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Worst. Episode. Ever. Poll.

Worst Voyager episode ever?

  • Threshhold (a.k.a. Tom's tongue falls out and he becomes a lizard)

    Votes: 72 46.8%

  • Spirit Folk (a.k.a. because one stupid episode in Fair Haven wasn't enough)

    Votes: 37 24.0%

  • The Q and the Gray (a.k.a. on 2nd thought, let's just let the Q destroy the universe)

    Votes: 7 4.5%

  • Course: Oblivion. (a.k.a. should've been the title of the whole series, not just this episode)

    Votes: 3 1.9%

  • Other (a.k.a. nominate your own in your reply)

    Votes: 35 22.7%
  • Total voters
    154
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Threshhold: Tom breaks the Warp 10 barrier. He "evolves" into the ultimate human, which turns out to be a brainless lizard. Janeway also becomes a lizard, and they have babies. Wow, after writing that I can't believe they actually made a show of that. Yuck.

Spirit Folk. As one illustrious BBS-er once said, "Crap, Crap, Crap..." The holodeck malfunctions, again, and Janeway refuses to turn the bloody thing off, risking the lives of several crew members so she can keep dating an imaginary guy. WTF???

The Q and the Grey: The Q civil war involves Captain Janeway saving, the universe, by convincing Q to have sex. And it's set in the civil war, for no reason whatsoever. At what point do you think Mulgrew was reading the script, stopped, and asked somebody to kill her?

Course: Oblivion. The entire ship and crew melt and die. But it wasn't really the crew. So, the last hour of my life you wasted, are you giving it back Berman and Braga? Are you? No? You bastards!
 
Threshold. Just as I sat there dumbfounded as I watched the TNG cast turn into vermin, apes and various scaly reptiles in Genesis, it was so that I watched the VOY episode turn into some kind of odd beast not fit for nature in any form.


J.
 
Spirit Folk. I considered it an insult, and I was a teenager when it aired. As if one terrible stereotypical Irish holodeck program episode wasn't enough?
 
The Q and the Gray. The other episodes here are just stupid/bad stories (Except for Course: Oblivion, which I actually thought was quite good). But The Q and the Gray is a horrid de-fanging almost as bad as 8472's. It proves to us that the writers have never seen any episode with Q in it, ever, aside from Death Wish.
 
whats that one called where the crew and parts of the ship slowing get transported to another planet and the locals claim it's an accident caused by an anomoly but they're really lying pirates?

That was shittiest episode of them all.

So shitty I taped over it.

One of the few holes in my collection, but it's a hole I want left as a maw.
 
I am not a fan of Voyager, but two of those episodes I actually liked.

I still say Threshold was at least an attempt at something different then the usual Voyager. Yeah it failed, but give them a few points for making an episode where you truly wondered if they were on something that week

I don't know why, but I always found Course:Oblivion kind of a poignant episode. You never see something like that in the normal Trek universe and it was sad. The final scene where Janeway ponders the debris like she senses there might be something to it is one of the better scenes in Voyager.

The first half of the Q and the Grey was enjoyable due to the chemistry and banter of DeLancie and Mulgrew. It is the second half that began the de-clawing of yet another species, this time the ultimate species, the Q. That de-clawing was ramped up a thousand times in Q2 though which is a far worse episode.

Yeah the Irish episodes are just miserably stupid.

Not being a fan of Voyager though I think the problem in choosing a worst episode is that there are so many middling episodes that are just plain uninteresting that it is hard to separate the spoiled wheat for the chafe.
 
"Fair Haven", "Spirit Folk" and "Q2" are the three worst Voy eps. "Threshold" looks like Shakespeare next to those steaming piles of crap.

(How cool to see wS? in here. :bolian:)
 
What's wrong with Course:Oblivion? You know, the stuff in it really did happen, there was no reset button or anything. Sure, it didn't happen to the real crew, but it happened to real people.

I nominate The Fight, that was boring as all hell.
 
I nominate Innocence, that was the most boring hour of my life.

Tuvok runs around with kids only to find that they're senile oldies :scream:.
 
"The Fight" is the one episode that I usually skip when I watch my VOY DVDs. *shudder*
 
^Agreed! The fight and Tattoo were the only episodes of Voyager I didn't bother to finish. I skip them when rewatching episodes as well. They are both really bad imo!

And I liked Spirit Folk! I know I'm in the minority, though! :p
 
[whisper]I like all of the episodes on the poll list. Yeah, I know they aren't VOY's best work, but they're entertaining.[/whisper]
 
I voted other, because the worse "Voyager" episode beongs to the most senseless trashing of a character in all the Trek Series put togather.

"Fury"

Brit
 
I actually quite like all those episodes in a kind of mildly entertaining way, except for Spirit folk and I wouldn't call it the worst ever.

I was going to vote for that one at the beginning of season 2 where Harry goes to San francisco in an alternate reality (sorry can never remember names of episodes I don't care much for!) but Brit's post above has reminded me that Fury is definitely the worst.
Altho' I haven't read it I'm pleased to hear that it explained that it wasn't the real Kes in a String theory book
 
Macrocosm. No one mentioned Macrocosm. Not only does Janeway get in a KNIFE FIGHT with a VIRUS, but it's a blatant ripoff of TNG's "Genesis".

I actually voted for Threshold, simply because Brannon Braga, who has allowed us to dissect every miserable career move he made, up to and including a public acknowledgement of his role in the demise of Star Trek, refuses to even discuss Threshold. When it was brought up at Vegas one year, he looked like he was in physical pain.
 
"Threshold." It's not just bad, it's a summation of what went wrong with Voyager: Lengthy technobabble that when one analyses it you feel truly dumber for its lack of internal consistency. It doesn't understand evolution, its concept of warp theory makes no sense, and the consequences are mind-boggling in their... er... look, where the hell was that tech-the-tech guy when this script was being made? Did he turn a blind eye and weep himself to sleep or was he just not paying attention? Forget science, this episode does not work within its own internal logic.

It's also bad to watch.

Ahem.

Admittedly, this gives it a sort of awesome level of terrible-ness, while the Irish stereotypin' of "Fair Haven"/"Spirit Folk" irked me on a more personal level, but eh. I save most of my righteous fury for "Up the Long Ladder", which is a worthier target in the end.

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(How cool to see wS? in here. :bolian:)
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God that takes me back. I remember the thread where'sSaavik? posted when he revealed he was really a guy, after I'm not sure how long of playing coy with gender pronouns.
 
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