Frakes Still Wants “Star Trek: TNG” Ep Pulled
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OldTrek fan here. Yes, Code of Honor is a horrible episode--the worst of the bad first season of TNG.
But to remove it is to ignore the bad parts of our history. That would be like deleting my memories of being a leftist over 20 years ago--it would remove the reasoning behind why I came to my senses later and joined you guys.
Of all movies, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier talked about why this is a bad idea. Your past pain is part of what makes you who you are today. "You can't take away my pain--I NEED my pain!"
See also 'Tapestry' from TNG and that voyager episode with the war memorial (ruined by a shitty conclusion)
went looking for the episode on the High Seas.🏴☠️
a minute and a half in, and John De Lancie pops up, and I'm dying😂
God, Q was such a troll...
Okay, back to my nostalgia trip.🍿
Was going to point out Tapestry as that was not only a great episode but philosophically a profound lesson for all. Our flaws and our failures or the things we are not proud of are still a huge part of how we become who we are...and we often learn and grow far more from these than our triumphs and the things we are proud of.
What everybody could agree on (if leftists could be reasoned with) is when you start playing ST:TNG on netflix it says:
This show has a recommended view order:
The real problem here isn't just this episode, it's that you tell somebody to check out ST:TNG and they watch in order they're going to think it's a piece of crap show. Who's going to watch like 50 hours to find out there's good episodes in there?
What Frakes/Riker actually wants is to not to be embarrassed when new people try to watch the show, and this episode is only singled out because it's so bad he can justify to himself removing it. Guarantee if he had the choice of using his play order or banning this episode he'd choose the former.
I don't care.
The slippery slope always starts small.
We gave the gays marriage with Obergefell, and nine years later, they leveraged that into sex with our children.
So when people ask you about ST:TNG who haven't seen it, do you say to skip the first season? Or warn them that it's terrible?
Because that's the same thing.
I take a third option. I recommend RedLetterMedia's video on the first season.