Trek's most embarrassing moments

[JD]

One scene that noone mentions that always makes me cringe is the ENT scene where Hoshi is crawling through the Jeffries tubes (or whatever they called them in ENT) and gets her shirt caught as she climbs out. I can understand wanting to be sexy, but come on that was just stupid (IMO at least).

 

[DrKurtMendel]

Mine has to go to the special effects in two films...

Star trek the motion picture, tension mounts as Kirk leaves the airlock to pursue Spock in the bowels of Vger... we see the Shat's rubber suited form drift away from the Enterprise, when "CUT!!!!" WTF guys the did someone forget something, you can see the scaffolding holding up the Enterprise, jeez I know they were in a hurry to leave drydock, but seriously those Starfleet Engineers are taking the piss.

I actually did enjoy the Motion Picture, but seeing that was like erm... 'HUH?'

Next has to be Star Trek Generations.

The Saucer crash... okay the idea must have looked great on paper, everyone must have thought, well hey this will look awesome on screen, what we got looked like a model on string shot in broad daylight, granted the string was edited out, got give em that but seriously, guys! did you let the motion picture crew loose on this set again?...

 

[Praetorian]

Isn't that scene from the ABC tv version of TMP? Which had extra fotage...including unfinished one? The space suit Kirk uses in that scene doesn't even match the one from the final cut I think...

But it can't be considered an embarassing moment of TMP...

 

[DrKurtMendel]

Don't be a killjoy, either way it was star trek, it happened no matter how it was screened or how you slice it, and it was embarrassing.
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Still not working for you... mmm... okay see it from this point of view -
Your eight years old, your mates are round, and you're watching motion picture, you're saying how cool the effects are blowing aside snide remarks of cardboard sets when suddenly the scaffolding holding up the set appears on screen ... you look around you, first there is , then there is and then finished off with ... you're eight these things can be pretty embarrassing.

 

[Eddie Roth]

Well, it may not have been the best choice to include this scene without any post-production work on the video tape. But I never realized that you saw part of the set you shouldn't see in that shot. Maybe my TV was too small...

And as for Generations... how was that FX shot bad? Now the matte painting shot of the Enterprise saucer on the ground looked unrealistic with the weird smoke coming out of it, but the crash itself? No. Not bad at all.

 

[kitsune]

Another embarrassing moment:

The manual steering column.

(edit: I wonder if the ship's wheel in the 1701-A's observation lounge could be used for the same purpose... )

 

[sbk1234]

The episode of TNG where that kid pretended to be an android because his family got killed. No one part. The WHOLE DAMN EPISODE!

 

[kitsune]

TOS, Ent: Any time there's a Nazi-themed, Roman-themed, or Western-themed planet...

I forgot the gangster-themed planet
Also the planet that was absolutely identical to Earth for absolutely no reason (Miri's planet)

 

[plynch]

I just showed "Enemy Within " to my high school psych classes, so they could compare Trek's model of the personality (good side/bad side) to Freud's. At the end Spock leers at Rand who was almost raped, and says somthing like' "The imposter had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, Yeoman?"

Ow. Horrible. If I could change one specific moment in all of Trek, it would be that.

 

[SpaceProg]

The episode of TNG where that kid pretended to be an android because his family got killed. No one part. The WHOLE DAMN EPISODE!

This one jumped to mind for me too. Also that Alexander episode where he's hanging out with Troi's mom, and that guy is juggling his 'worlds' and the "Higher the fewer!" guy.

 

[kitsune]

The episode of TNG where that kid pretended to be an android because his family got killed. No one part. The WHOLE DAMN EPISODE!

This one jumped to mind for me too. Also that Alexander episode where he's hanging out with Troi's mom, and that guy is juggling his 'worlds' and the "Higher the fewer!" guy.

I think those are Hero Worship and Cost of Living.

 

[SpaceProg]

Yes, I do believe you're right.

 

[Eddie Roth]

I just showed "Enemy Within " to my high school psych classes, so they could compare Trek's model of the personality (good side/bad side) to Freud's. At the end Spock leers at Rand who was almost raped, and says somthing like' "The imposter had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, Yeoman?"

Ow. Horrible. If I could change one specific moment in all of Trek, it would be that.

Oh my yes. Much as I like that episode, the whole Rand business would also make it a strong contender for the "most sexist" title.