Which is the most farfetched episode?

ChocolateSauce

So I personally think I've narrowed it down to either the episode of DS9 where they save the universe from a smaller universe, or the one of Voyager where they break warp ten and Janeway and Paris turn into lizards and mate, then go back to normal.

Any other candidates?

Myrddin

TNG - Genesis, but then again, its one of the best

SarahBM

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

or the one of Voyager where they break warp ten and Janeway and Paris turn into lizards and mate, then go back to normal.

what season was that! I dont remember that one!
Weirdest ep for me was The next generation episode where Troi got impregnated with an alien givig birth to a child after 4 days and they the kid was like the size of a 7 year old after a few hours. strange.
maybe its the Alien effect but the birth thing freeks me out! especially when they are aliens! (shiver!)

L31mr0d

Star Trek: TNG - Angel One

When Riker wears that outfit that shows his horrible... horrible bare chest. Everyone knows that couldn't happen because looking directly at it would have the same effect as looking at yer one from the Ring.

I'm pretty sure the Universe would of imploded if Riker had ever really worn such a thing.

SarahBM

Oh I forgot about that episode of Voyager when they set up the Holodeck to play a program of a little Irish village cica 1500. with the crappy leprechaun accents and Janeway being refered to as Kate! the stereotype of us was enough to make anyone cringe!!!

Anti

Janeway comming back through time in a shuttle and singlehandly destroying the borg.

nyarlothothep

SarahBM wrote: »

Oh I forgot about that episode of Voyager when they set up the Holodeck to play a program of a little Irish village cica 1500. with the crappy leprechaun accents and Janeway being refered to as Kate! the stereotype of us was enough to make anyone cringe!!!

They made two of those episodes, didnt they, as if they didn't learn from the first mistake.

jhegarty

SarahBM wrote: »

Oh I forgot about that episode of Voyager when they set up the Holodeck to play a program of a little Irish village cica 1500. with the crappy leprechaun accents and Janeway being refered to as Kate! the stereotype of us was enough to make anyone cringe!!!

I think circa 1900 might be closer to the mark.

SarahBM

well it was still awful! and Im sure Ireland wasnt that backward in 1900. electricity etc.
I think it was set in county Clare

Johnny Storm

Which is the most farfetched episode?

Are you implying that Star Trek is not, in fact, a documentary?

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

what season was that! I dont remember that one!

Season 2 afaik

SarahBM wrote: »

Oh I forgot about that episode of Voyager when they set up the Holodeck to play a program of a little Irish village cica 1500. with the crappy leprechaun accents and Janeway being refered to as Kate! the stereotype of us was enough to make anyone cringe!!!

Since nobody else has said it...I will. Fairhaven....there I said it.

SarahBM wrote: »

well it was still awful! and Im sure Ireland wasnt that backward in 1900. electricity etc.
I think it was set in county Clare

Not sure if it was set in Clare, but Janeways character was from Clare....Ill say this one too! - Katie O'Clare - there...everyone happy now

ChocolateSauce

SarahBM wrote: »

Im sure Ireland wasnt that backward in 1900. electricity etc.

Really?

SarahBM

Jaysus! Katie O'Clare and the way she'd look at ya!

ha ha.

The episode where the Holograms ended up hunting the Hirogen. Pay-back's a bitch!

User45701

i am amazed noone has suggested "move along home" from ds9 - that was the most far fetched episode i have ever seen

SarahBM

User45701 wrote: »

i am amazed noone has suggested "move along home" from ds9 - that was the most far fetched episode i have ever seen

Im not a big DS9 fan so I dont know that one. What happened in it?

User45701

SarahBM wrote: »

Im not a big DS9 fan so I dont know that one. What happened in it?

thinking about it is a trauma....

ok so a new race who are traders and like gambling come along and they main crew get miniaturised and put in the game (a game the gamblers brought with them) and the alien keeps appearing (in the game) - shouts "move along home" every now and again - a ferengi barkeeper called quark has to play the game to save their lives

ugh

nyarlothothep

Basically a big D&D nerd adventure story.

icdg

User45701 wrote: »

thinking about it is a trauma....

ok so a new race who are traders and like gambling come along and they main crew get miniaturised and put in the game (a game the gamblers brought with them) and the alien keeps appearing (in the game) - shouts "move along home" every now and again - a ferengi barkeeper called quark has to play the game to save their lives

ugh

I don't know if that is the most far-fetched episode ever, but certainly the scene where the crew play hopscotch is possibly the most cringeworthy scene in television history...well, certainly in Star Trek's (coming possibly second only to "its worst than that Jim....his brain is gone!". Actually, "Spock's Brain" is probably the most far-fetched episode of Star Trek.

User45701

na - that makes sence - he has a nice brain

nyarlothothep

icdg wrote: »

I don't know if that is the most far-fetched episode ever, but certainly the scene where the crew play hopscotch is possibly the most cringeworthy scene in television history...well, certainly in Star Trek's (coming possibly second only to "its worst than that Jim....his brain is gone!". Actually, "Spock's Brain" is probably the most far-fetched episode of Star Trek.

At least Spocks brain had a certain charm to it.

Zamboni

User45701 wrote: »

thinking about it is a trauma....

ok so a new race who are traders and like gambling come along and they main crew get miniaturised and put in the game (a game the gamblers brought with them) and the alien keeps appearing (in the game) - shouts "move along home" every now and again - a ferengi barkeeper called quark has to play the game to save their lives

ugh

ugh indeed. I hate that episode.
I also hate a very similar episode in VOY where Harry Kim and a few other are trapped in some circus thing with some idiot clown. Woeful stuff.

matrim

Or the episode of TNG where, Riker, Worf and Troi (??) get trapped in a 1950's style casino in the middle of some abandoned planet

Zamboni

Surey the most far fetched VOY episode must be Distant Origin where these guys managed space travel

nyarlothothep

matrim wrote: »

Or the episode of TNG where, Riker, Worf and Troi (??) get trapped in a 1950's style casino in the middle of some abandoned planet

and they use fermats last thereom as a theme contrivance to explain away the gaping plot holes until the thereom was discovered a few years later: fail.

Stabshauptmann

When was it data said Irish reunification would take place?

Or anyone else remember Khan marching his troops through Europe recently?

norrie rugger

Stabshauptmann wrote: »

Or anyone else remember Khan marching his troops through Europe recently?

In all fairness, this is a silly comment.
Back in the 60's I very much doubt that they thought they were creating a 40+ year story arc. They had to set some kind of back story to the universe history


In saying that, seeing as we are not too far from the ability to deliver "Designer Babies", it would not be too far fetched that this coujld happen some day

Pride Fighter

matrim wrote: »

Or the episode of TNG where, Riker, Worf and Troi (??) get trapped in a 1950's style casino in the middle of some abandoned planet

Hotel Royale is a brilliant episode:mad:

Pride Fighter

There is a good one in the episode when the Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar attack the Dominion homeworld. Some Romulan woman says to Enabran Tain, Domionion ships dropping out of warp. He says 'how many', she then says in a voice that they are basically screwed '150'.

Mod, can you please move this to DS9 quotes thread, I dont know how it ended up in here

jhegarty

Stabshauptmann wrote: »

When was it data said Irish reunification would take place?

Or anyone else remember Khan marching his troops through Europe recently?

2024

The BBC banned the episode. I think sky/rte just cut the scene.

SarahBM

I dont remember RTE ever showing TNG.
Going back to the designer baby thing there was an episode in voyager where B'Elanna Torres wanted to delete sequences of her baby's DNA so that she wouldnt be a clygon. That is farfetched because you cant just go around randomly deleting chunkds of DNA! you have no idea what the consequences would be!

jhegarty

SarahBM wrote: »

I dont remember RTE ever showing TNG.

RTE showed TNG on it's first run. Many many years ago.

azezil

SarahBM wrote: »

I dont remember RTE ever showing TNG.
Going back to the designer baby thing there was an episode in voyager where B'Elanna Torres wanted to delete sequences of her baby's DNA so that she wouldnt be a clygon. That is farfetched because you cant just go around randomly deleting chunkds of DNA! you have no idea what the consequences would be!

It's Klingon! *beats Sarah with a D-7 class battlecruiser*

helimachoptor

SarahBM wrote: »

clygon

this is what happens when a Klingon borks a old style Cylon from BSG

norrie rugger

SarahBM wrote: »

I dont remember RTE ever showing TNG.
Going back to the designer baby thing there was an episode in voyager where B'Elanna Torres wanted to delete sequences of her baby's DNA so that she wouldnt be a clygon. That is farfetched because you cant just go around randomly deleting chunkds of DNA! you have no idea what the consequences would be!

I would imagine that gene sequences, of Torres (human side) or paris, would be inserted. I mean come on, this is meant to be late 24th century medical technology.


Oh and yeah, about the klingons, even my phone t9 spells it. Time to watch some more star trek for you

SarahBM

azezil wrote: »

It's Klingon! *beats Sarah with a D-7 class battlecruiser*

Sorry I cant spell at the best of times, especially when Im typing in a rush!

norrie rugger

SarahBM wrote: »

Sorry I cant spell at the best of times, especially when Im typing in a rush!

Don't look at it as a bad thing. It it an excuse to watch a tonne more trek. Use it wisely, my friend

SarahBM

true that!

Irishtrekkie

meh episodes most farfetched ?

hmm seasons 2-3 of tos

The Apple
Who Mourns for Adonais
Catspaw
A Piece of the Action
Patterns of Force
Spock's Brain
Spectre of the Gun
Plato's Stepchildren
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden

enough said really ,
but as for the most far fetched moment in star trek.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYW_lPlekiQ

i like this moment where god questions an Alien pretending to be god.

norrie rugger

Zamboni wrote: »

Surey the most far fetched VOY episode must be Distant Origin where these guys managed space travel

Yeah cause those pesky apes look so smart, when scratching their arses

scriba

Any episode of TNG that shows Riker doing some work, as opposed to the middle-management, sleep-in-a-hammock, officer he really is. We all know he would take the nightshift, and duck off for three-hour sessions in the holodeck running programs like '53 yr old drunken divorcee in deserted jazzclub Beta 1' and other 'adult' programs. God help the Enterprise cleaning staff (what colour uniform would they wear?)

And on topic, Damark and Jilad was a bit ludicrous, with only Picard able to figure out that they speak 'through imagery, through met-a-phor'. Or that episode with the oirish from piebald 9 stinking up the cargo bay. Or the existence of Chakotay. Q is quite annoying too, I always saw him as a crude plot device, that made a lot of episodes far fetched. That episode where everyone started reverting into their ancestral species was a bit far fetched too.

Having said all that, I love all those episodes! Especially original series and TNG!

nyarlothothep

SarahBM wrote: »

I dont remember RTE ever showing TNG.
Going back to the designer baby thing there was an episode in voyager where B'Elanna Torres wanted to delete sequences of her baby's DNA so that she wouldnt be a clygon. That is farfetched because you cant just go around randomly deleting chunkds of DNA! you have no idea what the consequences would be!

RTE showed TNG all the way up to season 7, if I recall correctly. I remember they showed the episode where Worf visits the Klingon prison colony, governed by Romulans, sometime in May 1994. It was the one in which Riker visits a bar. Yes they definately showed most or all of the seasons. They also aired DS9 season 1 I think but didn't go any further than that owing to the fact that TNG had the most mass appeal.

kierank01

SarahBM wrote: »

Oh I forgot about that episode of Voyager when they set up the Holodeck to play a program of a little Irish village cica 1500. with the crappy leprechaun accents and Janeway being refered to as Kate! the stereotype of us was enough to make anyone cringe!!!

There was an 'Irish' episode of TNG, where a group of medieval Irish were supposed to have left earth ever before any other humans had (which would be great, but they had no ships or technology.

Or there was the voyager epoisode where dinasours were supposed to have left earth millions of years ago, and and got as far as the delta quadrant, but had no idea that they had come from earth.

Edit: beaten to it on both counts

helimachoptor

kierank01 wrote: »

There was an 'Irish' episode of TNG, where a group of medieval Irish were supposed to have left earth ever before any other humans had (which would be great, but they had no ships or technology.

Or there was the voyager epoisode where dinasours were supposed to have left earth millions of years ago, and and got as far as the delta quadrant, but had no idea that they had come from earth.

Edit: beaten to it on both counts

That wasnt what happened. 1 ship left and 2 colonies were formed. 1 basically developed into an advanced society who's sun/planet was dying the others basically de-industrialised into pig farmers (Irish people) with a top notch fiery redhead for good measure, then the advanced people went to live with the retards,,,

Cookie_Monster

helimachoptor wrote: »

That wasnt what happened. 1 ship left and 2 colonies were formed. 1 basically developed into an advanced society who's sun/planet was dying the others basically de-industrialised into pig farmers (Irish people) with a top notch fiery redhead for good measure, then the advanced people went to live with the retards,,,

beegorrah, sure twas how now it happened to be sure to be sure

Johnny Storm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

beegorrah, sure twas how now it happened to be sure to be sure

Worst TNG ep ever...

nyarlothothep

I preferred it to the 2! fairhaven episodes.

Johnny Storm

I preferred it to every ep of Enterprise and most eps of Voyager

azezil

Any episode where a crew member falls in love after a day :rolleyes:

Johnny Storm

How about the ep where Riker gets the hots for a person from a race that has 3 sexes? (AFAICR )

norrie rugger

Johnny Storm wrote: »

How about the ep where Riker gets the hots for a person from a race that has 3 sexes? (AFAICR )

I thought that Riker had the hots for a race that chemically repressed their gender expression.

Tucker got politically involved in the Co-Genetor (spelling) of the 3 gender species

kierank01

norrie rugger wrote: »

Tucker got politically involved in the Co-Genetor (spelling) of the 3 gender species

Is that the one where he got pregnant?