10 Star Trek Episodes That Actors Regret

Code of Honor is the infamous early episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that is frequently voted one of the worst episodes of the entire franchise. Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner have both gone on the record with how much they hate the episode, citing it as a "racist piece of sh*t".

Rod Roddenberry feels that the episode isn't quite as bad as the reception would have people believe, yet it's the depiction of every member of the Ligonians that crushes any argument against the inherent racism on show. Although they are on the one hand technologically advanced enough to have contact with the Federation, they are backward enough as a society that a rigid gender-stereotype exists.

Katharyn Powers wrote the script and would later write the script for Emancipation, an episode of Stargate SG-1 that follows almost exactly the same plot. Both episodes were widely panned by the cast and crews as well. Actor Garrett Wang, although he didn't appear in this episode, cites watching this as the reason he got the role of Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager. After viewing Code of Honor, he was no longer too nervous to audition!