What is your least favorite episode?

[arasam22]

on my journey through DS9 over the past couple of weeks, i have skipped every one of these episodes mentioned here cause they looked boring/stupid. looks like i have pretty good judgement. lol

my least fav so far would have to be... Q-Less. i love Q on tng... and this episode was just stupid imho. vash is a moron, didn't like her on tng either, and Q was acting like a jealous, petty idiot, not an all-powerful being.

 

[robtclements]

Let who is without sin & The Emperor's new cloak rank pretty low. They aren't just bad episodes - all series have those - they're dumb ideas taken way too seriously. A strange melding of form & content

 

[Photon]

Still, no DS9 episode is as bad as Rascals, Spock's Brain, Vger Salamander episodes and of course any TNG that prominently displayed the Boy

 

[Welshie]

Any episode with that horrible holographic lounge singer in it. I prefer to ignore those; they pretty much ruined the feel of the show.

 

[Lee T]

Top 5 of horridness:

1) The Muse
2) The Muse
3) Second Sight
4) Let He...
5) Meridian

 

[pymfan2000]

I think my least favorite DS9 episodes would have to be: Profit and Lace, Let He Who is Without Sin... ,Meridian and the Muse.

 

[MyCylon]

Hmm, I find it difficult to name one in particular. There are a number of episodes I think are pretty dreadful:

- Meridian
- Fascination
- Let He Who Is Without Sin
- Resurrection
- Time's Orphan

I'm also really tempted to put The Emperor's New Cloak on that list. However, I still want to make myself believe that it's all just Quark's dream - in which case it all makes a lot more sense and is actually funny.

I never quite got why Profit and Lace was so hated. It's one of those goofy Ferengi episodes, yes. But I don't find it much better or worse, for that matter, than many of them.

 

[thedude]

Can't think of the episode right now, but the one where Keiko get's possessed by the Pah-wraith... I can't stand that episode. I would have just pushed her out an airlock... matter of fact I would have done it on the Enterprise, many years before, if I were miles. He could have done so much better.

 

[piscescarodine]

don't have one

 

[flemm]

For me it is easily Resurrection. Kira falls for the mirror universe Bareil in this episode. One of those rare DS9 episodes where the story does not flow from the character involved, but rather the character is twisted to tell the story, a dull and pointless tale at that.

I see no redeeming qualities here at all, and I can't imagine why anyone thought this was a good idea for an episode, especially following the retaking of the station and the marriage at the beginning of season six.

Most of the other episodes mentioned here are certainly low points, but usually there is some redeeming quality (Meridian), or I feel I can understand why the writers were interested in this (Storyteller), or the episode's badness is being overstated (Let He Who Is Without Sin...).

 

[robtclements]

Can't think of the episode right now, but the one where Keiko get's possessed by the Pah-wraith...

The Assignment. Not one of DS9's stronger episodes, only made bearable by Colm Meany

(Anyone else seen the Irish film The Kings? Colm's in it; & there's the distinctly odd image of him playing darts in a bar; with Julian & Quark no where to be seen)

 

[Destructor]

I just finished S1 and Move Along Home and If Wishes Were Horses both stand out as pretty bad... but who knows what the 2nd season will bring?

 

[Aretaku]

Profit and Lace by a light year...nothing else in DS9 comes close to the sheer idiocy of that episode.

Let He Who Is Without Sin and The Muse are a distant second and third.

 

[DevilEyes]

Easily Fascination. Ugh! I really hated it.

So Bad It's Great: Fascination
Yes, that's right -I like this episode! It's loony. I laugh all the time when I watch it. Guiltiest of pleasures!

Fascination and a few others like it are why I love TOS and DS9 so much. TNG had some Q eps that were like this but outside of that not really a lot of these type of episodes, I can't remember any in Voy, maybe a couple with the Doctor but it didn't have a ton of them. The other series in Trek take the shows way too seriously.

In DS9 more than the other two series you have a lot of episodes that are just done for fun and humor. Another couple of DS9 eps done this way are Q-Less, If Wishes Were Horses, Trials and Tribbleations, and a few of the Ferrengi episodes were also like this. These were really done for comedy. TOS was great at that with a lot of their episodes which always made me drawn to it the most.

My least favorites are most of the Mirror Universe epsidoes, I just don't think they were ever really done that well outside of Worf's character, and Distant Voices

There's a huge difference between good comedy like Trials and Tribble-ations, and AWFUL comedy like Fascination. Stupid, unbelievable premise, used as an excuse to have everyone act embarrasingly out of character. TNG's The Naked Now was cheesy, but at least people were coming onto people they were actually attracted to, it wasn't "let's get everyone mack on the least probable person in the cast". It was just complete unbeleivable silliness and nothing in the episode made any sense.

I also hated the Mirror universe episodes. Yes, all of them. They just don't make any sense and serve as an excuse to introduce a lot of sex, lesbian kisses and silliness. TOS did its mirror episode so much better - the characters seemed like they could actually be darker versions of the prime universe characters. Mirror Spock seemed like what Spock could have turned out like in different circumstances. Mirror Kirk was really an evil version of Kirk. Mirror Sulu had a thing for Uhura just like prime universe Sulu did, but he was much more aggressive about it. Compare that to DS9 MU characters: The Intendant is not a darker version of Kira, she is a completely different character played by Nana Visitor. And she is a total cliche of a promiscuous, sex-obsessed bisexual narcissist who fraks 'anything that moves'. What annoyed me in particular was the way that DS9 made the 'evil' characters sex-obsessed (the cliche about evil people being promiscuous) and bisexual or lesbian, while their 'good' counterparts were heterosexual. It is another stupid Hollywood cliche and sends a very ugly message, especially since DS9 didn't have any other gay or bi characters (unless you count Dax as bisexual).

 

[Captrek]

I’m currently rewatching the whole series, and am up through s03e15, Destiny. So I will address only episodes up through Destiny.

My least favorite episode so far is Profit and Loss. (Not to be confused with the Season 6 episode Profit and Lace, which has been mentioned by Vulcan Princess and Sykonee. I haven’t yet gotten that far in my rewatch.) My second-least favorite episode so far is Melora.

A special “Most Overrated” award to Dramatis Personae. I have seen a number of positive comments on this forum about that episode, but I didn’t particularly care for it. It’s not a horrible episode, but it’s not great either, so far as I’m concerned.

 

[Eyes]

It's got to be Meridian. The A-Story is dreadful, and I don't much care for the B-Story. It feels like a soap opera at its worst.
Second is Progress. I just can't get a feel for the episode and it's long, dragged-out and boring. I can only stand Bajoran stories if they're about the Cardassian occupation or the Prophets, or if they have Kai Winn in them. This one has none of those.

Honourable mentions go to Move Along Home, Rules of Acquisition, Sanctuary, The Muse, Ferengi Love Songs, Profit and Lace, and Prodigal Daughter for being not so bad, as boring and painful to sit through each time I watch them. That doesn't mean I skip them, just they're at the low points whenever I go through the season.

 

[Praetorian]

"The Emperor's New Cloak"...

 

[Captrek]

My least favorite category of episodes is “episodes in which Jadzia has a big part.” Terry Farrell is out of her league in this cast. She’s not a horrible actress by the standards of most TV shows, and she would have been perfectly adequate on TNG or VOY, but on DS9 all the other regulars and major recurring characters (including the children, which is quite a casting accomplishment) are so consistently good that Farrell drags the episode down whenever she’s given much more to do than stand around and look pretty. She’s one of the reasons Meridian is such a failure.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Any episode featuring Keiko O'Brien. My God, that woman was a horrible bitch. Anytime you saw Rosalind Chao's name on the screen, you felt bad for the good chief, because no matter what he was going to do, Keiko was going to bitch incessantly for the duration of the forty two minutes.

 

[Possum]

The all-Klingon all the time episodes (yes I've been quite disappointed by seasons 4 and 5 in that respect) and I just mentally blank out when I see Vic Fontaine and pretend he isn't there. Horrible thing to do to DS9. At least Meridan had a good B storyline, Sword of Kahless didn't even have that.