Your Bottom 5 TNG

[Balrog]

On most boards I read the typical Top5. Nothing wrong with that. But I think it would be interesting if people listed their personal worst 5 TNG episodes.

Here are mine:

5. Time Squared - I just don't get it...
4. Masks - Why was Season 7 so weird?
3. Time's Arrow, part II - What a letdown!
2. The Neutral Zone - Other than, "We are back!" the episode is pointless.
1. Shades of Gray - This will probably make most, if not all, lists.

 

[Seven of Five]

1. Code of Honor
2. Haven
3. Angel One
4. Aquiel
5. Shades of Gray

Something like that.

 

[Balrog]

'Aquiel' was definitely on my short list.

 

[The Sneeze Police]

Angel One
The Outrageous Okona
Rascals
Masks
Journey's End

 

[Danoz]

Justice
Sub Rosa
Shades of Grey
The Game
Remember Me
Code of Honor

That's off the top of my head. These are all pretty bad. What's funny is that I'll still watch and generally enjoy them regardless lol. The only two TNG episodes I find completely unwatchable are "Sub Rosa" and "Shades of Grey (not an episode)."

 

[Balrog]

"Sub Rosa" was on my short list too.

 

[Cyke101]

In no particular order:

Inner Light
Yesterday's Enterprise
Best of Both Worlds
All Good Things...
Darmok

...gotcha.

 

[Starbreaker]

Code of Honor
Sub Rosa
Time's Arrow
Angel One
Shades of Gray

 

[Seven of Five]

Sub Rosa! How did I forget that dreck? I see there isn't much love for Time's Arrow, which I find strange as it was one of a few episodes that helped me to get into the series.

 

[Cyke101]

Sub Rosa! How did I forget that dreck? I see there isn't much love for Time's Arrow, which I find strange as it was one of a few episodes that helped me to get into the series.

I take it like this: if you like one of the sucky episodes, then you'll love the mediocre episodes, and you'll be absolutely floored with the best episodes!

 

[Greylock Crescent]

These are so bad, they don't deserve being put in any kind of order:

1.04 - Code of Honor
1.16 - Too Short A Season
4.20 - QPid
5.06 - The Game
5.12 - Violations

 

[carlmarx]

1. Shades Of Gray - one of the few that you could argue may not even count as an episode.
2. Sub Rosa - dear god. I dont even know what this is supposed to be.
3. Code Of Honor - just embarrassing.
4. Lonely Among Us - the definition of "uneventful" and "meaningless".
5. The Dauphin - laaaaaaaame.

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

1. Shades of Gray
2. Code of Honor
3. Angel One
4. Eye of the Beholder
5. Force of Nature

 

[You_Guyz]

Sub Rosa was amazing stuff! It was just SO weird, that is what made it a good episode.

 

[Cheapjack]

That one where Worf left the ship and murdered a Klingon on another ship. Gene Roddenberry would have been spitting tacks.

Any TNG episode that deals with Klingon politics on the Homwworld, or off it.

Borr-ring!!!

 

[DevilEyes]

That one where Worf left the ship and murdered a Klingon on another ship. Gene Roddenberry would have been spitting tacks.

Any TNG episode that deals with Klingon politics on the Homwworld, or off it.

Borr-ring!!!

Klingon politics episodes were among the best of TNG. One of the very few actual storyarcs on the show.

 

[Cheapjack]

Star Trek is supposed to be about going forward, not backward.

Feudalism bores the hell out of me. I don't think 24th Century people would be all that interested in dealing with it and appointing Picard as an adjudicator in a Klingon dispute is laughable. I'm sure he would have better things to do.

 

[DevilEyes]

Star Trek is supposed to be about going forward, not backward.

Feudalism bores the hell out of me. I don't think 24th Century people would be all that interested in dealing with it and appointing Picard as an adjudicator in a Klingon dispute is laughable. I'm sure he would have better things to do.

I think a universe where everyone was going forward, forward, forward all the time and everyone was wonderful and evolved and progressive, would make for a pretty boring TV. In a story about progress, it's the conflict and the danger of negative and backward forces prevailing that drives the drama.

 

[Cheapjack]

That's a point.

But, I like that line from the song One Vision, by Queen: 'No hate, no fight, just excitation!'

 

[mythme]

Up The Long Ladder
Code of Honor
Angel One
The Cost of Living
Imaginary Friend