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Game The Most Disliked Visit To Earth's Past, 2025 Edition

Welcome back, woohoo! Did you have a good time on vacation?

My first save is this:

Fly like the Jefferson Airplane? Not quite, but the aircraft has a really cool typeface that looks oddly familiar despite it being hidden in plain sight...

TOS, Season 1: “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”, 1969

It's Trek's best outing by far. The humor works with the plot, the in-jokes are amazingly few (thank goodness, and that's something every later time travel eppy is the opposite of because it's cool or cute or corny or crap or some other words that start with the third letter of the English alphabet here on this third planet from an insignificant third rate star, on our own kind of trek but anyhoo...), the plot maintains a true sincerity and seriousness that it's impossible to not like.

Little nuances about the aircraft dude who, thankfully, wasn't your typical 30-something in 1967 and thus doesn't have a house, fence, doggy, kitty, two point three seven children, a bunch of mice and/or roaches in the corner, and the rest of the rubberstamped items, including pot in every room since this being 1967 and all... wait, what was I talking about again? Oh that's right, gerbils juggling ants at the flea circus. No, that's not it either-- aha, now I remember, it's why the dude was lucky enough to have no significant "fam" in the future and thus he could safely be carted back to 2267 or whenever, since TOS was either thinking it was 900 years in the future (Squire of Gothos) or 200 years (Space Seed), with 300 not having been established concretely just yet.

How this episode may have fared, if it was kept as the other half of a two-parter starting with "The Naked Time", a story that pulls off a lot considering how early int he show's run it is.

Also, here's that font:

Funny, that also looks like the font used in NCC-1701 as well, but I ain't complainin'...

Lastly, yep, some more 1967 goodness is right here:
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Just wait for the eppy saved in 1968, what did the Smothers Brothers allow :o , but - no worries - Captain McCoy can dig it:

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Amazing how hippie drug-laden grooviness worked in sci-fi just as well...

What's left:
TAS, Season 1: "The Magicks Of Megas-Tu", 1691
TNG, Season 5: “Time’s Arrow, Part I”, 1893
TNG, Season 6: “Time’s Arrow, Part II”, 1893
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
VOY, Season 5: “11:59”, 2000 - 2001
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Monsters", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
VOY, Season 6: "One Small Step" 2032
ENT, Season 2: "First Flight", 2143
 
There's very little left now that I'd consider watching. However, VOY, Season 6: "One Small Step" (2032) does give Chakotay something to do, and it does have Phil Morris in a tight, black grey top, so there's that :drool:

TAS, Season 1: "The Magicks Of Megas-Tu", 1691
TNG, Season 5: “Time’s Arrow, Part I”, 1893
TNG, Season 6: “Time’s Arrow, Part II”, 1893
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
VOY, Season 5: “11:59”, 2000 - 2001
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Monsters", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
ENT, Season 2: "First Flight", 2143
 
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"11:59" was a pleasant, gentle, happy episode. And a reminder of the dangers of memory and stories being taken as fact!

TAS, Season 1: "The Magicks Of Megas-Tu", 1691
TNG, Season 5: “Time’s Arrow, Part I”, 1893
TNG, Season 6: “Time’s Arrow, Part II”, 1893
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Monsters", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
ENT, Season 2: "First Flight", 2143
 
If nothing else, it gave yet another episode of Futurama some potential inspiration.

TNG, Season 5: “Time’s Arrow, Part I”, 1893

Gotta admit, the attempt to get away from BIG EPIC SEASON FINALE BATTLE PREP while taking a new direction for a BIG EPIC yet-low-key-despite-fate-of-the-androirobot SEASON FINALE PREP is actually quite laudable.

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(Why wasn't that Wesley addressing Data in a new role? Well, maybe not. Either way, this is a great scene. But if that is Guinan, note how her first appearance in TNG (season 2) has her familiar with Data, so there's no canonical/continuity-based error between "The Outrageous Okona" and this one. Love it! Unless Guinan sees him laughing in this or in part 2, but I don't think she had see him do it in the library with a joke book or anything...)


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(Okay, wallowing in Data not having a chip on his shoulder is one thing, but foreknowledge really doesn't help when you look at the box of ciggies, find out how it'll give you cancer or cooties, but you then buy and smoke a zillion packs anyway, and - a couple decades later - you're splattered by a bus on the highway belching out a thousand times more smoke, so there's that...)


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(Best. Subplot. Ever.)


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(Here. We. Go. WOOOOOOOOO!)


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(Most. Warped. Episode. Ever.)

Rest assured, the video clips hint at a possible spoiler in that Futurama episode too regarding its robot, but it's no less as great.

So here's more on Sam, in another language because why not, and for even more, the library's got some scoop on him as well. Being in the non-fiction section, there's a chance it will be closer to 100% truth and not sanitized with fictional stuff added, or rendered false via omission.


What's left:
TAS, Season 1: "The Magicks Of Megas-Tu", 1691
TNG, Season 6: “Time’s Arrow, Part II”, 1893
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Monsters", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
ENT, Season 2: "First Flight", 2143
 
Both halves of "Time's Arrow" were great. Happy to save the second.

TAS, Season 1: "The Magicks Of Megas-Tu", 1691
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Monsters", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
ENT, Season 2: "First Flight", 2143
 
"Monsters" seems to be a particularly disliked segment of Picard season 2, but I love it! I pretty much always love a Trek "journey into the headspace" (maybe "Extreme Measures" is the exception? Hate that episode).

Welcome back, woohoo! Did you have a good time on vacation?
I did! Best getaway I've had in quite a few years.

TAS, Season 1: "The Magicks Of Megas-Tu", 1691
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
ENT, Season 2: "First Flight", 2143
 
Although the majority of ENT's second season was medicore, First Flight was a fascinating look at the history of Starfleet and the warp drive.


TAS, Season 1: "The Magicks Of Megas-Tu", 1691
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
 
"The Magicks of Megas-Tu" is one of those episodes that makes you wonder why anyone thought TAS was for children. It has some major ethical questions (do evil people have rights?) and puts humanity on trial for its treatment of people who are different.

ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Two Of One", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
 
"Two Of One" has the delightful musical performance from Jurati. Also a lot of great material for Annie Wersching's Queen, which is the definitive performance in that role for me. She tops all the others.

ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
PIC, Season 2: "Mercy", 2024
 
Mercy is saved by me for adding to the list of brilliant performances by Ito Aghayere, I thought she was amazing as young Guinan.

Yeah I known an El-Aurian doesnt need a young actor form but until we get immortal actors what can we do?

ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part I”, 1944
ENT, Season 4: “Storm Front, Part II”, 1944
PIC, Season 2: "Fly Me To The Moon", 2024
 
I gotta take the final move to save "Fly Me To The Moon." It's the 2nd weakest episode of Picard season 2, but "Storm Front, Part I" is just trash all around. I hated everything about it. It ruined anything that worked about the Xindi arc, ending it with this idiotic tangent.

"Storm Front, Part I" wins!

And this marks the first double winner of the 2025 cycle. Sort of. Both halves of "Storm Front" collectively won The Most Disliked Two-Parter/Double Episode game.
 
Aww, I arrived just too late to save Storm Front! It's probably for the best though as it seems like people have strong feelings about it, while I just thought it was okay.
 
I want to say Stormfront isn't that bad but giving it some deep thought it is an odd duck. To end a season long arc with a cliffhanger into something barely related is probably not the best choice that could have been made. Give this year long arc an end, let the audience catch their breath.

The episode itself is...fine I guess but I suppose in the grand scheme it is mostly forgettable. The Temporal Wars still find a way to happen. About the only thing to really happen is killing off Silik because they had no other plots for him and thought better kill him off instead of leaving a dangling plot thread.

Okay I think it deserves the win here.

I will also defend Picard season 2 til my last breath. Yes the view from this hill I have chosen to die on is lovely.
 
Dying on hills is underrated. It's noble, it's exciting, and the view is way better than the ceiling tiles of that hospital room.
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"Storm Front" is really dominant with this list. "Storm Front, Part I" was the 2020 winner of this game, and "Storm Front, Part II" was the 2022 winner.

MOST DISLIKED WINNERS, 2025
MAJEL BARRETT APPEARANCE: TAS, Season 1: "The Ambergris Element"
THR'S 100 BEST TREK EPS: TNG, Season 4: "Brothers"
JEFFREY COMBS APPEARANCE: DS9, Season 6: "Profit & Lace"
DIRECTOR DAVID LIVINGSTON: VOY, Season 5: "The Disease"
5TH SEASON: VOY, Season 5: "Warhead"
6TH SEASON: VOY, Season 6: "Fair Haven"
7TH SEASON: VOY, Season 7: "Natural Law"
COUPLE: VOY: Seven/Chakotay
KLINGON: ENT, Season 2: "Marauders"
TWO-PARTER: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front"
VISIT TO EARTH'S PAST: ENT, Season 4: "Storm Front, Part I"
THREE-PARTER: ENT, Season 4: "Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments"
4TH SEASON: ENT, Season 4: "These Are The Voyages..."
SEASON FINALE ANTAGONIST: ENT, Season 4: Holographic Recreation Of Unnamed Alien Criminal, "These Are The Voyages..."
SECTION 31: DIS, Season 2: "Perpetual Infinity"
HOLODECK: DIS, Season 3: "Su'Kal"
DIRECTOR JONATHAN FRAKES: DIS, Season 3: "There Is A Tide..."
EXIT OF A REGULAR: DIS, Season 4: "All Is Possible" (Sylvia Tilly)
SEASON PREMIERE: ST, Season 1: "Runaway"
GUINAN APPEARANCE: PIC, Season 2: "Monsters"
ANIMATED TREK: PRO, Season 2: "Ascension, Part II"
REGULAR CHARACTER: PRO: Drednok

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