# Cringeworthy moments in tng
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 11, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258 "2017-04-11T19:11:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/1 "2017-04-11T19:11:34Z")
The \*Enterprise \*has just been bombarded with an X-ray burst after coming too close to a star:
**TROI:** Captain, the level of tension on the ship is mounting!
No shit, Counselor! Just because circuits and panels are blowing out everywhere? Get a grip on it, people, get a grip! So what if you’ve all just been subjected to a lethal dose of radiation?
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### Author:  [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/2 "2017-04-11T19:20:39Z")
Can I put down the entirety of the first season blaxploitation [episode](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(episode))?
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/3 "2017-04-11T20:34:07Z")
Troi devolving into some kind of blurping amphibian in _Genesis_. I’d say all of Genesis, but Barclay becoming a bad-ass spider was funny.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/4 "2017-04-11T20:58:25Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
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> Troi devolving into some kind of blurping amphibian in _Genesis_. I’d say all of Genesis, but Barclay becoming a bad-ass spider was funny.
And Jonathon Frakes flipping the bird in that episode was hilarious.
What was the one with the masks? That one was…odd.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/5 "2017-04-11T21:13:42Z")
Tasha Yar’s “Just Say NO” speech to Wesley in[Symbiosis](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Symbiosis_(episode)).
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/6 "2017-04-11T21:24:58Z")
[This](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/1/18/Wesley_und_die_Edo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121125095213&path-prefix=de).
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/7 "2017-04-11T21:30:14Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> [This](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/1/18/Wesley_und_die_Edo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121125095213&path-prefix=de).
Eff. Tee. Double-u.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/8 "2017-04-11T21:39:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Eff. Tee. Double-u.
Sorry, maybe [this](http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x08/justice_hd_184.jpg) [will](http://img.pandawhale.com/post-14562-Wil-Wheaton-Wesley-Crusher-wit-ouzT.gif) explain it better.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/9 "2017-04-11T22:12:15Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> Tasha Yar’s “Just Say NO” speech to Wesley in[Symbiosis](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Symbiosis_(episode)).
That has my favorite “acting w/o special effects” moment in all of TNG. I’m very happy that page has a [screenshot](https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/9/90/Paralyzed_by_electrocution.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161128030328&path-prefix=en) of it, but it barely does the actual scene justice
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/10 "2017-04-12T00:50:00Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> And Jonathon Frakes flipping the bird in that episode was hilarious.
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> **What was the one with the masks? That one was…odd.**
_Masks_. 😃 Yes, that was a weird one.
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### Author:  [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/11 "2017-04-12T00:57:42Z")
_Masks_ was weird, but I really liked Brent Spiner’s performance.
My vote’s for _The Last Outpost_, where they first encounter the Ferengi. Builds them up as this huge threat, then has them cringing and bouncing like the apes from 2001.
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### Author:  [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/12 "2017-04-12T01:27:17Z")
Morons in Space.
Hillbillys in Space.
I really should have to provide titles, most anyone knowing TNG series will recognize them immediately.
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/13 "2017-04-12T03:20:38Z")
I was a HUGE fan of this series back in the day, but I have to say that I find pretty much ALL of it cringe-worthy nowadays.
Particularly bad, the “Outrageous Okie-Dokie”, the one with the fourth-rate, off-brand Han Solo character whom Counselor Troi describes in ex-CRUC-iating detail in what is about the worst exposition dump in televised history.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/14 "2017-04-12T03:21:10Z")
> [@leahcim](#):
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> Can I put down the entirety of the first season blaxploitation [episode](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(episode))?
That’s the one with my all-time favorite Natasha Yar line: “Troi! You’re my \*friend \*and you \*tricked \*me!”
Always reminds me of those little aliens in _ **Toy Story 2** _: “You have saved our lives! We are eternally grateful!” The woman couldn’t act her way out of a room with four doors.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/15 "2017-04-12T03:27:33Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
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> Troi devolving into some kind of blurping amphibian in _Genesis_.
Didn’t the same thing happen to Janeway on _ **Voyager** _? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/16 "2017-04-12T04:33:33Z")
If you don’t like being genetically de-evolved into primitive species, you should not have joined Star Fleet.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/17 "2017-04-12T07:09:19Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#):
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> Particularly bad, the “Outrageous Okie-Dokie”, the one with the fourth-rate, off-brand Han Solo character whom Counselor Troi describes in ex-CRUC-iating detail in what is about the worst exposition dump in televised history.
Kind of a shame, because Billy Campbell (who played Okona) has been around for years and played a lot of better characters. According to IMDb, he was Roddenberry’s first choice to play Riker; don’t know if this role was dreamed up as some sort of consolation prize. I know some people who know him; say he’s a really good guy.
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### Author:  [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/18 "2017-04-12T07:49:33Z")
Well the Picard speech to Q has got to be in there: “We’re not just _any_ sentient species, we had Shakespeare bruh”
And generally those first few eps. Data would say they’ve detected a ship on long range sensors and then there’d be 10 seconds of booming orchestral score while the crew take turns to look at each other.
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### Author:  [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/19 "2017-04-12T13:40:56Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Didn’t the same thing happen to Janeway on _ **Voyager** _? :dubious:
No, no, no. She and Tom Paris _evolved_ into amphibian creatures. Troi was turning into a creature from her species evolutionary _history_. Janeway was turning into a creature from her species evolutionary _future_. Totally different 😉 .
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/20 "2017-04-12T13:48:19Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> Morons in Space.
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> Hillbillys in Space.
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> I really should have to provide titles, most anyone knowing TNG series will recognize them immediately.
Is one of those the Rustic Irish People in Space one?
“Will ye wash me feet, William Riker?” \
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