Which Was The Better Star Trek???
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Originally posted by Squishy:
From what i’ve seen in the past there are those out there that refuse to even acknowledge the newer series, and will always say TOS.
It’s not that I don’t acknowledge the newer series, I just acknowledge that, for the most part, they don’t do anything for me. Picard may have poise, grace, and composure, but he is no fun whatsoever. In fact, even though I’d say it ranks next below TOS (though not close enough to make my top 5), very few members of the TNG cast seem like they’d be the kind of folks that I’d want to hang around with. Worf, I can dig. Maybe a couple of others (but any television program that allows Whoopi Goldberg to find gainful employment loses points immediately). But the primary characters in TNG are so reserved, so stuck-in-the-mud — either that or so freakin’ *annoying* (I mean, really, what was Deanna Troi’s *purpose* other than to tell everyone exactly what [i]they already knew to being with[/i]??? “Captain, I’m sensing some hostility from our visitor.” “Really? Would *his hands around my throat* be what tipped you off???”) — that I just don’t get my jollies watching ’em. And while they had some decent writers for the series, the spark of imagination just wasn’t the same. And after Roddenberry’s death, in addition to catering to the self-restrictive set of formulae used to cook up scripts, the writers too often fell into the trap of trying to second-guess what Gene would’ve wanted. Well, Gene didn’t have any *taste* to begin with, and the best episodes of *any* of the series were done mostly *in spite of* the hand of Roddenberry. To try and emulate what he’d want is to try and base one’s ideas on those of someone who really didn’t have that many good ideas to begin with. Like I said, all of the [i]Star Trek[/i] series have had decent episodes, but the formula for churning ’em out hadn’t been established for TOS, and there weren’t as many rules and restrictions then. No one really knew what the heck they were doing, so some really great authors and screenwriters were able to sally forth without being hamstringed quite so much.
And *that* is why I didn’t list anything but TOS. I’ll turn the channel to watch an episode if it’s on at the time, but with any other series in the [i]Trek[/i] family, I’ll pass it by any time I’m flipping around.
–Aleck