Paris and Janeway, as lizards, doing the space sex, because they went too fast.
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I actually thought this was the best episode. Not enough lizard sex scenes in star trek.
Strange New Worlds has you covered.
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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.
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Probably the DS9 episode where they give Quark a sex change operation and the Ferenghi liquidator tries to rape him.
They should delete that episode, there's no value in watching it.
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.
I think the problem was it was treated as a comedy and not a serious issue which it could have been.
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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)
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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.
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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!"
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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 wouldnβt it be relatively easy to just βdropβ 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.
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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.
The DS9 episode where it's set in 1970's Manhatten is the rare exception, because it tells a very good story about racism but it's not "time travel" per se because there's no temporal mechanics impact.
I really liked that episode.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Janeway and Paris making lizard babies.
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