Game The Most Disliked First Season Episode

[Seven of Five]

I think The End Is The Beginning for me next. It was as strong as the opener, Remembrance, but we did get to see Hugh from TNG. I thought the whole idea of the ex-Borg working at the reclamation center that was in the Borg cube was a neat idea, that looked interesting.

TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Farscape One]

Saving "THE EYE OF BEHOLDER" because it reminds me a bit of THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "PEOPLE ARE ALIKE ALL OVER" with Roddy MacDowell.


TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Jihad"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Sakonna]

"Maps And Legends" -- it was an exhilarating start! Hard to still love it knowing where it goes, but I can kind of get carried away on rewatch...

TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Jihad"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Helping out the Short Treks, I’m voting Runaway. It’s a good Tilly showcase, the alien princess is great and though the whole thing is kind of forgettable, it’s certainly not awful.

TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Jihad"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

There are still a few good episodes on there. Into The Forest I Go is IMO a stunner, The Brightest Star is sweet and gives us a lot of Doug Jones, Cold Front is alright for sure and certainly The Alternative Factor will be exiting soon.

 

[Farscape One]

Incorrect. It will not leave soon... it will leave now.

"THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR" is bonkers, but it had its moments. Definitely better than the Temporal Cold War nonsense of ENTERPRISE.


TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Jihad"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Seven of Five]

Whilst the execution of the Klingon War in season one of DIS was hit and miss, at least with Into The Forest I Go, it felt like it was going somewhere. The mid-season cliffhanger was fun as well.

TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Jihad"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Sakonna]

I think both of these TAS episodes are good. I'll save "The Jihad." I love a quest story, and the ridiculous side characters in this are top notch.

I will also never forget watching it the first time, hearing Kirk's Captain's Log build up the Vedala as the oldest spacefaring race in the galaxy... and then the reveal of what that looked like.

TAS: "The Time Trap"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Farscape One]

Saving "THE TIME TRAP".

A good story, and I always wondered if "THE VOID" was inspired by this one.


ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Seven of Five]

I had to look it up to remember, but The Brightest Star featured my favourite Kelpian Saru, so it needs to survive. It was cool finding out a little more about his background. Saru's development during DIS S2 was a definite high point.

ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Sakonna]

Well, at least it has those awesome orchids, and the fantastic "Justice"-esque production & costume design down on the planet. "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1" Terrible episode overall, though! But the rest of these I like even less.

ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Escape Artist"

 

[Oddish]

Cold Front wasn't an especially bad episode, it was just... well, forgettable.

ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
ST: "The Escape Artist"

 

[Farscape One]

Ugh. The choices left.

So my only barometer is this... I hate the Temporal Cold War, and I can't remember which DISCO episode is which because they all blur together.

So my final save for this game is "The Escape Artist".


ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"

 

[Sakonna]

I am going to shock myself by saving "Shockwave, Part I", which is just awful. I have nothing good to say about it. Bakula looked good with his shirt off as usual? That's all I've got. I just know if I had to watch one of these right now, that's the one I'd pick, even though I don't like anything about it. But I find those two Disco's just intolerable, and I am a Disco fan.

DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"

 

[Oddish]

...and I can't remember which DISCO episode is which because they all blur together.

I think that's the issue with all the serialized Treks... we remember the seasonal story overall, but we're not quite sure what happened when, unless we watched them repeatedly.

 

[Farscape One]

I think that's the issue with all the serialized Treks... we remember the seasonal story overall, but we're not quite sure what happened when, unless we watched them repeatedly.

That's exactly the problem, at least for me. It also doesn't help that none of the episodes have the titles appear on screen. I still have never understood that practice, for any show. Oddly enough, I can remember the titles for every episode of THE X-FILES, SNW, and others that are not so heavily serialized. (I know THE X-FILES draws heavily on arcs and their mythology, but it is nowhere to the degree we see now.) But do the same for DISCO, PICARD, GAME OF THRONES... and short of really epic things happening in an episode, I can't separate one from the other.

What makes it worse is that DISCO and PICARD don't give me the urge to rewatch, which just compounds the problem for me because, as you said, serialization of this magnitude requires rewatching.

 

[Sakonna]

I think that's the issue with all the serialized Treks... we remember the seasonal story overall, but we're not quite sure what happened when, unless we watched them repeatedly.

Another way to learn which is which is to spend significant amounts of time sorting the episodes into themed lists.

 

[Farscape One]

Which is much harder than it sounds...

 

[Cyfa]

I am going to shock myself by saving "Shockwave, Part I", which is just awful. I have nothing good to say about it. Bakula looked good with his shirt off as usual? That's all I've got.

- Sometimes Bakula with his shirt off will do. But Trinneer with his shirt off will garner a save from me every time!

 

[Farscape One]

- Sometimes Bakula with his shirt off will do. But Trinneer with his shirt off will garner a save from me every time!

Which is why you end up saving "PRECIOUS CARGO" time and again.

 

[Cyfa]

Ha ha! That's part of the reason, yes. But I actually really do enjoy it, daft as it is

Oh, I've just realised that the game isn't over - there are two Disco episodes left! Who's going to make the difficult choice?