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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The Doctor was a good character, especially his @$$hole attitude. 7 of 9 was pretty, but I never thought she made a very good character.
There were a few times I did as well. I wished they had done a better job portraying the Borg.
what’s an ep and canon?
Thanks for reminding me about the black security chief as a PC token. And you are right he did a decent job, just it was too many obviously PC casting picks thrown together.
I couldn’t stand Chakotay in part because I couldn’t accept how he could go from ex-federation rebel to carrying out Janeway’s stupid orders. He and Tuvok should have mutinied in the pilot- now that would have kicked off an interesting show.
He allowed an unknown enemy to board the ship, access the ship's computer and then failed to destroy them when attacked.
The whole “Prime Directive” was just a plot device. Sort of like Kryptonite.
It was really sort of stupid.
I had forgotten about that part. Now that I think about it, it was the hope that he would mutiny that had me interested for awhile.
If I remember correctly, there were some episodes in which loyalties did get tested and questioned.
Yes, that would have been very interesting. :)
Next Generation was a very long long way from what I would have regarded as a functional or even plausible chain of command. I think one of the things I liked most about the Original series is that it still had that Naval command officer vibe to it. It felt more like it represented the behavior of an actual warship.
Of course the captain always being on the away team was utter dreck. For that matter any of the bridge officers going ashore seemed pretty unlikely to me.
But still, it had a closer vibe to a real military operation than the Next Generation, or for that matter, anything else ever dreamed up and called "Start Trek."
ep=episode
canon= the officially sanctioned timeline of events, people places and the like.
For example, when ST did the original pilot of “The Cage,” Christopher Pike became part of the Canon as at least one Enterprise captain predecessor to James T. Kirk. Spock of course is carried into TOS but brings his prior service under Pike with him (which opens the door to “The Menagerie”). Canonical consistency is a HUGE deal to Trekkers. But since Gene R didn’t KNOW he was creating a universe with required internal consistency since canon was an almost unheard of idea (although Bonanza did a good job in establishing and maintaining canon).
By having a Universe relatively consistent, you can write stories within the universe and refer to events (e.g. Borg attack at Wolf 359) which then provide a literary nexus.
Until the new owners said “screw you” and threw it out the door with the second biggest FU ever.
Look at Marvel on how NOT to respect canon. Why did A cause B? Well it did until it didn’t. Then C caused G and A and B are meaningless.
End of canon lecture :)
. . . not the "Pledgum Legium" episode!!!
Episode?
That one's easy! It's the "horta" episode ("No kill I").
I saw that episode of "The Next Generation" only once, but I have never forgotten it. At the time I was a student at a typical liberal, higher-critical university, and that episode hit me right across the face with the idea of just how silly the notion that the Biblical narratives were "never meant to be read as literal history" really is.
One of the arguments for this "demythologization" is that the ancient Hebrews didn't possess the vocabulary or language for abstract thought, so they got their ideas across by telling "fairy tales." What the proponents of this theory don't seem to understand is that any society that has the language to create the stories certainly has the language and vocabulary to communicate outside of them.
Biblical higher critics literally seem to believe that the ancient Israelites could only communicate among themselves by telling stories, just like the civilization in this episode.
It was the Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence.
Wasn't that a jab at the alleged "neanderthal" status of patriotic Americans . . . the implication that they were too stupid and bigoted to understand that their philosophy actually applied to everyone?
>>I would have been happier if they had kept Chakotay and Tuvok and ditched Janeway<<
Don’t be surprised if in ST:Rumprangers Chakote and Tuvok are lovers and the captain is RuPaul.
And since their demo is 18-23 YO males, it will quickly die and the producers and the msms will blame white male sexists and LUYTRGEWYWUW haters.
Absolutely the best!
Ugh. You came to the diametrically opposite interpretation to mine.
What is so terrifying about the Biblical stories being true? What in the "old testament" is any less believable than a "virgin birth???"
I’m guessing that Abe Lincoln episode didn’t go over too well with budding neo-Confederates.
Exactly! Declarative sentences obviously exist within the stories themselves, so there's no reason they wouldn't outside the stories.
(Translation: Genesis is not a fable.)
But wasn't it the other way around? The Romulans were honorable while the Klingons were totally evil. Therefore, of course, everyone fell in love with them and they're good now, while the Romulans are still villains.
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