Yeah, and Deep Space Nine had one or two "Let's torture O'Brien" episodes every season.
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What Is The Dumbest Episode Of Star Trek TNG?
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Yeah, and Deep Space Nine had one or two "Let's torture O'Brien" episodes every season.
The Real Abed
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I like Masks. Masaka is waking.
I also love Fistful of Datas. I genuinely do. I don't even care. Then again I think BTTF III is the most fun one and I don't even really like westerns generally.
I also love Fistful of Datas. I genuinely do. I don't even care. Then again I think BTTF III is the most fun one and I don't even really like westerns generally.
Rentahamster
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What's up with Star Trek and humans transforming in to animals.
Because it's great scifi worth revisiting over and over? Oh wait:
Well, one of them was watchable.
Frozenprince
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I'd never leave the station without at least one of them.
Odo is probably the best Trek character period.
I imagine this to be in the vein of Boba Fett being an interesting character worthy of creating some sort of cult around.
The Horror the horror
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Forgot about that one.
Though I couldn't understand why Troi seemed so distressed with the notion of sending a holographic representation of her friend to his death.
Because it's great scifi worth revisiting over and over? Oh wait:
Well, one of them was watchable.
When I first watched it as a kid, I found Identity Crisis to just be really eerie. For some reason the scene where Geordi recreates the phantom shadow on the holodeck was especially creepy to me.
That creeped me the hell out when I was younger too. Really good episode overall though. Quite suspenseful.
CrocMother
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Marina Sirtis
WTF?!
I don't remember any episode where that happened.
Which episode are you referring to?
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Shadynasty
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The series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise is the worst TNG episode.
It's one of the first ones where some gas or something drugs all the humans and makes them really horny. Data is the only one not affected and has sex with Lt. Yar, who's clearly out of her mind. The whole thing is just done for laughs.
Another great creepy moment on the holodeck is in "Schisms", when a group of people recreate an alien hideout that they've been transported to while they sleep (and then get experimented on).
he means" the naked now " episode although calling it a rape is a stretch .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gttdH0LjCBg
Data was affected by the contagion - even though he's an android - because it was very early in the show and just what he was and wasn't affected by wasn't really established yet. It's the sort of thing that wouldn't have happened to Data later in the show.
He was only infected after he had sex with Lt. Yar, though. Regardless, the whole scene is pretty poor.
You're remembering it wrong. Data is clearly infected prior to it and it's Yar who literally takes him by the hand and guides him to bed.
Hard truth
The series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise is the worst TNG episode.
I think I've said this before, but this was the first time I actually felt insulted as a fan of a show.
StopMakingSense
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He's infected when she rubs him before the sex. The 'you just got infected with horniness' sound queue plays then.
No, he accepted because he was also infected.
ok. Seems a little inconsistent and difficult to believe that he went from normal to intoxicated in only a couple of seconds. Inconsistent considering the amount of time spent on showing the developing symptoms of other crew members. But, i suppose it's whatever.
Consistency isn't something you're going to find in early TNG. Being an android, he shouldn't have been infected in the first place.
I think Picard even says something similar in that episode.
shaowebb
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Yeah Lower Decks is a perfectly fine episode
awe hell naw! The Royale is great.
This man gets it.
I nominate ANY EPISODE where Worf is playing daddy and oh no he's too stern to gets them kids. Like whatever the fuck that season 4 episode was with him, Alexander, the holodeck, Troi's mom and the mudbath, or the god awful western one whose only saving grace was Data being ridiculous in every role.
Even while watching DS9 for the first time, it was obvious how much the writers were shitting on O'Brien.
Megawarrior
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The majority of the first season is absolutely awful. I just finished it and barely want to continue to season 2.
CarpeDeezNutz
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People saying the Royale are getting me mad heated.
I also skipped through most of season 1. Season 2 is way better.
plagiarize
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To hark back to page one, it's Code of Honor. Not just for the racism, which is stupendously embarassing given that no episode of Trek made ino the sixties came remotely close to the shocking racism in that episode. Not just oder that but for it also seeming to hit every BAD TNG cliche when the show was barely getting started.
I joke about TNG featuring huge amounts of talking before they do anything, but they literally wait more than a day before making an attempt to rescue Tasha so as not to upset the customs of the people who kidnapped her.
Kirk would have been down there and had her back within an hour.
Plus the racism massively clouds the sexism which would be more than problematic all by itself.
It's got everything weak about TNG plus racism and sexism.
I joke about TNG featuring huge amounts of talking before they do anything, but they literally wait more than a day before making an attempt to rescue Tasha so as not to upset the customs of the people who kidnapped her.
Kirk would have been down there and had her back within an hour.
Plus the racism massively clouds the sexism which would be more than problematic all by itself.
It's got everything weak about TNG plus racism and sexism.
benjipwns
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plagiarize
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I forget whether it was Geordi or Worf, but one of them isn't in the episode because they noped the fuck out of it. And good for them.
Valdfellgar
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That's not including the episode where he's jumping through time, eventually dies from it, and has his future self replace him.
Dead Man Typing
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I just watched the episode tonight as I've started my BluRay run through the series.
It was Worf who isn't in the episode except for his voice appearing at one point to say the away team has returned to the ship, which felt like an ADR line from a different episode.
JoshuaJSlone
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This reminds me: Code of Honor was written by one Katharyn Powers, who is also responsible for somewhat similar stinker SG-1 season 1 episode Emancipation, where... Carter is kidnapped by a people who have no respect for women and ends up in a fight to the death.
The series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise is the worst TNG episode.
The finale of Voyager was a slap in the face to fans of the show, but this was a kick in the balls. Just awful.
Azure Dream
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I watched the first season or two of Enterprise, but fell off. I know the creatives at one point said they didn't know why the show was doing poorly, so they were going to make it darker. Like that's a magic fix. But what was so bad about the finale?
Succinct Verbosity
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Enterprise season 3 and 4 were actually well structured and had a lot of new talent that gave a future direction for the show... Then the original show runners shit all over the new staff and created a final episode that neutered any send off for enterprise and made them a back drop for TNG.
It was set in the Holodeck on the Enterprise D with Riker watching their final mission to decide whether or not to tell Picard about Pressman's Cloaking experiments
So it was not only a terrible episode of Enterprise, but it also shat on a few plot beats of the TNG episode Pegasus
biggersmaller
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SubfuckingRosa
Gabriel_Logan
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The episode where they pick up the people from the Irish planet was fucking awful.
DrForester
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Series Finale of voyager was the perfect send off to Voyager. Stupid action against the Borg. Time Travel. Janeway doing the most reprehensible thing she's ever done. Janeway not giving a shit about her crew. The rest of the crew being tossed in the background for the episode.
What's even more upsetting is that the two-parter before the finale (the ones where Peter Weller is basically a terrorist leader) is an actually solid season finale because it ends basically the birth of the Federation. The actual finale is completely unnecessary.
But Fistfull of Datas is a Worf/Alexander episode and its pretty great
Shit, you're right. Voyager's finale is the most fitting send off
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Kinda surprised no one has mentioned Conspiracy. I always thought the whole parasites thing was super dumb.
Didn't that episode get TNG in some hot water because the ending was a little excessively violent?
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