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
There is definitely more of a connection to a show pre-dvr when you had to make a conscious effort to be in front of the TV at a certain time on a certain day. I still remember watching the premier of TNG with my dad, it was a big deal for us since he watched TOS growing up.
 
It was a different time for sure. Like waiting until the next season to see what happens to Picard after being captured by the Borg or when Worf quit Starfleet. Having Deep Space Nine and TNG on at the same time with characters making cameos on either show was great.
 
You think? You mean like in Game of Thrones or all those other shitty shows that make me wait till the next season before I can see how it continues!!113123
 
Haha I guess.

It was much harder to binge watch shows back then unless you recorded them all on VHS. Having a couple Trek shows running at the same time made it feel like a constantly evolving universe where anything could happen. Then they made Enterprise and it nearly killed the series. Now the newest series will be on CBS's online streaming thingie...
 
Crni Vuk said:
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.
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I am pretty sure Braga was behind it, wanting to do another reset button spectacle.
Voyager needed a decent conclusion arc, preferably with the second Caretaker.

I still think Voyager should have come home in Season 6 (after DSN had already ended) and the show then dealing with the impact of what Voyager's crew had done in the Delta Quadrant.
Then the show could have ended with an exciting finale in which either the Borg Collective or perhaps Species 8472 attacks the Federation and Janeway and her crew's knowledge proves to be crucial to save Earth.
 
Species 8472 was sadly wasted potential. They should have done a lot more with it. Was an interesting idea. Up to the point where they of course had to make them more Human.
 
I actually recently started re-watching the original star trek series. I absolutely adore the cheesy wonderfulness that it is.
 
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I'm about 8 episodes into TOS, I will say I'm really enjoying it. It's got to the point where I think the makers knew what they were doing as the most recent episodes definitely have a higher quality over the first few.
One of the episodes I just watched was what Fallout 4 should have been in my opinion, focusing on what makes us human and why Androids can't replace us as they don't share the same emotions, instead they are programed to do what their master says.

Anyway, I'm now about 1/3 of the way through the first season. Hopefully I'll be done with it by the end of the week,
 
Millim said:
I'm about 8 episodes into TOS, I will say I'm really enjoying it. It's got to the point where I think the makers knew what they were doing as the most recent episodes definitely have a higher quality over the first few.
One of the episodes I just watched was what Fallout 4 should have been in my opinion, focusing on what makes us human and why Androids can't replace us as they don't share the same emotions, instead they are programed to do what their master says.

Anyway, I'm now about 1/3 of the way through the first season. Hopefully I'll be done with it by the end of the week,
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The 2nd season is really great.
 
Crni Vuk said:
Species 8472 was sadly wasted potential. They should have done a lot more with it. Was an interesting idea. Up to the point where they of course had to make them more Human.
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Finally someone who agrees with me on Species 8472. The producers and writers should never have made them more human like, they were like Star Trek's version of Cthulhu or the Old Ones.
They are powerful enough to beat the Borg and guess, they are just as bad and alien as the Collective.

Years ago a Star Trek fanzine accidentally mixed up previews of "Timeless" and "In the flesh", describing that the 100th Voyager episode would have been about Species 8472 invading the Federation. Now that was an episode I would have wanted to see.
Imagine this opening of Starfleet ships suddenly being overtaken by Bioships in the opening of the episode, as long time watcher you would go "Oh fuck, its Species 8472! And they are in the Alpha Quadrant!"
 
Well to flesh out their society and all that, that's alright. But making them act like humans ... meh. It was still a decent episode I think.
 
It's hard to speculate over a Teaser, but I honestly hope that it's a continuation of the Next Gen stuff, or if not, at least let it take place after the current film series.

Again, it's hard to tell what they will do with this, I don't want it to simply be a reboot of the Original Series (considering that's what the new films kind of are).
 
From what I understand it will be an anthology series similar to The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits set in the so called 'lost era' (the period between ST6 and TNG).
Personally I rather wish not as I feel it will restrict certain creative freedoms, but then again it might also encourage them.

That trailer, well we don't see anything really other than a nice CGI sequence. But one thing I don't get "New villains"? Sure Star Trek has antagonists but the show was never about heroes fighting villains, that sounds more like something for a more regular action show; the goodies vs the baddies.

When it was first suggested that there would be a new Star Trek one thing that CBS mentioned was that despite the Khitomer peace treaty Klingons could return as villains.
I was thinking "Why do you need to mention that? If a writer comes up with a script that involves Klingons as hostiles that is approved for production, than that will happen. It is not as if needs to be confirmed that there will be Klingon villains as if otherwise a Star Trek series can not be a Star Trek series. They are not that integral you know."

Just give us a fricking intelligent sci-fi adventure show in which you try to tell good stories dealing with new ways of thinking, new concepts in in scientific knowledge and cosmology, and explore philosophy and ethics, with the occasionally exciting action packed story that pushes the main characters to their limit.
 
There is no place for intelligent shows. Even the ones that ARE intelligent right now, contain a hell lot of action. Call me ... grumpy. But I just don't see how in this time and age many of the plots of TNG or Voyager could work today. Who would give them a greenlight? They think their audience are cats. Cats with the attention span of a goldfish. And 1 or even several episodes where omg! NOTHING happens! Just ... plot? Character archs? Showing an Android going trough his ... normal live? The horror!
It's one of the rason why I loved Babylon 5 so much. Yeah, yeah, the acting can get really ... weird sometimes and the effects, have been already back than not stellar. But god, the show had so much going on under the surface. I really recommend it to anyone who's into good Sci-Fi series. But don't watch the 5th season. It sucks. The show pretty much ends after season 4 anyway.
 
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