The Most Disliked Episode of SNW, Season 3 - 2025 Edition...

[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?)
2023 - "The Serene Squall"
2025 -


Season 3

"Hegemony, Part II"
"Wedding Bell Blues"
"Shuttle to Kenfori"
"A Space Adventure Hour"
"Through the Lens of Time"
"The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
"What Is Starfleet?"
"Four-and-a-Half Vulcans"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"



Side note: a reminder to everyone that season 3 is still under the 6 months spoiler policy, since it premiered July 17, 2025. If your reasons for saving an episode contain spoilers, I ask that you please put them in spoiler tags. Thank you!

 

[Farscape One]

Without question, this was the weakest season of SNW. By far. Four episodes were just bad to terrible. Four episodes were okay to good. Another one was good... until a reveal just REALLY downgraded it. There was really only one great episode this season, which is obviously getting saved first.

"Shuttle to Kenfori" had so many things going on at once, and it was fantastic! Good action AND great character stuff!

Spoiler: Reasons...

We get Ortegas having her issues from what happened in the season 3 premiere. I was glad they didn't forget about it and she got some good material to use. Her butting heads with Una was really well done, and Una did a great job here with her figuring out what Erica did, as well as giving her a final chance.

Pike and M'Benga on the planet was excellent stuff. I love the horror element, and it wasn't overdone. It was used to augment the story being told, not be the point of it. I love the nods to their previous history, and learning M'Benga has been married multiple times.

The revenge story for Dak'rah's daughter made sense and was well done. I'm surprised they got rid of the ambiguity of "Under the Cloak of War" so soon. But you could do what Pike did and go with M'Benga just saying what was needed at the moment to save Pike's life.

The only thing that dings the episode for me was how Batel acted with Pike at the end. She really came off badly here, berating him without even bothering to say a simple 'thank you' for risking his life for her. (My wife was the one who pointed this out during that scene and how she, using her own words, "came off as a bitch". It was hard not see what she meant after she pointed that out, because just simple courtesy would be to say 'thank you' to someone for doing what they did to help save you, even if you had an issue with them. Really, Pike deserved someone better than Batel, and I'm frankly glad she was written out by the end of the season. She just got more annoying with each appearance.)

"Hegemony, Part II"
"Wedding Bell Blues"
"A Space Adventure Hour"
"Through the Lens of Time"
"The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
"What Is Starfleet?"
"Four-and-a-Half Vulcans"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Four and a Half Vulcans is easily my favourite of the season and a monumentally easy save.

"Hegemony, Part II"
"Wedding Bell Blues"
"A Space Adventure Hour"
"Through the Lens of Time"
"The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
"What Is Starfleet?"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I'm going to save "A Space Adventure Hour". The TOS pastiche was just too spot on.

Hegemony, Part II"
"Wedding Bell Blues"
"Through the Lens of Time"
"The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
"What Is Starfleet?"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[HotRod]

I’m saving The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail.

Spoiler

This is where Kirk and Spock truly begin. Yes, both characters already exist, but this is the episode where they stop being two strong individuals and become a team. You can feel the foundation of their dynamic locking into place here. The trust, the friction, the mutual respect, all of it starts to crystallize in a way that feels unmistakably right.

What I love most is how natural it feels. There’s no grand speech announcing the partnership. It just happens through shared decisions, disagreements, and the realization that they work better together than apart. In that sense, this episode isn’t just important to Strange New Worlds, it’s important to Star Trek as a whole. It quietly marks the birth of one of the most iconic relationships in television history, and that alone makes it worth saving.

"Hegemony, Part II"
"Wedding Bell Blues"
"Through the Lens of Time"
"What Is Starfleet?"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Tough choice between Wedding Bells and What is, going for Wedding Bell Blues for the fun of it all and the Q connection.

"Hegemony, Part II"
"Through the Lens of Time"
"What Is Starfleet?"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[Farscape One]

"What Is Starfleet?" is my next save.

The finale was terrible. "Terrarium" was damaged by a reveal. And the other two were okay... but I like my pick more.

It reminded us why Starfleet is a great organization and it was a good ending.


"Hegemony, Part II"
"Through the Lens of Time"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[Sakonna]

How is "Hegemony, Part II" still here? That was a banger of an opening. So satisfying. So tense. Sam Kirk!

It remains so insane to me the extent to which this show misses the Sam Kirk potential.

"Through the Lens of Time"
"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[Seven of Five]

What a mediocre season after the excellent first 2 seasons

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I suppose Lens is a better episode than Terrarium. It was a solid horror action story.

"Terrarium"
"New Life and New Civilizations"

 

[Seven of Five]

I'll eliminate New Life and New Civilizations as despite the story being a bit of a mess, it's sold with conviction with the action.

 

[Farscape One]

And "Terrarium" wins season 3.

Thank you all for playing! I will start the SNW Finals shortly. Hope to see you all there!