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Game The Most Disliked Of The Least Disliked Champions, 2025 Edition

Sakonna

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THE OBJECTIVE: A sudden-death elimination game in which we remove our personal favorite episodes/movies from a themed list, until we arrive at the episode that is, if not the worst, at least the most disliked.

It's a framework to say positive things about episodes from across the franchise.

THE RULES: Below is a list of all the final winners of @BlueStuff's Least Disliked games from the show forums, all the way back to 2011 - TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DIS, PIC, LD, SNW, PRO, and the movies. Thanks @BlueStuff for running those! You've maintained a much more regular schedule than I have with these spin-off games. :bolian::hugegrin:

Eliminate/save your favorite, or the one you deem the ‘best' of what currently remains.
Post something you enjoy about the episode you are saving, and copy-and-paste the list with your choice removed.

You can use any standard you like to judge which option is "best." You can save episodes for being widely recognized “best Trek” classics, or for idiosyncratic qualities that no one appreciates but you.

As you get down the list, you might have to reach more and more for something to enjoy about an episode, and it's OK to eventually save episodes for being "less bad."

But -- no tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you don’t think anyone else will, or because you feel it would threaten your preferred episode's chance to “win.”

You can take multiple turns.

Leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

New players are always welcome. You do not have to already be a "most disliked game" regular to dive in.

Enjoy!


TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star" (2021)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" (2019)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "In The Pale Moonlight" (2011, 2013, 2025)
DS9: "Duet" (2021)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Call To Arms" (2023)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
LD: "wej Duj" (2023, 2025)
LD: "No Small Parts" (2021)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
Lots of heavy hitters on this one. I'll start with three-time champion "In The Pale Moonlight." This one never gets less riveting no matter how many times I rewatch it.

I thought it was interesting to see which episodes were three time winners - "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I", "Yesteryear", and "In The Pale Moonlight."

It is always funny to me that Voyager is the show with no repeat winners.

TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star" (2021)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" (2019)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Duet" (2021)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Call To Arms" (2023)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
LD: "wej Duj" (2023, 2025)
LD: "No Small Parts" (2021)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
An easy first save from me - LDS: "wej Duj"! Lower Decks is my favourite Trek series, and "wej Duj" is one of my favourite episodes. I'm saving it one, because it's awesome
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; two, because it introduces my favourite Klingon, Ma'ah :klingon: :adore: (even though he is "smaller and slower and weaker and smaller than other Klingons"); and three, T'Lyn!!!
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TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star" (2021)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" (2019)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Duet" (2021)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Call To Arms" (2023)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
LD: "No Small Parts" (2021)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
I am going to save TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star" (2021) for being the very first episode of Trek in any form that I ever watched. Being animated freed Trek from the expensive pre-digital special effects technology of the day and allowed for much more imaginative visual planet/ship design and routine ship crew with alien physiology, like Lts Arex and M'Ress.*

TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" (2019)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Duet" (2021)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Call To Arms" (2023)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
LD: "No Small Parts" (2021)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)

*would it kill someone to have a Horta as crew? We got Cetacean Ops for water planets, how about Geology/Silicon Ops for toxic to humans planets?
 
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Duet is still as compelling no matter how many times I watch it.


TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" (2019)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Call To Arms" (2023)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
LD: "No Small Parts" (2021)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
Some goliaths in this list. A Call to Arms is saved, an exciting dramatic finale that shook up the status quo.

TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" (2019)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
LD: "No Small Parts" (2021)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
"Yesterday's Enterprise" I've rewatched almost as much as "In The Pale Moonlight."

Outside of "The Visitor", YE must be Trek's most powerful "alternate timeline" gut-punch.

TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
LD: "No Small Parts" (2021)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
LDS: "No Small Parts" showed that this seemingly irreverant Trek comedy wasn't always a barrel of laughs - the loss of the Solvang was shocking and powerful. "No Small Parts" showed that this Trek could hold its own with any of the live action series.

TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "The Devil In The Dark" (2025)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
"Devil In The Dark" is my favourite episode in all Star Trek. I can feel now how gut-wrenching that mind-meld between Spock and the Horta Mother was on first watching.


TOS: "Balance Of Terror" (2013, 2023)
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" (2011, 2015)
TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (2019, 2021)
TOS: "Journey To Babel" (2017)
TAS: "Yesteryear" (2018, 2023, 2025)
TAS: "The Pirates Of Orion" (2019)
TNG: "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I" (2011, 2017, 2025)
TNG: "Q Who" (2021, 2023)
TNG: "The Measure Of A Man" (2013)
TNG: "All Good Things..." (2015)
DS9: "Improbable Cause" (2017)
DS9: "Tacking Into The Wind" (2019)
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
VOY: "Scorpion, Part I" (2021)
VOY: "Year Of Hell, Part I" (2025)
VOY: "Living Witness" (2013)
VOY: "Timeless" (2023)
VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" (2019)
VOY: "Blink Of An Eye" (2017)
ENT: "Azati Prime" (2013, 2017)
ENT: "United" (2011, 2021)
ENT: "Dead Stop" (2023)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I" (2019)
ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II" (2025)
DIS: "If Memory Serves" (2021, 2023)
DIS: "Project Daedalus" (2019)
DIS: "Species Ten-C" (2025)
PIC: "Remembrance" (2021)
PIC: "Imposters" (2023)
PIC: "The Bounty" (2025)
SNW: "Children Of The Comet" (2023)
SNW: "Memento Mori" (2025)
PRO: "Kobayashi" (2023)
PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II" (2025)
Feature: "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (2023)
 
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