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Trek's most embarrassing moments

tafkats

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What do you think were Star Trek's top most cringe-worthy moments ... the things that just made you embarrassed for everyone who was unfortunate enough to be associated with them in any way?

Here are my nominations, in ascending order of awfulness:

#4: Data asks Worf if he's noticed his boobs getting firmer.

#3: The crew of the Enterprise de-evolves into earlier versions of humanity, which apparently includes giant spiders.

#2: T'Pol gets infected by a Super-Horny-Making-Virus and starts pawing all over Phlox like a dog in heat. Mercifully, the episode cuts to a commercial before she can start humping his leg.

#1: Warp 10 ... lizards ... Janeway and Paris having lizard sex and making lizard babies ... seriously, what the hell?

So what are your nominations?
 
Spock jamming with Space Hippies
Mrs. Troi is horny episode of TNG
The little girl reaching for her teddy bear in Generations during the evacuation
 
I'd have to nominate entire eps for embarassing moments: TOS's Spock's Brain, TNG's Rascals, DSN's Let He Who Is Without Sin, VOY's Threshold; and ENT's A Night In Sickbay. -- RR
 
tafkats said:
What do you think were Star Trek's top most cringe-worthy moments ... the things that just made you embarrassed for everyone who was unfortunate enough to be associated with them in any way?
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DS9:Rivals: The law of probability is modified, as if it were a physical law that could be modified. :rolleyes:

VOY:Tuvix (I especially like how Tuvix appears complete with a striped shirt...:rolleyes:)

TNG:Rascals (although I did think the young Ro Laren was awfully cute)

TNG:Unnatural Selection (A person's DNA doesn't change through their life in the way it's depicted)

TOS:Mudd's Women (magic colored gelatin even styles your hair! :rolleyes:)

TOS: Pretty much any time a computer speaks.

TOS: Any time Kirk verbally convinces a machine to self-destruct :lol:

TOS: Any time a female is introduced, and then there's a close-up of her against a pastel background, a musical note plays, and one or more men ogle her.

VOY: Threshold

TOS: Spock's Brain

TOS, Ent: Any time there's a Nazi-themed, Roman-themed, or Western-themed planet...
 
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#1. TOS's "And the Children Shall Lead": anything involving the children

#2. TOS's "Catspaw": Halloween, a non-seductive seductress, an unconvincing giant cat

#3. TOS's "Spock's Brain": "Brain and brain, what is brain?"

#4. TOS's "Miri": "Bonk, Bonk!"

#5. TOS's "Plato's Stepchildren": the Spockican Hat Dance and Kirk whinnying as a horse

#6. Most of TNG seasons 1-2. I caught holy hell from my Trek friends back in '87-'88 for trying to justify these eps. I told them that better ones were upcoming, but got zero help from season(s) one (or two). They'd really given up and I had to drag them back by showing that season three didn't suck. I almost gave up but was richly rewarded.

#7. DS9-though-Ent. I only learned to appreciate some of these in reruns. I'm only slightly being glib. I could pretty much explain/justify most any TOS ep to a mainstream viewer with a little explanation, and could do the same with later TNG eps. But most of DS9/Voy/Ent? No. So, inherently embarassing (both to SF/Trek fans for sophisticated reasons and to mainstream fans as compared to ER or CSI or Law & Order).

But, your mileage may vary.
 
When the first officer and tactical/security officer of the Galaxy Class Enterprise-D proved themselves unable to prevent the mightiest ship of the Federation from being taken over by a couple of half-witted Ferengi using two lowly Birds of Prey.
 
#1: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." on DS9. Mostly just about the fact that Worf doesn't like to take a holiday rather than anything else, and joins a bunch of fundamentalists who want to make it rain on Risa to ruin everyone's fun. Lame...

#2: "Plato's Stepchildren", TOS: I hate this episode with a passion. From flamenco-dancing Spock to Kirk neighing like a horse, and the final match of "Control The Midget", the fun Platonian game involving knives and little people, it's possibly TOS' stupidest episode.

#3: "Bounty", ENT: Yes, it's Horny Vulcan Sex Comedy Time! T'Pol gets exposed to a microbe, which causes her to become horny and run around in her underwear a lot looking for someone to shag. While some may think it's sexy, it just feels cheap and somewhat exploitative of Jolene Blalock. Written by B&B, it shows what was wrong with the first two seasons of ENT. By contrast, "In a Mirror, Darkly" was sexy and fun and showed what the show could do with a good writer.

#4: Star Trek V: Sybok? Suddenly Spock has a half brother he never mentioned before whose special ability is to become big pals with someone and has a desire to go find a big blue head at the centre of the Milky Way... uh, right.

#5: Star Trek Nemesis: Okay, so this is the whipping boy of the films, but still, it's fail on so many levels. The embarrassing moment in point is when Shinzon decides that he's interested in Troi and uses his telepathic Reman buddy to make Riker and Troi's nighttime fun a threesome. I mean, dude, come on! You're dying because Romulans suck at cloning, and yet rather than focussing all your energy on going after Picard who can cure your problems, you run after Troi. I guess it's due to Reman women being horrendously ugly down in the mines, but surely as Praetor he could have had a concubine or something. It's one of the many reasons why I hate this film.

Oh, apart from being a TWOK remake with everything done wrong...
 
Something that's not entirely Trek-specific, but that Trek has made itself guilty of many times: Characters performing CPR on an injured crewmate, shouting "Come on, breathe!" Such a cliché! I cannot look directly at the screen when this happens. I think every doctor character on Star Trek has done this, but especially bad: Robert "Wooden" Beltran in VGR's Coda. Yuck.
 
number6 said:
Star Trek fans campaigning for the cancellation of Enterpise.
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I never heard about that when it happened but when i did boy was I annoyed.

I didn't love the show, but to ask for it to be canceled would boggle the mind of any fan from the 70s.
 
Dane_Whitman said:
When the first officer and tactical/security officer of the Galaxy Class Enterprise-D proved themselves unable to prevent the mightiest ship of the Federation from being taken over by a couple of half-witted Ferengi using two lowly Birds of Prey.
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Yes, definitely up there.
 
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