Science fabrication and phantasy television has acquire plenty of bizarre or dreadful episode . But sometimes , an instalment is n’t just bad , it ’s world - break — because it introduces patch gob or character traits that would kill a show . Here are 10 sequence that everybody had to pretend just did n’t take place . ( Two of which are really , really good . )
This much - knock episode present a mint of complicated convention about the extraterrestrial Goa’uld that after got dropped or ignored , and the writer themselves sort of disowned it . The show even joked about it in a later installment : in “ Heroes ( Part One ) , ” Dr. Janet Fraiser mentions “ the whole Hathor incident , which we were never supposed to speak of again . ”
In the terminal episode of time of year two , the ship goes to a parallel universe where the type ’ alternate selves are female . by nature , the two Listers have unprotected sexual urge , which results in the male Lister becoming meaning — because in this cosmos , it ’s the men who bear the children .
So the season ends with Lister pregnant , and the writer specify to deal with that when they amount back for time of year 3 , but that episode never got filmed because it was n’t funny ( and also perchance sexist . ) Instead they lumped a whole bunch of patch compass point into a flying outline ( Lister cave in nascence to two boys who did some advanced age material and had to be returned to the substitute universe ) and the pregnancy is only bring up once , quite briefly , ever again .
In this instalment , Angel is drugged with a “ euphoric ” and concisely turns into Angelus … because apparently drugs are as secure as true happiness ( yay shortcuts ! ) A lot of people hate the sequence ( if you’re able to just deform Angel evil with a pill , why do n’t his enemies do that all the time ? ) but Tim Minearhas defended it :
I know there was a fortune of criticism on the net about the way he go bad , and did he really go bad ? The idea of giving Angel a edition of ecstasy — to me , that just worked . I consider it was a really good mode to add Angelus into the series for a moment so that he could interact with our characters for a minute , without doing some big ‘ Angel has turn evil ’ arc . You sort of get to have your patty and use up it too in that episode . It really mould when he goes evil .
At the same fourth dimension , Angel never contract an “ evil ” pill again .
In this episode breaking the warp 10 roadblock somehow results in Tom Paris and Captain Janeway becoming poker , running away to a swampland planet , mating , and suffer three salamander kid . It was so bad that one of its author forebode it “ a royal , steaming , stinker . ” On the other hand , it won the 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series , so that ’s something . Still , the notion that go faster than warp 10 will change by reversal you into a salamander has never been discussed since , in any of the various iterations of Star Trek .
In this episode , Buffy is attacked by a demon whose venom causes her to believe that she ’s actually in a mental infirmary and that the last six years have all been a delusion … or , maybe , we discover that Buffy is in a genial infirmary and that the entire show has taken place in her mind . The famous final setting , showing Buffy back in the mental infirmary , leaves room for interpreting either way , and Joss Whedonhas saidthat mass can make up their own minds on the matter . For his part , though , he thinks that the event of the serial publication really happen . The show never alluded to the “ Buffy in a mental institution ” scenario again , in any sheath .
Update : Just to clarify this is one of two episodes on this tilt that we love , but which we feel was broom under the rug because of its implications for the rest of the serial . Scroll down for the other one …
In this eco - inspired episode the crew learns that warp private road propulsion is actually bust at the fabric of quad , and the Federation decree that all their ship must stick to a upper boundary of warping five , except in cases of emergency . The fastness limitation is then referenced a few episodes later , only so that it can be overridden , and then … it just sort of disappears . An unpublished Voyager technological manual hint that the problem may have been solved with “ varying geometry pylons , ” for whatever that ’s worth .
This is the season - farseeing Doctor Who storyline that ended Colin Baker ’s tenure as the Doctor ( on television , at least ) after the show was put on hiatus and nearly cancelled in 1985 . In “ Trial , ” the Doctor discovers that his malign side will add up out in between his 12th and 13th lives , and will then go to Time Lord law shoal so as to become a prosecutor in the Gallifreyan effectual organisation , so he can put his retiring self on visitation . For a long time afterwards , the BBC reportedly had a ban on mentioning this story , but last twelvemonth the Valeyard was namechecked during “ Name of the Dr. . ” At the same time , neither John Hurt nor Matt Smith turned into an evil lawyer .
This is the episode where Lee Adama is dating a sexual activity worker and taking part in a whole dim food market thingy , and at the end of the episode there ’s a shot where it feels like Bill Adama and his boy sort of face at each other and say , “ This never happened . ” And then … it ’s never observe again . Ronald D. Moore has beenvery vocal about disliking this installment , and its take on Lee Adama was basically ignored afterwards .
The only part of this instalment that everybody agree to dissemble never hap is the bit where Jaime Lannister ravish his sis Cersei , next to the grave of their newly dead son Joffrey . There ’s actuallyan clause in The Daily Beastwith the newspaper headline “ Why We Should Pretend the ‘ Game of Thrones ’ Rape Scene Never Happened . ” The show basically depends on everybody going along with this , because Jaime and Cersei have a number of interactions in the succeed episode which make no sense if you see them as conversations between a assault victim and her raper .
We could also name the Who television set film where it ’s “ revealed ” that the Doctor is half - human . But the whole plot of this actually quite wonderful episode count on the approximation that if you bilk your own timeline , huge prison term vulture will seem and use up everybody . If the show had cling to that formula since then , a lot of the preceding five years would attend very dissimilar , including the “ Christmas Carol ” episode but also a lot of Matt Smith ’s most polar episode . The absence seizure of time vultures showing up and greedy people every clock time they intersect with their own pasts is an abiding mystery .
Update : Paul Cornell , author of the episode , has adopt effect with our take on it on Twitter , arguing that the show actually build on it . Relevant bits below :
https://twitter.com/embed/status/532646782833295360
https://twitter.com/embed/status/532649530005946369
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