Just The Worst Of TNG.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's Turkeys
Ahh, Best of Lists. Don't you love em? How many variations can we come up with to breathe new life into those venerable savory samples?How about WORST of Lists?
Why worst? Why not? Selecting the worst - or at least the weak from the top of the crop, can be fun. Not only does it leave what's behind that much better looking, but spotlights where - here a beloved television show - went occasionally wrong.
Star Trek: The Next Generation picked up - 80 years in show time & 18 years in real time - where original Star Trek left off. It won a Peabody Award for the episode, "The Big Goodbye", numerous accolades for cutting edge FX and in its last season snagged a Best Drama Emmy nomination - first ever for a syndicated television program. However, all those adventures sometimes weren't anything to write home to Earth about.
Here's five of the dopiest, clumsiest or just plain silly of the 179 episodes of that usually superb sci-fi TV show.
1. Angel One - First Season
Commander Riker is "feminized" - nuff said?
Enterprise journeys to planet Angel One - where women rule society. While, it's laudable exploring such a social construct, the episode is forced and plays comic when it tries to be socially experimental or relevant. Perhaps it's a case of good idea, bad execution, because it doesn't work for me. At one point, Jonathan Frakes must don a frilly nightgown to fit in with the more feminine males of the culture. Co-stars must have ribbed him for months afterwards!
2. The Dauphin - Second Season
Wesley falls for a "creature" - so bad it's almost good!
The Enterprise takes a future ruler of an alien race back home. She's a beautiful young human looking girl in all respects. But don't let that fool you! In reality she's, well she's everything! Her race shape shifts, so the beauty whom Wesley meets is just one of many forms she can assume. There are loads of unintentional laughable moments, especially the doe eyed looks Wesley flashes his alien love, along with a helium voiced morphin Granny Nanny who must be seen to be believed!
3. Hero Worship - Fifth Season
Boy worships Data after all die on his ship, but himself.
- Sexy alien rulers may be shape shifters
- Male Starship Commanders may be forced to wear frilly nightgowns
- Starships may damage space and end exciting stories.
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Love the show, but yeah, soome of these episodes could have been better. You're right, there aren't enough "worst of" lists. Need to work on one myself.
Thomas
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08/14/2009
The worst episode in the series was "Sub Rosa"
RaymondJames
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07/24/2009
Some good "bad" picks but I can't stand Relics..that so needs to be on this list. I also do not like Darmok, some love this episode but I can't see why, its roughly 45 minutes without the universal translator and Picard getting the shit beat out of him.
Harry Tuttle
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07/22/2009
Any list of worst TNG eps is full of fail if Sub Rosa isn't #1.
Sarah
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04/18/2009
Personally I thought Journey's End was THE wors TNG EVER!! C'mon, Wesley going all bad a**, and suddenly the geek-out kid who wanted nothing more than to STEP onto the bridge turns out to have been doing nothing but trying to please his deceased father. That's crap! In one awefull episode they took the character of Wesley Crusher and ruined it forever.
LOL. Thanks for the laugh and putting a spin on a common theme. Great work.
Well I must say that I LOVE Star Trek (Don't worry I didn't downrate you :) ) so I can't be objective but I figure anyone who could put the time to do a worst list has to have seen a whole lot of episodes and I respect that.
Hey, I liked the Dauphin. I can't stand that one with Ashley Judd, though, that was really terrible. Also the one where Riker's double that was stuck on a planet comes back and the two Rikers hate each other. Why would they hate each other? They don't even want to talk? I though that was just piss poor writing.
Thanks for the comments. Scott: Nope, I didn't write any of these TNG's - I find picking my own episode for a best/worst of list is too weird. Ranger: Yes, there are many "weak" first season eps, but I actually give them leeway owing to the fact that TNG was getting its footing - also there are so MANY 1st season "weak" ones - it's just too easy!
My husband would call this blasphemy so don't tell him I agree with two or three here. We're too close to that 40 year mark to get divorced now.
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