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* [=DevNameless=]: Every time they bring up "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" as a RunningGag in ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''. It felt like an insultingly childish gag from the start considering how the franchise had proved it could be very mature, but the fact they did not just let the gag die made me audibly groan when it got brought up in the film, especially when it's how they choose to end the film, basically.
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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night"]]" and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.

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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight "Wrongs Wrongs Darker than Death or Night"]]" Night]]" and it's its sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.
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** Tropers/TheMasterChand: I'm going to go ahead and 3rd this. Most of the time Picard has a stick up his ass, I don't really mind since it is usually in character, and easily a flaw that keeps him from being a GameBreaker. But this? It was certainly at odds with the times he took liberties with Federation Policy. Stopping a drug running operation that posed zero threat to the Federation in Symbiosis? That was just peachy, allowing his First officer to ''actually violate'' another species' law because he was horny in The Outcast? It got be overlooked, violating the Temporal Prime Directive in Yesterday's Enterprise? It was at least acceptable[[note]] Granted, he forgot the event, but you'd think Guinan pointing out what he did would make him reflect before taking action against his crew for lesser things.[[/note]] but following Klingon Law to dispose of someone who'd have surely started a war with the Federation, and likely gotten the Romulans involved? Nope, Worf still gets a reprimand, because how dare he avenge a murder and prevent a war. Yeah....[[SarcasmMode makes sense to me]]........
* [=InTheGallbladder=]: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E18UpTheLongLadder}} Up The Long Ladder]]" I've seen some pretty bad episodes, but none of them have gotten under my skin as seriously as this one. It starts with a plot that could have seen Pulaski actually demonstrating those positive traits they keep saying she has, then promptly ignores it, but that's not my biggest issue. The A-plot revolves around Star Fleet interacting with the Bringoldis, whose character amounts to no more than "blatant Irish stereotype + blatant Pilgrim sterotype", but that's not my biggest issue. My biggest issue is ...Riker. The writers turned him into human garbage, then pretty much wrote the script around either justifying or validating his godawful behavior. I could point to many examples, but the biggest one is this: When the Mariposans, who reproduce entirely by cloning, ask Riker for a DNA sample so they can save their colony from the impact of nearly 300 years of replicative fading, he turns them down because he feels that cloning him would make him less special. He is considered to be in the right for this, to the point where he faces no retribution for destroying a clone the Mariposans make of him, using a stolen DNA sample.

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** Tropers/TheMasterChand: I'm going to go ahead and 3rd this. Most of the time Picard has a stick up his ass, I don't really mind since it is usually in character, and easily a flaw that keeps him from being a GameBreaker. But this? It was certainly at odds with the times he took liberties with Federation Policy. Stopping a drug running operation that posed zero threat to the Federation in Symbiosis? That was just peachy, allowing his First officer to ''actually violate'' another species' law because he was horny in The Outcast? It got be overlooked, violating the Temporal Prime Directive in Yesterday's Enterprise? It was at least acceptable[[note]] Granted, he forgot the event, but you'd think Guinan pointing out what he did would make him reflect before taking action against his crew for lesser things.[[/note]] but following Klingon Law to dispose of someone who'd have surely started a war with the Federation, and likely gotten the Romulans involved? Nope, Worf still gets a reprimand, because how dare he avenge a murder and prevent a war. Yeah....Yeah... [[SarcasmMode makes sense to me]]........
me]]...
* [=InTheGallbladder=]: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E18UpTheLongLadder}} Up The Long Ladder]]" I've seen some pretty bad episodes, but none of them have gotten under my skin as seriously as this one. It starts with a plot that could have seen Pulaski actually demonstrating those positive traits they keep saying she has, then promptly ignores it, but that's not my biggest issue. The A-plot revolves around Star Fleet interacting with the Bringoldis, whose character amounts to no more than "blatant Irish stereotype + blatant Pilgrim sterotype", but that's not my biggest issue. My biggest issue is ...is... Riker. The writers turned him into human garbage, then pretty much wrote the script around either justifying or validating his godawful behavior. I could point to many examples, but the biggest one is this: When the Mariposans, who reproduce entirely by cloning, ask Riker for a DNA sample so they can save their colony from the impact of nearly 300 years of replicative fading, he turns them down because he feels that cloning him would make him less special. He is considered to be in the right for this, to the point where he faces no retribution for destroying a clone the Mariposans make of him, using a stolen DNA sample.
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* Tropers/{{Tuomas}}: " [[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold}} Threshold]]". After all the bogus science and general stupidity in ''Threshold'', the final straw, the thing that made this the worst Trek episode I've ever seen, is the last plot twist: the Voyager crew discovers Janeway and Paris, who have devolved into these weird salamander creatures (because [[HollywoodScience that's what traveling at Warp 10 does to you]])...and they also discover the two have mated and have produced offspring! So in the three days they were missing, they've turned into lizards, mated with each other, and conceived children; their offspring clearly aren't newborns, either, so that's one helluva fast reproduction process. Chakotay then inexplicably leaves the baby salamanders on the alien planet, and they are never ever mentioned again. So the whole twist of Janeway and Paris having kids was absolutely pointless: it doesn't have anything to do with the themes of this episode, and it's completely forgotten by the next one. They just added an utterly silly and unscientific plot twist on top of all the other ridiculous things in ''Threshold'' for no reason at all.

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* Tropers/{{Tuomas}}: " [[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold}} Threshold]]". After all the bogus science and general stupidity in ''Threshold'', "Threshold", the final straw, the thing that made this the worst Trek episode I've ever seen, is the last plot twist: the Voyager crew discovers Janeway and Paris, who have devolved into these weird salamander creatures (because [[HollywoodScience that's what traveling at Warp 10 does to you]])...and they also discover the two have mated and have produced offspring! So in the three days they were missing, they've turned into lizards, mated with each other, and conceived children; their offspring clearly aren't newborns, either, so that's one helluva fast reproduction process. Chakotay then inexplicably leaves the baby salamanders on the alien planet, and they are never ever mentioned again. So the whole twist of Janeway and Paris having kids was absolutely pointless: it doesn't have anything to do with the themes of this episode, and it's completely forgotten by the next one. They just added an utterly silly and unscientific plot twist on top of all the other ridiculous things in ''Threshold'' "Threshold" for no reason at all.

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* Tropers/JackassOfTheCentury: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E11TheBigGoodbye}} The Big Goodbye]]". There were two plots, one involving an interesting test of Captain Picard's ability to establish good diplomatic relations with a race of sentient insects, another involving a rather boring 1940's drama (which is something Sci-Fi watchers clearly do not watch Sci-Fi to see). Guess which plot overshadowed the other? Worse still, they didn't even show a visual of the bugs, not once. Normally, the {{BottleEpisode}}s from the series were the better ones. This, clearly, was an exception.

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* Tropers/JackassOfTheCentury: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E11TheBigGoodbye}} The Big Goodbye]]". There were two plots, one involving an interesting test of Captain Picard's ability to establish good diplomatic relations with a race of sentient insects, another involving a rather boring 1940's drama (which is something Sci-Fi watchers clearly do not watch Sci-Fi to see). Guess which plot overshadowed the other? Worse still, they didn't even show a visual of the bugs, not once. Normally, the {{BottleEpisode}}s {{Bottle Episode}}s from the series were the better ones. This, clearly, was an exception.



* {{Tropers/Nebagram}}: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals}} Rascals]]". Dear god, "Rascals". We start with an utterly idiotic plot: the transporter accidentally turns some of the crew into children. Whilst not a bad idea for a show in itself, the away it's executed is utter laziness (transport accident? Again!?) and the show seems happy to gloss over the fact that what they've accidentally stumbled across is nothing less than the secret to immortality itself. At no point during the show was it stated that there were any negative aspects to the transformation other than having to go through adolescence again- after which they'd presumably be healthy twentysomethings. Sure, Picard may have lost his commanding presence, but he's gained a full sixty years extra life. Guinan- one of the other kids transformed- have gained over half a millennium of extra life. This in itself would be forgivable, but then the show goes straight over a cliff by having the Enterprise attacked... By Ferengi. In clapped-out birds of prey, which capture the Enterprise in seconds and force the entire adult crew- all 900+ of them- into slavery. Never mind the fact that we never see more than a dozen Ferengi at any point, never mind the fact that Riker should have obliterated the enemy ships the second they decloaked, never mind the fact that even with Worf incapacitated (again) the Enterprise has dozens of highly-trained security officers who you'd have thought would be able to tear the Ferengi a new one, apparently two Ferengi holding Riker and Data at gunpoint causes the entire ship to fall down in a second and have to be saved by the children... The same way everyone hated Wesley doing in season 1 and 2. This episode is every negative aspect of TNG in one 44-minute long 'example'.
** {{Tropers/Brianify}}: Seconded, not least because the episode accidentally points out one of the dumber running themes in ''The Next Generation.'' Riker tries to guilt the Ferengi leader by saying that it was cruel to imprison the children on board the Enterprise. The Ferengi ripostes that it's cruel to bring children on an armed warship that regularly sees combat. The Ferengi is entirely right.

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* {{Tropers/Nebagram}}: * {{Tropers/Brianify}}: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals}} Rascals]]". Dear god, "Rascals". We start with an utterly idiotic plot: the transporter accidentally turns some of the crew into children. Whilst not a bad idea for a show in itself, the away it's executed is utter laziness (transport accident? Again!?) and the show seems happy to gloss over the fact that what they've accidentally stumbled across is nothing less than the secret to immortality itself. At no point during the show was it stated that there were any negative aspects to the transformation other than having to go through adolescence again- after which they'd presumably be healthy twentysomethings. Sure, Picard may have lost his commanding presence, but he's gained a full sixty years extra life. Guinan- one of the other kids transformed- have gained over half a millennium of extra life. This in itself would be forgivable, but then the show goes straight over a cliff by having the Enterprise attacked... By Ferengi. In clapped-out birds of prey, which capture the Enterprise in seconds and force the entire adult crew- all 900+ of them- into slavery. Never mind the fact that we never see more than a dozen Ferengi at any point, never mind the fact that Riker should have obliterated the enemy ships the second they decloaked, never mind the fact that even with Worf incapacitated (again) the Enterprise has dozens of highly-trained security officers who you'd have thought would be able to tear the Ferengi a new one, apparently two Ferengi holding Riker and Data at gunpoint causes the entire ship to fall down in a second and have to be saved by the children... The same way everyone hated Wesley doing in season 1 and 2. This episode is every negative aspect of TNG in one 44-minute long 'example'.
** {{Tropers/Brianify}}: Seconded, not
Not least because the episode accidentally points out one of the dumber running themes in ''The Next Generation.'' Riker tries to guilt the Ferengi leader by saying that it was cruel to imprison the children on board the Enterprise. The Ferengi ripostes that it's cruel to bring children on an armed warship that regularly sees combat. The Ferengi is entirely right.



* Tropers/{{Wyattte}}: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E13SubRosa}} Sub Rosa]]" might be rock bottom for the shaky season 7, and is worth watching only if you want to feel incredibly embarrassed for Creator/GatesMcFadden. Putting aside the fact that Beverly Crusher's family is apparently from a planet that's modeled to look like someone's stereotypical idea of Scotland, what follows is barely even a [=TNG=] show as much as it is a bad episode of ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' Beverly Crusher is seduced by, and then falls for, a spirit being kept in her grandmother's lamp, who's been seducing women all throughout Crusher's lineage including her dead grandmother, adding a nice layer of {{Squick}}. This leads to cringeworthy scenes of Crusher awkwardly shouting into the void, culminating in Picard walking in on her being ravished by a ghost. The proceedings (and the pacing, and the dialogue) only get worse from there, and then you add the walking Scottish caricature that is Ned Quint and his horrible accent. What makes this already absurd ghost story worse is seeing all this happen to Beverly Crusher, a doctor, and one of the most well-adjusted women in the franchise.
* Tropers/{{embala}}: While nothing beats out the clip show "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E22ShadesOfGray Shades of Gray]]" for sheer power of boring, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E2WhereSilenceHasLease Where Silence Has Lease]]" was the perfect brutal combination of boring, stupid, and Uncanny Valley special effects. You've done the "giant mysterious alien entity wants to learn more about humans by treating them like toys" plot a hundred thousand times, ''Star Trek'', and every other time has been better.



* Tropers/{{COFFEENEBULA}}: The last Ferengi episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E23ProfitAndLace}} Profit and Lace]]". It's meant to be both funny and serious, and it's neither. I just did not find Quark acting as a female at all, to the point of painfulness. To this day, it's one of the few Deep Space Nine episodes I haven't made it all the way through. Most of the fandom [[FanonDiscontinuity agrees that it's one of the worst episodes of DS9.]]
* Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E22Valiant}} Valiant]]". Other than breaking Nog, there was little point to the story. Throughout the series, Ron D. Moore had found plenty of ways to torment and kill perfectly sympathetic characters, but this was by far the worst example of his writing atrocities. And Nog would later be broken anyway in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E08TheSiegeOfAR558}} The Siege of AR-558]]", nullifying what little purpose this story even had to begin with.



* Tropers/{{Unicorndance}}: "Crossfire". There's hardly any actual plot, the background music is too hammy, and I don't care how in love he is, [[NeatFreak Odo]] would never throw things around if the writers had their heads screwed on properly. Also OOC was Quark, who was actually meant to be the wise one in this episode, and Kira, who laughed so much because of her new boyfriend that it seemed as if she were high. But, yeah, the biggest problem was Odo's OOC behaviour, and the episode would have worked better if he were an impostor.

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* Tropers/{{Unicorndance}}: "Crossfire". There's hardly any actual plot, the background music is too hammy, and I don't care how in love he is, [[NeatFreak Odo]] would never throw things around if the writers had their heads screwed on properly. Also OOC was Quark, who was actually meant to be the wise one in this episode, and Kira, who laughed so much because of her new boyfriend that it seemed as if she were high. But, yeah, the biggest problem was Odo's OOC behaviour, and the episode would have worked better if he were an impostor.



* @/DragonQuestZ: " [[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold}} Threshold]]". When you combine all the worst parts of the Franchise/StarTrek franchise (ResetButton, HollywoodScience, TechnoBabble, SpecialEffectsFailure, and CharacterDerailment), can you blame the executives for all but declaring this CanonDiscontinuity? [[WordOfGod Brannon Braga himself]] even admits to screwing the episode up.
** Tropers/{{Tuomas}}: After all the bogus science and general stupidity in ''Threshold'', the final straw, the thing that made this the worst Trek episode I've ever seen, is the last plot twist: the Voyager crew discovers Janeway and Paris, who have devolved into these weird salamander creatures (because [[HollywoodScience that's what traveling at Warp 10 does to you]])...and they also discover the two have mated and have produced offspring! So in the three days they were missing, they've turned into lizards, mated with each other, and conceived children; their offspring clearly aren't newborns, either, so that's one helluva fast reproduction process. Chakotay then inexplicably leaves the baby salamanders on the alien planet, and they are never ever mentioned again. So the whole twist of Janeway and Paris having kids was absolutely pointless: it doesn't have anything to do with the themes of this episode, and it's completely forgotten by the next one. They just added an utterly silly and unscientific plot twist on top of all the other ridiculous things in ''Threshold'' for no reason at all.
** RippenFan33: It also seems that this episode is actually considered canon again as ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' which is kind of canon, referenced it in one of thier episodes.
* Halfstep: The 2nd season episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E14Alliances}} Alliances]]". To sum up: Voyager has been getting hit pretty hard by repeated Kazon attacks over the previous few weeks, so Chakotay convinces Janeway to go against her normal Starfleet training and beliefs, and to try to make alliances with some of the Kazon sects that are attacking them. Janeway eventually goes along with this, making contact with several of the factions that have been giving them a hard time. Eventually it is brought up jokingly that they should try to form an alliance with Seska and the Kazon Nistrim. Janeway takes it seriously, much to Chakotay's dismay. Now, there's a bit more to this episode, but the previous is all you really need to know to understand where this [=DMoS=] is coming from. ''Alliances'' is just one long IdiotPlot, filled with people being stupider than normal, making decisions that are questionable even by Voyager standards. A brief list of the questionable stupidity:
** When Chakotay states that they may need to reinterpret Starfleet principles in their situation, Janeway retorts that she hasn't seen any evidence that they've failed the crew yet. Apparently getting stranded in the Delta Quadrant, getting half of two crews killed on what was supposed to be a routine snatch and grab, and having the Kazon smear the Federation's good name all over the quadrant (seen in Dreadnought) while routinely attacking Voyager doesn't count.
** Janeway decides to make the alliance work, then calls in the Kazon Nistrim, the sect least likely to cooperate with Voyager, on the justification that Seska and the Nistrim are as equally bad as every other Kazon sect, when in reality, there is nothing supporting that belief. Furthermore, the other Kazon sects don't have Seska there constantly goading them to take technology from Voyager.
** As part of the alliance, Culluh makes the demand that they do a crew swap. Voyager is leaving the quadrant forever; why would Janeway agree to that, and why would Culluh, mysoginist or no, even think that Janeway would agree to that?
** Janeway meets the Trabe, the species that the Kazon stole their technology from. When the Trabe fleet runs into Voyager, they even talk with her, instead of immediately shooting, even though their fleet has more than enough ships to destroy Voyager (just 2 or 3 Kazon ships have been shown to be enough to seriously cripple Voyager, the Trabe have dozens in their fleet). The Trabe are thankful, polite, and eager to make an alliance with Voyager. So when the Trabe want to execute every single Kazon maj, Janeway has a problem with this because? At worst the Trabe are about as crooked as the Kazon, but they don't have a problem with Voyager. They also didn't seem to have a problem with the rest of the quadrant, as according to Neelix, the Trabe seemed to have a very good reputation. The Kazon are at war with everyone, attack and enslave random races, and won't even deal with Voyager, even though Janeway has bent over backwards to try and deal with them. How is dealing with the Trabe a worse deal than dealing with the Kazon again?
* Troper/Hyrin: "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E26S7E1UnimatrixZero Unimatrix Zero]]". The episode where Janeway gets assimilated ''on purpose'' and the Borg Queen completely loses her shit and starts self-destructing her fleet on a whim. WebSite/SFDebris' synopsis about this episode is the stuff of legends.

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* @/DragonQuestZ: Tropers/{{Tuomas}}: " [[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold}} Threshold]]". When you combine all the worst parts of the Franchise/StarTrek franchise (ResetButton, HollywoodScience, TechnoBabble, SpecialEffectsFailure, and CharacterDerailment), can you blame the executives for all but declaring this CanonDiscontinuity? [[WordOfGod Brannon Braga himself]] even admits to screwing the episode up.
** Tropers/{{Tuomas}}:
After all the bogus science and general stupidity in ''Threshold'', the final straw, the thing that made this the worst Trek episode I've ever seen, is the last plot twist: the Voyager crew discovers Janeway and Paris, who have devolved into these weird salamander creatures (because [[HollywoodScience that's what traveling at Warp 10 does to you]])...and they also discover the two have mated and have produced offspring! So in the three days they were missing, they've turned into lizards, mated with each other, and conceived children; their offspring clearly aren't newborns, either, so that's one helluva fast reproduction process. Chakotay then inexplicably leaves the baby salamanders on the alien planet, and they are never ever mentioned again. So the whole twist of Janeway and Paris having kids was absolutely pointless: it doesn't have anything to do with the themes of this episode, and it's completely forgotten by the next one. They just added an utterly silly and unscientific plot twist on top of all the other ridiculous things in ''Threshold'' for no reason at all. \n** RippenFan33: It also seems that this episode is actually considered canon again as ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' which is kind of canon, referenced it in one of thier episodes. \n* Halfstep: The 2nd season episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E14Alliances}} Alliances]]". To sum up: Voyager has been getting hit pretty hard by repeated Kazon attacks over the previous few weeks, so Chakotay convinces Janeway to go against her normal Starfleet training and beliefs, and to try to make alliances with some of the Kazon sects that are attacking them. Janeway eventually goes along with this, making contact with several of the factions that have been giving them a hard time. Eventually it is brought up jokingly that they should try to form an alliance with Seska and the Kazon Nistrim. Janeway takes it seriously, much to Chakotay's dismay. Now, there's a bit more to this episode, but the previous is all you really need to know to understand where this [=DMoS=] is coming from. ''Alliances'' is just one long IdiotPlot, filled with people being stupider than normal, making decisions that are questionable even by Voyager standards. A brief list of the questionable stupidity:\n** When Chakotay states that they may need to reinterpret Starfleet principles in their situation, Janeway retorts that she hasn't seen any evidence that they've failed the crew yet. Apparently getting stranded in the Delta Quadrant, getting half of two crews killed on what was supposed to be a routine snatch and grab, and having the Kazon smear the Federation's good name all over the quadrant (seen in Dreadnought) while routinely attacking Voyager doesn't count. \n** Janeway decides to make the alliance work, then calls in the Kazon Nistrim, the sect least likely to cooperate with Voyager, on the justification that Seska and the Nistrim are as equally bad as every other Kazon sect, when in reality, there is nothing supporting that belief. Furthermore, the other Kazon sects don't have Seska there constantly goading them to take technology from Voyager.\n** As part of the alliance, Culluh makes the demand that they do a crew swap. Voyager is leaving the quadrant forever; why would Janeway agree to that, and why would Culluh, mysoginist or no, even think that Janeway would agree to that? \n** Janeway meets the Trabe, the species that the Kazon stole their technology from. When the Trabe fleet runs into Voyager, they even talk with her, instead of immediately shooting, even though their fleet has more than enough ships to destroy Voyager (just 2 or 3 Kazon ships have been shown to be enough to seriously cripple Voyager, the Trabe have dozens in their fleet). The Trabe are thankful, polite, and eager to make an alliance with Voyager. So when the Trabe want to execute every single Kazon maj, Janeway has a problem with this because? At worst the Trabe are about as crooked as the Kazon, but they don't have a problem with Voyager. They also didn't seem to have a problem with the rest of the quadrant, as according to Neelix, the Trabe seemed to have a very good reputation. The Kazon are at war with everyone, attack and enslave random races, and won't even deal with Voyager, even though Janeway has bent over backwards to try and deal with them. How is dealing with the Trabe a worse deal than dealing with the Kazon again?\n* Troper/Hyrin: "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E26S7E1UnimatrixZero Unimatrix Zero]]". The episode where Janeway gets assimilated ''on purpose'' and the Borg Queen completely loses her shit and starts self-destructing her fleet on a whim. WebSite/SFDebris' synopsis about this episode is the stuff of legends.



* Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]": The episode combines ShootTheShaggyDog with {{plot hole}}s and contradictions. Not only were a bunch of innocent beings killed off for no purpose other than to satisfy the writers' sick desires, but there was ''no reason'' that the silver blood aliens should have come to believe they were the original voyager crew to begin with. Silver blood Tom and Kim, at the least, would have had memories, recent memories at that, to contradict this. And why would silver blood Janeway give orders to keep heading for the Alpha Quadrant, repeatedly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it meant certain death, ''for her entire crew''? Granted, real Janeway didn't always make the most rational of decisions, but it was never on this level of blatant and flagrant stupidity. And since the silver blood beings are clearly at least as sentient as the Voyager crew they copied themselves from, it can't be explained by biology. While WordOfGod says that this was an attempt at DarkerAndEdgier, that's no excuse, ''even if it's true'', because [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools darker and edgier isn't always better]]. If it were, all non-horror genres would be passe by now.
** {{Tropers/JunkManDan}}: Indeed, while I am not of the opinion that ShootTheShaggyDog is never okay to use myself, it certainly has to be used right before I will tolerate it. WordOfGod pretty much confirms that this was done for the sake of it, and any ShootTheShaggyDog done as such, is an automatic dethroning moment.

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* Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: {{Tropers/JunkManDan}}: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]": The episode combines ShootTheShaggyDog with {{plot hole}}s and contradictions. Not only were a bunch of innocent beings killed off for no purpose other than to satisfy the writers' sick desires, but there was ''no reason'' that the silver blood aliens should have come to believe they were the original voyager crew to begin with. Silver blood Tom and Kim, at the least, would have had memories, recent memories at that, to contradict this. And why would silver blood Janeway give orders to keep heading for the Alpha Quadrant, repeatedly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it meant certain death, ''for her entire crew''? Granted, real Janeway didn't always make the most rational of decisions, but it was never on this level of blatant and flagrant stupidity. And since the silver blood beings are clearly at least as sentient as the Voyager crew they copied themselves from, it can't be explained by biology. While WordOfGod says that this was an attempt at DarkerAndEdgier, that's no excuse, ''even if it's true'', because [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools darker and edgier isn't always better]]. If it were, all non-horror genres would be passe by now.
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* Tropers/RomanatorX: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E05ANightInSickbay}} A Night In Sickbay]]" is all around complete crap, with rampant JerkAss behavior on Archer's part for no reason, completely [[BrokenAesop messed up morals]] (why bring a dog on a foreign planet, just to start), and a RomanticPlotTumor between Archer and T'Pol. Here, you can actually pinpoint the moment where the show crashed into the iceberg (and almost took the franchise with it). It's as T'Pol is delivering some food to Archer during his night in sickbay. After acting nasty to her, he says this immortal line. "Sorry, I'm a little on edge. I haven't slept very much, but I'm doing the breast I... the best I can." They made a joke about breasts. On the same franchise that's supposed to explain the meeting of humans with other species and explore the human condition... and they made a statement about breasts for a cheap bit of comedy.



* Tropers/TairaMai" ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' dear lawd. Technology is bad and the SpaceAmish are always right. Only they can have the regenerative field on the plant ''that they are not native to''. The Baku come off as a bunch of wacky NewAge California stereotypes and utterly unlikeable. The Son'a are a bad stereotype of yuppie California. Not what I want to watch in a film where there are spaceships and rayguns. Gene Roddenberry had put into the Next Gen series bible "technology unchained" - technology would ''help'' humanity and the Federation grow and solve problems - like how the medical tech had advanced (stomping out the common cold) and replicators had made the Federation a postscarcity society. But Pillar hammers viewers over the head with the "good old ways", except when the Baku need the ''Enterprise'' cast to save them from invaders. This film put me off the ''TNG'' films and could have derailed the franchise.

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* Tropers/TairaMai" ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' dear lawd. Technology is bad and the SpaceAmish are always right. Only they can have the regenerative field on the plant ''that they are not native to''. The Baku come off as a bunch of wacky NewAge California stereotypes and utterly unlikeable. The Son'a are a bad stereotype of yuppie California. Not what I want to watch in a film where there are spaceships and rayguns. Gene Roddenberry had put into the Next Gen series bible "technology unchained" - technology would ''help'' humanity and the Federation grow and solve problems - like how the medical tech had advanced (stomping out the common cold) and replicators had made the Federation a postscarcity society. But Pillar hammers viewers over the head with the "good old ways", except when the Baku need the ''Enterprise'' cast to save them from invaders. This film put me off the ''TNG'' films and could have derailed the franchise.
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* Tropers/{{Eggy0}}: For me, it has to be "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]" that gets this honor. My reason, however, has nothing to do with the words "I hate this"; I do not hate the episode nor do I think it's badly written... the problem I have with it is that it included something that affected me on a level that no other episode did so far, and not in a good way. The deal is that the Enterprise finds [[RaisedByOrcs a human boy named Jono who was raised by a xenophobic, patriarchal alien race who killed his parents]], and Picard does his best to remind him of his human origins. It seems to work and Jono even appears to be happy... but then, out of nowhere, he attacks Picard in his most vulnerable moment and almost kills him, [[SuicideByCop expecting to be executed for it]] because he didn't want to abandon his alien culture. And then, [[BlamingTheVictim Picard is blamed for it]] and a war almost starts as a result, leading to Picard saying that he commited a crime and Jono being returned to his adoptive family instead of his biological one. The even more painful part is that his grandmother was so eager to meet her long lost grandson, and [[PoorCommunicationKills Jono could've probably told about being conflicted instead of attacking]] (and Picard would probably understand and let him go). The betrayal and resolution came to me as such a shock that I was crying my eyes out and had to be consoled, even being surprised that there wasn't a {{Tearjerker}} entry for this episode. Long story short, while I don't actually dislike the episode per se, the eventual twist was far too shocking for me to take and even his too close to home, resulting in the episode becoming almost completely unenjoyable.

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* Tropers/{{Eggy0}}: For me, it has to be "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]" that gets this honor. My reason, however, has nothing to do with the words "I hate this"; I do not hate the episode nor do I think it's badly written... the problem I have with it is that it included something that affected me on a level that no other episode did so far, and not in a good way. The deal is that the Enterprise finds [[RaisedByOrcs a human boy named Jono who was raised by a xenophobic, patriarchal alien race who killed his parents]], and Picard does his best to remind him of his human origins. It seems to work and Jono even appears to be happy... but then, out of nowhere, he attacks Picard in his most vulnerable moment and almost kills him, [[SuicideByCop expecting to be executed for it]] because he didn't want to abandon his alien culture. And then, [[BlamingTheVictim Picard is blamed for it]] and a war almost starts as a result, leading to Picard saying that he commited a crime and Jono being returned to his adoptive family instead of his biological one. The even more painful part is that his grandmother was so eager to meet her long lost grandson, and [[PoorCommunicationKills Jono could've probably told about being conflicted instead of attacking]] (and Picard would probably understand and let him go). The betrayal and resolution came to me as such a shock that I was crying my eyes out and had to be consoled, even being surprised that there wasn't a {{Tearjerker}} entry for this episode. Long story short, while I don't actually dislike the episode per se, the eventual twist was far too shocking for me to take and even his hit too close to home, resulting in the episode becoming almost completely unenjoyable.
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* Tropers/{{Eggy0}}: For me, it has to be "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]" that gets this honor. My reason, however, has nothing to do with the words "I hate this"; I do not hate the episode nor do I think it's badly written... the problem I have with it is that it included something that affected me on a level that no other episode did so far, and not in a good way. The deal is that the Enterprise finds [[RaisedByOrcs a human boy named Jono who was raised by a xenophobic, patriarchal alien race who killed his parents]], and Picard does his best to remind him of his human origins. It seems to work and Jono even appears to be happy... but then, out of nowhere, he attacks Picard in his most vulnerable moment and almost kills him, [[SuicideByCop expecting to be executed for it]] because he didn't want to abandon his alien culture. And ''then'', [[BlamingTheVictim Picard is blamed for it]] and a war almost starts as a result, leading to Picard saying that ''he'' commited a crime and Jono being returned to his adoptive family instead of his biological one. The even more painful part is that his grandmother was so ''eager'' to meet her long lost grandson, and [[PoorCommunicationKills Jono could've probably told about being conflicted instead of attacking]] (and Picard would probably understand and let him go). The betrayal and resolution came to me as such a shock that I was crying my eyes out and had to be consoled, even being surprised that there wasn't a {{Tearjerker}} entry for this episode. Long story short, while I don't actually ''dislike'' the episode per se, the eventual twist was far too shocking for me to take and even his too close to home, resulting in the episode becoming almost completely unenjoyable.

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* Tropers/{{Eggy0}}: For me, it has to be "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]" that gets this honor. My reason, however, has nothing to do with the words "I hate this"; I do not hate the episode nor do I think it's badly written... the problem I have with it is that it included something that affected me on a level that no other episode did so far, and not in a good way. The deal is that the Enterprise finds [[RaisedByOrcs a human boy named Jono who was raised by a xenophobic, patriarchal alien race who killed his parents]], and Picard does his best to remind him of his human origins. It seems to work and Jono even appears to be happy... but then, out of nowhere, he attacks Picard in his most vulnerable moment and almost kills him, [[SuicideByCop expecting to be executed for it]] because he didn't want to abandon his alien culture. And ''then'', then, [[BlamingTheVictim Picard is blamed for it]] and a war almost starts as a result, leading to Picard saying that ''he'' he commited a crime and Jono being returned to his adoptive family instead of his biological one. The even more painful part is that his grandmother was so ''eager'' eager to meet her long lost grandson, and [[PoorCommunicationKills Jono could've probably told about being conflicted instead of attacking]] (and Picard would probably understand and let him go). The betrayal and resolution came to me as such a shock that I was crying my eyes out and had to be consoled, even being surprised that there wasn't a {{Tearjerker}} entry for this episode. Long story short, while I don't actually ''dislike'' dislike the episode per se, the eventual twist was far too shocking for me to take and even his too close to home, resulting in the episode becoming almost completely unenjoyable.

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* Tropers/{{Eggy0}}: For me, it has to be "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]" that gets this honor. My reason, however, has nothing to do with the words "I hate this"; I do not hate the episode nor do I think it's badly written... the problem I have with it is that it included something that affected me on a level that no other episode did so far, and not in a good way. The deal is that the Enterprise finds [[RaisedByOrcs a human boy named Jono who was raised by a xenophobic, patriarchal alien race who killed his parents]], and Picard does his best to remind him of his human origins. It seems to work and Jono even appears to be happy... but then, out of nowhere, he attacks Picard in his most vulnerable moment and almost kills him, [[SuicideByCop expecting to be executed for it]] because he didn't want to abandon his alien culture. And ''then'', [[BlamingTheVictim Picard is blamed for it]] and a war almost starts as a result, leading to Picard saying that ''he'' commited a crime and Jono being returned to his adoptive family instead of his biological one. The even more painful part is that his grandmother was so ''eager'' to meet her long lost grandson, and [[PoorCommunicationKills Jono could've probably told about being conflicted instead of attacking]] (and Picard would probably understand and let him go). The betrayal and resolution came to me as such a shock that I was crying my eyes out and had to be consoled, even being surprised that there wasn't a {{Tearjerker}} entry for this episode. Long story short, while I don't actually ''dislike'' the episode per se, the eventual twist was far too shocking for me to take and even his too close to home, resulting in the episode becoming almost completely unenjoyable.
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** RippenFan33: It also seems that this episode is actually considered canon again as ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' which is kind of canon, referenced it in one of thier episodes.
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* Tropers/{{Unicorndance}}: "Leap of Faith" did that whole FalseDichotomy that ''Star Trek'' usually doesn't, with the whole "science vs. faith" thing. Science is ''not'' a belief, and it's not mutually exclusive with faith, yet here, Janeway is made to give up her devotion to science just to take the eponymous leap of faith.
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** Tropers/TheMasterChand: I'm going to go ahead and 3rd this. Most of the time Picard has a stick up his ass, I don't really mind since it is usually in character, and easily a flaw that keeps him from being a MarySue. But this? It was certainly at odds with the times he took liberties with Federation Policy. Stopping a drug running operation that posed zero threat to the Federation in Symbiosis? That was just peachy, allowing his First officer to ''actually violate'' another species' law because he was horny in The Outcast? It got be overlooked, violating the Temporal Prime Directive in Yesterday's Enterprise? It was at least acceptable[[note]] Granted, he forgot the event, but you'd think Guinan pointing out what he did would make him reflect before taking action against his crew for lesser things.[[/note]] but following Klingon Law to dispose of someone who'd have surely started a war with the Federation, and likely gotten the Romulans involved? Nope, Worf still gets a reprimand, because how dare he avenge a murder and prevent a war. Yeah....[[SarcasmMode makes sense to me]]........

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** Tropers/TheMasterChand: I'm going to go ahead and 3rd this. Most of the time Picard has a stick up his ass, I don't really mind since it is usually in character, and easily a flaw that keeps him from being a MarySue.GameBreaker. But this? It was certainly at odds with the times he took liberties with Federation Policy. Stopping a drug running operation that posed zero threat to the Federation in Symbiosis? That was just peachy, allowing his First officer to ''actually violate'' another species' law because he was horny in The Outcast? It got be overlooked, violating the Temporal Prime Directive in Yesterday's Enterprise? It was at least acceptable[[note]] Granted, he forgot the event, but you'd think Guinan pointing out what he did would make him reflect before taking action against his crew for lesser things.[[/note]] but following Klingon Law to dispose of someone who'd have surely started a war with the Federation, and likely gotten the Romulans involved? Nope, Worf still gets a reprimand, because how dare he avenge a murder and prevent a war. Yeah....[[SarcasmMode makes sense to me]]........
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* Tropers/{{embala}}: While nothing beats out the clip show "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E22ShadesOfGrey Shades of Grey]]" for sheer power of boring, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E2WhereSilenceHasLease Where Silence Has Lease]]" was the perfect brutal combination of boring, stupid, and Uncanny Valley special effects. You've done the "giant mysterious alien entity wants to learn more about humans by treating them like toys" plot a hundred thousand times, ''Star Trek'', and every other time has been better.

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* Tropers/{{embala}}: While nothing beats out the clip show "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E22ShadesOfGrey "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E22ShadesOfGray Shades of Grey]]" Gray]]" for sheer power of boring, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E2WhereSilenceHasLease Where Silence Has Lease]]" was the perfect brutal combination of boring, stupid, and Uncanny Valley special effects. You've done the "giant mysterious alien entity wants to learn more about humans by treating them like toys" plot a hundred thousand times, ''Star Trek'', and every other time has been better.

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* Tropers/Thatsnumberwang: The whole idea behind "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS1E5Unexpected Unexpected]]" is a classic case of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale. Because date rape is exactly what the Xyrillian woman did to Trip by passing off that bowl of ice that they both stuck their fingers into as a harmless game instead of the sex toy that could get him pregnant that it really was. No mention on her part as to what it was or what it could do, no form of contraception offered, not even a "hey, maybe you should get checked out" warning when it was all done or even a "sucks to be you, I've had my fun, better do something about that" which would have at least been something. All she does is let him wander back to the ship with a child growing inside him that - and let's be clear about the best case scenario here - was going to rip his insides apart even before he gave birth to it as he was not biologically equipped to carry it to full term. And yeah, when pressed later she admits that she didn't know that they were compatible but so what? How does that justify her not informing him as to the nature of that sex toy she handed him? But the cherry on the cake, the bit that calls that very hateful double standard comfortably to the foreground, is that this whole thing is played for laughs by the ''Enterprise'' crew from start to finish in a way that it never would have been if Trip was a woman who had ended up pregnant thanks to a man who had invited her to "play an innocent little game with me".

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* Tropers/Thatsnumberwang: The whole idea behind "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS1E5Unexpected "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E05Unexpected Unexpected]]" is a classic case of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale. Because date rape is exactly what the Xyrillian woman did to Trip by passing off that bowl of ice that they both stuck their fingers into as a harmless game instead of the sex toy that could get him pregnant that it really was. No mention on her part as to what it was or what it could do, no form of contraception offered, not even a "hey, maybe you should get checked out" warning when it was all done or even a "sucks to be you, I've had my fun, better do something about that" which would have at least been something. All she does is let him wander back to the ship with a child growing inside him that - and let's be clear about the best case scenario here - was going to rip his insides apart even before he gave birth to it as he was not biologically equipped to carry it to full term. And yeah, when pressed later she admits that she didn't know that they were compatible but so what? How does that justify her not informing him as to the nature of that sex toy she handed him? But the cherry on the cake, the bit that calls that very hateful double standard comfortably to the foreground, is that this whole thing is played for laughs by the ''Enterprise'' crew from start to finish in a way that it never would have been if Trip was a woman who had ended up pregnant thanks to a man who had invited her to "play an innocent little game with me".



* Tropers/OlfinBedwere: Data's death in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' somehow manages to make Kirk [[DroppedABridgeOnHim getting a bridge dropped on him]] seem like a masterpiece of good film-making. Even leaving aside the stupidity of how the situation came around to begin with, the way it's filmed makes it feel like it's just some random redshirt who's dying, not a character we've known and loved for fifteen years. And then just to ''really'' ruin any emotion that might still be in the scene, about thirty seconds later they add in a gag about Picard forgetting that the
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* Tropers/OlfinBedwere: Data's death in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' somehow manages to make Kirk [[DroppedABridgeOnHim getting a bridge dropped on him]] seem like a masterpiece of good film-making. Even leaving aside the stupidity of how the situation came around to begin with, the way it's filmed makes it feel like it's just some random redshirt who's dying, not a character we've known and loved for fifteen years. And then just to ''really'' ruin any emotion that might still be in the scene, about thirty seconds later they add in a gag about Picard forgetting that the
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** Tropers/TheMasterChand: I'm going to go ahead and 3rd this. Most of the time Picard has a stick up his ass, I don't really mind since it is usually in character, and easily a flaw that keeps him from being a MarySue. But this? It was certainly at odds with the times he took liberties with Federation Policy. If stopping a drug running operation that posed zero threat to the Federation in Symbiosis was just peachy, allowing his First officer to ''actually violate'' another species' law because he was horny in The Outcast could be overlooked, and violating the Temporal Prime Directive in Yesterday's Enterprise was at least acceptable, then following Klingon Law to dispose of someone who'd have surely started a war with the Federation, and likely gotten the Romulans involved, should have been completely acceptable. But no, Worf still gets a reprimand, because how dare he avenge a murder and prevent a war. Yeah....[[SarcasmMode makes sense to me]]........

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** Tropers/TheMasterChand: I'm going to go ahead and 3rd this. Most of the time Picard has a stick up his ass, I don't really mind since it is usually in character, and easily a flaw that keeps him from being a MarySue. But this? It was certainly at odds with the times he took liberties with Federation Policy. If stopping Stopping a drug running operation that posed zero threat to the Federation in Symbiosis Symbiosis? That was just peachy, allowing his First officer to ''actually violate'' another species' law because he was horny in The Outcast could Outcast? It got be overlooked, and violating the Temporal Prime Directive in Yesterday's Enterprise Enterprise? It was at least acceptable, then acceptable[[note]] Granted, he forgot the event, but you'd think Guinan pointing out what he did would make him reflect before taking action against his crew for lesser things.[[/note]] but following Klingon Law to dispose of someone who'd have surely started a war with the Federation, and likely gotten the Romulans involved, should have been completely acceptable. But no, involved? Nope, Worf still gets a reprimand, because how dare he avenge a murder and prevent a war. war. Yeah....[[SarcasmMode makes sense to me]]........
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**Tropers/TheMasterChand: I'm going to go ahead and 3rd this. Most of the time Picard has a stick up his ass, I don't really mind since it is usually in character, and easily a flaw that keeps him from being a MarySue. But this? It was certainly at odds with the times he took liberties with Federation Policy. If stopping a drug running operation that posed zero threat to the Federation in Symbiosis was just peachy, allowing his First officer to ''actually violate'' another species' law because he was horny in The Outcast could be overlooked, and violating the Temporal Prime Directive in Yesterday's Enterprise was at least acceptable, then following Klingon Law to dispose of someone who'd have surely started a war with the Federation, and likely gotten the Romulans involved, should have been completely acceptable. But no, Worf still gets a reprimand, because how dare he avenge a murder and prevent a war. Yeah....[[SarcasmMode makes sense to me]]........
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* Tropers/{{Unicorndance}}: For me, it's "Genesis". There's such terrible writing that it's impossible to take seriously. Not only did they get a bunch of stuff about evolution wrong, but some of it is just bananas, like Reg devolving into a spider thing and Spot the cat (who is inexplicably female in this episode) devolving into an iguana! And why did Dr. Crusher say that Picard would devolve into a creature similar to a lemur or a -pygmy- marmoset? Like why specifically a pygmy one? That's so specific!




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* Tropers/{{Unicorndance}}: "Crossfire". There's hardly any actual plot, the background music is too hammy, and I don't care how in love he is, [[NeatFreak Odo]] would never throw things around if the writers had their heads screwed on properly. Also OOC was Quark, who was actually meant to be the wise one in this episode, and Kira, who laughed so much because of her new boyfriend that it seemed as if she were high. But, yeah, the biggest problem was Odo's OOC behaviour, and the episode would have worked better if he were an impostor.
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* Tropers/SomeCallMeBob: Most of the first season for the most part for me was terrible, but "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E16WhenTheBoughBreaks When the Bough Breaks]]" was terrible in terms of how the children were handled. Six children under the age of 10 were kidnapped by aliens, yet most of them seemed to take to it without much problem, not even a whimper of longing for being kidnapped and wanting to go back with their parents. The youngest girl, Alexandra, seemed to take to anyone and didn't have any attachment with anyone. Harry, the boy who went to live with the artists, felt bad bringing up his family when talking about carving his dolphin. It seemed to be automatic Stockholm Syndrome with the kids with only Wesley caring about going back.
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* Tropers/TairaMai" ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' dear lawd. Technology is bad and the SpaceAmish are always right. Only they can have the regenerative field on the plant ''that they are not native to''. Michael Pillar isn't a good scriptwriter when he's writing alone. The Baku come off as a bunch of wacky NewAge California stereotypes and utterly unlikeable. The Son'a are a bad stereotype of yuppie California. Not what I want to watch in a film where there are spaceships and rayguns. Gene Roddenberry had put into the Next Gen series bible "technology unchained" - technology would ''help'' humanity and the Federation grow and solve problems - like how the medical tech had advanced (stomping out the common cold) and replicators had made the Federation a postscarcity society. But Pillar hammers viewers over the head with the "good old ways", except when the Baku need the ''Enterprise'' cast to save them from invaders. This film put me off the Next Gen films and could have derailed the franchise.

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* Tropers/TairaMai" ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' dear lawd. Technology is bad and the SpaceAmish are always right. Only they can have the regenerative field on the plant ''that they are not native to''. Michael Pillar isn't a good scriptwriter when he's writing alone. The Baku come off as a bunch of wacky NewAge California stereotypes and utterly unlikeable. The Son'a are a bad stereotype of yuppie California. Not what I want to watch in a film where there are spaceships and rayguns. Gene Roddenberry had put into the Next Gen series bible "technology unchained" - technology would ''help'' humanity and the Federation grow and solve problems - like how the medical tech had advanced (stomping out the common cold) and replicators had made the Federation a postscarcity society. But Pillar hammers viewers over the head with the "good old ways", except when the Baku need the ''Enterprise'' cast to save them from invaders. This film put me off the Next Gen ''TNG'' films and could have derailed the franchise.
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** Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: This was mine for TNG as well. In addition to the reasons above, it's made even worse by the fact that the 1940's characters were all cliche stereotypes. It comes off as a cookie cutter detective story that pretended to be something interesting.

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** Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: This was mine for TNG ''TNG'' as well. In addition to the reasons above, it's made even worse by the fact that the 1940's characters were all cliche stereotypes. It comes off as a cookie cutter detective story that pretended to be something interesting.



** Tropers/ScumBagMan: This definitely counts as mine. Being a generic period piece story would have been bad enough, but throw in a false promise of an interesting plot that ends up being barely acknowledged and finishes up in a very unsatisfying way, and you get one of the worst episodes of all time. Not just for Star Trek, mind you, but for all of television.
* Tropers/IraStevenBehrSucks: There's also the end of "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E7Reunion}} Reunion]]". Worf kills a problematic Klingon politician who no one misses, and does so in accordance with Klingon law, creating no actual problems, and arguably solving a few. Picard still reprimands him for this.

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** Tropers/ScumBagMan: This definitely counts as mine. Being a generic period piece story would have been bad enough, but throw in a false promise of an interesting plot that ends up being barely acknowledged and finishes up in a very unsatisfying way, and you get one of the worst episodes of all time. Not just for Star Trek, ''Star Trek'', mind you, but for all of television.
* Tropers/IraStevenBehrSucks: There's also the The end of "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E7Reunion}} Reunion]]". Worf kills a problematic Klingon politician who no one misses, and does so in accordance with Klingon law, creating no actual problems, and arguably solving a few. Picard still reprimands him for this.



* Tropers/{{embala}}: While nothing beats out the clip show "Shades of Grey" for sheer power of boring, "Where Silence Has Lease" was the perfect brutal combination of boring, stupid, and Uncanny Valley special effects. You've done the "giant mysterious alien entity wants to learn more about humans by treating them like toys" plot a hundred thousand times, Star Trek, and every other time has been better.

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* Tropers/{{embala}}: While nothing beats out the clip show "Shades "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E22ShadesOfGrey Shades of Grey" Grey]]" for sheer power of boring, "Where "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E2WhereSilenceHasLease Where Silence Has Lease" Lease]]" was the perfect brutal combination of boring, stupid, and Uncanny Valley special effects. You've done the "giant mysterious alien entity wants to learn more about humans by treating them like toys" plot a hundred thousand times, Star Trek, ''Star Trek'', and every other time has been better.



* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night"]]'' and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.

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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night"]]'' Night"]]" and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.



* Troper/Hyrin: ''Unimatrix Zero''. The episode where Janeway gets assimilated ''on purpose'' and the Borg Queen completely loses her shit and starts self-destructing her fleet on a whim. WebSite/SFDebris' synopsis about this episode is the stuff of legends.

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* Troper/Hyrin: ''Unimatrix Zero''."[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E26S7E1UnimatrixZero Unimatrix Zero]]". The episode where Janeway gets assimilated ''on purpose'' and the Borg Queen completely loses her shit and starts self-destructing her fleet on a whim. WebSite/SFDebris' synopsis about this episode is the stuff of legends.



* Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]": The episode combines ShootTheShaggyDog with plot holes and contradictions. Not only were a bunch of innocent beings killed off for no purpose other than to satisfy the writers' sick desires, but there was ''no reason'' that the silver blood aliens should have come to believe they were the original voyager crew to begin with. Silver blood Tom and Kim, at the least, would have had memories, recent memories at that, to contradict this. And why would silver blood Janeway give orders to keep heading for the Alpha Quadrant, repeatedly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it meant certain death, ''for her entire crew''? Granted, real Janeway didn't always make the most rational of decisions, but it was never on this level of blatant and flagrant stupidity. And since the silver blood beings are clearly at least as sentient as the Voyager crew they copied themselves from, it can't be explained by biology. While WordOfGod says that this was an attempt at DarkerAndEdgier, that's no excuse, ''even if it's true'', because [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools darker and edgier isn't always better]]. If it were, all non-horror genres would be passe by now.

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* Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]": The episode combines ShootTheShaggyDog with plot holes {{plot hole}}s and contradictions. Not only were a bunch of innocent beings killed off for no purpose other than to satisfy the writers' sick desires, but there was ''no reason'' that the silver blood aliens should have come to believe they were the original voyager crew to begin with. Silver blood Tom and Kim, at the least, would have had memories, recent memories at that, to contradict this. And why would silver blood Janeway give orders to keep heading for the Alpha Quadrant, repeatedly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it meant certain death, ''for her entire crew''? Granted, real Janeway didn't always make the most rational of decisions, but it was never on this level of blatant and flagrant stupidity. And since the silver blood beings are clearly at least as sentient as the Voyager crew they copied themselves from, it can't be explained by biology. While WordOfGod says that this was an attempt at DarkerAndEdgier, that's no excuse, ''even if it's true'', because [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools darker and edgier isn't always better]]. If it were, all non-horror genres would be passe by now.



* 13thman: My pick for ST Voyager has to be "Flesh and Blood". This is actually a retroactive [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck DMOS]], starting with "The Killing Game", but it culminates here. Plot summary: the Hirogen are being killed by holodeck technology that Janeway gave them at the end of "The Killing Game". Janeway decides to save the Hirogen from the homicidal holograms against the Hirogen's will. Now that that is out of the way, here's the DMOS: why? Just why? I don't need to go into any particular details about the morals, motivations, actions, or logic of anyone in particular in this episode. All you need to know, in order to understand why Janeway taking the Hirogen's side against ANYBODY (even arguably the ''Borg'') is just wrong, is this: the Hirogen are the serial killers of the galaxy. The Hirogen's [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is using superior strength and firepower to hunt down any sentient creature, whether or not it is armed, whether or not it is a physical match for them, whether or not said creatures are surrendering, fleeing, trying to make peace with them, whatever. They strip their kills down to the bone and display various body parts around their ships as trophies. These aren't the Cardassians, or the Klingons, or the Romulans, or the Kazon or Jem Hadar, who kill for country, or honor, or for their master or state. Unlike the races just mentioned, there's no such thing as a target being unworthy for any reason (sick, old, not involved in a conflict, etc). The Hirogen kill because it gives them wood. Nowhere is this made more evident than in "The Killing Game", where the Hirogen turn all of Voyager into a holodeck, so they can ''repeatedly kill and resuscitate'' the members of the crew in various fantasies. Their evil is so ridiculous: the Hirogen get pissed at the doctor because the holodeck weapons are killing the crew members faster than the doctor can resuscitate then, however they refuse to turn on the holodeck safeties, because holodeck safeties make the killing less interesting. Wait - if Holodeck weapons and soldiers are good enough to kill the crew, why waste time with the crew? Why not just turn all the safeties off on the holodeck and shoot at 100 foot lava monsters that bleed fire all day? Well, because like I said before, the Hirogen are the serial killers of the galaxy - their goal isn't to satiate violent urges like a Klingon or Jem Hadar, their goal is to kill people. But, enough about TKG: when "Flesh and Blood" rolls around, the Hirogen have managed to program holograms smart enough to cruelly kill every Hirogen they come across. Given what was just described in TKG, the question we have to ask here is, once again, ''why?'' These serial killers made a weapon so powerful it kills them, and the first time Janeway offers to help, they threaten to turn her into prey, again? Why is there a plot about Janeway detailing the moral and philosophical reasons why Voyager has a duty to help the sadistic homicidal aliens that want nothing more than to kill them all and wear their bones for necklaces? ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]'' wouldn't have put up with that shit, and he is infamous for being slower on the phaser button than Kirk or Sisko. That Janeway did ANYTHING other than leave these animals to die the KarmicDeath they deserved turns this into a [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck DMOS]] for this troper.
* WhyNotNow: For me, it's Neelix's actions in the two-parter "Basics." We all know Neelix was a CreatorsPet, and that all his claims to grandeur and his posturing were something we just had to live with, no matter how stupid it was, but those were the episodes which literally killed his character and ''Voyager'' as a whole for me. Why? Because Neelix gets two people killed. Neelix... gets two people killed! First, the entire reason he decided to join ''Voyager'' in the first place was because he claimed to be a survival expert, he knew the region, etc, but the thing you need to know about Neelix is that he has a massive ego, and he boasts about abilities he does not possess, so when the time actually comes that the Captain puts him in charge of one of the teams sent out to help gather supplies during one of the most basic survival situations of all, the ship stolen, stripped of their technology, he winds up not only getting two members of the ''Voyager'' crew killed due to his incompetence, but poor Hogan, the first victim, SwallowedWhole by the vicious land eel hiding in a nearby cave, the most gruesome and horrible end for any sentient being, but only after ordering Hogan to gather a bunch of bones, picking one up, and then dropping it right in front of Hogan and leaving him alone to pick it up again. It's amazing Neelix or ''Voyager'' ever had any fans after that.

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* 13thman: My pick for ST Voyager has to be "Flesh "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E9FleshAndBlood Flesh and Blood". Blood (Part 1)]]". This is actually a retroactive [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck DMOS]], starting with "The "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E17TheKillingGame The Killing Game", Game]]", but it culminates here. Plot summary: the Hirogen are being killed by holodeck technology that Janeway gave them at the end of "The Killing Game". Janeway decides to save the Hirogen from the homicidal holograms against the Hirogen's will. Now that that is out of the way, here's the DMOS: why? Just why? I don't need to go into any particular details about the morals, motivations, actions, or logic of anyone in particular in this episode. All you need to know, in order to understand why Janeway taking the Hirogen's side against ANYBODY (even arguably the ''Borg'') is just wrong, is this: the Hirogen are the serial killers of the galaxy. The Hirogen's [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is using superior strength and firepower to hunt down any sentient creature, whether or not it is armed, whether or not it is a physical match for them, whether or not said creatures are surrendering, fleeing, trying to make peace with them, whatever. They strip their kills down to the bone and display various body parts around their ships as trophies. These aren't the Cardassians, or the Klingons, or the Romulans, or the Kazon or Jem Hadar, who kill for country, or honor, or for their master or state. Unlike the races just mentioned, there's no such thing as a target being unworthy for any reason (sick, old, not involved in a conflict, etc). The Hirogen kill because it gives them wood. Nowhere is this made more evident than in "The Killing Game", where the Hirogen turn all of Voyager into a holodeck, so they can ''repeatedly kill and resuscitate'' the members of the crew in various fantasies. Their evil is so ridiculous: the Hirogen get pissed at the doctor because the holodeck weapons are killing the crew members faster than the doctor can resuscitate then, however they refuse to turn on the holodeck safeties, because holodeck safeties make the killing less interesting. Wait - if Holodeck weapons and soldiers are good enough to kill the crew, why waste time with the crew? Why not just turn all the safeties off on the holodeck and shoot at 100 foot lava monsters that bleed fire all day? Well, because like I said before, the Hirogen are the serial killers of the galaxy - their goal isn't to satiate violent urges like a Klingon or Jem Hadar, their goal is to kill people. But, enough about TKG: when "Flesh and Blood" rolls around, the Hirogen have managed to program holograms smart enough to cruelly kill every Hirogen they come across. Given what was just described in TKG, the question we have to ask here is, once again, ''why?'' These serial killers made a weapon so powerful it kills them, and the first time Janeway offers to help, they threaten to turn her into prey, again? Why is there a plot about Janeway detailing the moral and philosophical reasons why Voyager has a duty to help the sadistic homicidal aliens that want nothing more than to kill them all and wear their bones for necklaces? ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]'' wouldn't have put up with that shit, and he is infamous for being slower on the phaser button than Kirk or Sisko. That Janeway did ANYTHING other than leave these animals to die the KarmicDeath they deserved turns this into a [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck DMOS]] for this troper.
* WhyNotNow: For me, it's Neelix's actions in the two-parter "Basics."[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E26S3E1Basics Basics]]." We all know Neelix was a CreatorsPet, and that all his claims to grandeur and his posturing were something we just had to live with, no matter how stupid it was, but those were the episodes which literally killed his character and ''Voyager'' as a whole for me. Why? Because Neelix gets two people killed. Neelix... gets two people killed! First, the entire reason he decided to join ''Voyager'' in the first place was because he claimed to be a survival expert, he knew the region, etc, but the thing you need to know about Neelix is that he has a massive ego, and he boasts about abilities he does not possess, so when the time actually comes that the Captain puts him in charge of one of the teams sent out to help gather supplies during one of the most basic survival situations of all, the ship stolen, stripped of their technology, he winds up not only getting two members of the ''Voyager'' crew killed due to his incompetence, but poor Hogan, the first victim, SwallowedWhole by the vicious land eel hiding in a nearby cave, the most gruesome and horrible end for any sentient being, but only after ordering Hogan to gather a bunch of bones, picking one up, and then dropping it right in front of Hogan and leaving him alone to pick it up again. It's amazing Neelix or ''Voyager'' ever had any fans after that.



* Tropers/Thatsnumberwang: The whole idea behind the episode ''Unexpected'' is a classic case of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale. Because date rape is exactly what the Xyrillian woman did to Trip by passing off that bowl of ice that they both stuck their fingers into as a harmless game instead of the sex toy that could get him pregnant that it really was. No mention on her part as to what it was or what it could do, no form of contraception offered, not even a "hey, maybe you should get checked out" warning when it was all done or even a "sucks to be you, I've had my fun, better do something about that" which would have at least been something. All she does is let him wander back to the ship with a child growing inside him that - and let's be clear about the best case scenario here - was going to rip his insides apart even before he gave birth to it as he was not biologically equipped to carry it to full term. And yeah, when pressed later she admits that she didn't know that they were compatible but so what? How does that justify her not informing him as to the nature of that sex toy she handed him? But the cherry on the cake, the bit that calls that very hateful double standard comfortably to the foreground, is that this whole thing is played for laughs by the ''Enterprise'' crew from start to finish in a way that it never would have been if Trip was a woman who had ended up pregnant thanks to a man who had invited her to "play an innocent little game with me".

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* Tropers/Thatsnumberwang: The whole idea behind the episode ''Unexpected'' "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS1E5Unexpected Unexpected]]" is a classic case of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale. Because date rape is exactly what the Xyrillian woman did to Trip by passing off that bowl of ice that they both stuck their fingers into as a harmless game instead of the sex toy that could get him pregnant that it really was. No mention on her part as to what it was or what it could do, no form of contraception offered, not even a "hey, maybe you should get checked out" warning when it was all done or even a "sucks to be you, I've had my fun, better do something about that" which would have at least been something. All she does is let him wander back to the ship with a child growing inside him that - and let's be clear about the best case scenario here - was going to rip his insides apart even before he gave birth to it as he was not biologically equipped to carry it to full term. And yeah, when pressed later she admits that she didn't know that they were compatible but so what? How does that justify her not informing him as to the nature of that sex toy she handed him? But the cherry on the cake, the bit that calls that very hateful double standard comfortably to the foreground, is that this whole thing is played for laughs by the ''Enterprise'' crew from start to finish in a way that it never would have been if Trip was a woman who had ended up pregnant thanks to a man who had invited her to "play an innocent little game with me".
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* Tropers/CurtisMarauder: Several episodes after the revelation of Icheb's brutal murder, we have Hugh's death at the hands of a forgettable villain whose name I don't remember. In quick succession, ''Picard'' killed two beloved xB's from the Next-Gen era, in order to provide a single episode's worth of motivation for Seven and... further traumatize Elnor.

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* Tropers/OlfinBedwere: Data's death in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' somehow manages to make Kirk [[DroppedABridgeOnHim getting a bridge dropped on him]] seem like a masterpiece of good film-making. Even leaving aside the stupidity of how the situation came around to begin with, the way it's filmed makes it feel like it's just some random redshirt who's dying, not a character we've known and loved for fifteen years. And then just to ''really'' ruin any emotion that might still be in the scene, about thirty seconds later they add in a gag about Picard forgetting that the bridge viewscreen has been destroyed.

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* Tropers/OlfinBedwere: Data's death in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' somehow manages to make Kirk [[DroppedABridgeOnHim getting a bridge dropped on him]] seem like a masterpiece of good film-making. Even leaving aside the stupidity of how the situation came around to begin with, the way it's filmed makes it feel like it's just some random redshirt who's dying, not a character we've known and loved for fifteen years. And then just to ''really'' ruin any emotion that might still be in the scene, about thirty seconds later they add in a gag about Picard forgetting that the the
bridge viewscreen has been destroyed.destroyed.
* Tropers/TairaMai" ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' dear lawd. Technology is bad and the SpaceAmish are always right. Only they can have the regenerative field on the plant ''that they are not native to''. Michael Pillar isn't a good scriptwriter when he's writing alone. The Baku come off as a bunch of wacky NewAge California stereotypes and utterly unlikeable. The Son'a are a bad stereotype of yuppie California. Not what I want to watch in a film where there are spaceships and rayguns. Gene Roddenberry had put into the Next Gen series bible "technology unchained" - technology would ''help'' humanity and the Federation grow and solve problems - like how the medical tech had advanced (stomping out the common cold) and replicators had made the Federation a postscarcity society. But Pillar hammers viewers over the head with the "good old ways", except when the Baku need the ''Enterprise'' cast to save them from invaders. This film put me off the Next Gen films and could have derailed the franchise.
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* Tropers/{{Crazyrabbits}}: [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E22TheseAreTheVoyages "These Are the Voyages..."]] is almost universally reviled by fans (and the cast!), and for good reason: the series (and franchise finale) is a ''Next Generation'' episode in disguise, mixing {{Retcon}}s, out-of-character moments and a genuinely pathetic premise. However, in spite of all that, it might have been possible to excuse it as just being another lame episode... until the speech scene. Captain Archer is asked to give a speech during a ceremony making the founding of the United Federation of Planets, considered to be one of the defining moments in the history of that universe (and something the audience has never seen before). Captain Archer steps up to the podium, opens his mouth to say his first words... and it cuts to Riker and Troi watching the ceremony for a few seconds before terminating the holodeck program and leaving. It could have been one of (if not the) best moments in a series that was ridiculed during its entire existence, but it ends up being a woeful end to the original franchise (as ''Enterprise'' was the last Star Trek series aired in the original universe). Why, Braga, why?

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* Tropers/{{Crazyrabbits}}: [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E22TheseAreTheVoyages [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E21TheseAreTheVoyages "These Are the Voyages..."]] is almost universally reviled by fans (and the cast!), and for good reason: the series (and franchise finale) is a ''Next Generation'' episode in disguise, mixing {{Retcon}}s, out-of-character moments and a genuinely pathetic premise. However, in spite of all that, it might have been possible to excuse it as just being another lame episode... until the speech scene. Captain Archer is asked to give a speech during a ceremony making the founding of the United Federation of Planets, considered to be one of the defining moments in the history of that universe (and something the audience has never seen before). Captain Archer steps up to the podium, opens his mouth to say his first words... and it cuts to Riker and Troi watching the ceremony for a few seconds before terminating the holodeck program and leaving. It could have been one of (if not the) best moments in a series that was ridiculed during its entire existence, but it ends up being a woeful end to the original franchise (as ''Enterprise'' was the last Star Trek series aired in the original universe). Why, Braga, why?
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* Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]": The episode combines ShootTheShaggyDog with plot holes and contradictions. Not only were a bunch of innocent beings killed off for no purpose other than to satisfy the writers' sick desires, but there was ''no reason'' that the silver blood aliens should have come to believe they were the original voyager crew to begin with. Silver blood Tom and Kim, at the least, would have had memories, recent memories at that, to contradict this. And why would silver blood Janeway give orders to keep heading for the Alpha Quadrant, repeatedly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it meant certain death, ''for her entire crew''? Granted, real Janeway didn't always make the most rational of decisions, but it was never on this level of blatant and flagrant stupidity. And since the silver blood beings are clearly at least as sentient as the Voyager crew they copied themselves from, it can't be explained by biology. While WordOfGod says that this was an attempt at DarkerAndEdgier, that's no excuse, ''even if it's true'', because [[TropesAreTools darker and edgier isn't always better]]. If it were, all non-horror genres would be passe by now.

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* Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]": The episode combines ShootTheShaggyDog with plot holes and contradictions. Not only were a bunch of innocent beings killed off for no purpose other than to satisfy the writers' sick desires, but there was ''no reason'' that the silver blood aliens should have come to believe they were the original voyager crew to begin with. Silver blood Tom and Kim, at the least, would have had memories, recent memories at that, to contradict this. And why would silver blood Janeway give orders to keep heading for the Alpha Quadrant, repeatedly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it meant certain death, ''for her entire crew''? Granted, real Janeway didn't always make the most rational of decisions, but it was never on this level of blatant and flagrant stupidity. And since the silver blood beings are clearly at least as sentient as the Voyager crew they copied themselves from, it can't be explained by biology. While WordOfGod says that this was an attempt at DarkerAndEdgier, that's no excuse, ''even if it's true'', because [[TropesAreTools [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools darker and edgier isn't always better]]. If it were, all non-horror genres would be passe by now.
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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight Wrongs Darker than Death or Night]]'' and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.

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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight Wrongs "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night]]'' Night"]]'' and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.
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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight'' and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.

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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight'' ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight Wrongs Darker than Death or Night]]'' and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.
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[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain "Spock's Brain"]] may be [[Literature/WhatWereTheyThinkingThe100DumbestEventsInTelevisionHistory one of the most infamous blunders in television history]], but it's far from the only one in this franchise. Let's count the times that we wish that the creators of Star Trek hadn't [[CatchPhrase made it so]] during the many decades that the show has been around.

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[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain "Spock's Brain"]] "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]" may be [[Literature/WhatWereTheyThinkingThe100DumbestEventsInTelevisionHistory one of the most infamous blunders in television history]], but it's far from the only one in this franchise. Let's count the times that we wish that the creators of Star Trek hadn't [[CatchPhrase made it so]] during the many decades that the show has been around.
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Let's count the times that we wish that the creators of Star Trek hadn't [[CatchPhrase made it so]] during the many decades that the show has been around.

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[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain "Spock's Brain"]] may be [[Literature/WhatWereTheyThinkingThe100DumbestEventsInTelevisionHistory one of the most infamous blunders in television history]], but it's far from the only one in this franchise. Let's count the times that we wish that the creators of Star Trek hadn't [[CatchPhrase made it so]] during the many decades that the show has been around.
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** Tropers/ScumBagMan: This definitely counts as mine. Being a generic period piece story would have been bad enough, but throw in a false promise of an interesting plot that ends up being barely acknowledged and finishes up in a very unsatisfying way, and you get one of the worst episodes of all time. Not just for Star Trek, mind you, but for all of television.
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** Tropers/{{Tuomas}}: After all the bogus science and general stupidity in ''Threshold'', the final straw, the thing that made this the worst Trek episode I've ever seen, is the last plot twist: the Voyager crew discovers Janeway and Paris, who have devolved into this weird salamander creatures, because that's what traveling at warp 10 does to you... And they also discover the two have mated and have produced offspring! So in the three days they were missing, they've turned into lizards, mated with each other, conceived children, and the kids clearly aren't newborn either, so that's one helluva fast reproduction process. Chakotay then inexplicably leaves the baby salamanders on the alien planet, and they are never ever mentioned again. So the whole twist of Janeway and Paris having kids was absolutely pointless: it doesn't have anything to do with the themes of this episode, and it's completely forgotten by the next one. They just added an utterly silly and unscientific plot twist on top of all the other ridiculous things in ''Threshold'' for no reason at all.

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** Tropers/{{Tuomas}}: After all the bogus science and general stupidity in ''Threshold'', the final straw, the thing that made this the worst Trek episode I've ever seen, is the last plot twist: the Voyager crew discovers Janeway and Paris, who have devolved into this these weird salamander creatures, because creatures (because [[HollywoodScience that's what traveling at warp Warp 10 does to you... And you]])...and they also discover the two have mated and have produced offspring! So in the three days they were missing, they've turned into lizards, mated with each other, and conceived children, and the kids children; their offspring clearly aren't newborn newborns, either, so that's one helluva fast reproduction process. Chakotay then inexplicably leaves the baby salamanders on the alien planet, and they are never ever mentioned again. So the whole twist of Janeway and Paris having kids was absolutely pointless: it doesn't have anything to do with the themes of this episode, and it's completely forgotten by the next one. They just added an utterly silly and unscientific plot twist on top of all the other ridiculous things in ''Threshold'' for no reason at all.
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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight'' and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and far removed from normal human compassion that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.

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* Yukaphile: I didn't want to do this, I really don't want to hate a [=DS9=] episode, since it's my favorite ''Star Trek'' series because it dared to go where ''Star Trek'' had never gone before, and it kept the franchise fresh while ''Voyager'' had the franchise growing stale. But I just absolutely cannot stomach the presentation of the episode ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E17WrongsDarkerThanDeathOrNight'' and it's sickeningly offensive depiction of wartime rape. So a bunch of women are rounded up to serve as sex slaves for the Cardassians during the Occupation of Bajor. Not without historical precedent, sure. However, the story just doesn't seem to put as strong a focus on this as I think it should. The women at the party are not portrayed as bogged down, crushed under the weight of a SadisticChoice, that to endure rape for comfort or endure rape in hellish conditions, which would certainly happen if they refused their Cardassian's advances, but in a bland and rather noncommittal fashion, which leaves you wondering if we're supposed to hate them or to sympathize with them. But if that wasn't bad enough, then the episode goes on to present how Kira Meru, who is being coerced through sweet words, BlatantLies, and careful psychological manipulation to fall for Gul Dukat, is a traitor. I find this so repulsive and insensitive to the subject of rape that it's the one [=DS9=] episode I try to actively avoid. This is uncomfortably reminiscent to how World War II era Germans would spit on women who prostituted themselves to an officer for protection from the patrolling rape gangs, and how the Germans and many historians today tend to view those women and female children who endured endless rape beyond the scope of the average human suffering as "perpetrators of crimes against humanity" simply for being German, when the vast majority of all those women and their children were not responsible for the crimes of the Nazi Party like the concentration camps and what their soldiers did in other countries, so to blame them, like it does here with Kira Meru, feels so disgusting and as far removed from normal human compassion as you can get that it ultimately killed the episode for me, and it came very close to ruining Kira's character for me. If you're new to [=DS9=], skip this episode. You're better off not seeing this piece of trash.

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