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View Poll Results: What's your favorite Star Trek television series? | |||
The Original Series | 24 | 18.90% | |
The Animated Series | 2 | 1.57% | |
The Next Generation | 45 | 35.43% | |
Deep Space 9 | 25 | 19.69% | |
Voyager | 3 | 2.36% | |
Enterprise | 13 | 10.24% | |
I like them all equally! | 8 | 6.30% | |
I don't like or haven't seen any of 'em. | 7 | 5.51% | |
Voters: 127. You may not vote on this poll |
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08-27-2009, 05:40 PM | #41 |
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Okay, but who was the best CAPTAIN?
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08-27-2009, 06:05 PM | #42 |
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Nick Meyer and James Horner managed to create something awesome and epic with Ricardo Montalbam and William Shatner taking turns devouring the scenery and out-hamming each-other in the most glorious manner possible. For me, I think 4rth season Next Gen represented the best balance of Roddenberry's optimism, and more realistic storytelling. We got enemies that diplomacy really couldn't deal with (the Borg, before villain decay set in) and the beginings of conflict that is essential to drama. Roddenberry was strongly opposed to the crew of the Enterprise disagreeing with each-other, everybody had to get along, which can make things boring (or would, if they didn't have so much conflict coming from outside the ship to keep things lively). Original is probably the most iconic. Spock is probably the character, more than any other, who represents the Federation and its ideals. Live long and prosper, a very well-thought out greeting indeed, simple, but saying so much. DS9 was like the wacky uncle. It was far more dysfunctional, with Humans, Cardassians, Bajorans, Ferengi, Changelings, and whomever else decided to wander through. Lost of internal conflict and character development, and while the Dominion War took a little too much to resolve, it had a lot going for it. And let's face it, Sisko punching Q in the face was a crowning moment of awesome. Voyager had a fantastic premise, but the casting was iffy and the stories gradually settled into mediocrity, and finally in the last season into utter stupidity. A Borg with boobs shook things up for awhile, but her catsuit couldn't distract people from the scripts for long. And let's face it, Enterprise just started off terrible. It used recycled Voyager scripts, squandered excellent acting talent (anyone see Conner Trineer and Joleen Blalok on Stargate? Big diff!), and basically went nowhere for two entire seasons before opening the third the way the very first ep should have, and then finally abandoning the entire Temporal Cold War plot entirely in the forth. Sadly, the damage had been done, and a general upswing in the quality of the stories couldn't save it. |
08-27-2009, 06:21 PM | #43 |
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The Original series is hands down, without any doubt my favorite of the bunch. I also think most of Deep Space Nine and Next Generation were pretty darn good. Voyager had some moments and I just didn't like Enterprise at all.
On a scale of 1-10 TOS - 10 TNG - 8 DS9 - 9 STV - 7 STE - 6 Nothing beats the fun antics and the genuine camaraderie of Kirk, Spock and Bones.
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08-27-2009, 06:24 PM | #44 |
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I didn't cast a vote because, for me, it's a tie between Star Trek and The Next Generation. Deep Space 9 was a quality show, but it never had the appeal of TOS or TNG. I saw some of the animated series when I was a kid, via re-runs. But, much like The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, I have a hard time watching it as an adult despite remembering that I enjoyed it as a kid. I have seen a lot of Voyager, but it never really appealed to me and more often than not it ended up being background noise because I lost interest and started doing something else. Enterprise was total dreck. On several occasions I tried to give it a chance, but just couldn't tolerate it. From the awful opening theme to the ever gag-reflex-testing presence of Scott "I always look like I really have to go to the bathroom" Bakula, I just couldn't deal with it. When it comes to the movies, my DVD collection is incomplete since I've only bought the ones I like. However, I've seen them all more than once.
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08-27-2009, 06:31 PM | #45 |
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Quote of the week! I chortled uproariously. I loved him in Quantum Leap... well, I take that back. I loved the IDEA of Quantum Leap, not necessarily the acting. Age has not been kind to that leathery husk of a human being.
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08-27-2009, 07:35 PM | #46 |
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08-27-2009, 07:42 PM | #47 |
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Best captain, as in most competent? Probably Picard. His dysfunctions as a human being allowed him to see beyond normal captain-style decision making. I haven't seen a ton of Next Gen, or anything after that, but from what I've seen he most continuously does the right thing.
Best captain, as in TOTALLY AWESOME? Kirk. The combination of sex symbol, lecher, and philosophy 101-style humanistics just make him the most fun to watch
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08-27-2009, 07:46 PM | #48 |
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While I voted for ds9 as my fav, you really can't watch it unless you have some knowledge of what happened in TNG. ds9 was boring as hell for the first 3 season but when they added the defiant and gamma quad story line, then it started to come together. especially for the dominion war story line.
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08-28-2009, 03:55 PM | #49 |
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While I voted for ds9 as my fav, you really can't watch it unless you have some knowledge of what happened in TNG. ds9 was boring as hell for the first 3 season but when they added the defiant and gamma quad story line, then it started to come together. especially for the dominion war story line.
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08-28-2009, 03:59 PM | #50 |
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Fave Captain? Captain Morgan... Oh, Star Trek Captain! Picard. I can't tell you why, but I really liked him. Kirk was ok, and I liked Archer too.
Quick question. Did anybody else think it was completely assinine that in ST the Capt. goes on almost all of the away missions? C'mon, the most important guy is going to trapse around a dangerous planet, or disease ridden derelict ship?
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