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The Most Dosliked Episode of VOY, Season 5 - 2025 Edition...

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Frightscape One

Admiral
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Welcome to our bi-yearly 'Most Disliked Episode' games! Now that the 'Least Disliked Episode' games hosted by BlueStuff (who inspired me to create these games, so thank you very much for paving the way) have concluded, we can begin the opposite side of that coin.

Here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your most favorite or the one you deem the 'best.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Hall of Champions (or Failures?)
2011 - "THE FIGHT"
2018 - "FAVORITE SON"
2019 - "SPIRIT FOLK"
2021 - "FURY"
2023 - "FRIENDSHIP ONE"
2025 -


Season Five -

"NIGHT"
"DRONE"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
"TIMELESS"
"INFINITE REGRESS"
"NOTHING HUMAN"
"THIRTY DAYS"
"COUNTERPOINT"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"BRIDE OF CHAOTICA!"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"COURSE: OBLIVION"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
Season 5... another strong season. Some really great concepts executed very well. A couple clunkers, but definitely the second best season of this show.

My first save is one of the darkest endings of the franchise... "COURSE: OBLIVION".

It starts off with a mystery, and once you see the pieces fall into place, it takes a left turn and focuses more on the characters and it just gets more and more tragic.

Possibly the saddest ending in the franchise, these guys deserved better than to be liquified out of existence with no trace of their deeds. It's doubly sad that basically the one who started it all, Harry, was the last one left. He got to see the formation of their sentience AND their melting into nothingness. He really was the alpha and the omega.

I always wondered if our crew ever encountered people who were helped or offended by the copied crew. Definitely would have made a nice epilogue.

One of the best concept executions of the series. (Funny coincidence... both "DEMON" and this one were directed by Anson Williams.)



"NIGHT"
"DRONE"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
"TIMELESS"
"INFINITE REGRESS"
"NOTHING HUMAN"
"THIRTY DAYS"
"COUNTERPOINT"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"BRIDE OF CHAOTICA!"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
Bride of Chaotica is one of the few holodeck episodes that worked reasonably well.

"NIGHT"
"DRONE"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
"TIMELESS"
"INFINITE REGRESS"
"NOTHING HUMAN"
"THIRTY DAYS"
"COUNTERPOINT"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
My next save is "NOTHING HUMAN".

This was Jeri Taylor's last episode for the franchise. While I didn't think she was a very good showrunner (she was in charge of TNG season 7 and VOY season 3, both extremely weak seasons), I did like a lot of the episodes she wrote. This definitely falls under that category.

Great moral dilemma with wonderful performances all around. A good swan song for Jeri Taylor.

(And going by production order, THIS was the 100th episode of the series, not "TIMELESS"... though that was produced directly after this one, so if you went by episode titles and not production code, it can be considered their 100th. Plus, "TIMELESS" had a bigger scope, so I can understand why UPN pimped that one as their 100th episode event.)



"NIGHT"
"DRONE"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
"TIMELESS"
"INFINITE REGRESS"
"THIRTY DAYS"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
Well, my four favourites have already gone, so that saves some hand wringing over which to save first - thank you! :D
I find myself not really fussed about the remainder, but recall quite liking "Drone", especially J. Paul Boehmer's portrayal of One and his relationship with Seven.

"NIGHT"
"DRONE"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
"TIMELESS"
"INFINITE REGRESS"
"THIRTY DAYS"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
Drone is a very bittersweet episode.

Seven tryung to smile at the end breaks me.

Ninjad!

Ill go for the excellent Infinite Regress instead. This was peak Jeri Ryan acting!

NIGHT"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"NOTHING HUMAN"
"THIRTY DAYS"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
"Thirty Days" - pure adventure with a clever framing device.

"NIGHT"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"NOTHING HUMAN"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
Severed Heads said:
Drone is a very bittersweet episode.

Seven tryung to smile at the end breaks me.

Ninjad!

Ill go for the excellent Infinite Regress instead. This was peak Jeri Ryan acting!

NIGHT"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"NOTHING HUMAN"
"THIRTY DAYS"
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"THINK TANK"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
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Since Cyfa just picked "DRONE" right before you posted, you can go ahead and take out another episode.
 
"INFINITE REGRESS" was going to be my next pick. :bolian: (I've only seen one performance of switching personalities better than Jeri Ryan's, and that was James McAvoy in SPLIT. Definitely recommend that movie.)


Saving "THINK TANK".

One of the most unique villains the series ever created. I wish we saw them again, but they are honestly more effective as a one-off villain.

You can tell Jason Alexander was having a blast as Kurros. As a lifelong Trekkie, if I was cast in a series, I'd be loving every second of it, too.


"NIGHT"
"EXTREME RISK"
"IN THE FLESH"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
At lot of strong episodes have already been saved. I'm picking In the Flesh, a very entertaining follow up to Scorpion and it was nice to see a facsimile of life on Earth at least. Even episodes that revisited Earth seldom took time to look at what life is like. A Vulcan night club? Show me this, I wish to know.

"NIGHT"
"EXTREME RISK"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"RELATIVITY"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
Saving "Relativity" for time travel nincompoopery, Seven in a Starfleet uniform, and the cool 29th century uniforms (but not the ship, which I think is hideous).

"NIGHT"
"EXTREME RISK"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
Saving "EXTREME RISK".

Roxann Dawson was always a strong actress, and this episode was more proof.

Also, we get the Delta Flyer premiering here.


"NIGHT"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"11:59"
"WARHEAD"
"EQUINOX"
 
While a little hokey with the magical multidimensional space dolphins,

"EQUINOX"

deals with a bunch of magical space dolphins as the crux of the Prime Directive regarding another ship that was yanked in years earlier and they set a different course, so to speak. The story gets a lot out of the material, even though it's another Prime Directive tale, in part because the show is now trying to tread back to some of its root themes - being alone with no Starfleet and now having to make big big decisions in ways they didn't before. But it's still rehashing old ideas and, as with other big big stories (e.g. Year of Hell) there's very probably a reset button, since this show is increasingly the television equivalent to the Atari 2600 video game console...

What's left:
"NIGHT"
"ONCE UPON A TIME
"LATENT IMAGE"
"GRAVITY"
"BLISS"
"DARK FRONTIER"
"THE DISEASE"
"THE FIGHT"
"JUGGERNAUT"
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
"WARHEAD"
 
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