Hallendra, when the cheat notes flew.
No, he was the first person to say it out loud. Everyone else on the bridge had the sense and discipline to keep their yaps shut so Picard could work.
Okay, we just watched the space hippies episode, and the thing is - it’s really a good episode! Except that the hippies are written so amazingly, dully, stupidly. But it’s a strong episode about ideas, if it weren’t written with this weird blind spot towards those characters.
Tuvix. Mic drop.
TNG Masks, Genesis, and The Game. Horrible horrible episodes. much worse that Spock’s Brain. Genesis is even worse than Voyager’s Janeway/Paris Slug Baby episode. yes, worse than that!
I always take it that everyone not in the upper class uses full sentences. We only see the command staff. The “face” of the Children of Tam is the proud, metaphor-weilding aristocracy. The general worker drones, low class people, talk like we do. It’s the blind spot of the CoT than they don’t see this as a problem.
In other words, sentences are for children. Proper adults speak only in metaphor.
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.
I liked this one. It gave me a lot to think about. Does the captain have the authority to essentially kill someone in order to bring two other people back to life?
Next Generation. The Child.
Troi gets pregnant from space magic. The pregnancy takes 36 hours. The child grows to an adult in about 48 hours then dies to save the crew from a menace it’s presence creates. It is never referenced again.
I saw it when it first came out and can remember feeling distinctly aggrieved over the episode not just being bad, but an insulting waste of time.
TNG Code of Honor. The one where the Enterprise goes to the planet of the offensive African stereotypes, and the big black warrior-leader of the planet wants to kidnap and marry Tasha Yar because she’s a beautiful white woman. Shades of Grey may have been a pointless clips episode, but at least it wasn’t blatantly racist.
You’re kidding me?!? We’re talking worst Trek ever and no one has yet mention TOS The Way to Eden aka The Space Hippies?!?!! Far worse than Spock’s Brain, Omega Glory, Alternative Factor etc. Those had some incredulous plot twists, but c’mon? Space Hippies?!? It was the closest Star Trek came to this…
Worst?! That’s one of the best*!!*
“Assignment: Earth”
I could never stand Teri Garr, and found Gary Seven a bore. Can’t believe he nearly got his own show.
Post #3.
Not only that, but one of them was the Captain.
checks Memory Alpha
TNG, Symbiosis. Drugs are bad, mmkay?! Crack is Whack!
Why does this topic keep popping up once a year or so? Do the worst episodes change on a rotating basis? 
Besides, everyone knows it’s a tie between “Plato’s Stepchildren” and “Is There No Truth In Beauty?”
No we don’t. That’s why it keeps popping up! 
I think an interesting premise was hiding within the mess that TAF came out as. That you would have two men who are virtual carbon copies of each other from parallel universes, where one goes insane from the revelation that he has a double, could have been worked into something pretty awesome by the right people.
Unfortunately, they had Kirk and Spock behave like total idiots and give this madman the run of the ship, where he (and he) promptly steals some vital dilithium crystals, and then the scriptwriters declare that, no, matter and antimatter meeting won’t explode, unless the two lumps of it are identical. 
:smack: (Kirk and the planet he landed on (in the other universe) should have instantly gone kablooey.) That, and that the actor playing the twins was a very late addition, and, while he did well considering the circumstances…I’ll just say that, unlike some of the other stinkers here, in other circumstances it could have been one of the best eps of TOS (and likely was, in another universe…).
Shades of Grey - a clip show
I was going to say Catspaw, but apparently I had repressed my memory of ever watching Turnabout Intruder. Wasn’t that the last episode? Talk about going out with a whimper.
Catspaw, with Korob and Sylvia and their black cat. I think it was suppose to be a Halloween episode.