What is your favorite Star Trek series?

What is your favorite series

  • Star Trek The Original Series

    Votes: 10 27.0%

  • Star Trek The Next Generation

    Votes: 21 56.8%

  • Star Trek Deep Space Nine

    Votes: 13 35.1%

  • Star Trek Voyager

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Star Trek Enterprise

    Votes: 2 5.4%
  • Total voters
    37
I liked the original series and Star Trek: the Animated Series. Everything afterwards was alright, but just couldn't compare to the greatness of the adventures of Kirk and crew.
 
On Season Four of TNG and I really enjoyed the introduction to the Cardassians. A really nice prelude to DS9 and Gul Dakat. The Borg had a really nice introduction in Season Three but I am beginning to think they were misused when researching Voyager. Voyager has to be my least favorite of the Trek series not including Enterprise which I ignored.
 
Sadly that is a fact. The Borg's appearance on Voyager will start out excellent in "Scorpion 1&2" in which they really feel like a serious menace the crew of Voyager has run into.
But sadly I feel that the flaws already start to enter in "Dark Frontier", then we got "Collective" during which we got to experience the 'Borg kids', with the Season 6 ender being "Unimatrix Zero" which in my opinion neutered the Borg and introduced the pretty useless Borg Resistance that would never have an impact on Voyager again. (why the fuck introduce them in the first place then?)

Seriously, Voyager attacks a Borg vessel even more powerful than the one the Enterprise faced in "Best of both worlds" and gets away with it.

And "Endgame", well the writers must have thought that now that the Borg concept was ruined anyway they might as well finish it off by introducing the Voyager batmobile armor and torpedoes that can blow up a cube in one or two shots.

I liked "First Contact" but I honestly still want to beat Moore and Braga for introducing the damn Borg Queen.
That character should never have been introduced in the first place as the Collective is suppose to be an almost faceless enemy, a consciousness so far above regular humanity that it barely notices it.
Not become obsessed with humanity and even wanting revenge. Revenge is irrelevant.


Edit: Give Enterprise season 2 "Regeneration" a try. As a Borg episode it is pretty fun, as an Enterprise episode it is completely unsuitable to the era.
It introduces another change to the Borg as well, Drones can be brought back to life more than a century after their deaths.
 
The one defense I have heard people put forward in Voyager's defense is they had access to tech centuries into the future due to some time travel shenanigans, but I haven't watched any of them myself.

DS9 is beginning to look very appealing due to the increasing focus on character arcs. I'm just getting to Season Five in TNG with Jammers being my guide to which episodes to watch.

http://www.jammersreviews.com/st-tng/

Also, what are your favorite Star Trek games by chance? Starfleet Command is pretty good and I am considering Star Trek Online since they are porting it to PS4. I played the TNG one on SNES back in the day. It seemed pretty good.
 
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I've been kind of think of getting into Star Trek for a while.
I may have to pick up some of the Original Series Boxsets tomorrow.
 
TorontRayne said:
The one defense I have heard people put forward in Voyager's defense is they had access to tech centuries into the future due to some time travel shenanigans, but I haven't watched any of them myself.
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Unfortunate that was a deus ex for plot convenience as the show basically had to be ended at the end of Season 7 and the producers were already working on Star Trek Enterprise which seemed to have more of their interest than trying to finish a show they had been half assing after taking over from most of the original producers (only Berman still remained from the original three)

I think at this point it became clear that the people running Star Trek weren't that interested in doing much effort on this show any more, it was something they were stuck when they instead wanted to move on.
And I think this can be seen in how Season 6 and 7 had been done, more and more filler episodes and not any attempt at all on any kind of resolution that would feel rewarding to the audience that has been with the show since "Caretaker".
A lot of stuff that had been introduced such as the second Caretaker, the Borg Resistance, the Vaadwaur, and more were never followed up any more at all.

"Endgame" Was basically a "and then they went home and lived happily ever after"

When Deep Space Nine was over Moore moved over to Voyager but he stuck with it only for a short time. I think he did not like the atmosphere and the people he was working with.
Now I am not a big fan of Moore as I think nBSG has barely anything in common with the original show and just served as some vehicle to tell Moore's own version of Christianity. (he should have made his own damn IP), but this guy had been around since TNG and worked on one of the best TNG movie (First Contact).
And that he thought that Voyager wasn't very good then that should have send signals to the people running the company.


TorontRayne said:
DS9 is beginning to look very appealing due to the increasing focus on character arcs. I'm just getting to Season Five in TNG with Jammers being my guide to which episodes to watch.

http://www.jammersreviews.com/st-tng/
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Ah Jammer, it has been a while since I last went through those reviews. I completely forgot about them.


TorontRayne said:
Also, what are your favorite Star Trek games by chance? Starfleet Command is pretty good and I am considering Star Trek Online since they are porting it to PS4. I played the TNG one on SNES back in the day. It seemed pretty good.
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I played the SNES TNG game to but apparently the Genesis version is much better it has some fixed and changes the SNES version did not get.

Well I mentioned in another thread what my own favorite ST games are but I will another quick run down:
Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Star Trek Judgment Rites, Star Trek Starfleet Academy (PC), Star Trek TNG A Final Unity, Star Trek Elite Force, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Star Trek Away Team, Deep Space Nine The Fallen.

I would really like to give Star Trek Invasion a try and I re installed Online to give that another try but I will focus on the Single Player aspects.
 
Actually, I think for the most part Voyager was pretty awesome. It was very different to TNG, while still keeping some of the things that made ST in my opinion awesome. Like the exploration, different cultures and morals. What made Voyager unique was that it also challanged the Federation and its ideals. I think, if they actually left out the Borg, or at the very least keept them much closer to the Borg from TNG, without this time travel bullshit in the last episodes, it would have been pretty awesome. Those last two episodes fuck so much, it's really unbelievable. To much Deus Ex Machina, plot holes and bullshiting. They really lost their track. I don't even know why they had to do something with the Borg.
I liked Seven of Nine though, as a character. And the first time you see the Borg in Voyager, was actually pretty cool. They should have kept that tone.

Also DSN9 is a very interesting concept, even though, I think that it follows a very different approach. You either like it, or hate it. I feel like there is not much midle ground here. It's much less about the moral stuff in TNG and the different cultures, but rather telling more personal stories. It reminded me in some cases to Babylon 5, which was a huge plus. Probably beacause both series have been centered around a space station and the character archs. Albeit, Babylon 5 will always have a place in my heart. It was a special kind of TV series. The effects look ridiculous by todays standard. But the way how the series was created, the characters, their changes and how the story was told, was somewhat pretty awesome.
 
Sure, but it seems easier to watch shows when they air on television. At the time TNG had excellent special effects. Still does in many ways. I prefer TNG's to Voyagers. I prefer the models.
 
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