Game The Most Disliked Episode Directed By Les Landau

[Farscape One]

Saving "SANCTUARY".

Universal translator failure is so incredibly rare in STAR TREK, and I'm glad it happened here... a race from the other side of the galaxy.


TNG Season 4: "Half a Life"
TNG Season 5: "Conundrum"
TNG Season 7: "Dark Page"
TNG Season 7: "Bloodlines"
DS9 Season 7: "Image in the Sand"
ENT Season 1: "Sleeping Dogs"

 

[Summer Solstice]

"Sleeping Dogs" is quite fun.


TNG Season 4: "Half a Life"
TNG Season 5: "Conundrum"
TNG Season 7: "Dark Page"
TNG Season 7: "Bloodlines"
DS9 Season 7: "Image in the Sand"

 

[Seven of Five]

I love Image In The Sand. I've saved it before and I'll quite happily do it again. The station was somewhat shaken up after Jadzia's death, and Sisko leaving for Earth. I

also love the Sisko family chemistry.

TNG Season 4: "Half a Life"
TNG Season 5: "Conundrum"
TNG Season 7: "Dark Page"
TNG Season 7: "Bloodlines"

 

[Brennyren]

How did "Half a Life" make it this far? (Only because I was busy yesterday, obviously.) Timicin was thoroughly likable and his predicament poignant, and this was perhaps the first time I felt real warmth and respect for Lwaxana.

TNG Season 5: "Conundrum"
TNG Season 7: "Dark Page"
TNG Season 7: "Bloodlines"

 

[Sakonna]

Huh, these all kind of leave me cold to some degree, though I don't totally hate any of them -- they're all at least OK. I guess I'll save "Bloodlines", because I am somewhat amused by the sheer wackiness of the premise.

TNG Season 5: "Conundrum"
TNG Season 7: "Dark Page"

 

[Summer Solstice]

Saving "Conundrum" - Picard avoids a disaster just by being himself, although he's lost his memory, his personality hasn't changed.

Edit: TNG Season 7: "Dark Page" is the "winner".

 

[Oddish]

How did "Half a Life" make it this far?

Well, let me be clear, I respect your right to disagree with me. But the answer is... well, beecause "Half a Life" is a pile of putrid rotting garbage. If I had it, Code of Honor, and Threshold in front of me, and a Delete Episode From Canon gun with two shots in it...

Spoiler

I'd shoot "Half a Life" and "Code of Honor", because I don't believe in wasting ammo.

 

[Captain's Coffee]

But the answer is... well, beecause "Half a Life" is a pile of putrid rotting garbage.

I completely agree. This is one of those episodes, like Profit and Lace, that I hate so much that it causes me physical pain.

 

[Oddish]

Yes. Profit and Lace is also appalling, but deleting it would be almost pointless because it's a part of a greater whole.

 

[Qonundrum]

How did "Half a Life" make it this far? (Only because I was busy yesterday, obviously.) Timicin was thoroughly likable and his predicament poignant, and this was perhaps the first time I felt real warmth and respect for Lwaxana.

It was next on my list, actually...


On top of Lwaxana getting some of the meatiest substance in Trek's history, Majel Barrett not only carries it, but she excels. There's a great talk on ageism and ritual suicide - but not in the typical sense. The episode is steeping in character drama, but something elevates it above maudlin treacle - something that's not easy to do. A dark episode for sure, the core concepts almost seem something out of "The Twilight Zone" as they did moral plays too, but this episode takes the spin to a new and more relatable level, which has its own ups and downs...

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Almost heavy-handed, it doesn't get too far and remains strong.

The scene also doubles for the chic epitome of "helicopter hair". Everyone in the room easily acts their way around it. The script and acting carry the power and layered complexity of both loving the individual and the desire to change a disturbing tradition and when I mentioned heavy-handed, there's a lot that truly is.

At least the story didn't try to outdo Carousel, which only makes this even more interesting - as if "Logan's Run" wasn't.

There's a lot of talented people in that scene. Also, not until the blu-ray did I notice her red highlights.

Darn good episode, IMHO & YMMV, even if it's drama-driven within a veneer of sci-fi trappings. Sci-fi can and arguably should do that once in a while, especially if it's tastefully done and leaving the horror to the viewer to think about.

 

[Seven of Five]

Half Life is my favourite Lwaxana episode. It's a shame Dark Page didn't get saved. It has some annoying elements in it, like the face that the guest star kept making whenever he was trying to make a connection to Lwaxana. It was very distracting, but the rest of the episode is pretty decent.

 

[Sakonna]

Let's do a writer next... "The Most Disliked Ronald D. Moore Episode."

The 2020 winner of this game was "Bloodlines."

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"
ROMULAN: TAS, Season 2: "The Practical Joker"
DIRECTOR WINRICH KOLBE: TNG, Season 5: "The Masterpiece Society"
ROMANCE-OF-THE-WEEK: TNG, Season 6: "Aquiel"
KLINGON: TNG, Season 6: "Birthright, Part II"
DIRECTOR LES LANDAU: TNG, Season 7: "Dark Page"
7TH SEASON: TNG, Season 7: "Firstborn"
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"
JEFFREY COMBS APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 7: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
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"
EVERY 47TH RELEASE: 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..."
47TH EPISODES: DIS, Season 4: "The Examples"
4TH SEASON: DIS, Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"
4TH & 7TH EPISODES: ST, Season 2: "Ask Not"
TREK NOIR: PIC, "Broken Pieces"
CAST CROSSOVER: PIC, "Et In Arcardia Ego, Part 1"
GUINAN: PIC, "Monsters"
BORG/XB: PIC, "Mercy"
COUPLE: LD, Carol Freeman/Admiral Husband
REGULAR CHARACTER: PRO, Drednok

TOTAL SHOW WINS
SNW & Movies: 0 wins
TAS, ST, LD & PRO: 1 win each
TOS: 2 wins
VOY, DIS, & PIC: 4 wins each
TNG: 5 wins
DS9 & ENT: 6 wins each

 

[Uhura's Song]

How did "Half a Life" make it this far? (Only because I was busy yesterday, obviously.) Timicin was thoroughly likable and his predicament poignant, and this was perhaps the first time I felt real warmth and respect for Lwaxana.

TNG Season 5: "Conundrum"
TNG Season 7: "Dark Page"
TNG Season 7: "Bloodlines"

I am with you 100%.