The most disliked episode of Voyager - Final Part

[TrekAlliance92]

Elogium - 2
The Fight - 0
Spirit Folk - 0

Elogium, if only for the classic Tuvok line, "It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain."

 

[Geck]

Elogium - 2
The Fight - 1
Spirit Folk - 0

I can at least respect The Fight for having a cool concept and trying to do something weird and different, even if it came out a jumbled mess that made zero sense.

 

[Geck]

Elogium - 2
The Fight - 1
Spirit Folk - 0

I can at least respect The Fight for having a cool concept and trying to do something weird and different, even if it came out a jumbled mess that made zero sense.

 

[Tiberius]

Another vote for Elogium. it involves sex and the starship that looks like a giant sex toy.

Elogium - 3
The Fight - 1
Spirit Folk - 0

 

[You_Will_Fail]

Elogium - 4
The Fight - 1
Spirit Folk - 0

Elogium at least has some nice character stuff between Kes and Neelix, saving it

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The Fight - 0
Spirit Folk - 0

 

[creek_chub]

The Fight - 0
Spirit Folk - 1

Boxing bores the crap out of me, so...Spirit Folk wasn't THAT bad if you try to forget it's supposed to be a Trek show.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The Fight - 0
Spirit Folk - 2

Spirit Folk - as offensive as it is (and, damn, is it ever!), at least it was able to hold my attention.

 

[Geck]

The Fight - 1
Spirit Folk - 2

The Fight again. I'd say it's bottom 5, but it's not the worst.

 

[KNH]

The Fight - 1
Spirit Folk - 3

Thirding Spirit Folk because well. Trite and offensive as they may be, they still had more character than Chuckles.

 

[TrekAlliance92]

The Fight - 1
Spirit Folk - 4

I'll end it with another vote for "Spirit Folk," which did make me laugh a few times. Most disliked episode of Voyager:

The Fight

 

[Kass18]

I honestly don't understand how 'The Fight' was bad!? nevertheless the most disliked episode, but since I haven't seen 'Spirit Folk' yet i'll reserve my judgement..for now.

 

[Seven of Five]

I would have voted for Spirit Folk in the end, but The Fight was a terrible episode too. I'm a fan of strange things (Lost, David Lynch) but that episode makes no sense in a very boring way - it is sleep inducing. And a totally throwaway role for Boothby? Pretty pointless really.

Spirit Folk (and Fair Haven for that matter) were made during some sort of writers retreat. Though they weren't conceived during their story sessions, I think it was during their downtime, when the various substances were being passed around.

I'd have preferred Threshold in the bottom 3 but the rest of the episodes here have been pretty deserving. Onto ENT!

 

[Admiral Shran]

I honestly don't understand how 'The Fight' was bad!? nevertheless the most disliked episode, but since I haven't seen 'Spirit Folk' yet i'll reserve my judgement..for now.

It's boring. It's nonsensical. It's an attempt to actually give Chuckles an episode and yet it fails miserably in that department. It's got Boothby in it, a character I can't stand, and yet the part is literally nothing more than a chance to say "Hey, it's Boothby! Yippee!" It is literally sleep inducing.

I can't agree more with it's "winning" this contest.

Now, on to ENT.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

"The Fight" is a deserved winner. I had to fast forward the episode on subtitles after about 10 minutes. It was just so mind numbingly boring!

 

[tighr]

Just rewatched Friendship One on Netflix.

I STILL don't understand why it was included as one of the worst episodes of the series. Is the reason people hated it because of the impact of Earth inadvertently destroying a culture? From their perspective, there is believability in their actions. Especially when you consider it was just the ringleader being a dick, and everyone else was cautiously on the humans' side.

The Joe Carey subplot was extremely minor, and not enough to ruffle feathers about.

 

[Kass18]

Okay I just watched Spirit Folk last night, so now I can honestly say that it wasn't that bad, apart from the Janeway/Michael thing, but even that was a bit cute. I've definitely seen worse! and it was a refreshing change from a 'typical' Voyager episode. Still think there are worse episodes that 'The fight' and 'Spirit Folk'.

I personally was dying the other night watching 'Virtuoso' I mean an entire episode devoted to the Doctor singing?...kill me now

 

[Admiral Shran]

The Joe Carey subplot was extremely minor, and not enough to ruffle feathers about.

My problem with it was the fact that it was a safe and predictable way to go about killing off a recurring character. Did they kill one that the audience had genuinely grown attached to? No. They instead brought back a character we had seen ONCE since the first season and that was in Season Five.

Instead of actually doing something different and killing a semi-regular character (like Vorik or Samantha Wildman), they instead killed off someone who was essentially a new character. I didn't even remember who he was the first time I saw the episode. I honestly thought he was just another "red shirt" character.

And that's indicative of one of VOY's main problems (especially in Season Seven) - they were playing it safe and weren't willing to rock the boat.

 

[tighr]

Instead of actually doing something different and killing a semi-regular character (like Vorik or Samantha Wildman), they instead killed off someone who was essentially a new character.

Joe Carey was in 7 episodes, including the pilot.

Vorik was in only 8 episodes, the first of which was in season 3. His first two appearances were "shoe-horned" in, so that we'd know who he was in Blood Fever.

Samantha Wildman was also in only 8 episodes, the first of which was in season 2. Naomi was in 19 episodes, and referenced quite a bit on the ship. Her not appearing until season 2 forced them to retcon the fact that Ktarian babies require a billion years to gestate.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The point I was making is that we had seen those characters on a semi-regular basis. It hadn't been six years since they were prominent on the show.

It would have been like TNG waiting until the end of its last season and then killing off Chief Engineer Argyle from the first season while expecting the audience to have a deep connection with him.

 

[Seven of Five]

Carey was more of a character than Argyle though.

Actually I don't know why I'm arguing this, I agree with you Shran. Bringing back Carey after years of ignoring him (except for flashbacks to season one where he would inexplicably show up), simply to kill him off in the faint hope it would generate a little emotion, was a desperate move indeed. The rest of the episode was dull too.

But to totally go against what I'm saying (twice in the same post? ) it's not in my bottom three of season seven.