The WORST episodes of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier
Every episode of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier!
Star Trek: Hidden Frontier (HF) was a Star Trek fan film project. Although fan films have been produced for almost as long as there have been film fans, they were generally few and far between before the advent of home video. Produced on digital video, the show's sets are almost completely virtual, using a green-screen chroma keyed process to place performers into virtual settings. The series is set during the era of the Star Trek: The Next Generation series. Episodes revolve around the starship USS Excelsior, and its home base, Deep Space 12, which is located in the Briar Patch, a region of space introduced in the film Star Trek: Insurrection.
#1 - Homeport
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2005
Learn what life is like aboard Deep Space 12, as Excelsior's crew copes with the stress of battle ever looming on the horizon. This episode is primarily focused on character interaction; however, it can be said to contain three separate "threads" running in parallel.
#2 - Addictions
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2003
"Captain's Log, Stardate 57324.6: With the Yridian drug runners in custody, we've tracked their last visit to the Federation colony on Bovina VIII. It appears the Yridians weren't just smugglers, but users of the Orion's cargo."
#3 - Grave Matters
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/2003
Lieutenant Corey Aster and Ensign Andrew Barrett are temporarily reassigned to the USS Aldrin on a routine terraforming mission on the edges of the Briar Patch. But when they discover a mass grave of hundreds of Bajoran refugees, they must look for answers when the Cardassians are implicated in their deaths. Aster grows close to one of the Cardassian scientists, and comes into conflict with Ro Nevin, especially since his grandfather was one of the victims of the massacre.
#4 - Crossroads
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/2003
The Federation discovers suspicious fleet movements by the Tholians and believe it is a precursor to launching an attack to steal the Cardassian Tetrahedron. Attempting to warn the Cardassians and make preparations to join forces to stop it falls on deaf ears. The Federation decides to lay in wait outside of Cardassian space for the attack they are certain is coming.
#5 - Entanglement, Part 1
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/1/2004
The Independence prepares to become the first starship to enter and explore the subspace currents that allow warp travel in the Briar Patch. Officers from the Excelsior investigating strange readings on Ba'ku run into an old enemy. Dr. Henglaar faces some personal demons when his ex-fiancée, Independence Chief Engineer Sou, arrives on board with her husband, CMO Qu'Qul. But when Qu'Qul realizes his wife still has feelings for the Tellarite doctor, he challenges Henglaar to a Klingon ritual for Sou’s affection.
#6 - Entanglement, Part 2
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/1/2004
With Princess Illiana on board, the Independence begins its mission into the currents, but soon encounter Grey forces as they abduct citizens of an inhabited planet within the Briar Patch. Examining an abductee, Cole and her crew find evidence that suggests that the Grey have been a threat to the Federation for longer than previously realized. The Excelsior gives chase to a Breen vessel they believe may be carrying the fugitive Vorina. Henglaar and Qu'Qul prepare for their holodeck showdown, despite Sou’s objections.
#7 - Imminent Danger
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2004
While exploring the currents in the Briar Patch, the Excelsior crew realize the Tholians have a greater presence in the patch than previously thought. An ambush on a planet surface leaves Barrett racked with guilt and it's up to his friends and colleagues to rally round him. Meanwhile, a diplomatic conference with the Tholian Ambassador raises more questons than answers.
#8 - Darkest Night
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/1/2004
The Federation considers using Centris III as a listening post. The planet is believed to be uninhabited and offers a perfect chance for some well-deserved shore leave. "The Camping Trip Mission" begins and Barrett, Ro and Aster get more than they bargained for. The camping trip becomes a life and death battle for one of the team.
#9 - Security Counsel
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/1/2004
While the Excelsior attempts to lend assistance to a longtime member of the Federation, Security Chief Matt McCabe finds develops suspicions that do not endear him to the world’s rulers. He grows close to a local security officer while they investigate the supposed terrorist activities that the planet is suffering from. Soon, they stumble onto something far more dangerous.
#10 - Epitaph
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2004
Captain Shelby experiences a personal loss, while the rest of Excelsior’s crew uncovers some of the secrets of the Grey. Naros history with Tren'La make working with Princess Illiana difficult, as they discover more clues that link the Grey with the tetrahedrons.
#11 - The Battle is Joined
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2004
Knapp and Naros lead the Antietam on a surveillance mission that gets out of control, while Zen and Aster's relationship is threatened by someone from the Trill's past.
#12 - Countermeasures
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/2005
The Tholians finally make their move, and the galaxy will never be the same. Commodore Knapp deals with a rebellious daughter.
#13 - Dancing in the Dark
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/1/2005
Myra Elbrey hesitantly welcomes a former student of hers to Excelsior, when Milo Surgant arrives to act as a translator for the Horta exogeologist Lt. Pergium arrives to make some headway on the studies of the Ba’ku tetrahedron. But as the mission preparations begin, she realises that her old fears of him abusing his Betazoid talents may still hold true. When she is telepathically attacked in an act of revenge, Henglaar finally begins to understand the depth of his feelings for her.
#14 - Piracy of the Noble
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2003
While enroute to diplomatic negotiations on DS9, Admiral Nechayev and her away team of Excelsior personnel are kidnapped by pirates commanded by rogue Starfleet officer, onboard a stolen Federation starship. Meanwhile, Captain Shelby takes the Excelsior to assist the Cardassians in identifying where the pirates work from, as tensions with the Son'a increase.
#15 - Beachhead
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/1/2005
The Tholians make their move: Siroc tests a new weapon against Starfleet, while the largest meeting of Alpha Quadrant powers since the Dominion War is not going so well. They know they need to band together against the Tholians but the Federation is keeping secrets from its allies. The illegally joined Trill, Zen, has difficulty with his symbiont while the first-ever portrayed Tellarite Captain faces down the Tholians' deadly weapon.
#16 - Vigil
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/1/2005
To better understand the tetrahedrons operation, an interrogation of the Orion Syndicate pirate Mason is conducted. When he reveals the location of another tetrahedron key, a mission is set up to retrieve it, with his help. But one of the officers will not return, and the others will be left reeling at the loss of one of their own. Shelby encounters a few ghosts of her own, when assigned to assist a Romulan fleet make the necessary adjustments to traverse the Patch, and runs into her former lover, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun.
#17 - Her Battle Lanterns Lit
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2005
In preparation for the major attack the Alliance is about to undertake, Knapp promotes Naros to the command of the USS Helena, while taking command of the fleet itself from Excelsior. Realising Siroc may try anything to get to the Grey Dyson Sphere, Naros realises not is he a target, but so are Elbrey and Artim, while Shelby works on making sure her senior staff deal with the raw emotion of the loss of one of their own. Meanwhile, Siroc sets his own plan in motion to disrupt the incoming attack forces.
#18 - Heavy Losses
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/2006
The battle has been lost, and now the crew of the USS Excelsior struggles for their lives. With the battle plan shattered, and the enemy manuvering to annihilate them, no one is safe from the clutches of Siroc and the Tholian Assembly.
#19 - Bound
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/2006
The Allied fleet makes further preparations to counter Siroc's next move, whatever it may be. But with the Grey continuing to be a no-show in the struggle for the tetrahedrons and Dyson Sphere, the fate of Admiral Knapp's daughter hanging in the balance, and Barrett's friends still struggling with his MIA status, things are beginning to rush headlong into a breakdown.
#20 - Past Sins
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2006
Tetrahedron research is continuing, but without vital assistance from people in Dao's past, gathering key information about locating and protecting the other Tetrahedrons has stalled out. Dao volunteers to return home and obtain further assistance from his former colleagues; but this mission may very well cost him his life, and the life of his host.
#21 - Hearts and Minds
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/1/2006
When sudden and brutal attacks by the Tholians and Breen begin to target both Starfleet and civilian craft alike, Captain Shelby must begin to battle for the hearts and minds of the Federation's closest allies. Meanwhile, Admiral Cole is confronted with overwhelming odds and an increasingly restless civilian crew in a desperate battle to survive.
#22 - The Widening Gyre
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2006
Captain Shelby's leadership of the Allied forces is questioned, and Shelby is ordered to rest. Corey and Nevin consider an affair. Admiral Knapp, Pelas, and Lieutenant McFarland continue the search for Traya with no luck. S'Tal and Lieutenant McCabe miss Andrew. Captain Naros and Jorian Zen continue the search for Tesla Mor.
#23 - Things Fall Apart
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2006
Old enemies, old friends, and old ideas are shaken up as Siroc's plans shift ever closer to their devestating conclusion; things are collapsing right under the feet of the Allies as he draws nearer to his victory. Meanwhile, Shelby has to face up to the toughest challenge of her career with less help than she's ever had, Dao must face his past if he has any hope of going into the future, and the prisoners must make their stand if they hope to survive the seemingly mindless brutality of Siroc and his henchmen.
#24 - The Center Cannot Hold
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/2007
Shelby's recovered the hearts and minds of Starfleet's allies against Siroc and the Tholians - but it may be too late. With the return of an old friend and the loss of new ones under tragic circumstances, Excelsior is in a desperate race to get back to her home station, as the entire patch has suddenly gone deathly silent. If things weren't bad enough, it has come down to the wire for Naros' race to beat Siroc to the Dyson Sphere and stop him from carrying out his mission. With Ro's capture, Siroc's entire checklist for his final plan is complete, and using the stolen memories from Counselor Elbrey, all that's left is getting there first.
#25 - Its Hour Come Round At Last
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/1/2007
The stunning conclusion to the Star Trek: Hidden Frontier series. The Station is under siege by the Grey once more, as the crew of the USS Helena struggle to catch Siroc before he arrives at the Dyson Sphere. While the battle rages outside, Shelby and Lefler are leading a skeleton crew of 93 in a desperate ploy to restore the USS Excelsior and rejoin the fight to protect the station's civilians. With time completely gone, all hope lies in Admiral Knapp, Martinez, Jorian (Zen) Dao, Corey Aster and Jenna McFarland being able to figure out how to use the Hybrid ship; but things are far more different - and deadly - than they seem. With Ro as their captive and unwilling source of the technical data needed, Siroc and Betras arrive on the Dyson Sphere, and Siroc will stop at nothing to get to the secrets of the Dyson Sphere. Tolian Naros, along with Faisal, Henglaar, Elbrey, and others also arrive to try to rescue Ro Nevin and stop Siroc from bringing on the potential destruction of the universe.