Worst. Episode. Ever. Poll.

[DevilEyes]

I voted Neelix, but since he became less annoying in the later seasons, I think it should have been Chakotay, who was just useless at this point and didn't evoke any feelings but complete indifference on my part.

OTOH, Neelix became less annoying when he was not around Kes, so... maybe he would have still been as irritating if she had still been around? Or, maybe not, since she had dumped him, perhaps he would've been tolerable if he remained dumped.

Oops. Wrong thread. This was supposed to be posted at the "Who should have left..." thread.

 

[Edinburgh]

False Profits,

Terrible episode.

Not good when you start getting angry at Janeway, letting the ferengie escape back home and another missed chance for her and her ship.

 

[crouteru]

I chose Threshold, but these are the other episodes I'd rate as the worst:

Elogium
Tattoo
False Profits
The Q And The Grey
Favorite Son
Nemesis
Unforgettable
Demon
The Disease
Course: Oblivion
The Fight
Spirit Folk
Repression
Nightingale

 

[RegFan]

I voted for Threshold. It's an awful episode but I must admit, I still found some scenes in it quite humorous (Paris and Janeway have children!?).

 

[Kai Winn]

The racist drivel that is "Tattoo."

Nothing like turning on an episode of Star Trek and discovering you're not really human after all, you're descended from space aliens.

And there's a tribe of RFAs living in the rain forest as we speak.

not exactly. the aliens visited earth 45,000 years ago, and altered the genetics of the human tribe that impressed them by their respect for land and life. eventually, they immigrated to america and etablished a high culture (probably refering to the maya), until the invaders from the west destroyed it.
i watched it yesterday, the last epsiode of voy i did not know yet. left it because of the usually negative reviews. actually, i liked it a whole lot. amongst my favourite top 20 now.

 

[teya]

The racist drivel that is "Tattoo."

Nothing like turning on an episode of Star Trek and discovering you're not really human after all, you're descended from space aliens.

And there's a tribe of RFAs living in the rain forest as we speak.

not exactly. the aliens visited earth 45,000 years ago, and altered the genetics of the human tribe that impressed them by their respect for land and life. eventually, they immigrated to america and etablished a high culture (probably refering to the maya), until the invaders from the west destroyed it.
i watched it yesterday, the last epsiode of voy i did not know yet. left it because of the usually negative reviews. actually, i liked it a whole lot. amongst my favourite top 20 now.

The aliens met up with a nomadic tribe in the arctic, presumably at around the same time what became American Indians were crossing from Asia.


In other words, they met up with my ancestors.


And gave them alien DNA.


And, well, that was the argument of the US Govt to justify a policy of genocide--we weren't fully human.


I find that this episode trivializes my history and is borderline racist.

 

[exodus]

Okay I’ve got to say that I’m surprised that we’ve only had about two mentions for what I consider the worst episode in all Trek.

11:59 didn’t have bad science it had no science, it didn’t have fake impostor crew members it had no crew, it didn’t mess with the established universe and rules of the Trek reality it had no bearing on it whatsoever, it didn’t seem to have an actual story to it and what I can guess is the moral of the episode is just stupid.
First off this woman is Janeways inspiration for joining Starfleet yet she doesn’t seem to have ever picked up a simply history book on this woman and it falls to Paris to point out that there was no Janeways’ on the Mars missions.
So we spend over half the episode in the year 2000 as we see Kate Mulgrew, of course looking the same as future Kathryn Janeway ‘cept with a different hair style crash her car fall in love with some random guy then convince him to leave his bookshop so they can build ‘The Millennium Gate’. What this ‘Gate’ is we’re never told but if it’s anything like the Millennium dome then we should have just stook with the bookshop. Hell it was probably just a big statue or some shopping mall so we should have stuck with the bookshop anyway.
The whole episode felt like I’d missed Voyager and tuned into some daytime movie they show on channel 5 over here.

I liked it, It the only "Christmas" ep. Trek has ever done.

The point was the power of family.
Shannon O'Donnell wouldn't settle down, until she found a husband. Henry Janeway couldn't move forward until he found a new wife. It didn't matter if the stories Capt. Janeway were told were true or not, it was the inspiration from her family history that caused her to be what she became. It took her Voyager family to get to understand it. So everybody got a new family going into the new year.

So no, it wasn't about science or space or any of that bullshit.
It's about what Trek really is, it's about people.
It's also in part about history.
May things were are taught about the great people in history have been proven to be false. That still didn't change the inspiration they caused to affect change in how we live today.

That's the entire ep. in a nut shell.

 

[Solarbaby]

I thought the Swarm was the worst because of the sheer overuse of technobabble. The Doctors matrix destabalising was interesting and so was the swarm b story. But the technobabble literally swarmed and smothercated the story.

I recently watched this on TV while my flat mate who hates trek was in the kitchen and was trying to watch it but when it finished she said it was the "Shittest thing I've ever seen on TV"

I had to agree that it was really bad. I think it should win an award for the-worst Trek episode to show a Trek hating friend whom you want to convert.

 

[exodus]

Smothercated.

 

[tomalak301]

Okay I’ve got to say that I’m surprised that we’ve only had about two mentions for what I consider the worst episode in all Trek.

11:59 didn’t have bad science it had no science, it didn’t have fake impostor crew members it had no crew, it didn’t mess with the established universe and rules of the Trek reality it had no bearing on it whatsoever, it didn’t seem to have an actual story to it and what I can guess is the moral of the episode is just stupid.
First off this woman is Janeways inspiration for joining Starfleet yet she doesn’t seem to have ever picked up a simply history book on this woman and it falls to Paris to point out that there was no Janeways’ on the Mars missions.
So we spend over half the episode in the year 2000 as we see Kate Mulgrew, of course looking the same as future Kathryn Janeway ‘cept with a different hair style crash her car fall in love with some random guy then convince him to leave his bookshop so they can build ‘The Millennium Gate’. What this ‘Gate’ is we’re never told but if it’s anything like the Millennium dome then we should have just stook with the bookshop. Hell it was probably just a big statue or some shopping mall so we should have stuck with the bookshop anyway.
The whole episode felt like I’d missed Voyager and tuned into some daytime movie they show on channel 5 over here.

I liked it, It the only "Christmas" ep. Trek has ever done.

The point was the power of family.
Shannon O'Donnell wouldn't settle down, until she found a husband. Henry Janeway couldn't move forward until he found a new wife. It didn't matter if the stories Capt. Janeway were told were true or not, it was the inspiration from her family history that caused her to be what she became. It took her Voyager family to get to understand it. So everybody got a new family going into the new year.

So no, it wasn't about science or space or any of that bullshit.
It's about what Trek really is, it's about people.
It's also in part about history.
May things were are taught about the great people in history have been proven to be false. That still didn't change the inspiration they caused to affect change in how we live today.

That's the entire ep. in a nut shell.

I too liked 11:59 for all the reasons the original poster (In this quote link) mentioned. Voyager had tons of action sequences, ship blowing up and all that stuff. Here was a character episode aired at a time when there was a lot of emotion running around for the start of the new Millennium (Good lord, we're already at the end of the decade and this episode is 10 years old ). This episode was a nice tribute to that attitude at the time.

 

[exodus]

Okay I’ve got to say that I’m surprised that we’ve only had about two mentions for what I consider the worst episode in all Trek.

11:59 didn’t have bad science it had no science, it didn’t have fake impostor crew members it had no crew, it didn’t mess with the established universe and rules of the Trek reality it had no bearing on it whatsoever, it didn’t seem to have an actual story to it and what I can guess is the moral of the episode is just stupid.
First off this woman is Janeways inspiration for joining Starfleet yet she doesn’t seem to have ever picked up a simply history book on this woman and it falls to Paris to point out that there was no Janeways’ on the Mars missions.
So we spend over half the episode in the year 2000 as we see Kate Mulgrew, of course looking the same as future Kathryn Janeway ‘cept with a different hair style crash her car fall in love with some random guy then convince him to leave his bookshop so they can build ‘The Millennium Gate’. What this ‘Gate’ is we’re never told but if it’s anything like the Millennium dome then we should have just stook with the bookshop. Hell it was probably just a big statue or some shopping mall so we should have stuck with the bookshop anyway.
The whole episode felt like I’d missed Voyager and tuned into some daytime movie they show on channel 5 over here.

I liked it, It the only "Christmas" ep. Trek has ever done.

The point was the power of family.
Shannon O'Donnell wouldn't settle down, until she found a husband. Henry Janeway couldn't move forward until he found a new wife. It didn't matter if the stories Capt. Janeway were told were true or not, it was the inspiration from her family history that caused her to be what she became. It took her Voyager family to get to understand it. So everybody got a new family going into the new year.

So no, it wasn't about science or space or any of that bullshit.
It's about what Trek really is, it's about people.
It's also in part about history.
May things were are taught about the great people in history have been proven to be false. That still didn't change the inspiration they caused to affect change in how we live today.

That's the entire ep. in a nut shell.

I too liked 11:59 for all the reasons the original poster (In this quote link) mentioned. Voyager had tons of action sequences, ship blowing up and all that stuff. Here was a character episode aired at a time when there was a lot of emotion running around for the start of the new Millennium (Good lord, we're already at the end of the decade and this episode is 10 years old ). This episode was a nice tribute to that attitude at the time.

Exactly.
The Gate was Trek's answer to the Y2K bug.

 

[scout]

I don't think I even watched Spirit Folk. Unfortunately the holo - episodes always seemed like a pastiche of elements that should have made a solid story but never quite delivered.

I actually liked Oblivion though despite the utter futility of the *crew's* actions.

 

[Keith1701]

Threshold. Just as I sat there dumbfounded as I watched the TNG cast turn into vermin, apes and various scaly reptiles in Genesis, it was so that I watched the VOY episode turn into some kind of odd beast not fit for nature in any form.


J.

Threhold gets my vote as well.....

 

[Kathryn-janeway]

I found Rise to be a bad episode, it just bored me

 

[You_Guyz]

I found Rise to be a bad episode, it just bored me

It was SO boring but not as boring as "The Fight" which is the worst episode by far IMO.

 

[May 20]

I found Rise to be a bad episode, it just bored me

I had completely forgotten about Rise. I guess that means it can't be the worst episode though; I'd expect to remember just how bad the worst episode was.

 

[Danoz]

"Course: Oblivion" I generally enjoyed despite the classic "reset button" tone of the episode. Threshold is, by far, the worst episode in all of Star Trek ever. Better off explaining this off as some kind of trippy dream.

 

[USS_Britain]

My main 2 are Threshhold and Spirit Folk.

 

[Dr. Jekyl]

Threshold. Seriously, even its writers have denounced it.

 

[You_Guyz]

Freaking hell, whoever thought "The Fight" would make a decent episode should have been shot.