Trek's lowest moment

[Gov Kodos]

Riker prattling on about cosmic plans in Pen Pals and the people on the planet being fated to die. Evolved sensibilities, my ass.

Hoshi lost her shirt being a hero, no different than what happened to Kirk a dozen times over.

Hooray for shirt ripping scenes!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

YES!

I do so love them

 

[Amaris]

Personally, I was okay with the Row, Row, Row Your Boat, but I absolutely cringed when Picard and Worf were singing "A British Tar" from HMS Pinafore, complete with LCARS displaying the karaoke bouncing ball. Ugh.

See, I don't see that as a low point. Data's character still acts, even with emotions. It's within his character and actually moves Data's character along. The last time we saw him acting was in the series, and if you remember Devil's Due, he explains why he acts, as a part of his quest to understand humanity. Picard was often his audience, as he probably was for this play. Picard's dialogue before they start singing shows the mind at work in Picard:

"He can fly a ship. He can anticipate tactical strategies. Clearly, his brain is functioning. We've seen how he responds to threats, I wonder how he would respond to...Mr. Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?"

And this is where I get on my high horse about "having them act as scientists, explorers, rather than just holding a phaser and shooting at someone." (Deducing, having an hypothesis from known data. Testing said hypothesis. Scientific method...yum.)

If you consider the song they are singing, Data is acting with duty and honor, as a British Tar should do. It fits the scene. It is no more out-of-place than Chang quoting Shakespeare, Khan doing Melville, or Kirk doing Dickens.

I rather liked that scene in Insurrection, as well. I think it's a good character moment, that Picard knows his friend so well, and yes, I snerked at Worf's comment. I love Worf.

Anyhoo, lowest point in Trek?
The Top 5:

5. Granny's ghost popping up to say "Hi!" - Sub Rosa (TNG)
4. Spider Barclay and Assorted Noah's Ark Critters - Genesis (TNG)
3. Lizard Sex at Warp 10 - Threshold (VOY)
2. Miniature Sisko & Co. Game Piece People - Move Along Home (DS9)

And the lowest point in Star Trek:

1. "Brain and brain. What is brain?" - Spock's Brain (TOS)


I didn't include movies, because I put them on a different level of bad, cinematically speaking.

 

[Random_Spock]

Personally, I was okay with the Row, Row, Row Your Boat, but I absolutely cringed when Picard and Worf were singing "A British Tar" from HMS Pinafore, complete with LCARS displaying the karaoke bouncing ball. Ugh.

Agreed. TFF had the best interaction of 'the big three' and the song was just an addition to that. Insurrection's song was...lame.

Although--all of NuTrek is close up for a tie. Just two hideous, predictable, clunky, unthinking non-Trek-spirit actioners from start to finish. Blech. For the worst moments, either the stupid, absolutely NOT exciting, boringly overlong, Matrix-like space dive to the Vengeance, or Carol Marcus stripping for blatant fanservice.

I'd like to thank you for beating me to this, I was preparing my flame suit.

JJ-Trek is the low note. When Trek nosedived into being a brainless action franchise.

Agreed on both. Didn't mind the first one. Since it had some of the old spirit, but the second film... It was just spiritless period for the most part. It was just a heartless action film to me.

 

[HIjol]

For me it has to be Data and Joe Piscopo making spastic noises on the holodeck in the name of 'comedy' in "The Outrageous Okuna".

Are there worse moments in Trek? Did anyone actually find that in any way entertaining?

When Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson raised an eyebrow on Voyager, I facepalmed.

...these two top my list...

...openly, I wept...

 

[Tosk]

I think you mean Hoshi.
The only time we see T'Pol naked, she's facing away from the camera.

Nope.

http://ent.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3x01/thexindi_494.jpg

 

[bbjeg]

^Vulcans aren't modest. She shouldn't be covering up.

For me it has to be Data and Joe Piscopo making spastic noises on the holodeck in the name of 'comedy' in "The Outrageous Okuna".

Are there worse moments in Trek? Did anyone actually find that in any way entertaining?

When Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson raised an eyebrow on Voyager, I facepalmed.

...these two top my list...

...openly, I wept...

Don't get me wrong, I liked Johnson in The Scorpion King and he was a fine addition to the Fast and the Furious franchise but his character on Voyager, the alien wrestler, was sad and only an attempt to draw wrestling fans to Voyager for a night.

 

[BigJake]

an attempt to draw wrestling fans to Voyager for a night.

Well... at least it wasn't Ric Flair or something. Small mercies.

 

[bbjeg]

Yeah, it could have been much worse.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

It's been a long road....

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

And the lowest point in Star Trek:

1. "Brain and brain. What is brain?" - Spock's Brain (TOS)

Underrated.

 

[bbjeg]

And the lowest point in Star Trek:

1. "Brain and brain. What is brain?" - Spock's Brain (TOS)

Underrated.

Yeah, compared to bullshit.

 

[Gov Kodos]

And the lowest point in Star Trek:

1. "Brain and brain. What is brain?" - Spock's Brain (TOS)

Underrated.

Yeah, compared to bullshit.

It's a great deal more fun than a lot of other things Trek has shown, the whole biker Klingon warrior crap, for instance.

 

[HIjol]

Wait, you guys are Genii!!! (Geniuses!)...

UFP vs WWF Interplanetary SMACKdown!!!...

Each week a different Episode/Match!...

...oh, baby, this sh*t is writing itself!!!

 

[Runetouch]

A lot of Trek's worst parts, for me, came from TNG season 1.

 

[Kirby]

"Computer. Deploy manual steering column."

 

[bbjeg]

^A major eye roll for me on that one.

 

[HaventGotALife]

"Computer. Deploy manual steering column."

As an ardent defender of Insurrection, I think they went too far with that one.

 

[Elder Knight]

Hoshi lost her shirt being a hero, no different than what happened to Kirk a dozen times over.

As the French say, Vive la différence.

 

[Cyke101]

Don't get me wrong, I liked Johnson in The Scorpion King and he was a fine addition to the Fast and the Furious franchise but his character on Voyager, the alien wrestler, was sad and only an attempt to draw wrestling fans to Voyager for a night.

It's a consequence of Voyager being on a network, so the show was bound to get executive interference. It makes me wonder, then, what kind of shenanigans would have ensued on TNG had that show been picked up by a network, too. Maybe other crossovers or brand cross-pollination ("Next time, on Quantum Leap...")