The one that comes most vividly to my mind (and I make fun of all the time) “The Survivors” I just couldn’t STAND that music box and the Deanna’s reaction to it.
I know this specifically states other than new trek, but, Subspace Rhapsody, SNW, WTF? This one takes the cake
I love a musical, and the first number was pretty good, but then it leaned into soap-opera level emotions and that made everything feel like it was all taking way too long. I ended up skipping through the songs halfway through to the end (the Klingons were funny tho).
Space opera, not soap opera- please.
It would have worked for me if the songs had been great. But the idea that they did a musical episode with those boring tunes and that horribly premise … Wow.
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Q-Less was surprisingly dull, and proved that John De Lancie had no business visiting Deep Space Nine. There was just no chemistry there. (It was fun to watch Sisko punch Q, at least.)
There’s also an episode where Quark is caught messing with the replicators, annoying the crew members with advertising. That was one of DS9’s all-time best scenes (“I’ll come to Quark’s, and believe me, I WILL have fun.”), but the remaining 40 minutes of that episode was a real buttnutter, about a planet of humanoids destined to die by a genetically engineered virus.
For TNG it’s whatever the ghost sex one was, something Rosa. For DS9 it’s definitely the one where Quark sexually harasses his waitress and then becomes a woman. For Picard it’s pretty much all the episodes. For TOS I don’t have a least favorite episode.
Sub Rosa. I was going to say that one too. Definitely one of McFadden’s best performances on the show, which is a real shame because the episode itself is such a turkey I can’t watch it. Feels like the writer read Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches trilogy and couldn’t resist inflicting their Equate brand Lasher on the viewers.
The TNG episode from one of the earlier seasons where Riker was dying and the only way to save him was to rerun clips from previous episodes.
Oooh that is a good one. Terrible episode like most clip shows are.
Just when you thought that any episode of TNG that featured Troi’s mom was worth skipping, we soon were graced with the Kazon in Voyager… The writers did us a solid when they finally warped that flying biohazard out of that part of the galaxy.
(So, my answer is any episode with Kazon, except the one where they tried to assemble a replicator with bubble gum and match sticks.)
Don’t let my sarcasm fool you! Voyager is my go-to series.
I liked the alt universe episode episode where Harry Kim died and alt Harry Kim took his place.
Voyager has very real notable flaws but I truly to love it. Maybe I was too young to understand the flaws so I’m biased towards it now, but if you just relax and let it do its thing without asking too many questions, it is by far the most entertaining franchise of 90s Trek IMO.
I used to hate the Lwuxana Troi episodes but lately I kinda enjoy them. Mostly because they seem “new” to me since I barely paid attention to them in the past, but also because I know she is dead now, along with Gene and half the TOS folks. Not too long now before a bunch of others go to the big bridge in the sky. So I appreciate the moments of levity with old friends now, when they could just let their hair down and recite some shakespeare on the Enterprise with some confused Ferengi looking on.
“Home Soil” is the one that I wish would be erased from the timeline. “ugly bags of mostly water” was the laziest script writing in history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Soil
But survivors is the episode that gave us Kevin Uxbridge!!
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, piss off Kevin Uxbridge!!!
