Game The Most Disliked Penultimate Episode

[Sakonna]

"Renaissance Man" is a delight. I love the return of the Hierarchy aliens. This was the kind of episode that Voyager did best, just an adventure with a fun gimmick.

TAS Season 2: "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth"
ENT Season 2: "Bounty"
DIS Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
ST Season 2: "The Girl Who Made The Stars"
PIC Season 1: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[Farscape One]

All the remaining ones are pretty bad.

I'll save "HOW SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH" because it's not nearly as bad as the rest.


ENT Season 2: "Bounty"
DIS Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
ST Season 2: "The Girl Who Made The Stars"
PIC Season 1: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

 

[gweeps]

I'll save PIC Season 1: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1" b/c it's the only one I really remember.

ENT Season 2: "Bounty"
DIS Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
ST Season 2: "The Girl Who Made The Stars"

 

[Seven of Five]

I had to look it up because I've only seen the Short Treks once, and that was a couple of years ago. The Girl Who Made The Stars is a pretty nifty little story, and the animation was great too.

ENT Season 2: "Bounty"
DIS Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."

 

[Farscape One]

I guess I get the final vote.

I don't like either episode much, but at least we got some early Tellarite stuff on ENT. "BOUNTY" is saved.

Therefore, the 'winner' is "There is a Tide...". (And it just got caught in the undertow.)

 

[Seven of Five]

I think the T'Pol in pon farr was in poor taste but I agree the Tellerite stuff was good.

 

[Sakonna]

And "There Is A Tide..." becomes a double-winner. I don't love it, but I also don't hate it. It's interesting how the three Disco double winners all represent the point where the season arc was fumbled, and subsequently failed to recover.

Next up, last game of this cycle: "The Most Disliked Season Finale" Hope to see you all there!

I miscounted the other day -- it's actually 71 games total for the cycle!

MOST DISLIKED WINNERS, '22 - '23
WRITER GENE RODDENBERRY: TOS, Season 1: "Mudd's Women"
MAJEL BARRETT APPEARANCE: TOS, Season 3: "And The Children Shall Lead"
3RD SEASON: TOS, Season 3: "And The Children Shall Lead"
'HEY, THIS PLANET IS JUST LIKE EARTH!': TOS, Season 3: "Plato's Stepchildren"
ANIMATED: TAS, Season 1: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
ROMULAN: TAS, Season 2: "The Practical Joker"
WRITER D.C. FONTANA: TNG, Season 1: "Lonely Among Us"
WEDDING: TNG, Season 2: "The Outrageous Okona"
WRITER JERI TAYLOR: TNG, Season 4: "Suddenly Human"
DIRECTOR WINRICH KOLBE: TNG, Season 5: "The Masterpiece Society"
WRITER MICHAEL PILLER: TNG, Season 5: "The Masterpiece Society"
5TH SEASON: TNG, Season 5: "The Perfect Mate"
ROMANCE-OF-THE-WEEK: TNG, Season 6: "Aquiel"
KLINGON: TNG, Season 6: "Birthright, Part II"
DIRECTOR CLIFF BOLE: TNG, Season 7: "Liaisons"
DIRECTOR LES LANDAU: TNG, Season 7: "Dark Page"
DIRECTOR ALEXANDER SINGER: TNG, Season 7: "Homeward"
WRITER RONALD D. MOORE: TNG, Season 7: "Journey's End"
7TH SEASON: TNG, Season 7: "Firstborn"
JAMES SLOYAN APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 2: "The Alternate"
HOLIDAY: DS9, Season 3: "Meridian"
CARDASSIAN: DS9, Season 6: "Sons & Daughters"
MIRROR UNIVERSE: DS9, Season 6: "Resurrection"
BAJORAN: DS9, Season 6: "The Reckoning"
FERENGI: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
COMEDIC/LIGHT-HEARTED: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
6TH SEASON: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
DIRECTED BY A TREK ACTOR: DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"
JEFFREY COMBS APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 7: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
DIRECTOR JAMES L. CONWAY: VOY, Season 2: "The 37's"
PRIME DIRECTIVE: VOY, Season 3: "False Profits"
WRITER JOE MENOSKY: VOY, Season 5: "The Fight"
HOLODECK: VOY, Season 6: "Spirit Folk"
MAQUIS: VOY, Season 7: "Repression"
BARCLAY: VOY, Season 7: "Inside Man"
2-PART/DOUBLE EPISODE: VOY, Season 7: "Flesh And Blood"
RECYCLED TITLE: ENT, Season 1: "Terra Nova"
VAUGHN ARMSTRONG APPEARANCE: ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
2ND SEASON: ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
DIRECTOR LEVAR BURTON: ENT, Season 3: "Extinction"
DIRECTOR MIKE VEJAR: ENT, Season 3: "Rajiin"
NAMED FOR CHARACTER: ENT, Season 3: "Rajiin"
FIRST EPISODE OF THE YEAR: ENT, Season 3: "Chosen Realm"
DIRECTOR DAVID LIVINGSTON: ENT, Season 3: "Harbinger"
SEASON PREMIERE: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"
EVERY 47TH RELEASE: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"
"I'M AGING WRONG!": ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"
VISIT TO EARTH'S PAST: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part II"
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 BEST EPS: ENT, Season 4: "Home"
J.G. HERTZLER APPEARANCE: ENT, Season 4: "Borderland"
DIRECTOR ALLAN KROEKER: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
1ST SEASON: DIS, Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
EXIT OF A REGULAR: DIS, Season 1: "What's Past Is Prologue"
ONE-OFF DIRECTOR: DIS, Season 1: "The War Without, The War Within"
CHATGPT'S FAVORITES: DIS, Season 1: "The War Without, The War Within"
TIME TRAVEL/TRAVELER/LOOP/ANOMALY: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
FEMALE DIRECTOR: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
SEASON FINALE ANTAGONIST: DIS, Season 2: Control
DIRECTOR JONATHAN FRAKES: DIS, Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
PENULTIMATE EPISODE: DIS, Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
47TH EPISODES: DIS, Season 4: "The Examples"
4TH SEASON: DIS, Season 4: "The Galactic Barrier"
4TH & 7TH EPISODES: ST, Season 2: "Ask Not"
TREK NOIR: PIC, Season 1: "Broken Pieces"
CAST CROSSOVER: PIC, Season 1: "Et In Arcardia Ego, Part 1"
GUINAN: PIC, Season 2: "Monsters"
BORG/XB: PIC, Season 2: "Mercy"
Q: PIC, Season 2: "Mercy"
COUPLE: LD, Carol Freeman/Alonzo Freeman
REGULAR CHARACTER: PRO, Drednok

QUADRUPLE WINNERS
DS9, Season 6: "Profit And Lace"

TRIPLE WINNERS
ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"

DOUBLE WINNERS
TOS, Season 3: "And The Children Shall Lead"
TNG, Season 5: "The Masterpiece Society"
ENT, Season 2: "Shockwave, Part II"
ENT, Season 3: "Rajiin"
DIS, Season 1: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
DIS, Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy"

TOTAL SHOW WINS
SNW & Movies: 0 wins
ST, LD & PRO: 1 win each
TAS: 2 wins
TOS: 4 wins
PIC: 5 wins
VOY: 7 wins
DS9: 10 wins
DIS: 11 wins
TNG: 13 wins
ENT: 15 wins