Yeah, that’s the one. If you ever get the chance to see it, RUN AWAY!
I second that. Man, bad Star Trek is awful, isn’t it? Especially when it gets preachy and political.
The ST: TOS Episode “And the children shall lead”. I think was the title, let me go Google it. . . yup, just shows to go you, drinking only kills the weak brain cells! OTOH, if I had washed away this memory, it could only have been a good thing. . .Melvin Belii as the evil alien Gorgan. . . zee goggles do nothing! :eek:
-DocJon
AHA! Someone who agrees with me! 
I was a bit annoyed to see Spock’s Brain coming in the second post, its not really that bad, a bit of fun in the Trek universe.
But Shatner’s ridiculous overacting in Turnabout Intruder is just too much. No farce, no fun and a really really bad plot too :rolleyes:
Lemme see, anything TNG with Wesley, the aforementioned clip-episode of TNG, too many Ferengi in DS9, much of Voyager and Enterprise. Hmmm, maybe this should be “what small bits of Trek do I actually like” 
That’s what I thought too. They have to get the clones and Irish peeps to interbreed, but not before Riker got to poke one of them :rolleyes: The worst representation of the Irish in space outside of Peter Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn Trilogy.
The “All Singing, All Dancing” episode of The Simpsons.
Wakko’s Wish wasn’t part of the series; it was a direct-to-video movie. Sunshine Squirrels was the finale, not counting the Super Special.
Buffy - “Gone.” Season 6. Absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. An utterly painful 45 minutes of television. If that had been my first exposure to Buffy, I’d have shut off the TV and never looked at the show again. Bad in almost every way imaginable.
Although it has stiff competition in its season alone: “Smashed”, “Wrecked”, “Doublemeat Palace”, “Grave”, and “As You Were” are all awful in their own special way.
“Gone” really takes the cake, though. SMG was phoning this thing in long-distance and that combined with horrific writing, equally bad special effects, and a plot that made Buffy both a bitch and an idiot and managed to be downright disgusting to boot make one putrid television experience.
Star Trek: While “Spock’s Brain”, “Turnabout Intruder”, and “Way to Eden” are all crappy, they can all be enjoyed as camp. None of them made me squirm on my couch like the final 10 minutes of “The Omega Glory” (Yangs and Khoms). I first saw this at the age of 12 and thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever seen. First we get 45 minutes of fistfights/ax fights/lots of rolling in the dirt between ripped-shirt Kirk and the other crazy captain, then we get a simplistic jingoist American pride lesson (Yangs = Yankees; Khoms = communists) capped off with a cub scout flag ceremony. Ugh. Give me “what is brain?” anyday,
X Files: “First Person Shooter”: Mulder and Scully get trapped in the holodeck with the safeties disabled. Holodeck episodes are bad enough in the Star trek universe, why have one in X Files?
Fawlty Towers: The best sitcom in the history of television had 11 side-splittingly hilarious episodes. Unfortunately it also had “The Anniversary Party”, which takes one of the most cliched sitcom plots (husband planning surprise party ignores wife, making her think he’s forgotten special date and she goes off on a snit), combines it with another sitcom cliche (the pretending to be someone else deception) and doesn’t do anything new or clever with either.
Just middln’ bad. My vote is for “The Alternative Factor” in which antimatter Lazarus and regular matter Lazarus fight in a blurry tunnel, and nothing makes any sense. Special bonus points for it being a first season show when they were supposed to be trying.
For TNG, I remember a show based around alien abductions on the Enterprise! Getting plots from National Enquirer is pretty tacky in my book. Remember Harlan’s story about how some suit wanted the first movie to include the Mayas? I bet Braga would have said “what a great idea!”
Voyager
Oh jeez yeah - The Alternative Factor - that was one incredible turd in the Star Trek cesspool. It was SO bad I had completely forgotten it. :smack:
As if the episode wasn’t crappy enough, whenever the Lazarus guy (Robert Brown?) appeared, it always seemed as if it was the nutty maniacal one and you could never tell if it was the “real” one or the Lazarus from the alternative Universe. (not that anyone really cared.)
Oh dear. I do hope you’re not talking about Schisms. That’s, like, my favorite episode. It’s the one in which strange medical problems start cropping up among the crew, including the discovery that Riker’s arm was severed and then reattached. It turns out that there’s a bunch of aliens in another dimension who are abducting members of the crew and performing medical experiments on them.
I think that’s easily one of the best episodes. (1) It’s genuinely creepy. (2) It contains one of the few really effective uses of the holodeck, i.e. to recreate the evil “dentists’ chair” that several abductees remember. (3) It contains my absolute favorite line of dialog in TNG:
“His blood has been replaced with some kind of liquid polymer.”
Love it! I admit that the problem is resolved via technobabble involving tachyon rays, but it’s hardly the only episode with that particular flaw, y’know?.
So please, Voyager, tell me that’s not the episode you meant, okay? Please?