# Cringeworthy moments in tng **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/41 "2017-04-12T16:59:37Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > TROI: Healthy sensuality, sir. I feel mainly friendship, and (looking at Tasha) happiness. Yes, thank you, Counselor, we can all see they’re horny as hell! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/42 "2017-04-12T17:36:52Z")
Anything that had Brent Spiner using a different voice. He has two: his natural voice and that high pitched, creaking voice he used for everything else. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/43 "2017-04-12T17:40:20Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Anything that had Brent Spiner using a different voice. He has two: his natural voice and that high pitched, creaking voice he used for everything else. [Crooking finger] ‘Data’s not here, Mrs. Torrance…’ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/44 "2017-04-12T17:43:31Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Isn’t that why they’re awarded the Nobel (Savage) Prize? 😉 I meant that. That’s the tickte. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/45 "2017-04-12T17:53:46Z")
The phenomenal episode “The Best of Both Worlds, Part I” (featuring the return of the Borg) almost had perhaps the most cringeworthy moment in all the series, one that would’ve made repeat viewings nearly unbearable for a lot of people, I’d venture-- myself included. Riker, in Ten-Forward, singing Jimmy Durante’s “Did You Ever Have the Feelin’?” for Troi and Guinan. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and the scene was cut. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/46 "2017-04-12T18:00:54Z")
the remake of the TOS drunk disease episode where yar basically uses data as a vibrator and then on the bridge announces in front of everyone “nothing happened” and every one gives her the "yeah right if you say so " look a split second before the credits and if I remember the episode where she was killed by living goo was pretty bad too ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/47 "2017-04-12T19:07:00Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > One truly cringeworthy moment comes in the “Rats in a Trap” episode. Wesley is sent off the bridge moments before the entity decides to kill someone just for the heck of it, and the substitute navigator gets it instead. Every time I see this one, I go “Goddammit, **stay on the bridge**! **Stay on the bridge**! **Stay on** … Oh, **crap** , there he goes! **Shit**!” :smack: :mad: Ah yes, Cloud Face guy. That was such a bull shit scene. Wesley is there, then he’s gone with no explanation, and then he’s there again, all with in the time frame of about five minutes. Is there a bathroom on the bridge? Because that’s about all he had time to do while his replacement was busy getting killed. Also, what about that one Strafleet character that decided it would be a good idea to get into a romantic relationship with Data? I mean hey, she had to drop her last BF because he was “distant” and “Not there”, so surely getting involved getting involved with a sentient android incapable of emotion is just what the doctor ordered! ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/48 "2017-04-12T19:15:59Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Also, what about that one Strafleet character that decided it would be a good idea to get into a romantic relationship with Data? I mean hey, she had to drop her last BF because he was “distant” and “Not there”, so surely getting involved getting involved with a sentient android incapable of emotion is just what the doctor ordered! Although that one did have a pretty good ending. “I will delete the necessary programs.” (IIRC). I thought that was a pretty good everything-is-futile-and-transient downer of an ending. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/49 "2017-04-12T19:16:17Z")
The only character I ever recalled getting into a relationship with Data was Yar, and she had a traumatic history with men. A relationship with an android actually makes a twisted sort of sense, given that. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/50 "2017-04-12T19:22:07Z")
“In Theory” ["Star Trek: The Next Generation" In Theory (TV Episode 1991) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708735/) > [@](#): > > When a female crew member is infatuated with Lieutenant Commander Data, he decides to give a romantic relationship a try. Also, the Enterprise finds itself having to maneuver through a dangerous nebula. Because, there has to be a nebula. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/51 "2017-04-12T19:23:36Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The only character I ever recalled getting into a relationship with Data was Yar, and she had a traumatic history with men. A relationship with an android actually makes a twisted sort of sense, given that. Bayard is right - there was an episode in which the B-story was Data having a girlfriend : called “In Theory” I think. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/52 "2017-04-12T19:26:25Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The only character I ever recalled getting into a relationship with Data was Yar, and she had a traumatic history with men. A relationship with an android actually makes a twisted sort of sense, given that. Yar didn’t get into a relationship with Data. She had a One Night Stand with him, and that was only because the ship had encountered some sort of virus that was making the entire crew bat shit crazy. The girl I’m talking about was of sound mind and made the conscious decision to get into a relationship with Data. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/53 "2017-04-12T19:42:19Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > The girl I’m talking about was of sound mind and made the conscious decision to get into a relationship with Data. I think that was partially the point. It wasn’t a good decision for her, and she realized it. She was just running away. The even more sad part was that it made no effect on Data at all. It was just another experiment. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/54 "2017-04-12T21:05:10Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I think that was partially the point. It wasn’t a good decision for her, and she realized it. She was just running away. > > The even more sad part was that it made no effect on Data at all. It was just another experiment. For that reason, it was actually a good episode. Made me cry a bit at the end, as Data goes back to holding Spot, not the least perturbed by the end of the “experiment”. One of the few things they eventually got right in TNG was showing how Data, a being without emotion, was totally different than Spock, a being who suppressed emotion. This episode was part of that exploration. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/55 "2017-04-12T21:54:51Z")
Nobody wants to bring up Dr. Crusher’s green smoke ghost sex on Planet DinnaeteachyerGrannytaesuckeggs? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/56 "2017-04-12T22:03:11Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Nobody wants to bring up Dr. Crusher’s green smoke ghost sex on Planet DinnaeteachyerGrannytaesuckeggs? No I’d rather bring up Troi and Beverly discussing how their boobs are firmer. or, not. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/57 "2017-04-12T22:07:32Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Nobody wants to bring up Dr. Crusher’s green smoke ghost sex on Planet DinnaeteachyerGrannytaesuckeggs? Sub Rosa, i.e. “We stole this wholesale from Anne Rice” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/58 "2017-04-12T22:09:52Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Also, what about that one Strafleet character that decided it would be a good idea to get into a romantic relationship with Data? I mean hey, she had to drop her last BF because he was “distant” and “Not there”, so surely getting involved getting involved with a sentient android incapable of emotion is just what the doctor ordered! Well, I think that was the idea – the woman was gravitating towards cold, distant men one after the other, and Data was the ultimate distant, unavailable man. It didn’t make for an exciting episode though. On the other hand, that episode did result in the single-greatest double entrendre in the history of Star Trek… Data: “Lt. (whoever) has just given me, what you might refer to as…a passionate kiss in the torpedo bay.” ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/59 "2017-04-13T00:14:50Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Sub Rosa, i.e. “We stole this wholesale from Anne Rice” The Ghost and Dr. Crusher. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258/60 "2017-04-13T14:23:04Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > If you don’t like being genetically de-evolved into primitive species, you should not have joined Star Fleet. “Gentlemen! \*\*Risk \*\*is our **business**! That’s what this starship is all **about**! **That’s why we’re aboard her!** ” Whoops, sorry! That was a cringeworthy moment from _ **TOS** _. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cringeworthy-moments-in-tng/784258.md?page=4)