Worst series ending concepts

[mojo1701]

IKira lost Odo to the collective.

Great Link, actually. Collective was the Borg. But yeah, you're right, it was far from happy.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I agree with X-Files and Seinfeld have terrible endings.

Star Trek Voyager was an awful show with an awful ending that pretty much invalidated the entire series. Multiple times in the past Janeway refuses help back to the alpha quadrant, but this time she accepts. Huh?

I liked the DS9 ending. It wasn't all happy as at least one major character bites it. I didn't see the last B5 as the final season kind of meandered and kind of sucked.

But Alf had the worse series ending: a cliff-hanger where he is grabbed by the government. And then no more series. Ack!

I disagree, It makes perfect sense. She didnt really accept help so much as force herself into a situation he couldnt refuse. Not only did she destroy a major Borg installation but she got her people home. She was also forced to face what her refusal to find a shortcut would do to her family. All the death and pain that she never had to come face to face with before.

As for DS9, I think THAT was a completly retarded ending that completly spat in the face of what Gene Rodenberry stood for. The man was an athiest. He was extremly anti-religion yet the whole series constantly played around faith and in the end a starfleet officer gives up his career, his family, his love to become some sort of god? I'm sorry but no.

 

[mojo1701]

As for DS9, I think THAT was a completly retarded ending that completly spat in the face of what Gene Rodenberry stood for. The man was an athiest. He was extremly anti-religion yet the whole series constantly played around faith and in the end a starfleet officer gives up his career, his family, his love to become some sort of god? I'm sorry but no.

As much as I like Star Trek, that was its biggest problem.

 

[Nightfall]

Uhm I didn't think he became a god so much as he joined with the Prophets so he could stop what ever it was Ducat was planning.

Also I WOULD like to point out TNG and old ST had deific beings. So it's not like he's THAT Atheistic.

*thought that B5's ending was alright but could have been better* But I think that's reflective of season 5 over all.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Uhm I didn't think he became a god so much as he joined with the Prophets so he could stop what ever it was Ducat was planning.

Also I WOULD like to point out TNG and old ST had deific beings. So it's not like he's THAT Atheistic.

*thought that B5's ending was alright but could have been better* But I think that's reflective of season 5 over all.

Deific beings that were clearly aliens and werent perfect. The Prophets were the closest thing to "gods" that trek ever had, fully at the head of their own religion.

 

[Nightfall]

And yet...they weren't perfect that I saw.

I mean they didn't see the release of their evil brethren did they?

How is Q or Trelan an alien though? I mean they looked and acted pretty darn human to me.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I assume you are being sarcastic. MASH, in Alda's hands, became one of the most depressing shows ever, devoid of any of the black humour that filled the early seasons (and movie).

Personally, I was upset at how after Alan Alda's takeover of the show, every military officer who wasn't a doctor was portrayed as a warmongering fascist who cared nothing about the men he commanded. Because I have friends who are career military officers, I found this portrayal to both inaccurate and insulting. The show had always been anti-war, but after Alda took over it also started to become more and more anti-military.

Other changes I didn't like after Alda took over the show:

"Hotlips" became "Margaret" and turned into just one of the guys instead of the bitchy nurse who was always the target of practical jokes.

Klinger became slick wheeler-dealer who was good at getting people things they wanted rather than the guy who dresses up as a woman to try and get out of service.

Everybody turned into sensitive people who cared deeply for each other, with none of the conflict found in the earlier episodes (such as Burns and Hotlips vs Everyone Else).

Every episode turned into the same formula: one-half attempted comedy, one-half melodrama and anti-war moralizing.

Hawkeye turned from a skirt-chasing borderline alcoholic to a world-weary hero and champion for peace (not surprising that Alan Alda would turn his own character into such a flawless and wise good guy).

Yep, Alan Alda ruined a great little black comedy by turning it into his own personal soapbox. Too bad.

Personally, my favorite episodes were the first ones where Henry Blacke and Trapper were part of the cast.

 

[wingsandsword]

I thought B5 had a pretty dumb ending concept. "lets blow up the station just to maintain continuity with the prophocies that said it would blow up." The excuse was silly and contrived, just bleh overall.

It was set 20 years after the main run of the series, a lot had changed in that time.
1. Humanity now has artificial gravity technology (among other advanced technologies given to it by the Minbari, taking it many centuries ahead technologically) and has had it for most of those 20 years, so Babylon 5 is incredibly obsolete.

2. Babylon 5 is outmoded politically and economically, the huge changes to the political landscape make Babylon 5 not the big diplomatic outpost it was built to be after the creation of the Interstellar Alliance, so it doesn't get the huge amount of traffic it used to get.

3. The maintenance costs on B5 were always said to be huge to EarthGov, and supporting a very obsolete space station, built a quarter-century ago in a different political and military era, that sees little traffic, while costing a fortune in upkeep isn't exactly bright.

4. Babylon 5 isn't mobile, they can't just take it through hyperspace to store it, and leaving it intact but abandoned there is a huge security risk, so scuttling it was the option they chose.

5. People sometimes make controversial decisions about the disposition of military hardware when the war is over. The huge fleet we built for World War II? Most of it was destroyed at Bikini Atoll in the "Operation Crossroads" H-Bomb tests to see what the effects of nuclear weapons on a fleet at sea would be. Instead of mothballing or scrapping the largest fleet in our history, we blew it all up in a weapons test.

 

[Nightfall]

So what they should have tested a new weapon to destroy B5 instead of just blowing it up?

 

[Crothian]

Deific beings that were clearly aliens and werent perfect. The Prophets were the closest thing to "gods" that trek ever had, fully at the head of their own religion.

Ya.nd it worked really well. DS9 hada great ending. Was iut what Roddenberry would have done? No, and thankfully we got in anyway. DS9 is seens as one of the strongest Trek series and the ending was the only Trek ending that really had a good feeliong of closure.