SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers of various episodes of
the Star Trek franchise.
It’s no secret that I consider Star Trek the greatest fiction franchise of all time. But it’s still not without its
problems. The franchise has had episodes that were boring, cliché, sexist,
racist, homophobic, and just incredibly stupid. So before we look at my Top 100
episodes, it wouldn’t be fair to not also acknowledge at least its 25 crappiest
episodes. The quality of Star Trek is often dependent on the writing, but
sometimes the actors or directors can save a bad story or kill a good one. All
of those situations have been the case at some point throughout the franchise. As
I list these 25 terrible episodes, I’ll be sharing my own opinion of why these
episodes failed.
Let’s get started.
