Poll: Whats your favourite Star Trek series?
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The original was quite clever, and had some surprisingly deep stories, but there were also the awful costumes and backgrounds. A classic to be sure, but not my favourite.
I started watching Star Trek with Voyager, and I quite liked the premise of a "lost" ship trying to get back home. It gave the writers a ton of freedom, good effects, and the stories were overall solid. Plus Seven was hot, and that skin tight suit...but I digress. Voyager is essentially tied for the spot of my favourite series, but it narrowly lost.
Enterprise wasn't as bad as people claim, but also not as good as it could have been. Given the premise of a pre-federation galaxy, the stories could/should have centered around exploration without the need for any sort of conflict. I like to watch the occasional re-run, but it's not my favourite.
Now TNG, my favourite of them all. Three word: Jean-Luc Picard (or is that two with the hyphen?). If he isn't the single greatest thing to happen to Star Trek since Gene Roddenberry, I don't know what is. Yes, TNG is amazing, although the acting/costumes are a bit weird at times. Whatever, few things top an evening of TNG...
The original was quite clever, and had some surprisingly deep stories, but there were also the awful costumes and backgrounds. A classic to be sure, but not my favourite.
I started watching Star Trek with Voyager, and I quite liked the premise of a "lost" ship trying to get back home. It gave the writers a ton of freedom, good effects, and the stories were overall solid. Plus Seven was hot, and that skin tight suit...but I digress. Voyager is essentially tied for the spot of my favourite series, but it narrowly lost.
Enterprise wasn't as bad as people claim, but also not as good as it could have been. Given the premise of a pre-federation galaxy, the stories could/should have centered around exploration without the need for any sort of conflict. I like to watch the occasional re-run, but it's not my favourite.
Now TNG, my favourite of them all. Three word: Jean-Luc Picard (or is that two with the hyphen?). If he isn't the single greatest thing to happen to Star Trek since Gene Roddenberry, I don't know what is. Yes, TNG is amazing, although the acting/costumes are a bit weird at times. Whatever, few things top an evening of TNG...
I would have to say DS9. Though TNG was a close contender.
I felt DS9 had alot more going for it. For one it wasnt nearly as covered in a shadow as TNG was. It also had a more serialized feel to it, basically having sort of a soap opera effect where you basically want to keep up to date on whats going on, and it did that very well. TNG alot of times you could miss a mid season episode here or there and not be too out of the loop until the later seasons that were being influenced by DS9s sucess. Also.. the level of complexity, overall darkness and sense of urgency made it stand out more, especially things like the religious aspect of it all.
The most lamentable things about Star trek as a series is STO having so much to work with, and capitalizing on so little of it. I know that bigger trek fans than I know more than I ever will about the series... and i found it very disconcerting that something as simple as the galactic map was pretty much laid out hap hazardly when its painfully clear that there are vaults of cartography maps out there, showing where things should be in the trek universe.
The second most lamentable thing is the new film incarnation. Dont get me wrong, there are some postivies, like Simon pegg made an unexpectedly enjoyable scotty. But to take the original series, and as it was put, "Ipod glam" it up all the while retreading on old ground. It feels like its a case of to "boldy go.. where we went 40 years before."
I felt DS9 had alot more going for it. For one it wasnt nearly as covered in a shadow as TNG was. It also had a more serialized feel to it, basically having sort of a soap opera effect where you basically want to keep up to date on whats going on, and it did that very well. TNG alot of times you could miss a mid season episode here or there and not be too out of the loop until the later seasons that were being influenced by DS9s sucess. Also.. the level of complexity, overall darkness and sense of urgency made it stand out more, especially things like the religious aspect of it all.
The most lamentable things about Star trek as a series is STO having so much to work with, and capitalizing on so little of it. I know that bigger trek fans than I know more than I ever will about the series... and i found it very disconcerting that something as simple as the galactic map was pretty much laid out hap hazardly when its painfully clear that there are vaults of cartography maps out there, showing where things should be in the trek universe.
The second most lamentable thing is the new film incarnation. Dont get me wrong, there are some postivies, like Simon pegg made an unexpectedly enjoyable scotty. But to take the original series, and as it was put, "Ipod glam" it up all the while retreading on old ground. It feels like its a case of to "boldy go.. where we went 40 years before."
And DS9 itself was arguably influenced to head in that direction by B5, but that's neither here nor there. I kind of have to go with DS9 for that same reason, though, as great as TNG was. It's less Star Trek-y than the stuff that came before it, in a way, since it's less utopian and a lot darker, but they really did do a good job with it, and anything with Garak gets bonus points.viranimus said:
TNG is a close second, and then TOS not too far behind. Voyager was watchable, but that's when it all started going downhill. It was a decent idea, and they pulled it off ok, but it didn't really come together as well as the previous series. I'm not even going to talk about the disaster that Enterprise was, despite all the potential it had...
Thanks for that, I'll have to remember this next time I see something involving Voyager.Disaster Button said:
Next Generation, it jsut had so much.
The competant Captain Picard
The Ingenious Number One Riker
The Master Technicion lefoy
The Suprisingly thoughtful and deep android Data
And just so much more. It just feels like if you were on the Enterprise with Picard and his crew on board, you were pretty much guarrentteed to make it home alive and without a scratch. Well... unless you were Natasha Yar.
The competant Captain Picard
The Ingenious Number One Riker
The Master Technicion lefoy
The Suprisingly thoughtful and deep android Data
And just so much more. It just feels like if you were on the Enterprise with Picard and his crew on board, you were pretty much guarrentteed to make it home alive and without a scratch. Well... unless you were Natasha Yar.