What is the worst scenes in all of star trek?

Paris and Janeway, as lizards, doing the space sex, because they went too fast.
- I actually thought this was the best episode. Not enough lizard sex scenes in star trek.
  
  Strange New Worlds has you covered.
  
  I really liked the concept of Warp 10. Really adds to the lore of Star Trek.
  But mentally blocked the lizard sex afterwards. lol
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- Shaka, when the walls fell.
- This was definitely going to be my answer too

My vote goes to that episode in season 1 of TNG where they're fighting black people on like a jungle gym.
- Either that or just...all of Sub Rosa.
- Ah yes the African planet. Real TOS reject episode vibes.
- What's hilarious is the same writer got away with the same episode in SG1s first season just with Asians rather than Black people.
  
  Self-plagiarism is the best form of plagiarism. Especially when you plagiarise a paper that got a D.
- Shut up Wesley!
- I have tried watching TNG and just can't. I keep being told to bear it for like 3 seasons till it gets better, but I'm not gonna slog through entire seasons, hoping it improves
  
  Honestly, don’t put up with the slog. Just skip the first 2 seasons, with the exception of a handful of episodes that are big on context or are just really, really good.
  Encounter at Farpoint: probably worth watching as it’s the pilot and introduces Q.
  S02E08 A Matter of Honor: a great introduction to the Klingon Empire in the 24th century.
  S02E16 Q Who?: the episode that introduces the Borg.
  S02E19 Measure of a Man: one of the best episodes not just of TNG, but in all of Trek.
  Other than those, I’d suggest skipping seasons 1 and 2 entirely. The show gets much better and really does put out some of the best Star Trek has to offer. It’s not a serialised show at all so you can skip episodes with impunity. A few minor threads and general character growth happen, but they’re not significant and the episodes listed above give you enough context.
  
  I’m currently getting into the Treks. Over the last year, I’ve slowly watched TOS twice, the animated series, and the first 6 movies. TNG was real hard to get into at first. I was coming off Undiscovered Country and had high hopes for TNG, but those first two seasons were a slog, especially in comparison to TOS which I loved immediately despite its age.
  Third season is where it started to really find its voice. I’m up to the 5th season and I’m enjoying it. I think the biggest hiccups with the first couple seasons are the attempts to tie back to TOS and then Wesley. Once they reduced Wesley, stopped trying to force relationships within the ensemble, and stopped trying to be more of TOS but actually different from TOS, it really started to shine.
  I recommend pushing through it. It’s the same advice given for TV shows like The Office and Parks & Rec. Those first couple seasons are harder to watch, but you are well-rewarded if you hang on for a bit longer.
  
  I recommend starting with season 4. Then if you end up liking it, loop back to seasons 1-3. This is old TV where each episode is made to stand on its own.
  
  In that case, you could skip the first two seasons. Season 3 is really where it starts to get better. It's where the phrase "grow its beard" came from.
  
  With anything made when 20+ episode season was the norm, I'd recommend just searching for a skip list. I remember the /r/DaystromInstitute skip lists being pretty good: https://old.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/wiki/index#wiki_episode_guides
  I'd recommend the same with more modern stuff, because the ratio of good episodes to bad sure as hell hasn't gotten better despite shorter seasons, but the death of episodic story telling makes it pretty hard to skip episodes.
  
  The entire season Patrik Steward had that "what have I done. This is shit, but I'm gonna get through this like a champ"-expression in his eyes.
  
  I get this is a contrarian opinion and you are feeding off of downvotes, but one of the strengths of Star Trek is that the episodes and even seasons don't matter at all. Watch the best ones, if you like them watch some more, if you don't, then don't. The shitty netflix idea of low-effort serialized content with cliffhangers every episode sucks and I'm so glad that Start Trek didn't do that.
  Data's Day The Drumhead, Measure of a Man Q Who? Qpid (silly but good) The First Duty Relics (if you liked TOS.) Tapestry.
  Anyway that is enough. If you don't like those, then by all means don't watch anymore. But sitting down and watching the first season of TNG then declaring that it sucks, is doing yourself a disservice.

- For me, it echoed real life, when someone with power over you wants something you shouldn't have to and don't want to give. It was uncomfortable, and I'm glad they did it.
- It wasn't the liquidator, it was the CEO of Slug-O-Cola.
- I had completely wiped that from my memory.......thanks....I guess....
- I find it quite funny in places in an old school farce kind of way. Like a Carry on Film in the Trek universe. Move Along Home can get deleted before Profit and Lace any day.

Neelix and Kes when Kes is essentially in heat. That episode was so gross
- All Kess and/or Neelix episodes belong on that list. Can't stand either character, although Kess is still way worse than Neelix
  
  The hardest thing for me to come to terms with is that, while I hated Neelix while watching the show, I think if I'd actually been on Voyager, I would have really liked him. He's super friendly, and just wants to help, and makes all these crazy foods that would be fun to try. (Kess stuff not withstanding)
  
  I hear your anguish, I present to you Tuvix!
- Right, Kes is like 4 years old then
  
  More like 2, actually. 4 would have been the normal time for her race, but some electrical storm nonsense kicked it off early for her temporarily.
  I dont think that episode is that weird overall. They wanted to address the reproductive cycle of a very short lived race and also have a "what does it mean to be a parent" moral lesson.
  "Hold hands with me to breed" is some pretty mild sex talk honestly, especially for the "go fast and have lizard sex" writers.

Almost any scene in the decon chamber on the NX-01.
- Haha, i have prepared you some gellllll put it on while I watch with my bats..... Lol

I'm going to say any space battle scene made since 2009.
From TOS up through Enterprise, you could follow the space battles. "This ship went this way and fired phasers but it only hit the ship's shields, then they fired back..." Camera movements were smooth and comfortable, you could see and tell what is going on.
J. J. Abrams shows up and all of a sudden we've got panicky Saving Private Ryan cam and there's just nine layers of beam spam on the screen. Everyone is machine gunning everyone from every which way. It's got George Lucas syndrome. "Put more special effect bullshit on the screen. More. MORE. MOOOOOREEEEE!"
- I think this was beaten by that battle at the end of Discovery series 2 with the most over the top CG dog dogfight with far too many ships I've ever seen. It's not like Trek can't do big scale battles, DS9 proved that, but this was just a a mess.
  
  Star Trek 2009 ended the franchise for me. At the end of Trek '09, I thought to myself Welp, it's been a good run, but they're making Hollywood budget fanfics now. The actual show is done.
- This is one of the many things that Strange New Worlds (and Lower Decks as well) have got right. Space battles in SNW are beautifully animated, but they aren't overwhelmed with excess visual spectacles and they tend to be fundamentally simple: you shoot at us, we shoot back or try to find some helpful obstruction to hide behind, etc.
  Even Prodigy's big space battle in their finale manages the task to some degree, despite it's scale. I remember watching it felt oddly sluggish, as the ratio of ships on screen to weapons being fired was surprisingly low, but it definitely made it easier to keep track of whatever specific event the camera was focussed on.
  
  Space battles in The Expanse are the best I’ve seen in all sci-fi. Actually Physics-Informed; like firing the thrusters to counter the recoil of their rail guns.
  I love Star Trek but the tech woowoo always kinda drives me crazy. Even if it was a inspiration to become an engineer in the first place (the NCC1701-D Technical Manual was one of my favorite books growing up lol).

Star Trek: Picard, when the Borg wake up and the Romulans just vacuum them out. In that moment the Cube should have automatically teleported them back inside. If the teleporters were down for some reason, the remaining Drones would just happily continue working in hard vacuum and proceed to assimilate the shit out of the Romulans. What happened was an uncalled for nerf of the Borg.
- The whole idea of "let's make Seven be a miniqueen for a second, without consequences for her psyche, and without letting her make sane choices like rescuing the XBs" was completely idiotic.
- I mean, I feel like Star Trek plays it fast and loose with baddie strength a lot.
  
  You mean like the Klingon warbird that could fire torpedoes while cloaked and that tech just got hand waved away in all Star Trek after that?
  Also, and maybe this is just me, but wouldn’t it be relatively easy to just “drop” torpedoes while cloaked and have them do a delayed launch thing? And nobody thought to cloak a torpedo, or at least give it some stealthy coatings? Complete amateur hour.
- ST: Picard wasn't good at all. Especially the last season. It felt like a badly written fanfic. Great cast but terrible writing overall.
- Both those first two series horribly mishandled the Borg to the point the third had to hang a lantern on it in dialogue and call it nonsense and do their own plot that actually capped off what was happening in TNG/Voyager.

The one where Dr Crusher has sex with a ghost

Whenever Riker meets eyes with a female humanoid alien earlyish in an episode, you know exactly what the B plot is gonna be

The "Allamaraine" song scene from DS9's Move Along Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FM6Xfs2ZoY
In fact that whole episode.
- I just rewatched that one, and I disagree. It was uncomfortable at first, b/c it seemed so hoakey. The crew repeatedly hurt themselves trying to cross the room. Then the point was to observe the child closely. Dax was the one who finally got it. It was a commentary on observation/cognitive bias.
- I like that episode actually... Lol.

When the later-retconned-to-be-mirror-universe-because-too-prestige-tv-edgy Lorca character cited Elon Musk as some great scientific hero.

Anything involving time travel. It's the sci-fi equivilent of jumping the shark. There needs to be a viewer warning at the beginning of such episodes stating:
Warning! Our writers are currently out of good ideas. So, we threw this lazy shit together, which is going to be completely unsatisfying and will leave you with a vague feeling that the show should just end and let the writers move on to something new. Viewer discretion is advised.
As an added warning, any episode which involves going back to the real present day should end the above warning with 20 minutes of Bobcat Goldwaith screaming.
- I thought DS9 had some great time travel episodes tbh. Past Tense and The Visitor I think are top tier episodes, plus some fun antics between Far Beyond Stars (if that counts as time travel) and Trials and Tribble-ations.
- I liked the strange new worlds time travel episode. It was tongue in cheek and a real fun episode with some character building.
- Voyager laughs its ass off as it goes to present day LA to shoot a 2 parter minutes from the studio itself.
  
  No way is it present day, it was like the 90's and there were no homeless lol
- I thought the two time travel episodes in the latest SNW series, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow and Those Old Scientists handled it really well. They finally dealt with the sliding timeline issue for events that were supposed to be in the 90s during TOS.
- What??? DS9 did time travel incredibly well. You know this month is the year of the Riots? August 2023!

Tasha Yar dies due to the Exxon Valdez.

DS9. The Dominion is about to come through the wormhole with hundreds or thousands of ships and the prophets are like "omg Sisco you can't have a fucking war here, man, we need you later on" and Sisco was "fuck you, I do whatever I want, do your magic, I don't care, it's man's business" so Sisco wont retreat.
and then what happened?
The whole fucking Dominion fleet just disappeared, poof! like Sisco used some kind of cheat code.
fuck that.
anyway, it's not the scene itself that was bad, but man. that was so freaking cheap I think the whole show changed in me a little bit after that. still amazing series, tho
- One of DS9s driving themes from the pilot was deconstructing the almost militant atheism of TNG, exploring the nature of faith and how far people will go for it. A mortal man refusing the divine plan and choosing free will despite it meaning his own death and forcing them to save the Alpha Quadrant via Deus Ex Machina is totally in keeping with that theme.
  
  really good point
- In Star Trek Online the fleet shows up years later and attack the station. They weren't destroyed just relocated in time (no pun intended).
  
  The prophets were legitly just as assholish as Q, but with less understanding of reality.
  No wonder Bajorans worshipped them as gods.
- I mean, all they had to do was use a previously established device - they had the minefield in place that was preventing the fleet from comming through. Could've involved the wormhole aliens in that so that it doesn't get destroyed when they think it has. Everything would've been the same, with Sisko unknowingly going into a minefield and the aliens trying to dissuade him from killing himself in a pointless fight
- That scene is a triumph of Federation ideology.
  Finding the wormhole was a lucky accident, but everything else which lead to that apparent deus ex machina came about from Starfleet doing exactly what was needed to get the Prophets on their side: not with the intention or expectation of that ultimate result, but because it slotted right in with what the Federation wants to do anyway.
  Sicko and his crew communicate with these strange life forms in they find, and make an effort to not only understand them but respect their wishes. They offer enormous practical support to Bajor and attempt to encourage them to join the Federation formally, but they respect the wishes of the Bajorans even when highly inconvenient (such as the abrupt pivot away from Federation membership that preceded the Dominion War). In short, Sisko and the government backing him legitimately earned the trust of both Bajor and the Prophets by being explorers, diplomats, and excellent allies. The military payoff they got is hardly the point, but they earned it.
  Would any of the other races have earned the favor of the Prophets the way the Federation did? The Klingons, Romulans, and obviously the Cardassians would have taken over as brutal occupiers if they felt the need to get involved with Bajor at all. The Ferengi would have ruthlessly exploited Bajoran resources in their own way (which we know the Prophets were no fans of, see their temporary rewiring of Grand Nagus Zek), while the Borg would have simply consumed everything they found useful. Here, it's the uniquely decent actions and values of the Federation that win out.
  
  I mean, I'm not saying that part was a mistake or anything like that, it's just when I first saw this whole "how do you turn this on" cobra car cheatcode like thing... only that scene was made me question for once that am I really watching Star Trek? it just felt off.
  but granted, DS9 is a very different Star Trek. it's an amazing one. that's for sure.
  and also granted I'm "just" at the 4th season of Voyager, not too much ago finished DS9.

When Spock fails to get laid because he's a half-breed.

As characters I hate all Crushers and episodes dedicated for them.
...but there are episodes worse than those.
- didnt Weaton get that so much in real life that he had a social media fit or something?
  
  Shut up, Wesley! :)
- I'm okay with the Beverly episode where she's trapped in a bubble and at first people start disappearing and then the universe collapses in on her. That was okay.
  
  Yea. I wached that a while back, when my wife asked after Picard season 2 "wtf is Wheaton (Wesley) now supposed to be?"
  I admit, not a bad episode.
- As much as we all hate Wesley, Elnor in Picard made him look like Shaft.
  
  Seasons 1 & 2 of that show don't exist for me. Elnor who?
- I agree with you, but there was Dr. Pulaski who was as bad as the two Crusher's combined.

Janeway and Paris making lizard babies.

The scene where Riker slops some eggs on a hot plate and Pulaski swoons over his technique.
- There are a few scenes like this that I find really interesting. Especially in TNG, the cast are depicted as these hypercompetent omnitalented people. They're all astronauts, scientists of some stripe or other, tacticians, diplomats, most are skilled at some kind of martial art, they publish research, and they put on plays and violin recitals in their spare time. But they have no domestic skills whatsoever. None of them can take care of a house cat, they can't cook, etc.
- In a galaxy with replicators, who would actually still know how to cook eggs (other than Sisko's dad)?
  
  That feels kind of like saying "in a galaxy with holodecks, who would still know how to paint?" Cooking is a skill and an art, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who do it casually in the future for the enjoyment of creating something with their own hands.

Every second of discovery

The end of "Cogenitor", where Archer blames Trip for the death of Charles.

Edit isn't working, so here's a second one https://gfycat.com/coolveneratedfrillneckedlizard That is all.

People often say the Evil Spock episode was memorable, but why? I always thought it was so tropey. It just doesn't strike me as thought-provoking if you can sum up something with "a parallel universe decided to release an evil version of me with an evil beard and nobody else to come from a parallel universe and frame me aboard my ship". That would be more in line with Futurama, and ironically they handled the concept better.
- I always thought it was so tropey. It just doesn't strike me as thought-provoking if you can sum up something with "a parallel universe decided to release an evil version of me with an evil beard and nobody else to come from a parallel universe and frame me aboard my ship".
  My friend, where do you think the Beard of Evil trope came from?
  That's like saying Once More, With Feeling is tropey because it's a Musical Episode.
  
  Do people not watch Star Trek for the scientific concepts? Evil twins from a parallel universe just don't fit into that.

In the movies I would say when Worf went into Klingon puberty in Star Trek: Insurrection and got a giant pimple in his face that everybody was making fun of.

All of Star Trek: Picard.
- You mean you didn't like the series where they made friends with the Borg, and set up their friend as Queen of the Borg, but the very next time they encountered the Borg, everyone was scared and knew they were the enemy, and they could only defeat them with the Power of Nostalgia?
  
  I mean I can compress any story you like into 3 sentences making it sound completely silly. Is there a point to make?
- I'd say most of S1 and S2 and half of S3.
  So, basically, yeah.
- Season 3 was an awesome reunion show for TNG fans
  
  It was considerably less diarrhea inducding then the first 2 seasons. But far from awersome.

Although I could argue there are worse scenes in general, the one with the most impact for me, that almost cut my Trek fandom short... the handholding jellyfish at the end of TNG's debut 2 parter.
I watched it when it first aired, and I cringed so hard that my family thought I had a stroke. Really, those episodes were full of stuff that made you feel like an ass telling your friend new to Trek that "it gets better," but that really was the whipped cream and cherry on top.

The Voyager episode Retrospect where Seven was, in her words, violated.

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-william-shatner-james-kirk-overreacting-wall-gif-4600549

Any scene in Discovery where that Michael woman starts crying.
- So basically discovery. Because she has this cry face all the time.
  
  I'd put anything where Alex Kurtzman had free hands in the same diarrhea comet.
- And this is why the startrek.website instance has the reputation it does for over-zealous moderation ... because maybe sometimes we collectively deserve it if some of us are going to behave like this.

Nazi episode?
- Which one though?

From star trek 5, the bar scenes. The worst i think.
- Also the scene where Scotty knocks himself out. Also the rest of the movie.

As far as I'm concerned, that award was recently won rapping, dancing Klingons in S02E08 of Strange New Worlds. That was just an abomination.
The fact that it followed what I think is one of the best episodes in all of Star Trek made it all the more horrendous.
- That scene was genius, the fact that you spend the whole episode thinking they'll turn up and sing opera then realise they're dishonoured because they're being forced to sing human pop music was hilarious.
  
  K-Pop is certainly better in the original Klingon.
  On Qo'nos they just call it Pop.
- The musical episode was cringey, I agree. But I had to sit through it.
  But the Klingons rapping was actually one of the highlights of that episode.
- All systems stable?

As an episode in general, any one ever where 1) someone/something messes around with the timeline, screwing up a bunch of stuff 2) they go back and do a bunch of stuff to fix it, timeline returns to normal, fade to 3) end of episode, everything is as if nothing ever happened, all characters, in actuality, DID NOTHING, and NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED
Every time I run into this episode in Star Trek or any other sci-fi, I want that hour of my life back. Like, why did I just watch all of this, if literally nothing happened?
- surprisingly, SNW actually had a minor plotline that extended past the episode where there was time travel. So not wholly "Nothing actually happened"
  
  They also had a second one (the crossover) where things were 99% the same but 1% different at the end and they're just like "meh, that's close enough."
- Perhaps you aren't familiar with the idea of episodic television? All episodes of TOS/TNG are episodic. This means that with very specific exceptions that are related to the over araching story, if there is one, nothing ever happens during the episode that will affect future episodes. It is literally the design of Star Trek from the begin. It's why the episodes open with a nonsense star date.
  
  TOS had nonsense stardates. TNG actually had a loose formula based on the season and episode number.
- Actually, that's not true, as established in the novels and canonised in SNW last series, the timeline is in constant flux with certian events having to happen but moving due to interference. Hence why the Eugenics wars were meant to be in the 90s in TOS, now they happen post 2020 in the current timeline.

Data's continued quest to be more human.
And the whole of TNG Series 1 where they're all as wooden af cos they haven't grown into the roles yet.
Data's organ solo is hilarious though (look it up on YouTube).

Every scene when human do klingonboo things.
- I don't understand this one, can you explain?
  
  Klingons become quite popular after their rework in movies so from TNG onward you can see increasing amount of fanservice for them. Despite being archetypical enemy of the Federation, a warrior culture vs the peaceful one, we see central characters like Picard or Dax being basically honorable klingons, and there is not many klingons actively opposing that despite their society is xenophobic as fuck. Also they get whitewashed all the time with all the talk about honor, but nobody talk what is exactly happening with multiple species conquered by klingons, we never see them.