What's the worst Star Trek episode of all time?

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With over 700 episodes, Star Trek offers enough raw television to saturate your brain for months. Including some of the greatest moments in television history... and some of the worst. But what's the absolute WORST Star Trek episode ever made?

Please share your pick for Star Trek's greatest disgrace below. As usual, please include a picture or a clip, so we can see a nice hall of shame.

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The Star Trek franchise may be best known for Hugo-Award winning episodes like “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Inner Light,” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” but no television behemoth makes it through more than 700 episodes without producing a few clunkers.

What follows is a list of twenty of those failures, misfires, and disappointments, including episodes from all five live action series. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve left out the movies, and ranked the following twenty installments from “best” to worst.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list.

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One of the best events of a Star Trek series is the fan-serving crossover episodes, where characters from one series appear in another. These have occurred in all the modern series and whole-heartedly deserve their status as prestigious TV events, given how they unify fanbases, and their inevitable effect on ratings. And while some appearances were brief (such as Commander Riker in the Voyager episode Death Wish), others had the entire episode built around them – like Sarek – and the results have often been a mixed bag, despite how well the idea of cross-overs is invariably received.

Inevitably, not all of the crossovers were such a good idea – like THAT Enterprise episode. And in other cases we’ve had very brief nods to the fans with thirty second appearances in episodes such as Quark turning up in Star Trek: The Next Generation – although he was also meant to appear in Star Trek: Insurrection but the scene was cut. Other episodes were just unsatisfying, like Sons of Mogh in Deep Space Nine.

The best episodes are certainly an easier prospect to run through, and we will offer that rundown after this article, but to commemorate the fact that not every episode can be as great as perhaps was intended, we’ve compiled a list of the worst crossover episodes in Star Trek history. But of course, by virtue of the quality of the top 10 there are some good episodes in here – and remember to keep a key eye out in the future for when our run-down of the ten best Star Trek cross-over episodes is posted.

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