 1: "The Forsaken"
ROMANCE OF THE WEEK: DS9, Season 3: "Meridian"
FERENGI: DS9, Season 7: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
DIRECTOR WINRICH KOLBE: VOY, Season 2: "Elogium"
CARDASSIANS: VOY, Season 2: "Investigations"
WEDDING: VOY, Season 3: "Favorite Son"
HOLIDAY: VOY, Season 4: "Day Of Honor"
HOLODECK: VOY, Season 6: "Fair Haven"
DIRECTOR DAVID LIVINGSTON: VOY, Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
COMEDIC/LIGHT-HEARTED: VOY, Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
TIME TRAVEL/ANOMALY/LOOP: VOY, Season 6: “Fury”
MAQUIS: VOY, Season 7: "Repression"
BARCLAY: VOY, Season 7: "Inside Man"
Q: VOY, Season 7: "Q2"
BORG: VOY, Season 7: "Endgame"
LATIN TITLE: ENT, Season 1: "Terra Nova"
DIRECTOR LEVAR BURTON: ENT, Season 1: "Terra Nova"
MATRIARCHAL ALIENS: ENT, Season 1: "Shockwave, Part I"
2-HOUR/2-PART: ENT, Season 1 & 2: "Shockwave"
VISIT TO EARTH'S "PRESENT": ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
VAUGHN ARMSTRONG GUEST APPEARANCE: ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
KLINGONS: ENT, Season 2: "Marauders"
DIRECTOR MIKE VEJAR: ENT, Season 2: "Marauders"
DIRECTOR JAMES L. CONWAY: ENT, Season 2: "Judgment"
FAMILY: ENT, Season 2: "Horizon"
HALLUCINATION/ILLUSION: ENT, Season 3: "Extinction"
VISIT TO EARTH'S PAST: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"
THR'S 100 GREATEST TREK EPS: ENT, Season 4: "Home"
CAST CROSSOVER: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
DIRECTOR ALLAN KROEKER: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
MIRROR UNIVERSE: DIS, Season 1: "What's Past Is Prologue"
INTRODUCTION OF RECURRING ALIENS: DIS, Season 2: "An Obol For Charon" (the jahSepp)
SECTION 31: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
RECYCLED TITLE: ST, Season 2: "Children Of Mars"
ROMULANS: PIC, Season 1: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
COUPLE: PIC:

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Rios/Jurati

TOTAL SHOW WINS
TAS & Movies - 0 wins
ST - 1 win each
TOS and PIC - 2 wins each
DS9 and DIS - 3 wins each
TNG - 7 wins
VOY - 12 wins
ENT - 15 wins

 

[Qonundrum]

"Justice" is divinely cheesy. Obviously it's "bad" by most (all?) conventional measures, but there's not many Trek episodes that can make me laugh like this one. It's a frequent rewatch with the Trek fans in my family.

A great premise let down by a coked up drunken down fest, I fear. The bridge scene at the start alone has too many self-contradictions. "Hey everyone, let's do shore leave!" "I'm the security person and scoped their laws and it's all good!" "They boink at the drop of a hat!" "Let's bring down the child, hey Wesleeeeeeeey, wanna see if this place is as good for kids as it is for adults?" O.M.G. ...

What, you don't believe me? Well, here's the actual transcript:

PICARD: Riker says the planet's life forms are almost identical to us.
TROI: He's very enthusiastic.
(Crusher enters)
CRUSHER: Captain? Sorry, Troi.
TROI: The Doctor has something very important to tell you, Captain.
PICARD: You've been talking about it for days. Shore leave for the crew.
CRUSHER: Establishing that colony has been exhausting for the entire crew, Captain. We're not a supply vessel. Settling all those people has been a strain on everyone. I'm tired myself.
(Riker, Data and Yar enter)
PICARD: Is it as good as your report suggests, Number One?
RIKER: As per report, sir. Class M, Earth-like, beautiful. It will startle you!
CRUSHER: It sounds wonderful for the children! The holodecks are marvellous, of course, but there's nothing like open spaces and fresh air!
TASHA: I've listed my report on their customs and laws, sir. Fairly simple, common sense things.
LAFORGE: They're wild in some ways, actually puritanical in others. Neat as pins, ultra-lawful, and make love at the drop of a hat.
TASHA: Any hat!
PICARD: But the happiest report has its negatives. Let's start with them, Number One.
RIKER: There are none, sir. Not that any of us can find!
DATA: But there is a problem here, sir.
WORF: It's the faulty reading I reported, sir.
DATA: I'm reading something off the starboard bow, but there is nothing there.
TASHA: Sensor technicians are working on it, sir. They've identified it as a glitch in the system.
PICARD: I take it you find no glitch at all in this planet, however?
RIKER: No, sir!
TASHA: If you approve shore leave, sir, we could start with a small group.
PICARD: Of course. Wesley? If we go down, I'd like you to join the away team to evaluate this world as a place for young people to relax.
WESLEY: Yes, sir!!
PICARD: If our scans and observations confirm the report, of course I'll approve it. Let's hope it is not too good to be true.
​

And their sensors are acting goofy but Picard brushes it all off because the one officer nowhere near a scanner console says "Okey dokey, I saw no problems while down there based on super-dee-duper secret observation from several feet away and not even reading any of their books, which we couldn't do because they're all glopped in body oil anyway"? That was all within the same 2 minute frickin' scene for crying out loud... it plays out faster than Al Bundy does! Ugh!!!

The sad part is, I probably didn't need to put in the emoticons...

The saddest part is, a minor rewrite would turn the episode into a PSA for "don't drive or study for that overpriced college exam without getting a good night sleep beforehand."



Actually, this episode was the 7th. And yet nobody got lucky... and finding a video of a different sort:

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Granted, he's got some quaint use of direct language that makes even me embarrassed but there's just enough to refer to it...