Game The Most Disliked Episode Directed By Mike Vejar

[Farscape One]

Saving "REPENTANCE". Good Seven episode.


VOY Season 7: "Flesh and Blood" (Part I)
VOY Season 7: "Friendship One"
VOY Season 7: "Renaissance Man"
ENT Season 1: "Unexpected"
ENT Season 1: "Civilization"
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"
ENT Season 3: "Carpenter Street"
ENT Season 3: "Stratagem"
ENT Season 4: "Cold Station 12"
ENT Season 4: "The Aenar"

 

[Summer Solstice]

"The Aenar" because Shran is awesome.


VOY Season 7: "Flesh and Blood" (Part I)
VOY Season 7: "Friendship One"
VOY Season 7: "Renaissance Man"
ENT Season 1: "Unexpected"
ENT Season 1: "Civilization"
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"
ENT Season 3: "Carpenter Street"
ENT Season 3: "Stratagem"
ENT Season 4: "Cold Station 12"

 

[Sakonna]

I have fun with all the different aliens featured as holograms in "Flesh And Blood."

While I think that Janeway's initial decision was the right one, so the ending falls a bit flat for me, "Latent Image" was actually a pretty decent mystery overall.

This might be a ridiculous thing to complain about, but the thing that drives me nuts about this one is the Kes erasure. The initial events are dated to when she'd still have been on the ship, yet we see Paris serving as the nurse and she doesn't come up even once. And, as the character who always most advocated for the Doctor, it's impossible to see Kes going along with this! It's truly all I can think of during this ep -- where's Kes, how did she figure in, is she on an away mission or vacation -- I can't shut it off.

It's all a dumb writing fix to explain why Seven doesn't know what happened, but they should have just dated the flashbacks to early season 4, immediately after "The Gift." There was a period in her first episodes where Seven was parked in the cargo bay and kept out of the loop on ship's business, that's the fix for that problem.

VOY Season 7: "Friendship One"
VOY Season 7: "Renaissance Man"
ENT Season 1: "Unexpected"
ENT Season 1: "Civilization"
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"
ENT Season 3: "Carpenter Street"
ENT Season 3: "Stratagem"
ENT Season 4: "Cold Station 12"

 

[Captain's Coffee]

Renaissance Man because the Doctor is always great and I do enjoy seeing actors portraying other characters than their own.

VOY Season 7: "Friendship One”
ENT Season 1: "Unexpected"
ENT Season 1: "Civilization"
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"
ENT Season 3: "Carpenter Street"
ENT Season 3: "Stratagem"

 

[Oddish]

Most of the ones I liked are gone, but "Unexpected" gets a pass. It featured an encounter with a species that was actually genuinely alien: a ship that was half garden, an atmosphere you had to adapt to, and telepathic pebbles that could get you knocked up.

Regarding "Latent Image", why couldn't they just rewrite the Doctor's triage subroutines, to allow for subjective decisions when an objective one wasn't possible? Simple solution, I think.

VOY Season 7: "Friendship One”
ENT Season 1: "Civilization"
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"
ENT Season 3: "Carpenter Street"
ENT Season 3: "Stratagem"

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I'm saving Civilisation (ENT) due to it being the only episode on this list that I actually remember anything about.

VOY Season 7: "Friendship One”
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"
ENT Season 3: "Carpenter Street"
ENT Season 3: "Stratagem"

 

[Sakonna]

I know it's rep is not good, but "Carpenter Street" was one of the eps that enticed me to actually watch Enterprise all the way through finally. I love a visit to "contemporary" Earth.

VOY Season 7: "Friendship One”
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"
ENT Season 3: "Stratagem"

 

[Seven of Five]

I loved Degra during season three of ENT, so Stragegem is an easy save. It had Archer and the crew actually using their smarts to try and get information from Degra.

VOY Season 7: "Friendship One”
ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"

 

[Summer Solstice]

"Friendship One” has an interesting story - what would happen if aliens found space probes that we've sent out?


ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 2: "The Catwalk"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"

 

[Farscape One]

I woke up in time to do one final one.

Saving "THE CATWALK", because it was fun seeing the crew roughing it on their own ship.


ENT Season 2: "Marauders"
ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"

 

[Oddish]

Marauders had a pretty good fight scene at the end, so I'll break the tie in its favor.

WE HAVE A WINNER: ENT Season 3: "Rajiin"

 

[Seven of Five]

A worthy bottom three. Any of them would have been a deserving winner.

 

[Sakonna]

I actually like "Rajiin", I would have saved it had I not been so busy today. It's a delightful guilty pleasure! I loooooathe both "Marauders" (dumbest Klingons ever) and "Friendship One" (Carey!)

"The Catwalk" is fine.

"Marauders", incidentally, was the 2020 winner of this game.

Ah well! Maybe I'll get over my crushing disappointment by running a huge list next. Depending on how much time I have over the next day, the next list will be either "The Most Disliked Season Two Episode" (which will be the longest one to date), "The Most Disliked Bajoran Episode", or "The Most Disliked Episode Directed By Levar Burton" (I totally forgot he was Trek's 7th most prolific director)
(I mean, they're all coming eventually, but the order will be a surprise...)

Oh, I do like Enterprise pulling into the lead with 9 wins! It just feels weird to me when TNG is in the lead.

MOST DISLIKED WINNERS, 2022
WRITER GENE RODDENBERRY: TOS, Season 1: "Mudd's Women"
MAJEL BARRETT APPEARANCE: TOS, Season 3: "And The Children Shall Lead"
3RD SEASON: 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"
5TH SEASON: TNG, Season 5: "The Perfect Mate"
ROMANCE-OF-THE-WEEK: TNG, Season 6: "Aquiel"
KLINGON: TNG, Season 6: "Birthright, Part II"
DIRECTOR CLIFF BOLE: TNG, Season 7: "Liaisons"
DIRECTOR LES LANDAU: TNG, Season 7: "Dark Page"
WRITER RONALD D. MOORE: TNG, Season 7: "Journey's End"
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"
6TH SEASON: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
JEFFREY COMBS APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 7: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
WRITER JOE MENOSKY: VOY, Season 5: "The Fight"
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"
VAUGHN ARMSTRONG APPEARANCE: ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
DIRECTOR MIKE VEJAR: ENT, Season 3: "Rajiin"
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"
DIRECTOR ALLAN KROEKER: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
TIME TRAVEL/TRAVELER/LOOP/ANOMALY: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
FEMALE DIRECTOR: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
SEASON FINALE ANTAGONIST: DIS, Season 2: Control
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"
Q: 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: 4 wins
VOY & PIC: 5 wins each
DIS: 6 wins
DS9: 7 wins
TNG: 8 wins
ENT: 9 wins each

 

[Oddish]

I wanted "Friendship One" to lose as well, also due to Carey. The poor guy deserved better!

 

[Sakonna]

Let's go big next! I'm going to post "The Most Disliked Second Season Episode" today...