Agreed--I always felt like TNG Season 1 was very much what ST: Phase II would have been if it had been made.
Worst Episode of TNG: Season One Part One
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Agreed--I always felt like TNG Season 1 was very much what ST: Phase II would have been if it had been made.
Code Of Hono(u)r
Justice
Angel One
An unholy trinity if ever there was one.
Justice
Angel One
An unholy trinity if ever there was one.
The Naked Now
Haven
Lonely Among Us
Haven
Lonely Among Us
Code of Honor, Justice and Angel One are what I voted for.
Code of Honor, Justice, and Angel One.
The second half of s1, save for 2 or so eps, was pretty solid, looking at the list.
The second half of s1, save for 2 or so eps, was pretty solid, looking at the list.
Seems like both TOS and TNG have one universally reviled episode for season 1... and I have to admit I would've voted for Code of Honor if it wasn't so laughably train-wreckish... If only Enterprise had an episode with a "planet of the Orientals" and had people go "me so horny"...
Man, why all the hate for When The Bough Breaks? I thought that was a highlight of season 1.
I voted for Code of Honor, The Naked Now, and Conspiracy.
I voted for Code of Honor, The Naked Now, and Conspiracy.
I think I'll echo some fellow posters' observation that season one did have some freaking weird episodes with a very strange TOS-like tone to them.
Peeps,
Only three, huh? I could have easily picked six or seven. TNG S1 had some real stinkers. But I picked "The Naked Now," "Too Short A Season," and "Home Soil."
My main criteria was they were all inferior copies of TOS eps. "TNN" was, of course, a silly version of "The Naked Time," down to the derivative title. "TSAS" was "The Deadly Years" in reverse, with an obvious James T. Kirk "clone" in the character of Admiral Mark Jameson. And "HS" was a ludicrous version of "The Devil in the Dark."
Others too horrific to bear are "Code of Honor," "Justice," and "When the Bough Breaks," although it does have a good Captain Picard line, "You've just committed an act of utter barbarity!"
Red Ranger
Only three, huh? I could have easily picked six or seven. TNG S1 had some real stinkers. But I picked "The Naked Now," "Too Short A Season," and "Home Soil."
My main criteria was they were all inferior copies of TOS eps. "TNN" was, of course, a silly version of "The Naked Time," down to the derivative title. "TSAS" was "The Deadly Years" in reverse, with an obvious James T. Kirk "clone" in the character of Admiral Mark Jameson. And "HS" was a ludicrous version of "The Devil in the Dark."
Others too horrific to bear are "Code of Honor," "Justice," and "When the Bough Breaks," although it does have a good Captain Picard line, "You've just committed an act of utter barbarity!"
Red Ranger
TNG year one was missing a few things that would've made Phase II better in quality. One, Jon Povil as Story Editor. He seemed to grasp and make practical the ethereal concepts of Gene Roddenberry in terms of 23rd century humanity, especially the lack of conflict which Povil wrote several memos on. Basically, Povil stated that the conflict between the Enterprise came from the decision making process and not the soap opera melodrama, and from character's worldview. I think that TNG took the "no conflict" rule too far, and quite frankly people can get along but there are going to be times when we dislike someone or something they've done.
The second thing missing was a coherent Roddenberry. By TNG, he'd suffered from a lot of health issues and was being advised by the wrong people like his lawyer. If always wondered what TNG might've been like had Gerrold and Fontana stayed, it could have really pushed the limits of American SF-TV.
Code of Honor
Lonely Among Us
Justice
Lonely Among Us
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