The Most Disliked TNG Episode - Season 1...

[Sakonna]

I have some limited fondness for "Lonely Among Us." The moody lighting is great, the Selay and the Anticans have always fascinated me (bring them back, Disco or Picard or one of these!), and I like a possession ep and have some respect for "Lonely" as TNG's first of the genre.

And the craziness of that ending, where the murder of an ambassador and the cannibalism of his corpse is played as a cause for antic comedy, is at least memorable!

Code of Honor
Justice
Haven
We'll Always Have Paris
The Neutral Zone

 

[Farscape One]

I will save "We'll Always Have Paris". It had some fun moments in it.

Code of Honor
Justice
Haven
The Neutral Zone

 

[serdogthehound]

"The :Neutral Zone" is a bearable some silliness but not actively bad
Code of Honor
Justice
Haven

 

[Prax]

Justice is fine. I shall preserve it.

Code of Honor
Haven

 

[antinoos]

Code of Honor is irredeemable, so by default Haven is saved...

The Most Disliked TNG Episode of Season 1, I think deservedly is:

Code of Honor

 

[Sakonna]

Agreed that this is a very deserving winner. "Code Of Honor": sooooo racist, you barely notice it also has a scene where Tasha admits OF COURSE she enjoyed being abducted and menaced with the threat of sexual assault -- because he's just so masculine, how can you resist!

I did always find it interesting that there are really one two Tasha Yar episodes -- "Code Of Honor" and "Yesterday's Enterprise" -- and they are my personal best and worst eps of the series.

 

[Seven of Five]

A worthy winner. There is one line of unintentional humour, "Then you shall have no treaty, no vaccine and no Lieutenant Yar!" I think the way it was said was just terribly over-the-top.

 

[Qonundrum]

A worthy winner. There is one line of unintentional humour, "Then you shall have no treaty, no vaccine and no Lieutenant Yar!" I think the way it was said was just terribly over-the-top.

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Considering how bloody awful that script was - on all levels, the least of which being the misuse of the term and definition of "vaccine" and the whole piece just gets worse and worse with each passing minute - I'd still opine that Ferguson and Stewart put in some on-key professional performances and trying to rise above that script's idiocies in order to make it even remotely watchable. And both of them accomplish it, which is amazing since it'd be way to easy for any actor to consciously go diving off the deep end into intentional campy acting with the material accorded either Lutan or Picard... the script is so lacking in any creativity, Yar's opponent is named "Yareena". Good grief, why not call the planet "Qotile" and have an energy shield and have Data at a console finding fascination in the following for 43 minutes:

Spoiler: Click on me for a good time!

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(BTW, eat the shield for real point accumulation, shooting at it is worthless... ditto for frying the Qotile with a cannon...)

 

[gakelly]

If it weren't for the racist undertone, it wouldn't be as bad as some other episodes from season 1. Rewatch Datalore and listen to the dialogue and try to comprehend how preposterous the entire Wesley subplot. Picard would have been the worst captain in the history of anything to act the way he did.
It was cringe worthy for sure.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I dunno, if Code of Honor was on a planet of white people, it might not be 'worst ever' level, but it'd still involve a security officer being kidnapped with the intent of forcing her into marriage and then not immediately rescuing her and instead trying to negotiate when they could have beamed her up at any time.

 

[gakelly]

Dont' get me wrong, the episode was bad, but if you take away the racism, it isn't any worse than a bunch of other 1st season episodes. Angel One, The Last Outpost, Datalore, Haven, Home Soil, Lonely Among Us, Justice, The Arsenal of Freedom, When the Bough Breaks are all pretty awful in their own ways. Some of those episodes are about as boring as anything that has ever been on television.

 

[Farscape One]

I forgot to declare "Code of Honor" the 'winner' of season 1.

Thank you all for voting.

 

[Farscape One]

Side note... I just realized while I was writing down the 'winners' and runners up, Code of Honor and Haven were produced in exactly that order.

 

[Armus]

Code of Honor is campy and unintentionally racist but there are far more boring episodes in the TNG canon.

 

[Farscape One]

I'll agree with that.

 

[Spectre Of The Fun]

As absurd as the academic battle royale is for an entrance exam

Yes this is both true and a humorous description. Also I bet Starfleet drops the ridiculous entrance standards after the massive loss of life to the Borg and Dominion.

I'll save When the bough breaks, I don't dislike it, it's an okay episode. Everything else remaining is worse.

For this act you receive a big hug from Alexandra.

 

[Spectre Of The Fun]

Code of Honor is campy and unintentionally racist but there are far more boring episodes in the TNG canon.

I agree and would like to hear you name the boring offenders.

 

[Armus]

I agree and would like to hear you name the boring offenders.

With pleasure! The first episodes that come to mind are The Ensigns of Command and Transfigurations. Both episodes are competently made but flat and predictable.

I'd also add Home Soil, Unnatural Selection, Manhunt, Evolution, The Bonding, Suddenly Human, The Loss, In Theory, New Ground, Imaginary Friend, Time's Arrow Part I, and a handful of season 7 episodes I haven't even watched all the way through. I find there are at least 4-6 snoozers each season which isn't bad considering TNG produced 26 episodes a year.