Game The Most Disliked Episode/Movie Directed By A Trek Actor

[Sakonna]

Awww... no "5 letter title or less" category. Well, maybe next cycle.

We will! Also probably "Long Poetic Titles." I just want to see the list of all those put together. I love Trek's affinity for a long, poetic title.

I also failed to get a handle of one of my favorite lists in time, "Introduction To Recurring Aliens." But, since it was last played, Streaming Trek has brought back SOOOOOOO many previously non-recurring aliens that it just exploded. But I love that one, I'll get a handle on it again by 2024.

 

[Oddish]

Cool! I think that "Let he who is Without Sin..." will probably win the Long Title contest in a walk.

 

[Orac Zen]

"For The World Is Hollow, And I Have Touched The Sky" is the only possible winner in that category.

IMO, anyway.

 

[Cyfa]

I will save "Dawn", which is terrible but at least it's a Trip episode and he's pretty.

Trip being pretty excuses so much of his nonsense

~ Absolutely agree, absolutely!

At this point, "PROFIT AND LACE" is almost a guaranteed 'winner' if it ever shows up in any game.

Quadruple winner "Profit And Lace"! What a lineup of crowns: most disliked Ferengi ep, most disliked comedic light-hearted ep, most disliked 6th season ep, most disliked ep directed by an actor...

It's totally deserved, though I do always say I respect how valiantly the actors try to save it. But they are not miracle workers.

~ I've been away for a few days, but I did manage to watch "Profit and Lace" last night in case there were any redeeming qualities that I'd forgotten about that might save it (should this game have still been going). There weren't.* It really is a horrible, cringe-worthy episode, and I wish I hadn't put myself through it. (I watched ENT: "Precious Cargo" beforehand as I hadn't seen it in ages, but I should have watched it after PaL to take the bad taste away)

* Well, there were a few little bits, but not enough to warrant watching the whole ep:
1. Worf's rather amusing one-liner in response to Nog's anguish about a possible Dominion invasion of Ferenginar
Rom: "Think of the terrible repercussions to the Alpha Quadrant."
Worf: "I cannot think of any."
2. Rom being "adorable. And complicated" as observed by Leeta.
3. Doctor Bashir in that red medical gown/scrubs

 

[Oddish]

Here's a quote from it...


QUARK: "If Ferengi females can wear clothes in public, then they can leave their homes. If they can leave their homes, they can go to work. If they can go to work, they can make profit."
...
ZEK: "Face it, Quark. It's good business. thousands of years, Ferenginar has allowed a valuable resource to go to waste."
QUARK: "Females? A valuable resource?"
ZEK: "They make up fifty three point five percent of the population and contribute virtually nothing to gross planetary income. I say it's time they started pulling their own weight."

So how is it that a society that cared about profit above all else allowed over half its population to contribute next to nothing? That's like a race car driver insisting on using square wheels.

 

[fireproof78]

So how is it that a society that cared about profit above all else allowed over half its population to contribute next to nothing? That's like a race car driver insisting on using square wheels.

Also, how do they know the ins and outs of all the contracts so that Rom got swindled they way he did?

 

[Farscape One]

According to Quark, Prinadora's (Rom's ex-wife) father was the one who swindled Rom.

 

[fireproof78]

According to Quark, Prinadora's (Rom's ex-wife) father was the one who swindled Rom.

I must be misremembering then. I thought she had had a hand in it too. But, the Ferengi are my least favorite Trek species so I doubt my memory is accurate.

 

[Farscape One]

I must be misremembering then. I thought she had had a hand in it too. But, the Ferengi are my least favorite Trek species so I doubt my memory is accurate.

She was involved in the sense that she tricked Rom into signing a contract without reading it fully. I'd have to look again, and I am not entirely certain which episode Quark mentioned all that.

 

[Uhura's Song]

Quadruple winner "Profit And Lace"! What a lineup of crowns: most disliked Ferengi ep, most disliked comedic light-hearted ep, most disliked 6th season ep, most disliked ep directed by an actor...

It's totally deserved, though I do always say I respect how valiantly the actors try to save it. But they are not miracle workers.

MOST DISLIKED WINNERS, '22 - '23
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"
ANIMATED: TAS, Season 1: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
ROMULAN: TAS, Season 2: "The Practical Joker"
WRITER D.C. FONTANA: TNG, Season 1: "Lonely Among Us"
WEDDING: TNG, Season 2: "The Outrageous Okona"
WRITER JERI TAYLOR: TNG, Season 4: "Suddenly Human"
DIRECTOR WINRICH KOLBE: TNG, Season 5: "The Masterpiece Society"
WRITER MICHAEL PILLER: 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"
DIRECTOR ALEXANDER SINGER: TNG, Season 7: "Homeward"
WRITER RONALD D. MOORE: TNG, Season 7: "Journey's End"
7TH SEASON: TNG, Season 7: "Firstborn"
JAMES SLOYAN APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 2: "The Alternate"
HOLIDAY: DS9, Season 3: "Meridian"
CARDASSIAN: DS9, Season 6: "Sons & Daughters"
MIRROR UNIVERSE: DS9, Season 6: "Resurrection"
BAJORAN: DS9, Season 6: "The Reckoning"
FERENGI: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
COMEDIC/LIGHT-HEARTED: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
6TH SEASON: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
DIRECTED BY A TREK ACTOR: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
JEFFREY COMBS APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 7: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
DIRECTOR JAMES L. CONWAY: VOY, Season 2: "The 37's"
PRIME DIRECTIVE: VOY, Season 3: "False Profits"
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"
2ND SEASON: ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
DIRECTOR LEVAR BURTON: ENT, Season 3: "Extinction"
DIRECTOR MIKE VEJAR: ENT, Season 3: "Rajiin"
NAMED FOR CHARACTER: ENT, Season 3: "Rajiin"
FIRST EPISODE OF THE YEAR: ENT, Season 3: "Chosen Realm"
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"
"I'M AGING WRONG!": 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"
J.G. HERTZLER APPEARANCE: ENT, Season 4: "Borderland"
DIRECTOR ALLAN KROEKER: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
1ST SEASON: DIS, Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
EXIT OF A REGULAR: DIS, Season 1: "What's Past Is Prologue"
ONE-OFF DIRECTOR: DIS, Season 1: "The War Without, The War Within"
CHATGPT'S FAVORITES: DIS, Season 1: "The War Without, The War Within"
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, Season 1: "Broken Pieces"
CAST CROSSOVER: PIC, Season 1: "Et In Arcardia Ego, Part 1"
GUINAN: PIC, Season 2: "Monsters"
BORG/XB: PIC, Season 2: "Mercy"
Q: PIC, Season 2: "Mercy"
COUPLE: LD, Carol Freeman/Alonzo Freeman
REGULAR CHARACTER: PRO, Drednok

QUADRUPLE WINNERS
DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"

TRIPLE WINNERS
ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"

DOUBLE WINNERS
TOS, Season 3: "And The Children Shall Lead"
TNG, Season 5: "The Masterpiece Society"
ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
ENT, Season 3: "Rajiin"
DIS, Season 1: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy"

TOTAL SHOW WINS
SNW & Movies: 0 wins
ST, LD & PRO: 1 win each
TAS: 2 wins
TOS: 4 wins
PIC: 5 wins
VOY: 7 wins
DS9 & DIS: 10 wins each
TNG: 13 wins
ENT: 15 wins

Cannot believe Perferct Mate won a most disliked contest. A string season, but that is a good episode. And the the Professor, I mean Picard, somehow doesn't fall for Jean Gray!

 

[Farscape One]

The fact Picard didn't answer the ambassador at the end implies he DID fall for her.

 

[Oddish]

Cannot believe Perferct Mate won a most disliked contest. A string season, but that is a good episode. And the the Professor, I mean Picard, somehow doesn't fall for Jean Gray!

The fact Picard didn't answer the ambassador at the end implies he DID fall for her.

Yeah. Hard. Too bad he couldn't have made Alrik an offer he couldn't refuse. Surely the Federation had something that guy wanted!