by Jonathan Klotz
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Every TV series stumbles a little right out of the gate, as the cast and crew figure out what story they want to tell and how the characters should act in different situations, and sci-fi greats are no exception. Star Trek: The Next Generation I stumbled with Season 1 Episode 4, “Code of Honor,” the worst episode of the series Stargate SG-1 It came early with Season 1's “Emancipation.” As it turns out, both episodes share the same writer, but the latter is directly responsible for setting the underrated sci-fi series to greatness.
Breaking Free is the worst episode of Stargate SG-1
Rating any episode as “worst” usually results in heated debate among fans, but to some extent Stargate SG-1 The fan base is concerned, 'Emancipation' is really that bad. The episode begins with the crew arriving across a planet where women aren't allowed to show their faces or dress like men, which seems terrible at first but gets worse as Amanda Tapping's Samantha Carter is forced to dress like one of them. Their women become the property of the tribe. Worse still, none of the SG-1 crew protested, and in fact, they liked the new uniforms.
By the time Carter was sold to a local warlord for 300 pieces of gold, whatever message “liberation” was trying to convey had been lost. There's a kernel of a clever story buried beneath Carter's incarnation, which is how the military SG-1 responds to different cultures since this was, after all, their first mission to a different planet via the Stargate. With no major mentor to guide them, “Emancipation” could have been a great episode to show how different the series is from the series. Star TrekBut instead, it became worse Stargate SG-1 Leaving all the participants shaking their heads in astonishment and disgust.
It's not just the fans who hate it
In later interviews, Amanda Tapping was kind to the worst Stargate SG-1 episode by politely saying that it simply “missed the mark.” At the time, the episode's reception was so poor that the producers and writers got together and redesigned the character of Samantha Carter, transforming her into the intelligent, capable, and multi-faceted character that fans had come to know throughout the rest of the series. If it weren't for “Emancipation,” Carter might have been reduced to the token “hot girl” role common to most shows, who somehow finds herself in a different costume in every other episode.
It's not just fans Who consider “Emancipation” the worst episode in the series Stargate SG-1but also the book. You can see, in the back half of the first season, how the cast started to get to grips with their characters and their weird moments, like Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) flirting with Carter. This error had to occur in order for all participants to learn the correct notes to play, and it is ironic how similar they are to sheet music. star trek: The next generation Disaster of the first season.
Code of honor and liberation are the same thing
The “Code of Honor” showcases the organization’s staff who come across Alien The culture is influenced by ancient culture, Chinese in this case, compared to Stargate The Mongolian, with officer Tasha Yar, is considered the wife of the local warlord. In both episodes, there's a knife fight in which a woman comes out on top and changes alien civilization forever. Both are the worst Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stargate SG-1 Episodes end with the purchase of a local plant that promises a medical breakthrough.
Katherine Powers went to two different people Science fiction Shows and wrote the exact same third episode for both, but broke her streak by writing a “prequel” to Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe episode that introduced the world to Garak, the simple tailor. At least you can somewhat defend its streak of worst episodes ever by saying that when it was written, the characters were both The next generation and Stargate SG-1 It had not yet been established, so it was impossible for them to act violently out of character. After that, you could say that the episodes were so bad that they forced the characters to take shape very quickly to make sure nothing embarrassing would happen again.
It led to the best of Stargate SG-1
If fans haven't experienced the worst of it Stargate SG-1They would never have been able to enjoy the best episodes, from “Heroes” to “Windows of Opportunity” or even “200,” which manages to be one of the best celebrations of the show within the show. “Emancipation” had to happen, and we can't all be as classy as Amanda Tapping, but she was Able to go from the Samantha Carter who allowed a strange man to study her every pore before selling her for gold, to the Samantha Carter of “Space Race” who fans watched embrace her need for speed, to “Death Knell” that put her right in the middle of the action. Every show stumbles, but not every show becomes an absolute classic.
