# Worst epsisode of star trek **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964 "2016-02-12T20:27:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/41 "2016-02-13T02:46:44Z")
the pilot ep of tng was Terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible, but I dont remember any of the ones you guys are posting for comparison so there ya go. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/42 "2016-02-13T03:00:25Z")
The series finale of **Star Trek: Enterprise** , These Are the Voyages…, certainly qualifies. It sure as Hell was the worst episode of ENT. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/43 "2016-02-13T03:00:40Z")
[Quote=Cardigan] Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra [/quote] Shaka, when the walls fell. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I liked that one. Sokath, his eyes uncovered! Mars and Rick on the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/44 "2016-02-13T03:26:46Z")
Rick, with his lips smiling. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/45 "2016-02-13T03:27:45Z")
Moe, when the pants fell. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/46 "2016-02-13T05:46:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Post #3. Dammit\*!\* I did a CTRL+F search for ‘eden’ before replying, I should have done ‘hippie’. Watching Trek as a kid in the 70s I enjoyed both Omega Glory and Alternative Factor. Omega Glory does have a ludicrous ending (our flag & Constitution?!?) and is just a red scare, anti-commie bit of nonsense, but that went completely over my head back then. And back then I enjoyed the extreme techno-babble of AF, although even as a (smart) kid the whole Kirk in the antimatter universe and not exploding made no sense. Now that I think of it _Catspaw_ was at least as bad as Eden. In fact the only thing I can remember about it was the really cool practical-effect puppet aliens they turn into at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/47 "2016-02-13T06:44:01Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > . . . Now that I think of it _Catspaw_ was at least as bad as Eden. In fact the only thing I can remember about it was the really cool practical-effect puppet aliens they turn into at the end. With that really cool baby-alligator “cluck cluck” noise they made! That was spiffing! And, as much as I detest Omega Glory, it does have one of the more quotable lines from all of Star Trek: “Freedom? That is a worship word. Yang worship. You will not speak it.” Take away the stupid Yank/Commie setting, and that’s a darn nice line. It also lends itself readily to parody. “Say, can I borrow a few dollars?” “Dollars? That is a worship word!” etc. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/48 "2016-02-13T08:49:06Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > TNG: “Family.” It was hated when it came out and the producers learned a lesson. Unfortunately, it was the wrong one. They thought the audience didn’t want to see character-based stories, just space battles. > > But the audience would have been happy with this sort of b story if it wasn’t utter crap. What with the mud wrestling scene between Picard and his brother (you knew they were brothers because Picard had an English accent and his brother has a French one), and an attempt to boldly use every cliche ever used in the history of storytelling, it was appallingly terrible. You are literally the first person I’ve heard of who said they didn’t like that episode. At least, that I remember. It’s part 3 of Best of Both Worlds. If it was hated in the past, people sure seem to have warmed up to it now, with people talking about how it would have been ruined if it had an actual science fiction plot. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/49 "2016-02-13T09:08:59Z")
While not the worst it was embarrassing when Star Trek Enterprise descended to blatant [fan service](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0VuZmSejUPs/VJGqegx5qwI/AAAAAAAAxXA/dCVI9syx8vQ/s1600/t-pol-93018900569.jpeg) with the sexy female Vulcan to keep the ratings up. > [@](#): > > Finally, there is a sort of childish male-centric sexuality that runs through much of the series. The very first episode gives us a gratuitous decontamination scene where Trip and T’Pol rub oil all over each other; while Reed and Mayweather giggle like 12 year old boys about three breasted women. T’Pol of course is given a catsuit uniform that is insulting to the actress, the character and fans of all genders and sexualities; then in a particularly awful episode she contracts an illness that makes her prowl the ship like a dog in heat. Star Trek never handled sex very well (go watch TNG’s “Sub Rosa”), but Enterprise took this to new heights of puerile stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/50 "2016-02-13T14:20:34Z")
_Let That Be Your Last Battlefield_ with the ponderously hammering message about racism. And _Turnabout Intruder_ with its premise that in the Federation future women would of course not be allowed to be starship captains. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/51 "2016-02-13T16:55:33Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You are literally the first person I’ve heard of who said they didn’t like that episode. At least, that I remember. It’s part 3 of Best of Both Worlds. It wasn’t intended as part 3. I think it was supposed to b e well spaced away, but it really works together. For the record, it’s one of my favorites, even with the weird accents in the family. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/52 "2016-02-13T18:11:59Z")
The one wherein intruders are moving around the ship so fast that they can’t be seen. Stoopid. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/53 "2016-02-13T19:53:32Z")
That one is a classic. It’s one of the few that actually _proves_ Kirk would shag anything that looked remotely female. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/54 "2016-02-13T21:33:07Z")
Which was the DS9 episode with the Brigadoon planet? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/55 "2016-02-13T22:03:43Z")
I do not remember the titles, but the Next Generation show I call “Morons in Space” (you _have_ to know it simply from that title) and the “Hillbillies in Space”, where they are transporting a ‘somewhat primitive’ colony home), and quite unwatchable , at least to me. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/56 "2016-02-13T22:06:42Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I do not remember the titles, but the Next Generation show I call “Morons in Space” (you _have_ to know it simply from that title) You’d have to be more considerably more specific. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/57 "2016-02-13T22:28:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > You’d have to be more considerably more specific. Samaritan Snare: [Samaritan Snare - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_Snare) Up the Long Ladder: [Up the Long Ladder - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Long_Ladder) ---
**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:** [February 13, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/58 "2016-02-13T22:29:23Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > You’d have to be more considerably more specific. Well, you have to dismiss the main cast! That does help narrow it down. 🙂 Samaritan Snare, with the Pakleds. (Don’t shoot them in the head! Go for something vital!) Space ninja’d! ---
**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:** [February 13, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/59 "2016-02-13T22:29:24Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I do not remember the titles, but the Next Generation show I call “Morons in Space” (you _have_ to know it simply from that title) and the “Hillbillies in Space”, where they are transporting a ‘somewhat primitive’ colony home), and quite unwatchable , at least to me. I love that episode. That’s the one where Riker fucks that sharp tonged Irish girl with in like ten minutes of meeting her. And the drunken old fatherly type was hilarious in his scene with Worf. ---
**Author:** ![btcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@btcg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/btcg)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964/60 "2016-02-13T22:34:28Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > What are your least favorite episodes of star trek? For me it’s when the preachiness gets too extreme; > > The Mark of Gideon (TOS): where they go to a planet where no one is willing to have an abortion, because they’re apparently space Christians, and as a result their planet is one giant mass of people and they infect kirk with a virus to kill off the population. > The Neutral Zone (TNG): where they uncover a space pod with frozen humans from the 20th century and Picard goes off on why capitalism is evil. > > Notable mentions include Code of Honor(TNG) and pretty much anything from season one TNG. 1- The Trouble w/Tribbles. (TOS) 2-Can’t recall the name… again, original series… the schtick is an exact duplicate of Kirk (the ‘evil’ as opposed to the original ‘good’ captain) is created. It’s a horrible episode. Which is worse?? Either blowz. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-epsisode-of-star-trek/745964.md?page=4)