The WORST Two-Parter ever!

[Tiberius]

We've got a thread for people to talk about the best two part eps, so I think it's time we have one for the worst two parter.

For me it's probably "Flesh and Blood". I just don't believe that the Doc would ever act the way he does. It's completely out of character.

Coming close is Birthright. It's not bad in and of itself, but it feels like two single part eps, smooshed together to make a two parter. Take the Data bit, fill it out and make it a whole episode. Take the worf bit and trim it a little and make that another episode. Or fill the worf bit out and make that into a two parter without the Data bit. As it is, it's just two stories linked together by a rather flimsy thread, and one of them just stops halfway through.

How about you guys?

 

[BruntFCA]

I will go Birthright as well.

 

[The Wormhole]

Unimatrix Zero. I can't explain it but every time I try to watch it, it grates on me so much.

 

[PKS8304]

Not that the plot was bad or the acting or anything, but I really dont think "Gambit" needed to be a two parter, it could have worked as 1 episode.

Im noticing alot of books that work well as 1 are getting split into 2 for money...like Harry Potter 7, Breaking Dawn 4 (actually Breaking Dawn could have worked well as 0, shoulda stopped at Eclipse)

Are there any other trek 2 parters that didnt need to be split in 2 or vice verse any episodes that could have worked better as a 2 parter...

In that perspective, Genesis would have been a great 2 parter, they really had to rush the plot to fit it into 1 episode

 

[dispatcher812]

I am going with Decent. I did not like any epsidoe with Lore and a 2 parter made it worse.

 

[Disruptor]

Excluding Pilot Episodes, Flesh & Blood or Workforce...

It's like Voyager really didn't have anything interesting to do at those points.

Holograms rebelling against the race of hunter aliens...we should care because...oh, they want to liberate all holograms.

WORKFORCE. Yeah, the crew will be taken away for labor and have new identities and uh...that's really exciting. Why did the kidnappers leave the ship behind? Why did it need to be two episodes? Is this the most interesting thing they could do in the show's last season?

TIME'S ARROW was rather lame, as well.

 

[DS9forever]

I vote for "Times Arrow" as well. I find it amusing that it was written to assure fans that with DS9 coming, TNG was not ending at the end of season five. Those episodes would not have assured me.

 

[CaptainMatt]

Descent for its casual reworking of the Borg, something largely ignored by the time the next Borg "episode" (Star Trek:First Contact) came along three years later.

 

[SchwEnt]

Why vote "Birthright" as WORST ever?

The Worf story was fine, good Klingon/Romulan stuff and more. The Data story was interesting.

I agree, really just two separate eps forcibly conjoined inexplicably into a two-parter.

But aside from that awkward pairing structure, they are two good eps. Perfectly fine Worf and Data stories. No?
I didn't really find them lacking in anything aside from "why is this a two-parter?"

There are so many others with poor ideas, crappy execution, dull plots, etc.

 

[CaptainMatt]

Did they ever really solve the Data part to the story? I can't remember...

 

[where'sSaavik?]

Did they ever really solve the Data part to the story? I can't remember...

Yes, Bashir helped him. From that point forward Data programmed himself to go into a sleep mode so he could dream every night. This of course led to the episode where he dreams he is a cake. I think that was season seven, part of that awful string of time killers where everybody was going into each others heads to have misadventures.

I am not a big fan of birthright either, but workforce was pretty bad.

The Killing Game, is that where they are figting the Nazis on the holodeck:? That is the worst ever.

Fair Haven and SpiritFolk were not back to back, but as the two worst episodes of Voyager will get my vote. Crap. Crap. Crap.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yes, Bashir helped him. From that point forward Data programmed himself to go into a sleep mode so he could dream every night. This of course led to the episode where he dreams he is a cake.

Actually, he dreams that Deanna Troi is a cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting.

 

[where'sSaavik?]

Yes, Bashir helped him. From that point forward Data programmed himself to go into a sleep mode so he could dream every night. This of course led to the episode where he dreams he is a cake.

Actually, he dreams that Deanna Troi is a cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting.

I sem to remember Picard and Geordi examining the exact spot that the cake was cut because it had somekind of significance for Data's anatomy. So maybe they were both cakes.

Damn it. I think I need to pull up that episode on Netflix now. Grrr. And I hate that one!

 

[Tiberius]

That wasn't Birthright.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

Unimatrix Zero was terrible.

 

[The Dominion]

No the Troi cake wasn't in Birthright, in Birthright Data dreams about Dr. Soong. Birthright was also a decent episode, but Ive always found it disappointing on the basis that it promised a crossover between TNG and DS9 and ended up barely a reference.

On first watching it, I thought it was going to be a two part crossover, then it went off into the Worf story, leaving a wierd dream sequence the main focus of the actual crossover. Even more disappointing was the fact the Picard and Sisko never interacted, and Kira didn't even come out to say hi. Seemed strange to have the flagship captain dropping by, and no one coming out to greet him.

 

[The Dominion]

Unimatrix Zero was terrible.

Yes it was, but the worst part was that they agian started a big story that wasn't followed up on at all. Wouldn't Endgame have been a lot more relevant to the series at that point, if it had followed up that idea? We didn't even get to see the commandeered Borg Sphere again.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

No the Troi cake wasn't in Birthright

Nobody said it was

 

[sonak]

another vote for "Birthright I and II." The most padded and pointless two-parter Trek has ever done IMHO.

 

[Admiral Shran]

I'm going to have to go with Workforce, followed closely by Birthright. Workforce is just some terribly dull and bland. Birthright is supremely padded, but at least both the Data and Worf stories are interesting in themselves.