The Worst Star Trek Episodes of All Time, Ranked

However, “Project Daedalus” proved that the producers had no idea how to manage that balance, at least not during its difficult first two seasons. Until this episode, Airiam (played first by Sara Mitich and then by Hannah Cheesman) was just the cyborg lady on deck. “Project Daedalus” ends with Airiam sacrificing herself for the ship, and because Discovery wants to do a big tearful goodbye, he has to do a ton of character work in this episode. As much as Burnham actor Sonequa Martin-Green and co-star Mary Wiseman (Tilly) try to sell their grief and gratitude over Airiam’s actions, “Project Daedalus” feels cynical in its attempt to wrest pathos to a character nothing.

8. “Farewell” – Picard

On an intellectual level, most can appreciate Patrick Stewart’s reluctance to turn to Picard in a nostalgic revival series. It’s good that he wants to move the character forward. But Picard pushes the beloved captain forward into a garbage heap of confusing plots, endless misery, and bland characters. All of these issues come to a head in “Farewell,” the final episode of the second season, before showrunner Terry Matalas takes over. Picardthe third season of TNG reunions and, above all, good.

The second season of Picard begins with Q sending Picard first to a dystopian present, then to the past (our present). There, Picard meets a young Guinan, yet another Soong (played again by Brent Spiner), and Dr. Jutari also becomes the new Borg Queen. “Farewell” attempts to mix all these plots together, resulting in a blob of empty signifiers, which somehow ends with Picard hugging Q, the Jutari/Queen erasing the Borg threat and Wesley Crusher recruiting Soong’s daughter, Kori, to the Travelers. Like a child using all his or her crayons at once, the mix of plots and tones in “Farewell” creates nothing but a brown smudge.

7. “Let him who is without sin” – Deep Space Nine

Worf is one of Star Trekthe best characters and New deep space is the best Hiking series. But the two don’t always go well together. Freed from his job as a security guard, Worf didn’t need to take a beating to prove the toughness of an alien enemy, as he did during TNG. But he became a grumpy, selfish prude, especially in “Let He Who is Without Sin.”

Written by Ira alumni Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe and directed by none other than Odo himself René Auberjonois, “Let He Who is Without Sin” follows couple Worf and Jadzia on the pleasure planet Risa. Uncomfortable with the freewheeling ways of the planet and unable to coerce Jadzia into submission, Worf joins a group of Puritan reformers on Risa and ultimately sabotages the planet’s weather control system. The episode asks viewers to see Worf’s actions due to his inability to be vulnerable in his insecurities, but he comes off as a judged fool.

6. “It’s the journeys…” – Business

No, the famous TNG The season two finale, “Shades of Grey,” will not make this list. Instead, “These Are the Voyages…” takes its place as the worst finale of Hiking story, in which Riker uses technology to watch a clip show on the grounds that it reduces major plot points to quick clips and is a series finale.