The Least Disliked Episode 2025 - TNG Season 4

[Qonundrum]

Amusing, a show about a family called "Our House" had the very same Chad "Jono" Allen:

Family

"Family" is a nice coda to the Locutus affair, and has much and novel importance that gives some terrific insight into what makes Jean Luc tick, but feels a little overly long and wallows in as many clichés as it does in mud. Just without the mud wrestling, like this:

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And then their kids like to do it, too - see, it's "Family" again! Get 'em going early!!



What's left:
The Best of Both Worlds (II)
Remember Me
Reunion
Data's Day
The Wounded
The Drumhead
Redemption (I)

 

[Takeru]

Reunion, it kills of Kaylar (I know that's not how it's spelled but I'm not looking up the correct spelling and you all know who I mean) who was the best klingon character and starts Worf's bad parent arc.

The Best of Both Worlds (II)
Remember Me
Data's Day
The Wounded
The Drumhead
Redemption (I)

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I'm picking "Remember Me", because as good as the episode is, the answer to the mystery is insane. Dr Crusher is trapped in a shrinking dreamworld populated by imaginary people because of Wesley Crusher's powers messing with his warp experiment. Uh... okay?

The Best of Both Worlds (II)
Data's Day
The Wounded
The Drumhead
Redemption (I)

 

[Qonundrum]

Reunion, it kills of Kaylar (I know that's not how it's spelled but I'm not looking up the correct spelling and you all know who I mean) who was the best klingon character and starts Worf's bad parent arc.

I was tempted to remove that earlier. She's simply reduced to soap opera fodder and being killed off and, yep, the Worf bad-parent arc that follows is absolute cringe inducing. It's the Cousin Oliver trope all over again.

I'm picking "Remember Me", because as good as the episode is, the answer to the mystery is insane. Dr Crusher is trapped in a shrinking dreamworld populated by imaginary people because of Wesley Crusher's powers messing with his warp experiment. Uh... okay?

Enjoyable for the mystery and if rewatches aren't too frequent, and the reason for Beverly being "kidnapped" and facing psychological terror is novel, but it's Wesley again. The Traveler's return is also a bit suspect, so soon into the show's run and they're already using esoteric characters for new plotting opportunities, yet he fits into the story very neatly. That said, I always snicker when the collapsing bubble, when a hard diameter is given earlier about the length of the ship and size of the universe, doesn't begin to match up as it shrinks. Amazing visual effects and stunt work, for which Gates did it directly.

 

[Qonundrum]

The least effective of what's left (relatively speaking, the last dozen or so stories are fairly when not very stellar),

The Wounded

Has a long and somewhat corny song (the only real nitpick), a new starship design, a new species introduced for DS9 to make real use of (yet the other species, the Bajoran, are even better), O'Brien also gets the most attention to date, and the old soapy drama standby routine of "Dude, the war's been over". Maxwell is a great character to bounce off of O'Brien.

What's left:
The Best of Both Worlds (II)
Data's Day
The Drumhead
Redemption (I)

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I am going to say Data's Day is the weakest of the remaining episodes. But only because of how strong the remaining ones are. Of course on subsequent rewatches T'Pel was right shifty and someone should have picked up on it.

The Best of Both Worlds (II)
The Drumhead
Redemption (I)

 

[Takeru]

The Best of Both Worlds (II), good episode but the way they defeat the borg is not great, they got lucky with the Locutus backdoor into the borg systems. Of course we know that the borg were quickly defanged after this but when the episode aired I remember thinking "The next cube is going to kill them all".



The Drumhead
Redemption (I)

 

[Farscape One]

Taking out "Redemption".

"The Drumhead" was such a superb episode and deserves to win. And it does.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

That was pretty tense. Some heavy hitters stacking season 4 but Drumhead is such a glorious episode it is so deserving of the crown.

 

[Oddish]

"The Drumhead" was such a superb episode and deserves to win. And it does.

That was pretty tense. Some heavy hitters stacking season 4 but Drumhead is such a glorious episode it is so deserving of the crown.

Agreed. "The Drumhead" is a worthy winner.

 

[Takeru]

I was tempted to remove that earlier. She's simply reduced to soap opera fodder and being killed off and, yep, the Worf bad-parent arc that follows is absolute cringe inducing. It's the Cousin Oliver trope all over again.

It was such a bad decision, klingon culture is made up anyway, they could have simply stated that a murder attempt gives Worf the right to duel Duras, keep Kaylar alive and as a recurring character, she could have visited once or twice a season with Alexander. Her not living on the Enterprise and doing her own thing would have been in character, no reason her and Worf couldn't have been in a long distance relationship.

 

[Qonundrum]

The Best of Both Worlds (II), good episode but the way they defeat the borg is not great, they got lucky with the Locutus backdoor into the borg systems. Of course we know that the borg were quickly defanged after this but when the episode aired I remember thinking "The next cube is going to kill them all".

Seconded. That was the logical way of thinking - the next encounter would be worse and how would they get out of that... kudos to the remaining TV show episodes featuring Borg to subvert that fear in ways that, while not entirely perfect, subverted expectations and still had a novel idea or two.

 

[Qonundrum]

I am going to say Data's Day is the weakest of the remaining episodes. But only because of how strong the remaining ones are. Of course on subsequent rewatches T'Pel was right shifty and someone should have picked up on it.

Which should have been Data, who either did not report her inquiry attempt, or Picard ignored it. It's enough of a scene to tell the audience something's not quite right, and the ending with her reveal on the Romulan ship still hit really well.

Worse, 23rd century sensor technology could discern the difference between Romulans and Vulcans - thank Mr Chekov for spotting it.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

the Worf bad-parent arc that follows is absolute cringe inducing. .

I agree however I would like to go on record and state that A Fistful of Datas is the shining exception. A very fun episode and one of the rare examples where having a child in a tv show or film doesn't bring it down.

 

[Qonundrum]

I agree however I would like to go on record and state that A Fistful of Datas is the shining exception. A very fun episode and one of the rare examples where having a child in a tv show or film doesn't bring it down.

Now that's a season 6 eppy I want to rewatch. It did have some fun holodeck elements allowing the cast to go do something more than the usual, but felt credible in the process regardless of any nitpicks (IMHO).

 

[Vger23]

I think the order that some of these got taken out is not as surprising as the earlier seasons, but there's still some differences in what I would have expected.

Least Favorite/Skippable
Suddenly Human
Reunion
The Loss
Data's Day ( I hate this one with a seething passion....I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did)
The Nth Degree
Final Mission
Half a Life
The Host

Good but not Great/Relatively Entertaining
Brothers
Legacy
Devil's Due
First Contact
Identity Crisis
The Mind's Eye
In Theory
The Drumhead

Favorites/Frequent Rewatch
The Best of Both Worlds (II)
Family
Remember Me
Future Imperfect
The Wounded
Clues
Galaxy's Child
Night Terrors
Qpid
Redemption (I)

 

[Oddish]

"Remember Me" may be the only really good Beverly episode.

And the character had disastrous romances with a slug, a lamp, and Picard in two timelines. Egad. Pulaski's fall down that turbolift doesn't seem so bad.