DuracellEnergizer said:

AntcuFaalb said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Until recently I thought Who Watches the Watchers? was the worst TNG episode ever made. When I watched The Chase today, however, I realized that wasn't so.

I don't see what's wrong with either of them.

In regards to Who Watches the Watchers?, as someone who considers himself a protheistic agnostic, I have no love for the preachy, one-dimensional, one-sided, self-righteous way theism and theistic belief is treated in this episode. And anyway - metaphysics aside - I don't like it when writers twist characters to serve as mouthpieces for their own personal ideologies, characterization be damned.

As for The Chase ... to make a long story short, the pseudoscience just kills it for me. I could have used the real-world mechanism of convergent evolution as a ham-fisted explanation for why so many aliens in the ST Universe are basically humans with rubber foreheads; there was no need to throw some bullshit elder race/directed panspermia/pre-programmed evolution crap into the equation.

In fact, I can't think of a single bad TNG episode...

So that's means you're the first person in the world to think Shades of Gray was a decent episode?

I've never seen The Chase, but in the original series episode The Paradise Syndrome, a race of "Preservers" are theorized as having seeded the galaxy with humanoids. So this episode may have been referring to the original series.