Your Bottom 5 TNG

[Gil T.Azell]

In no order
Sub Rosa (ZZZzzzzzzz )
Rascals (that kid who played a young Picard (and his nephew in Family) had the most irritating voice)
Code of Honor (Stupid just Stupid, why were they there I don't think they even had Warp drive???)
The Price ( Matt McCoy from Police Academy 5 & 6)
The Outcast (well there is just notning nice to say about it)

5. The Outrageous Okona (Joe Piscopo jumps the shark -- 'nuff said!)

BTW, I can't watch any of these eps any more.

RR

I think 'The Outrageous Okana' Killed Joe Piscopo's career thought I didn't mind it and we got to see Terri Hatcher in one of those body hugging Uniforms
Up The Long Ladder I found amusing

Darmok grew on me

Q-Pid I only like for the line "Captain Picard, I must protest! I am NOT a Merry Man!"

 

[Joel_Kirk]

*Inner Light
*Darmok
*Captain's Holiday
*Shades of Grey
*Q-Pid

With the exception of "Shades of Grey," you chose some really quality episodes... how are those in your bottom 5?

Quality?

More like boring or just silly....

Not everybody likes the same thing, my friend...

What you may like, I may not like...and vice-versa...

 

[You_Guyz]

Darmok was pretty awful in my opinon, I had to watch it in like three sittings.

 

[Cheapjack]

4) "The Outcast" (Season 5) - Shamefully preachy

'Shamefully preachy'? How can preaching be shameful? Rip up your bibles everyone and stop going to
church!!

Stop the world, I wanna get off!!!

 

[Too Much Fun]

I just meant, if they're going to try to convey a message through the story, they should do it with a little bit of...subtlety. You know, instead of beating us over the head with PEOPLE SHOULD BE FREE TO BE SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO WHOEVER THEY WANT AND ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS AN EVIL BIGOT. It seems like they were kinda/sorta trying to go for a pro homosexuality angle, which is fine, but they wussed out by having the 'androgenous' person played by a clearly female actor and making the villains holding back her romance with Riker so one-dimensional. So, yeah...that episode stinks.

 

[Atariboy]

In no particular order:

1.) Encounter at Farpoizzzzzzz......
2.) All Good Things... (way the hell too much technobabble)
3.) Masks
4.) Justice
5.) When The Bough Breaks

In my opinion, TNG neither started nor ended very well.

 

[Cheapjack]

I think Encounter is the best of the lot. It sets the template for the whole thing.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^^

I like Farpoint myself....

Troi in that outfit...Tasha in her outfit(s)...the first glimpses of Ensign Redhead....

I wanted to join Starfleet; I don't know if it would have got anything done, but....

 

[Atariboy]

To each his own. It's an episode I may never revisit again, it's so boring, slow, and inconsistent with the bulk of the series.

Truth be told, the first season as a whole bored this then ten-year-old and I don't think I picked TNG up again first-run until sometime in the third season. I know I didn't really watch it weekly until the fourth season.

 

[Admiral Shran]

5.) Lower Decks - Other than Sito, I simply couldn't make myself care about all the "lower decks" characters. Voyager did a much better job with the concept in "Good Shepard."

4.) Who Watches The Watchers - Too Much Fun said that "The Outcast" beat us over the head with its message. Well, this episode takes the beating to dizzying heights! RELIGION IS STUPID AND MEANINGLESS! In case any viewers missed that - RELIGION IS MORONIC AND UTTERLY DESTRUCTIVE TO SOCIETY!! ANYBODY WHO BELIEVES IN THIS NONSENSE IS AN IMBECILE!!!

3.) The Inner Light - SERIOUSLY overrated. For the most part, I found it boring. The only parts I cared about were when Patrick Stewart was lying on the bridge floor. It would probably be higher on my list, however, if so many people didn't fawn over it constantly.

2.) Conspiracy - This episode had such an awesome concept and had the potential to be epic. The execution, however, was simply laughable. It would have been better if they went with the original idea of a military coup within Starfleet. After all, it worked on DS9.

1.) Justice - Undeniably the worst. They had a perfect chance to kill off Wesley and they, inexplicably, passed.

Close Contenders (in chronological order):
1.) Symbiosis - Again, the heavy handedness is so obvious that it's distracting.

2.) The Icarus Factor - I couldn't care less about Riker's dad. Is it just me, or does he come off as simply an ass?

3.) Shades of Grey - For obvious reasons.

4.) The Masterpiece Society - BBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGG!

5.) Man of the People - A Troi-centric episode. Troi is easily my least favorite of the main cast. Well, there is Wesley, but he left after a little more than three seasons. Actually, any Troi episode is a Close Contender, except for "Face of the Enemy," that episode was awesome. This episode is the worst Troi one, however, because I actually found myself caring more about the woman they save at the end of the episode than I did about Troi herself.

 

[GalaxyX]

Worst 5? Hmm, let me think: I'll pick the ones that are totally unwatchable to me:

1. Shades of Gray
2. The Outcast
3. The Dauphin
4. Half a Life
5. Man of the People.

Totally unwatchable dreck. There's a few more, but those 5 I cannot force myself to watch.

Edit: Angel One is a close contender, but watching the butch amazon women is actually kind of hilariously bad. At least Riker got to bone one.

 

[BillJ]

I, Borg
Homeward
Code of Honor
Darmok
Tin Man

 

[buckeyenation]

most of the bottom fives's i can agree with,and i even see where time's arrow could make it on a few lists (my, that guy playing mark twain should be prevented from ever speaking again!). the two worst are code of honor and sub rosa

 

[Mr Troi]

5. Shades of Gray
4. The Naked Now
3. Code of Honor
2. The Outrageous Okona
1. The High Ground

The High Ground was the worst episode in all of Star Trek, it was so bad that I was actually offended by it.

 

[TheQman]

-Sub Rosa
-Masks
-Frame of Mind (never liked it)
-The Royale
-Emergence

There's probably 1-2 from S1 that I just can't remember.

How can you not like Frame of Mind?

I guess I can understand. But, I think it is very powerful and a great concept. But, I also like 'the royale', so whatever, lol.

I persoanlly agree with some of the S1-3 episodes that were mentioned.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The High Ground was the worst episode in all of Star Trek, it was so bad that I was actually offended by it.

Oh my God, how could I have forgotten that one! Consider that one another one of my Close Contenders.

 

[Cheapjack]

What's wrong with 'High Ground'

'Cos it takes the 'high ground'???

 

[Canuck69]

I am also curious as to why The High Ground is so strongly disliked.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I think "Frame of Mind" is rather ridiculous...Frakes gives a very over-the-top performance (which, to be fair, was inevitable since the episode was about him thinking he was losing his mind), but it's too much of 'crewmember goes crazy' episode, which had been done before and much better, but I like it as a 'guilty pleasure'. I like the dark, mind-bending surreal quality of the episode and find Frakes overacting fun at times (although it's supposed to be disturbing), but I can understand how people might be turned off by its absurdity.

 

[Lor'Vela]

I am also curious as to why The High Ground is so strongly disliked.

Like Rascals, the way the crew of the Ent-D reacted to a security alert is beyond incompetent, and it angers me just watching it. Why does the Chief Engineer just aimlessly wonder near the warp core exposing himself after Picard ordered the alert? Why does the Security Chief have his back to one of the armed terrorists? Why is it the bridge crew didn't come to Picard's aid?

I know this doesn't necessarily warrant the episode to be one of the worst ever, but it is cringeworthy, at least for me.