Topic: Of the 5 Trek TV shows,what are your favorite two and why ?
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Of the 5 Trek series made so far, (the original series, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), which are your two personal favorite ones and please say why they are.
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TOS, the original is this case is among the best....
TNG, I really enjoyed most of the eps.
I also liked the concept of VOY, and DS9 would come in as third, leaving VOY and ENT as a tied 4th.
ENT would be better ha they not 'updated' the equipment..... It just doesn't seem to sit right...
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TNG IMO has a lot of boring stories while at least the 3rd season of ENT is rarely boring, and the character's are far more interesting too. Haven't seen enough of VOY for an opinion. TOS is good but uneven.
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IMHO, Voyager and Enterprise both lack something I can't really describe. They just don't have character. Especially Voyager with it's sterile hospital look. Enterprise is better, but they haven't found a real balance yet, IMO. The naive exploring was too soft, but this war might be a bit too harsh. And Archer's fluctuating morals really irk me.
I'd like to say TOS is one of the best, but I haven't seen most of it. I've only seen season one and barely half of season 2, and that was a few years ago.
DS9 was my favorite (yeah I know.. cliche). I'm currently watching the DVD boxes front-to-back (haven't done that with TNG), but I've had a hard time getting into Season 4. Perhaps introducing Worf and the Klingons was one of the few mistakes of DS9.
Later season TNG was good too. Possibly the best crew of any series. But the first seasons in particular have aged noticably. It really shows they were still finding their way.
So, uhm, DS9-TNG-ENT-VOY for me. TOS will be judged when it finally comes out on R2 DVD later this year.
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While "which one is your favorite" topics annoy me, I'll just throw in this: The only reason Voyager is on the bottom of my list is because it had such promising beginings and unlimited potential. And they did very little with it.
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There are many good shows and many cool shows, but in my experience the really fine ones are the ones that can make you cry, at least once.
TNG did it, in the episode where Picard lives a whole life in his dreams, after an ancient probe had made contact with him. Picard mourning his "wife's" death struggle and that flute play in the end gets me every time.
Voyager also made me misty once, in the episode where the Doctor meets a race that has a museum dedicated to the terrible crimes of the once-visiting ship USS Voyager. At last the camera pans out and we hear that the doctor really had helped the people keep their illusion of an "evil" Voyager, so that their two population-groups might make peace, than had promptly left to find Earth on his own. It was just so damn nice, I couldn't help it.
DS9 of course had "What You Leave Behind", that was a great sorrow as well.
I think even Babylon 5 had a really good drama episode, something with Mollari I think. Some sacrifice or something. Very subtle, tasteful. Hmm.
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"...something with Mollari I think. Some sacrifice or something."
Well, that's B5 in two sentences. B)
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"Star Trek" first, then probably DS9 with TNG coming in close. Enterprise and Voyager just don't cut the mustard...
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TNG. That show actually defined Science Fiction. Top notch cast with very good episodes, especially in seasons 5-7.
Next up is DS9. A nice change of pace with a decent crew and a kickass ship and station. With good episodes to boot. I just watched Duet on the local TV station here, I just remembered how good that episode was.
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TNG. That show actually defined Science Fiction. Top notch cast with very good episodes, especially in seasons 5-7.
Did you mean to say, "that show actually defined modern science fiction television," or are you just on crack? Hugo Gernsbach may have a claim to defining science fiction. Maybe Jules Verne. But nobody on this side of WWII, that's for sure.
Marian
PS: My money's on Gernsback. He didn't invent science fiction (although he did invent the term), but he did more to define it, and earlier, than anyone else I can think of. And he is also the (inadvertant) godfather of science fiction fandom, although some might consider that a wash, all things considered.
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And good episodes includes season 7? I know "Parallels" and "The Pegasus" were good, but apart from that? Seasons 4 and 3 beat it.
And why are we listing our two top Trek shows? Why not three? Or one?
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