The Most Disliked Episode of DISCO, 2023 Edition: Season 2...

[Farscape One]

Welcome to our bi-yearly 'Most Disliked Episode' games! Now that the 'Least Disliked Episode' games hosted by BlueStuff (who inspired me to create these games, so thank you very much for paving the way) have concluded, we can begin the opposite side of that coin.

Here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your most favorite or the one you deem the 'best.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Hall of Champions (or Failures?)
2021 - "The Red Angel"
2023 - "The Red Angel"


Season Two

"Brother"
"New Eden"
"Point of Light"
"An Obol for Charon"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"The Sound of Thunder"
"Light and Shadows"
"If Memory Serves"
"Project Daedalus"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Through the Valley of Shadows"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[Farscape One]

Season 2... honestly, this was such a mess of a season, far worse than season 1. In fact, I viewed this as the worst season in the entire franchise... until PICARD season 2 happened. But there were a few good things here, like adding Anson Mount as Captain Pike. Along with Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, they made the season at least... tolerable.

So it will be no surprise that my first vote for this season is "Through the Valley of Shadows". Pike truly shines here, knowing what his fate will be and accepting it for a greater good. The words he said to himself... precisely why he's such a great captain.

"You're a Starfleet captain. You believe in service, sacrifice, compassion… and love."

The man is a hero.


"Brother"
"New Eden"
"Point of Light"
"An Obol for Charon"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"The Sound of Thunder"
"Light and Shadows"
"If Memory Serves"
"Project Daedalus"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[CitadelZombies]

I dont really remember much from Season 2, (currently on a Discovery rewatch so I'll see how I feel about it as a whole in the future).
I will save "If Memory Serves" though a really great episode and Anson Mount is really good in it.

"Brother"
"New Eden"
"Point of Light"
"An Obol for Charon"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"The Sound of Thunder"
"Light and Shadows"
"Project Daedalus"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[Seven of Five]

I remember loving the first two-thirds of the season until the Red Angel arc crash-landed.

The Sound of Thunder continues the Kelpian story started in An Obel for Charon, but takes it all to another level by exposing the secret established about Klelpians dying.

Saru is an awesome character.

"Brother"
"New Eden"
"Point of Light"
"An Obol for Charon"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"Light and Shadows"
"Project Daedalus"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[Sakonna]

"Point Of Light" is my most rewatched episode from this season. Season 1 Disco pretty thoroughly trashed the Klingons, and this begins the successful rehab project of them (it took SNW coming along to complete the rehab).

And that comms scene where Burnham and Tyler talk for the first time since the prior season, my god. One of Disco's best scenes. Brilliantly staged and perfectly played. Those two had such scorching chemistry. It's a shame the writers failed to deliver a viable, coherent character for him to play.

"Brother"
"New Eden"
"An Obol for Charon"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"Light and Shadows"
"Project Daedalus"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[Farscape One]

By the gods, this season is really slim pickings.

I'll save "Project Daedalus" because I really liked Airiam, and was sad she was killed off.

At least she got some focus here.

"Brother"
"New Eden"
"An Obol for Charon"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"Light and Shadows"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[CitadelZombies]

"New Eden" is the usual great directing by Johnathan Frakes and has an intriguing plot.

"Brother"
"An Obol for Charon"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"Light and Shadows"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[BlueStuff]

Odd, I think season 2 is Disco's best season. What a polarising show.

What's more, An Obol for Charon is my favourite episode of the show, so it's saved.

"Brother"
"Saints of Imperfection"
"Light and Shadows"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[Seven of Five]

I was going to save that next, as I loved Kamina's arc in S2. I'll go with Brother instead, as whilst they botched the Red Angel plot, they did start all of the ongoing arcs of the season in an entertaining way. Anson Mount was brilliant as Pike from the start.

"Saints of Imperfection"
"Light and Shadows"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[Sakonna]

"Saints Of Imperfection" did achieve the essential task of resurrecting Culber. As Trek-obsessed as I am... I don't think I would have continued with Disco if Culber stayed dead. His initial killing was such a revolting plot twist. I still marvel at the showrunner interviews they gave in season 1 where they talked about how carefully they avoided making it a "kill your gays" story. It's among the ugliest "kill your gays" stories ever done! Totally delusional.

"Light and Shadows"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"
"Such Sweet Sorrow II"

 

[CitadelZombies]

"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II" is a fine conclusion to the season and nicely sets up the future of the show.

"Light and Shadows"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"
"Such Sweet Sorrow I"

 

[BlueStuff]

Such Sweet Sorrow - nice first part after the Red Angel nonsense had already hit its nadir.

"Light and Shadows"
"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"

 

[Sakonna]

"The Red Angel" and "Perpetual Infinity" are the two worst Star Trek episodes ever produced.

"Light And Shadows" is REALLY bad, but is kind of fascinating in a behind-the-scenes way, as all that chaos is just so exposed by the writing. It is so clearly a new boss coming in who doesn't know the world and has no feel for this story, and they have no time to get their bearings, they just have to toss that first script out there without proper time to get it shootable.

During my time in entertainment I was in some similarly horrible "building the plane while you fly it" production situations, where the setup absolutely assured failure, and it's just interesting to see it manifested so nakedly in Star Trek form.

"The Red Angel"
"Perpetual Infinity"

 

[Farscape One]

Let me just end this and save "Perpetual Infinity". Both are terrible, and I can't find anything to differentiate them, but I might as well make the winner the same as 2021. "The Red Angel" is the winner for 2023.

I will start season 3 shortly. I hope to see everyone there.

Thank you all for playing.