Worst TNG episode?

Joel · **Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:38 am**

Any episode with Lwaxana Troi.

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Defiant · **Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:55 pm**

"Shades of Gray" by far.

Untitled · **Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:44 am**

chaotica · **Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:35 am**

Shades of Grey used clips well. Riker's worst moments spliced together were pretty jarring. I'd take it over most of the last half of the run of the show.

Next Gen loses ambition and just goes through the motions, starting partway into season four. Then, one a year might have something new or challenging in it. It was like Voyager was going to be, only with more interesting actors for the most part. I think it can be traced to when Roddenberry had to relax and let Berman run things. We have to wait trill DS9 season three for someone to pick up the ball again.

So, worst? The last 3 1/2 years blur together. I'd choose an embarrassing first season episode over a bland season six or seven story.

bluerow · Sophomore Cadet Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 12

this is definatly hard, and i'm not really sure which one was the worst for me. but what epi. were in season 4 that made it so good? i havent watched TNG in like a year so i forgot!

startrekgirltng · **Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:41 pm**

Lt. Saavik · Lieutenant Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 196 Location: Europe

I pick Shades of Grey as worst episode too. It was boring, annoying, predictable. Which is quite weird, considering other episodes of the show: brilliant, amusing and interesting. But that one was simply unbearable.

Shawn Cordell · **Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:41 am**

The one's where Wesley Crusher is somehow the topic of the show. lol

Sonic74205 · **Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:13 am**

Episode 3x02 - "Ensigns of Command"
Episode 4x06 - "Legacy"
Episode 4x09 - "Final Mission"
Episode 7x02 - "Liaisons"
Episode 7x14 - "Sub Rosa"

I think these are some of The Next Generations worst episodes.

Morphy · Forum Ogre Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 3858

"Any episode with Lwaxana Troi."

So true!

lifeguide · **Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:11 pm**

I am going to controversial here so please bear with me.

Most of the fans who write here are either very young which is quite acceptable, always wiling to educate our future), the true science fiction fans who are only interested in space battles and seeing a different alien every week, or people who truly do not understand what trek is supposed to be about.

Star Trek is not about the aliens, it is about how humans interact and react in different situations and to different species who have a different way of looking at life.

I am sad to report that if some of your worst episodes are true then some of you have missed thepoint to the whole franchise.

Shades Of Grey is by far and away the worst episode of trek it has been my misfortune to see and I never ever watch it on the video or dvd.

It is an absolutely stupid story, badly written and does not add anything to either the series or the franchise. The acting is poor and the fact that is essentially a flashback episode was the main reason for Paramount saying to the creators and producers to ensure enough money for a two parter ending to a season which incorporated the first episode of the next season, a brilliant idea as it turned out.

Some of your choices like Conspiracy, Qwho, the episodes with Vaash, Final Mission or any with Wesley in them, Code Of Honour, Time Squared, Legacy, Hero Worship, Lessons.

And whoever said Who Watches the watchers was one of the worst really does not know what the franchise is about.

That is the quinessential Star Trek episode, a great story (observing the pro Vulcan species), the set up when the duckblind is exposed and one of the inhabitants is injured and crusher as usual is up to her damn the rules (quite proper rules) I will just do what I want trick, so she transports him to sickbay and she can not remove his memory of Picard and then it starts a movement which could become a religion and the Picard quite rightly telling the scientist he will most certainly not become this peoples god, and then the way he explains himself and the wonderous things thier leader sees is one of the best scenes ever written in any Start Trek episode, book (okay no scenes but you know what I mean) or movie, ever.

Anyone who watches this episode and does not understand why it was made I am sorry to say you do not know what Start Trek is all about.

Sonic74205 · **Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:04 pm**

I thought "The Royale" in season 2 was truely awful!

Syzygy · **Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:56 pm**

monroe · Lieutenant, Junior Grade Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 120

i didn't like "Tin Man" (i think that's the episode) i just remember some guy going after some organic starship... i just didn't like it.

gregtrek2385 · Crewman Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 3

Ever since voyager came on spike i have been following it with eager anticipation to see a new episode sadly, i have watched most of the episodes so i have seen a couple twice and other three times. However i found a site where i can watch all the star trek series "www.surfthechannel.com" and i have been watching TNG because i was only like 4 when they stopped filming sadly i got into this franchise late and i have been watching them from the beginning. I would have to say that "skin of evil" is probably the worst episode i have seen. Yet compared to some of DS-9 and ENT and even voyager it is still entertaining to see picard in the captain chair. Also its hard to dis TNG, because no matter which character an episode is about its better than a harry kim episode or a quark episode.

Cosiris · **Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:13 pm P's and Q's of STNG**

Season One of any new series is always kind of bad because the actors, the writers, the viewers are still trying to figure themselves out. Season Two was better but still not that hot. STNG really didn't catch its second wind until Season Three. I love it when Q makes his appearances but I didn't feel "Qpid" did anybody any good. It left me feeling like the story was incomplete. Maybe that's just an author's perspective.

ninja420 · Freshman Cadet Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 8

The absolute worst episode of all time is ofcourse the price season 3 -8.

reason 1) it was a diana troy episode
reason 2) they do the classic lame sex metaphor where they show a very cheesy love scene with troy and the hustler. Then just when the sex scene gets to the main action they cut to data and laforge going threw a pink worm hole.

I spit my pop all over my computer laughing at that ridiculous episode.

Darkclawtooth · Crewman Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

I havent been watching the Next Generation long only a few weeks since I got it.

Anyways the worsrt episode I have seen was from the first season was Skin of Evil. I get it that its supposed to be a big plot because one of the main crew dies but I just couldnt get over the tar monster, normally Im ok with low budget effects but I just couldnt bring myself to get over the tar monster.

Encounter at Far Point was pretty good atleast in my own personal opinion it set the mood for Star Trek The Next Generation, ya it may have been a bit slow and whatnot but it set the mood and tried to give some background info on the characters which is what you need a starting point for the characters evolve.