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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Haven’t read the comments yet, but it seems to me this author’s idea of a bad episode is any one that entertains any notion that isn’t PC liberalism.
And the worst STOS episode was The Empath, with Mark of Gideon a close runner up, neither of which is mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mark_of_Gideon
Gene Roddenberry was just another secular humanist whose ideals were all groundless because they weren't based on Divine Law.
>>That was one of my favorite episodes. I confess that even as a kid I thought the idea of the parallels being so precise were a bit hokey. Still, a very powerful reading of the declaration of independence by Kirk.<<
“Ay plegli ianectu flaggen, tupep like for stahn”
God, how they must have coaxed Shatner to come out from under that bland shell and read the Preamble to swelling music and a dramatic conclusion complete with orchestra hit.
My question is how did they keep him from doing it with his shirt on? This WAS before “James T. Kirk: The Girdle Years.”
Penance for TJ Hooker.
“And now you’ll learn why war is a thing to be avoided.”
Episode?
A Taste of Armageddon
But the best line from that episode is, “The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank.”
>>And why the episode with the children and the fat, ugly angel lawyer didn’t make this list, I don’t know…<<
Melvin Belli! Nice call!
being not good <> really bad.
I nearly jumped out of my chair when Cloud William looks at the flag and starts off: "Ay plegli ianectu flaggen, tupep like for stahn..." as I immediately picked up on it, and Captain James Kirk continues 'And to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.'
A helluva scene.
Actually Kirk says "we have no need for gods." Knowing Rodenberry's secular humanism, I wouldn't be one bit surprised that the next sentence ("We find the One quite sufficient") was forced on the show by advertisers against his will because they didn't want to antagonize people. This is my theory, anyway, since the two statements are mutually exclusive.
That "big dude" was Ted Cassidy, "Lurch" on "The Addams Family" and a frequent voice actor in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
Correction: that's "African-American Vulcan!"
Yep, "This document wasn't written for chiefs and priests. See the first three words, written larger than all the rest, WE THE PEOPLE..."
My friends and I used to call those Shatner moments "going full Kirk".
Lol! That was back in the days when a person could consider himself a conservative and think the Union was right rather than the Confederacy. Apparently that's not so any more.
I blame Obama.
He says both lines in that episode.
He's a jackass. See post 129.
And the worst STOS episode was The Empath, with Mark of Gideon a close runner up, neither of which is mentioned.
Of course that's because the author was covering all five series'. As we know, there was a lot of crap in season 3 of TOS.
The Empath was truly cringeworthy - especially to a teenaged boy who had grown accustomed to nubile space sluts ;’}
Looking over that list a lot of them are surprisingly good, considering the plug was already pulled on the series mid-season.
I read somewhere that Geneviève Bujold was ‘released’ because she just couldn’t handle the ‘technobabble’ in the script.
I agree with the “TNG” assessments (although I don’t remember the African tribe one), but they missed two key awful, awful episodes: “Force of Nature” and “The Game.”
“Force of Nature” is the infamous “hole in the ozone layer” enviro-whackjob episode. At the end, Starfleet implements a Warp 5 speed limit for the Fleet. Naturally, since that’s quite an inconvenient truth (har!) the directive’s impact and limitations are never mentioned again in any episode or film.
“The Game” is a Wesley episode, so that’s strike one, two, and three. It has a young Ashley Judd. It has a terrible premise. It has a brutally stupid conclusion. Other than that, it’s great.
Episode?
Not an episode. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Nah. "Inner Light" hit much harder.
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