Favorite Star Trek Series

[Guest Mad Dog]

Which was your favorite version of the Star Trek franchise?

[Guest Mad Dog]

Mine was definately Next Generation. I thought that it had the best characters and it's probably the only show I never lost interest in.

[cawthon777 0]

I'd also have to to with NG. The original was good and had some really solid episodes ("The City on the Edge of Forever", the 2-part "The Menagerie" with footage from the pilot) but overall I'd go with NG. Loved the original cast movies, especially Khan.

 

But Kirk could kick Picard's ass any day.

[Guest Mad Dog]

I like the Original too.

 

But you can't beat Best of Both Worlds. Probably my favorite 2 episodes out of all the series.

[Guest SP-1]

Next Gen. Definitely. With DS9 being a close second.

 

Both of them started off a little shaky, but when they took off they did so wonderfully. FULL of solid characters and great development for them throughout the series (and movies in TNG's case, especially Data).

 

And as much as I love Picard and Kirk as characters, SISKO could take them both out, easily.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

I watched the original when I was a kid and was a huge fan but now I'd rather see TNG. I loved DS9 for a while, I watched it for several seasons but stopped along the way. I watched Voyager for a season then never bothered watching it again. I watched the first episode of the current one but it didn't interest me enough for me to continue watching.

 

1. TNG

2. DS9

3. Original

4. Voyager

5. Enterprise

[cawthon777 0]

I watched DS9 for a few months when it started (a week before the initial episode of Raw in 93...I remember because the DS9 2hr premier coincided with the "Best of" episode of Prime Time). After a while I just grew tired of it.

 

Voyager never had me. I watched some of the 2hr premier but that was it.

 

Enterprise has potential but I just don't know how much more they can do with broadening the franchise.

 

I watched the original in reruns when I was a kid and then when I moved back to the States when I was 7, NG had just ended its first season. I was hooked pretty early on that.

[Guest SP-1]

Yeah, DS9 started out pretty bland. Good premise but they weren't doing so hot with the execution. But then the DOMINION WAR~! kicked in and it picked up big time.

 

Voyager as a whole basically ignored it's own foundation. They talked alot about being lost and so far from home but they got their damage repaired pretty easily, and had a seemingly endless supply of torpedoes and shuttles. It had one or two bright spots but that's about it, IMO.

 

ENT is . . . well, it's certainly ENT, isn't it. Bland. Horribly so. Backula is capable of much better, I think. It's bad when a secondary character far outshines the Captain on a Trek series. Watching Archer is like watching a cardboard cutout with a kid doing a painful impression of Bill Shatner crouched behind it. Good premise. GREAT premise. But horrible execution.

[Guest starvenger]

I picked DS9 over TNG because I liked the serial nature of the show, especially during the "Dominion War" story arc. I am looking forward to the DVD sets for DS9 even more than those of TNG...

[Guest razazteca]

Voyager did have some good show especially when Q was around.

[Guest SP-1]

Q gave VOY some alright eps.

 

In my personal opinion, Equinox I and II served as the show's brightest moment. But I'll admit that I speak from a position of not watching it too often because of the problems with it I mentioned above.

[Guest areacode212]

Yeah, there were a handful of decent VOY episodes, but as SP said, the series wasn't true to its own premise. In addition to the things he mentioned, we never *really* got to see much of a schism between the Maquis & the Starfleet crew. There may have been a few isolated instances where they had some minor rebellions, but wouldn't it have been cooler if things really came to a head between Janeway & Chakotay, and they had some kind of civil war (with the Maquis crew getting their own ship) ? I just wish they had done something that made it seem like their perfect Federation society was breaking down. It could have been much darker & interesting than it was. As it was, it was just a watered-down TNG.

[Guest SP-1]

Watered down is putting it nicely. I'd have given almost anything to see VOY done correctly. Just as I'd love to see ENT done correctly. To quote myself from another board, and at the risk of echoing what alot of other Trek fans have already said, Firefly is what ENT should have been.

[Guest starvenger]

Watered down is putting it nicely. I'd have given almost anything to see VOY done correctly. Just as I'd love to see ENT done correctly. To quote myself from another board, and at the risk of echoing what alot of other Trek fans have already said, Firefly is what ENT should have been.

cancelled?

[Guest So what? I liked bubble boy]

Mine was definately Next Generation. I thought that it had the best characters and it's probably the only show I never lost interest in.

this + I liked Voyager

[Guest SP-1]

Watered down is putting it nicely.  I'd have given almost anything to see VOY done correctly.  Just as I'd love to see ENT done correctly.  To quote myself from another board, and at the risk of echoing what alot of other Trek fans have already said, Firefly is what ENT should have been.

cancelled?

That, too.

 

What I originally meant was that Firefly had this first time outta the gate feeling, like they were reall out there on the edge of exploring a new frontier (and I don't even mean the strange western thing that show had). ENT is cruising along like they own the quadrant, it seems.

 

But canceled works, too. And I don't want another Trek for five years at least. Let it rest, bring in fresh blood, and then we'll see about continuing the franchise.

[Guest Dopey]

Voyager had one thing none of the others had; 7 of 9!!! Sorry, but for 7 of 9 alone the show was cool. Plus the last episode was good.

The only thing that ever bothered me about Star Trek, was the way they portrayed God. They always talked about Him as if He were a quaint little joke. That is why I never totally got behind the whole saga.

[Guest SP-1]

Trek tended to focus on humanity finding it's own way, and achieving greatness on it's own. I think Gene Roddenberry was very suspicious of religion in general and his personal ideals and views became part of the show's philosophy.

 

I tend to look past those issues, or apply my Christian views to them since they are usually pretty vague about things.

 

Dopey, I don't know the name of the episode, but there was an amazing episode of the Original Series where Kirk and co. wind up on this planet that is like ancient Rome with 20th Century technology at it's disposal. But there's this underground group of religious people that keep talking about the "sun", or so they think.

 

At the end of the Episode, Uhura points out that shey weren't talking about the sun in the sky, but rather the Son of God. Kirk gets this look of wonder in his eye and says that it would be interesting to see this happening. Christianity found a way, it was spreading throughout THIS ancient Rome type of world as well.

 

It's one of my favorite episodes.

[Guest Johnson1620]

Next Generation by far.

 

My new favorite line ever in a Star Trek movie is when Picard said:

 

"You have the bridge, Mr. Troi."

 

I thought I was going to piss myself.(just thought I'd throw that in!)

[Guest SP-1]

Yeah it was nice to see them let Picard tell a joke or two. Though for some reason, Patrick Stewart laughing just doesn't seem natural to me. I think I'm just used to seeing him very serious and thoughtful in Trek.