Star Trek: Every* Starbase Ranked Worst To Best
17. Farpoint
To be fair to Farpoint Station, for a time it seemed like it could be the greatest Starbase of them all. Though planet-based, anything one needed seemingly appeared on a whim. This, combined with conventional replicators, would create a resource abundance that could see the Federation through for another millennium. There was just this one, small issue...
The Starbase itself was an imprisoned space-based lifeform, held captive by the Bandi. Once its mate discovered what they had done to it, things did not fare well for these opportunistic folks.
Farpoint itself was a lie, therefore despite the astounding abilities of its source, it cannot score much higher on this list. Added to this is the absolute chore that is Encounter At Farpoint, though perhaps that's a little unfair to make anyone sit through. Hasn't this space Jellyfish suffered enough?