Where do I begin? Off the top of my head:
1. The first two seasons
2. Tasha Yar
3. Pulaski
4. Wesley
5. Alexander
6. Ro Laren
I couldn't stand any of those aspects of the show, and it's a shame as they infest most of it, in different eras.
By contrast, I find Trek shows like DS9 and Voyager to be much more solid and consistent.
I think TNG is overrated anyway.
My number one peeve is Riker's shoulder must enter a room before the rest of his body.
shareI really hate the Borg episodes and movies. Everyone cries the Borg are unbeatable, but with a two part episode or hour and half movie they get beaten every time
shareAs soon as the Borg were defeated the first time they lost their fear factor.
shareLOL! You should see Voyager: Janeway wanders into the heart of Borg territory and proceeds to make them her bitch!
It just proves that you are out of touch.
shareThe only episode I liked Tasha Yar in was “Yesterday’s Enterprise”. I didn’t care for her character at all during the first season.
share"1. The first two seasons"
Surely not fully. Both seasons have something interesting, the show would not have become what it did without them. Especially season two is already much better than the first one, there's nothing wrong with some of the good ones.
So you are wrong here.
"2. Tasha Yar"
How can anyone hate her? There are SO many worse things here, Quinan is about 80 thousand times more annoying in her best days than Tasha Yar at her worst.
Granted, not a very deep or interesting character, and short hair is always cringy (women always try to make it 'look good', but these women still ALWAYS look better with long hair - too bad we never found out), but she's not completely ugly, and she does have interesting, intense eyes.
She's not particularly remarkable, but I can't fathom how anyone could actually HATE her, that's a pretty weird thing to hate compared to about 875 other things in this show.
"3. Pulaski"
Finally something ACTUALLY hateable. Why they thought this angry, masculine karen could replace the compassionate, if slightly weird-faced previous, softer-speaking, more humorous, more smily and feminine doctor, is beyond me.
Also, how ugly is she? Ewww... her voice might be ever so slightly uglier than her face, but the combination just makes me almost vomit, and I have to fast forward or skip her scenes if I possibly can.
This hag is so repulsive in every possible way a hag can be, I guess it's a miracle... I just can't understand the decision to invite THIS THING, of all possibilities, to this show.. it really shocks me and boggles the mind, I would love to know the history behind this. Blackmail or something? Nepotism? Has to be SOME damn thing.
"4. Wesley"
It's shocking, how Mike Stoklasa does NOT hate Wesley. How can anyone not?? They must be partial saints or something.. Just out of curiosity, I would like to know the method, the technique that makes it somehow possible to not hate him.
"5. Alexander"
Yes. Most Klingon/Worf episodes are dull, boring and full of some kind of primal tribalism-worship that I just can't understand. I have no urge to see Worf growling or telling me some platitude about 'honor' or 'good death'.
Sometimes he can be funny, though, as in 'I am NOT a merry man!', and when he assumes the captain's role because he has a stash, but most of the time, Worf and anything Worf-adjacent is just BORING.
"6. Ro Laren"
I haven't watched that many of her episodes, I suppose, but from what I have seen, I don't get it. I mean, she's not particularly enthralling or visually interesting, but she's far from being HATEable. She's not even annoying, really. She's pretty much OK in my book, nothing special, nothing bad.. just OK.
I don't get your hatred for her, though, there's nothing wrong with the character or the performances. Nothing interesting, either, but to HATE? I don't get it...
I hate The Borg way more than I could ever hate Tasha Yar or Ro Laren. A grey cube filled with gothic emos with rubber headgear and black, rubbery suits. Clumsy and pale.. so boring and cringy compared to what could have been.
I hate the prime directive violations more than I could ever hate almost anything on your list, except Pulaski and Wesley, of course.
Those episodes could not be stupider or cringier.
I hate how easily Picard is persuaded that something is alive, just because it looks like a bipedal entity. The hologram Moriarty is NOT alive. Data is NOT alive. They do not have souls, they are fully mechanical or programmed piles of code and such. There is nothing to make them alive.
Now, if a soul incarnated into Data (like one guy once did!), or into a hologram figure (I vaguely remember something similar having happened), then we'd have something, but as-is, Picard is just too easily convinced that both of these things are alive, and it ALWAYS boils down to the same nihilistic-materialistic-depressionist argument of 'machines'..sigh
Season 1 and also 2 have problems - sure, but looking at other shows from the time they still shine. TV back then was definitely not on a quality level we are nowadays used to. And TNG/DS9 are definitely one step to nowadays TV show enjoyment.
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