Which is your favorite Star Trek series?

[Buffy]

Even non-fans have a favorite. What's yours?

 

Also share your favorite Trek quotes....

 

You know what to do! ;)

 

On the contrary, I think of this project as very important. It is you I take lightly, :lol:

Buffy

[freeztar]

No question, the original is just that.

 

Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi :phones:

[Buffy]

Oh and before anyone has the chance to complain about it, it was left out on purpose. Anyone who notices it's missing AND wants to vote for it can embarrass themselves by declaring it's their favorite publicly by posting so below.

 

Those of you who have no idea of what I'm talking about in this post can be glad I've saved them from suffering having to know. It's not worth it. Carry on.

 

You've got nothing. You mind your place, mister, or you'll be wearing concrete galoshes, :phones:

Buffy

[Michaelangelica]

The original show had real stroies on real issues and 'real' SF& life themes.

Later stuff has been disappointing in the writing and especially in the ideas department.

I did however, enjoy the most recent movie of the franchise.

[Chacmool]

"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it." :phones:

[freeztar]

The original show had real stroies on real issues and 'real' SF& life themes.

Later stuff has been disappointing in the writing and especially in the ideas department.

I did however, enjoy the most recent movie of the franchise.

 

The movie with the "red matter"? :phones:

 

I'm ok with tribbles, Klingons, faster than c warp drive, Vulcan telekinesis, and Kirk boxing, but "red matter"? C'mon!

 

[Zythryn]

I liked them all:) But if I have to pick one, I picked TNG.

TOS and TNG were, in my opinion, best at dealing with societal issues. However I feel TNG had much better acting.

 

"What is it?"

"Why it's... it's... it's green!"

[Zythryn]

I'm ok with ..., and Kirk boxing, ...

:phones:

 

I always liked the term 'Kirk Fu':oh_really:

 

"Ensign Johnson, you go check behind that rock..."

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Fine all avoid the obvious

 

"he's dead jim" "highly illogical" "cappin aye dohn think she'll take anymore!!!"

[TheBigDog]

Oh and before anyone has the chance to complain about it, it was left out on purpose. Anyone who notices it's missing AND wants to vote for it can embarrass themselves by declaring it's their favorite publicly by posting so below.

 

Those of you who have no idea of what I'm talking about in this post can be glad I've saved them from suffering having to know. It's not worth it. Carry on. ;)

 

You've got nothing. You mind your place, mister, or you'll be wearing concrete galoshes, :(

Buffy

Hey! Where is the cartoon series!

[TheBigDog]

Three months ago I would have voted for TNG, no question. Then I watched Enterprise from beginning to end and it is now my favorite. It did great sci-fi, and long story arcs. It dealt with social issues as well as any other series, but I think it did so in a more sophisticated manner. And the way they managed to feature T'Pol's *** so prominently in almost every episode gives it lots of bonus points.

 

TOS is too much a vision from its own time. It is so hard locked into the 60's. There are good stories, great stories, great characters. But there is only circumstantial character development. It was the pioneer show, but it lives on its nostalgia and charm and is in most ways outclassed by all of the series that followed.

 

TNG is what I grew up on. I saw it all first run. I watched it religiously. I even wrote and submitted a complete episode (among the many thousands as it was the only show on televison that accepted open submissions). Only 3 or 4 people actually had their story turned into a show; I met one who had subsequently been hired as a writer and had penned the Klingon episodes and mythology. I love TNG and the characters, but it falls short of Enterprise because it was essentially still a single episode phenomena. It did not do longer story arcs, and when it did they often got goofy (Time's Arrow).

 

I started watching DS9, but it was going nowhere. It literally went no place. Sure, it was at a crossroads in the galaxy with the whole stable worm hole thing, but... eh. I hear it got better when they got the ship and Worf showed up to fly it around but I only saw the first three seasons or so. I found a half a script I wrote for it during the second season but never finished. I plan on watching it some day.

 

STV was another one that I started watching, but I never got hooked. It sounded like a goodseries idea, but it always seemed to fall short for me. I watched it sporadically but missed most of the series. I caught the final episode by pure happenstance and it was fantastic. I have just this week put this on my Netflix list to begin as soon as I finish watching the last three seasons of Taxi.

 

Do you suppose there is going to be another series? I sure hope so!

 

Bill

[Buffy]

Hey! Where is the cartoon series!

Five demerits for not reading this post. It was written specifically for you. Obviously you have no facility with the Vulcan mind meld, let alone any Betazoid abilities.

TOS is too much a vision from its own time. It is so hard locked into the 60's.

Damn lib'rul hippie-commies!

STV was another one that I started watching, but I never got hooked.

Prolly cos' it had too many girlz...

 

These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well! They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing! Do you understand?

Buffy

[robcypher]

I liked all of them, although Enterprise was way too slow or contrived too often. DS9 was inconsistent and Voyager's early years were even worse than TNG's first two seasons.

[SamSpeedo]

I speak Klingon like a native.

[lemit]

I never could get interested in any of the series after the first. That could be because I was of the generation the first series was aimed at and interested in all the messages, the most important of which was that struggle is an essential part of our nature. That can be a tricky thing to express. I thought the original series did it well.

 

Like I said, I could never get interested in any of the later series. Did I miss anything of substance in them? Give examples and illustrate.

[Theory5]

I never really got into the star trek series that much, probably because most of the TV shows were before my time, or in the 90's when I was very young. I do remeber a peticular episode of enterprise I think it was, where these aliens took control of the ship and made the captain and somebody else move stuff from the enterprise to their ship so they could steal it. The aliens followed a doctrine that sounded surprisingly similar to an "old earth" doctrine. I think it sounded like either the communist manifesto, or some chinese doctrine.

[Moontanman]

Like I said, I could never get interested in any of the later series. Did I miss anything of substance in them? Give examples and illustrate.

 

Oh you missed a lot lemit, TOS sucked mud from the bottom of the ocean in terms of writing, acting, and special effects. hands down TNG was a better show, Enterprise was great as was Voyager, DS9 had it's moments too but all of them were just spin offs of TNG.