You’re right. I should have qualified that “worst” with “worst from the original series, TNG, or DS9 (the three series I respect).”

Who the yippee-ki-yay signed a treaty denying the Federation tactical technology that their rivals have had for a century? That’s both the Klingons AND the Romulans who have had it that long. Heck, the Cardassians might have it for all I know.

Well, they didn’t until the Cardassians’ and Romulans’ secret police each put their heads together for a disastrous joint military venture into the Gamma Quadrant in Deep Space Nine, but you can tell those Cardassians would never have signed such an idiotic treaty, even if the cloaking technology is somewhat less effective as a weapon than you would think. (As the Federation learned from getting one “on loan” from the Romulans in that same series, it’s much more useful for diplomacy, particularly when you need to travel to somewhere you’re not particularly welcome in order to conduct some high-level negotiations.)

Worf gets another character episode! — which is also absolutely the worst “Prime Directive” story ever.

No, in my opinion, the absolute worst “Prime Directive” story ever was that whole “Let-the-entire-pre-warp-alien-civilization-die-even-though-we-have-a-working-cure-for-their-disease-because-we-shouldn’t-interfere-with-nature-taking-its-course” episode of Enterprise. This one comes in a close second, though.

So who really wanted to hear Beverly Crusher detail her sexual dreams and see her O-face? Would you please never speak to me again?

“But seriously? Go back and watch the episode where Doctor Crusher bones a space ghost. It’s just… It’s… It’s amazing.”

“Sub rosa” suffers from the same problem that the “Janeway’s Gothic romance holonovel” episodes did in Voyager: even if it were a fabulous example of the supernatural romance genre (I’ll withhold judgment on that), it’s not what the audience signed up for. Sticking this episode after the Star Trek credits is as bad an example of “False Flagging” as anything you’ve posted on the Lousy Book Covers site.

It did however, produce one of the great lines from SFDebris: “Technically, there’s more evidence for the existence of ghosts than there is for the existence of [the woman listed as the writer of the episode].”