Posted on 05/23/2017 9:10:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
At some point in life, you learn to take the good with the bad. It’s not that you necessarily become better at dealing with the bad things in life, but rather that you learn to appreciate that the bad is simply a companion to the good. If you grew up a Star Trek fan, you likely got a head start on this valuable life lesson. Regardless of which Star Trek series you became hopelessly addicted to, you eventually learned that you had a roughly equal chance of seeing something truly great or something truly awful on a weekly basis. Eventually, you come to accept that the bad episodes add a little flavor to the great ones.
Just because bad Star Trek episodes are a vital thread in the franchise’s rich tapestry, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t still some of the worst episodes to ever be broadcast on television. We’re not talking about episodes which stomp on the series’ continuity or ruin certain plot developments. These are the entries which Trek fans and non-Trek fans alike watch with their jaws agape. “How?” they say while struggling to reach some semblance of understanding. “How did this episode ever make it on-air?”
These are the 15 Worst Star Trek Episodes Of All Time.
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Hey, it’s a TV show. You gotta look past the flaws. :-)
>>Death Star alpha version<<
But when they resigned it they kept a back door, which was replicated in EVERY SINGLE ONE!
Should have stayed with the simple ice cream cone. No X-wing, Y wing or even Galaxy class ship is getting in except through the mouth.
:)
The legendary battle with the Gorn of course.
The entire Voyager series.
ALL of the Star Trek: The Neurotic Generation is horrible.
“Devil In the Dark”! What do I win?
Not EVERY single episode:
The girl who played Andrea the Android was unusually hot.
Oops. You’re right. My bad.
You get a front-row seat for my award presentation ... I answered it first ... neener-neener-neener ...
How could anyone not like Spock jamming?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OptLgGtZ9_E
A bit lazy to combine all the series. But on the TOS episodes...
1) Spock’s Brain - this one has been mocked so often any subsequent criticism is redundant and lazy. As multiple people, including production and cast members, have pointed out, this was churn-it-out television with a staggering 26 hourlong episodes per season. In addition it was a sci-fi series requiring from-scratch costumes, sets, makeup and effects every week. Not every episode can be ‘Space Seed.’
2) The Savage Curtain - the writer seems to have missed the point and even the plot. The reason the rock creatures brought Lincoln and Surak to ‘life’ is to manipulate and test Kirk and the Enterprise crew. This rats-in-a-maze concept was, admittedly, a rehash of ‘Arena’ but had greater characterization and humor.
3) The Omega Glory - Roddenberry was a hippie of sorts but he was also a military vet and an ex-police officer. Unambiguous patriotism wasn’t an issue for him nor should it have been. The episode also has a subplot regarding the mania for eternal youth or, viewed more pessimistically, the mania for avoiding death and disease and the political power ownership of such a formula would bring.
‘Planet Of The Apes’ was published in 1963 and it’s entirely possible that Roddenberry knew about its flipped-history premise but if he didn’t then his episode predates the film version by several years.
4) Turnabout Intruder - NOW I’m just pi**ed off. I LOVE Turnabout Intruder. Joan Winston’s fly-on-the-wall chapter of ‘The Making Of Star Trek’ describes the episode’s filming and the relaxed, chummy atmosphere on the set even as they knew the end was nigh. William Shatner himself wrote about the trial room scenes and how the veteran crew (in real life and in the Trek universe) knew where the imaginary doors would be in the trial room since they had ‘used’ them many times before. The rookie director insisted that Kirk (inhabited by Dr Lester) walk off camera in a direction to a ‘door’ that had never existed before. Shatner and the cast remonstrated with the director in the interest of consistency and verisimilitude but the director refused to budge.
The episode may rely on a shopworn body-switching premise but there are many glimpses of the cast acting in fully-developed characters. Scott & McCoy, always just a step below Kirk & Spock, have a tense conversation between peers. Sulu and Chekov make grim jokes on the bridge about their conflicting orders. Nurse Chapel features prominently. Sadly, Uhura is absent although her stand-in, Lieutenant Lisa (played by Barbara Baldavin) is very easy on the eyes. All of them are forced to watch in shock as Kirk (actually Lester) rants and raves and sentences his officers and friends to death (!). Apparently Shatner was quite ill and running a fever during production which makes his performance even more impressive.
The series had been cancelled, budgets had been slashed and so-called ‘ship shows’ were more frequent. But in this episode it works as various parts of the ship act as appropriate stages for the various acts of the play.
It wasn’t the last episode filmed but it was the last one aired. And for that it can never be a ‘worst.’
As for the pajama boy objections to mocking of feminism, I say why not? Feminism sucked in 1968 and it sucks now.
Took me a minute: GQ (which was an almost line for line ripoff of the much better “Captain Zoom.”
The Doomsday Machine. Just watched it ;)
“The Trouble with Tribbles”.
They missed the “bonk, bonk on the head” embarrassment in an original Star Trek episode about teens infected with some virus that ages them.
Amok Time — spoken by Spock.
Abe Lincoln Beams Aboard: https://youtu.be/7JWe3hCes1o
This was Shatner’s finest moment since `The Trouble With Gremlins On The Wing’.
The one I hated the most was “The Empath”. At least Gem couldn’t be accused of overacting.
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