66 points

If I had a nickel for everything Whoopi Goldberg was in where a ghost and a lady had sex, I’d have two nickels

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Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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40 points

Another Risa classic

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5 points

That’s a smart Swayze, NGL.

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44 points

Only to be topped by Voyager’s Season 2 episode 15 … the warp 10 salamander story.

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18 points

Two baby salamanders scamper off and Chakotay is just like “ I’m going to pretend I didn’t see that”

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9 points

Chakotay: “I’m not sure how I’m going to explain that in my log.”

Tuvok: “I look forward to reading it.”

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6 points

But I do like the line “Wake Up Lieutenant”

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37 points

I don’t know it seems kind of like kink shaming to me

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48 points
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4 points

That’s an odd way to spell “elastic”, but it checks out.

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26 points

To me it crosses into “so bad its good” territory. It’s like Dr Crusher posted this script to AO3.

And its great meme material. 🕯

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27 points

Yep I always happily watch this train wreck on a rewatch. The only episodes I actually can’t even watch are the riker clip episode and the one where space Africans board the enterprise to steal a white woman.

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25 points

The most unsurprising thing about Code of Honor? The director was a fucking racist.

The African theme of the episode was brought in by director Russ Mayberry, who had the Ligonians race cast entirely from African-American actors. Mayberry was fired during production by the show’s creator Gene Roddenberry, and First Assistant Director Les Landau completed the episode. Star Trek novel author Keith DeCandido later recalled that this was because of the casting itself,[5] while cast member Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) thought that it was because Mayberry was racist towards the guest stars after they were cast.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

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8 points

They weren’t even supposed to be a black race originally??

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I… kind of like the Riker clip episode. It’s just so weird and pointless.

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6 points

It is just horribly cheesy. How they’re guiding his memories. My favorite part is when that bitch who replaced Beverly for a little while was like WE NEED MORE INTENSE MEMORIES!

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I absolutely love clips episodes. When watching through old sci fi series that got syndicated, you’re guaranteed to get at least one or two. I’m always psyched up when they come up in a rewatch, it’s one of my favorite meta tropes.

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2 points

Whenever I’m reminded of that clip episode the only thing that pops into my head is Riker telling data calmly that something may have him

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My pet theory is that bad episodes are at least two of the following:

-dumb

-boring

-cheap

This one and the warp 10 lizard sex episode from Voyager are extremely dumb, but I love them because they’re definitely not cheap/low-effort or boring. (But if someone did find it boring I would understand them calling it a bad episode.)

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Interesting. That certainly fits.

I’ll attempt to peer review this theory.

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2 points

Im curious but too afraid to google… Whats AO3?

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Archive of Our Own. It’s a massive community of fanfic / fanart. Think about a show, movie, book, video game, or famous play and you can bet they have stories set in it. Also just lots of stories about specific actors, I guess.

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Oh okay so only occassionally scary if i read the wrong thing.

Thanks!

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but as I recall while the plot was so-bad-it’s-good, the pacing was a snooze fest.

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We were a lot more tolerant of slow paced shows in the early 90s.

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24 points

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