Game The Most Disliked Prime Directive Episode/Movie

[Farscape One]

"A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR" gets saved.

Good episode. The moral dilemma was really good, and the answer at the end... it was the best of a bad situation.

Pretty dark ending, when you think about it.

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TOS Season 3: "The Cloud Minders"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Justice"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
TNG Feature: "Star Trek: Insurrection"
DS9 Season 1: "Battle Lines”
VOY Season 1: "Time And Again"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Sakonna]

I will continue to be pro-Voyager and save "Time And Again", which is weirdly placed (time travel problems for episodes 2 AND three of this series?) but otherwise quite satisfying.

I don't even agree with that knock against the costumes which everyone seems to hate. I like the design in this one.

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TOS Season 3: "The Cloud Minders"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Justice"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
TNG Feature: "Star Trek: Insurrection"
DS9 Season 1: "Battle Lines”
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Qonundrum]

A well-meaning episode,

TOS Season 3: "The Cloud Minders"​

still has a bit of a tame ending. There's some pretty good acting in this one, even if the characters border on oversimplified caricatures, but that said and considering this was 1969 this episode is still a hefty outing.

Plassis and Vanna are the most interesting characters. Or, rather, given the most background and depth.

And, yes, the scenes about the invisible unseen thing causing bodily harm -- and it's not a ghost or anything else beyond trite cliche -- is a real step up.

...and I should have said 10-way tie instead of 15.

What's left:

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Justice"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
TNG Feature: "Star Trek: Insurrection"
DS9 Season 1: "Battle Lines”
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Paul Weaver]

The best TNG film has to be saved
TNG Feature: "Star Trek: Insurrection"

The plot was great, it was fun, it had moral questions and philosophical questions, a Picard monologue, A British Tar, An awesome score, character moments for most of the crewe - especiall Troi, Riker, Geordi and Picard, a few cringey jokes but not enough to break it


What's left:

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Justice"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
DS9 Season 1: "Battle Lines”
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Farscape One]

Drawing "BATTLE LINES".

A solid episode. This was the first real step for Kira's growth. She had so much anger and self-loathing, and here, thanks to Opaka, she is able to start the process of healing and letting go.

And a horrible way for those people to live. It also illustrates just how technologically advanced the Gamma Quadrant is.


What's left:

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Justice"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[cosmic mouse]

Frankly, I was looking to save something other than a VOY ep here, but TOS needs a rewatch and I dislike all others (that I have seen) more than...

VOY Season 7: "Flesh And Blood" ...
...which is a decent enough continuation from the Killing Game earlier in the series. I do like when VOY made connections between eps such as this, and I like the Hirogen as villains. I also liked the (admittedly not novel) concept of the technology turning on its master, and subsequent events after the EMH is abducted involving ethical complexities that turn what could have been a simplistic episode into something far more thoughtful.

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Justice"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Sakonna]

I really have a good time with "Justice." An iconicly ridiculous early TNG

Spoiler: Picard Spoiler

I love how the design of the android society on Copelius seemed to reference the Edo and their planet.

It's one of my season-one go-to's when I just want to laugh.

There's a lot of brilliantly absurd early TNG on this list. It was hard to choose which one to save...

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 5: "Equinox, Part I"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Seven of Five]

I'll save Equinox, Part I. The cliffhanger was unnecessarily dramatic after a very good build-up to that point.

I loved seeing Janeway get so pissed at Ransom and how he rationalized the murder of those aliens. It's funny wondering what kind of series we would have had if we'd followed the Equinox crew instead of the Voyager one.

To be fair, it would be a pretty dark series, and probably not suitable for network coverage.

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 2: "Bread And Circuses"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Brennyren]

Parallel Earth, check. Speaking English no less, check. Mildly heavy-handed social commentary, check. Slightly precious ending, checkity checkity check. Still, "Bread and Circuses" featured some of the best Spock-McCoy interaction of the entire series, and Scotty does a nice job in command. Save it? Check.

SPOCK: Do you need any help, Doctor?
McCOY: (in desperate need of help) Whatever gave you that idea?

TOS Season 2: "The Apple"
TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Farscape One]

Taking a bite out of "THE APPLE".

I have always enjoyed this episode. I'm not really sure why. But it definitely has the most varied ways to kill off redshirts in a single episode.

Exploding rocks? Vaporizing lightning? Killer flowers? Primitives beating your head in with a tuning fork shaped club?

Sign me up for NOT being on that away team.

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"
DIS Season 1: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

 

[Sakonna]

"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" is a solid ep, though so peculiarly oversold in the press -- there were so many interviews where various Disco creatives highlighted this as THE episode, an incredible hour that will knock you out with it's epic power. It was all right, I liked it, but nothing about it struck me as particularly special.

It was nice to see a Canadian Star Trek planet. What a change from all the Southern California planets!

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"

 

[Qonundrum]

I'd be so far out in explaining away Justice, so to make a point:

TNG Season 1: "Encounter At Farpoint"​

At the time it felt sooo cheesy, and in ways still is. But it still has a freshness, sense of adventure, optimism, and even fun that's actually charming.

Q being a prankster could say anything and Picard was quick to trounce.

And is it just me or does Yar get the best character development, impassioned about how Starfleet saved her from rapegangs and other nasty things? (Oh what might have been if Ms. Crosby remained for season 2 and 3 and hoping to get stronger material; it's hard to blame her for leaving as she was relegated to the same "hailing frequencies open" role... but Sela was pretty cool too, until season 5 later turns her into a cardboard cutout lampoon. )

Or second-best; Troi's empathic ability allows her to read the minds of any being and having a nonhumanoid where she comes in far more handy really hits the spot. It's a shame she's often relegated to "Captain, I see the obvious as much as the plot does!" for seven years. The space squid subplot is the least effective/most dorky ("squishy space squid luuurve saves the species! (by the seashore) ") and yet it otherwise gives Troi one of the episode's best moments.

How they did that chain effect was pretty awesome...all being practical effects and not CGI, they're all amazing... especially the shields but that's involving iodized salt, a bowling ball, prismatic filter, and filming it at a faster frame rate... love them extras!

McCoy's cameo was largely awesome, though why Data isn't given more precise date information regarding his life -- okay, nanoseconds may be a bit much but not "precisely" months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds? Just "137 years"? Piffle, I tells ya, piffle!

What's left:

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 1: "Too Short A Season"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"

 

[Xhiandra]

Parallel Earth, check. Speaking English no less, check. Mildly heavy-handed social commentary, check. Slightly precious ending, checkity checkity check. Still, "Bread and Circuses" featured some of the best Spock-McCoy interaction of the entire series, and Scotty does a nice job in command. Save it? Check.

Damn, I was rooting for it to win. It's such a stupid episode. Space literal Romans (not thinly veiled like Romulans) with no explanations for it whatsoever (at least the space nazi and space mafia planets had explanations - albeit pretty bad ones)? Space sun-worshippers being oppressed by the space Romans? Use of panem et circenses without pointing out why they are needed, why the populace would rebel? Leaning on the 4th wall?
But the crown jewel of stupidity came when the sun-worshippers were revealed to be... sikrit space christians! Even Picard cannot facepalm enough at that one.

Though I will admit some of the Spock-McCoy dialogue was quite funny.


Anyway, saving Too Short a Season. It's mediocre, but most of the rest is quite terrible.

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
VOY Season 6: "Equinox, Part II"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"

 

[Seven of Five]

I might as well save the second part of Equinox. I enjoyed seeing our EMH with his ethical subroutine deleted. It makes things much more straightforward.

I think Janeway's actions with the Equinox crewmember in this episode are a little hard to watch, but it was still a good part two. Not as interesting as the first part, but still interesting.

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 1: "Angel One"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"

 

[Sakonna]

Hmm. Of these episodes, there are only two left that I like anything at all about, and it's on the shallowest level possible...

Upon consideration, I'm giving the save to "Angel One." There's no beating that chest hair!

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TOS Season 3: "The Paradise Syndrome"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"

 

[Brennyren]

Damn, I was rooting for it to win. It's such a stupid episode.

Like they say, no accounting for taste. I'm still reeling from the discovery that someone actually liked "Dear Doctor," so there you are.

"The Paradise Syndrome" was a strange little episode with a lot of unlikable things about it. (The white and cliche Native Americans come immediately to mind.) But I would argue that it has a few things going for it. One: Shatner's passionate sincerity. Two: the beautiful location footage. Three: it's not any of the other remaining episodes.

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"

 

[Farscape One]

I can only save one more in this game.

And it will be "THE PARADISE SYNDROME".

It was a very sad ending. Kirk seemed truly happy. And to lose a wife and an unborn child... that has to be possibly the worst thing we've seen happen to any of our captains in STAR TREK.


TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"
ENT Season 2: "The Communicator"

 

[Brennyren]

I can only save one more in this game.

And it will be "THE PARADISE SYNDROME".

Good choice. :::ninjas off:::

 

[eschaton]

Saving The Communicator. There's nothing outright bad about the episode. It's just yet another case of Enterprise treading where the other series have already gone yet refusing to say anything new and/or particularly interesting.

TOS Season 2: "Patterns Of Force"
TNG Season 7: "Homeward"

 

[cosmic mouse]

Hmm. Of these episodes, there are only two left that I like anything at all about, and it's on the shallowest level possible...

Upon consideration, I'm giving the save to "Angel One." There's no beating that chest hair!

You can keep Riker... I'll take Spock off your hands any day of the week.