Star Trek has given us countless hours of stories, some of them great, and some of them not so much. I was wondering which plot resolutions you think were the worst, whether they let down an otherwise good story or made you feel like you wasted 45 minutes.
One ending that made me angry was a Voyager episode where Tom Paris is accused of sleeping with an alien woman and killing her husband and because of the culture he is forced to prove his innocence. Now the premise of the episode is lifted straight from an already underwhelming episode of TNG so I wasn't expecting much, but the ending was the laziest thing I've ever seen. Eventually the crew proves Tom's innocence because the household dog doesn't bark at another guy and that proves that he was the one sleeping with the deadguy's wife and not Tom. Not only is this an extremely worn and unconvincing cliche but its not even an alien dog. Its just a dog. That's called a dog. And looks like a dog. And barks like a dog. 75 years at maximum warp from Earth in a quadrant of the galaxy humans have never been to and this household has just a regular dog. The whole episode just felt extremely lazy but relying on this worn out cliche for the climax and then not even substituting the dog for some alien equivalent felt like no one involved in the episode actually cared and made me question why I should either.
So what are your thoughts? Are any other episodes who's resolutions made you feel utterly let down?
One ending that made me angry was a Voyager episode where Tom Paris is accused of sleeping with an alien woman and killing her husband and because of the culture he is forced to prove his innocence. Now the premise of the episode is lifted straight from an already underwhelming episode of TNG so I wasn't expecting much, but the ending was the laziest thing I've ever seen. Eventually the crew proves Tom's innocence because the household dog doesn't bark at another guy and that proves that he was the one sleeping with the deadguy's wife and not Tom. Not only is this an extremely worn and unconvincing cliche but its not even an alien dog. Its just a dog. That's called a dog. And looks like a dog. And barks like a dog. 75 years at maximum warp from Earth in a quadrant of the galaxy humans have never been to and this household has just a regular dog. The whole episode just felt extremely lazy but relying on this worn out cliche for the climax and then not even substituting the dog for some alien equivalent felt like no one involved in the episode actually cared and made me question why I should either.
So what are your thoughts? Are any other episodes who's resolutions made you feel utterly let down?
