What's your favorite Star Trek series and movie.

I would have put next gen up there but there were too many annoying characters - this means you, Wesley Crusher. That said, "Shaka, when the walls fell" was pretty good. In some respects (and this is from someone who hasn't seen all the episodes), the Voyager series was pretty good, introducing interesting new aliens and characters and situations, and boldly going where no woman has gone before. I found the Doctor a more credible AI than Data. And of course there was Seven of Nine. STOS evokes a sentimental attachment, but Shatner's acting, revisited as an adult, seemed subpar and verging on self-parody. Not being a hardcore Trekkie, I haven't seen DS9 or some of the other series, though I've seen samples. I hear some are pretty good.

Live long and prosper.
 
What's your favorite Star Trek series and movie?
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Never re-watched any of the movies, so I take that as being lukewarm about the whole lot. Series wise...

DS9 did have a complicated, overarching storyline gradually evolving throughout to a major culmination at the end (as well multiple developing sub-threads, too).

That said, though, nothing would have gotten off the ground without the perseverance of the original series, finally achieving tenure when it went into syndication.

Although Next Gen was clumsy in the early going -- struggling to find a distinct identity, and Picard often seeming like a social welfare project administrator -- it finally carved out a motif in interstellar politics. And the last two seasons matured into something serving as a diving board standard for the rest of the 1990s to 2005. (Manny Coto arrived too late as showrunner of "Enterprise" -- lotza splash during that final season, but the raft was already meters to the edge of Angel Falls.)

Don't care anything about the revisional, mangled-up, ultra-crazy "spore drive", Kurtzman era of Star Trek.
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Don't care anything about the revisional, mangled-up, ultra-crazy "spore drive", Kurtzman era of Star Trek.
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2nd that. The only recent series I watched a season of was "Picard," which was okay. I'd have to wiki it now to remember much of the storyline. I vaguely recall some bit that riffed on the death/rebirth of Spock in the motion picture series.
 
WoW:
Wizard of Whatever said:
You are looking in the mirror again.
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TheVat posted a response to the thread you started, and your reply to him is "You are looking in the mirror again"?

Where you trying to insult him by obliquely implying that TheVat is an annoying character?

Please explain.

You know that personal insults breach our site posting guidelines, right?
 
James R said:
WoW:

TheVat posted a response to the thread you started, and your reply to him is "You are looking in the mirror again"?

Where you trying to insult him by obliquely implying that TheVat is an annoying character?

Please explain.

You know that personal insults breach our site pos.ting guidelines, right?
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See where he said "this means you" in post # 2.
 
TheVat said:
I would have put next gen up there but there were too many annoying characters - this means you, Wesley Crusher.
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Referring to a fictional character on ST:NG. Why WoW thought my use of second person singular meant him, I have no idea. It was meant as a light remark, directed towards a particularly contrived and improbable focus on the child of the ship's physician. I have often engaged with Trek fans who could not abide Wesley Crusher, and it was a recurring theme on another series, a US comedy called The Big Bang Theory.
 
TheVat said:
Referring to a fictional character on ST:NG. Why WoW thought my use of second person singular meant him, I have no idea. It was meant as a light remark, directed towards a particularly contrived and improbable focus on the child of the ship's physician. I have often engaged with Trek fans who could not abide Wesley Crusher, and it was a recurring theme on another series, a US comedy called The Big Bang Theory.
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OK, I read it wrong. I have a thin skin these days.
 
I'm glad we sorted that misunderstanding out.

TheVat: I watched a lot of ST:TNG when it first aired. I too, found the Wesley Crusher character to be annoying.
 
James R said:
I'm glad we sorted that misunderstanding out.

TheVat: I watched a lot of ST:TNG when it first aired. I too, found the Wesley Crusher character to be annoying.
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One of many wobbles in the second series. Why was Troi's mom Nurse Chapel? (Generally bad form to recycle actors playing well known characters as other quite different characters - even if she was married to Gene Roddenberry...) Why was Riker so dull in the early seasons? Nothing against Jonathan Frakes, a talented director later on, but he seemed miscast there. And could Patrick Stewart not find a properly fitted shirt he didn't have to keep tugging on? Ok, JK a little now.
 
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I liked TOS a lot because, for one thing, the interplay between the four major characters. This seemed to be missing elsewhere.
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Yes, the interesting polarity between McCoy and Spock made for good dramatic/comic tension, for one example (as well as Spock's complex inner conflicts between his human and Vulcan halves). And Lt Uhura was a groundbreaking role in the sixties. I always had a fondness for Scotty, too, and enjoyed episodes where he got a little more screentime.

And then that memorable question:

Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale?
 
TheVat said:
Yes, the interesting polarity between McCoy and Spock made for good dramatic/comic tension, for one example (as well as Spock's complex inner conflicts between his human and Vulcan halves). And Lt Uhura was a groundbreaking role in the sixties. I always had a fondness for Scotty, too, and enjoyed episodes where he got a little more screentime.

And then that memorable question:

Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale?
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I always saw McCoy as an old-style Southern gentleman racist, who dislikes Spock because he's a "breed", a product of "miscegenation".

I only ever watched the original TV series, as a kid in the 1960s. My favourite episodes were The Doomsday Machine, which was seriously terrifying, and Spock's Brain, which we played for laughs. We used to go round reciting, in a mock-McCoy voice, "Jim. He's gart no BRAIN!!!" or, "His BRAIN's gahn." (Useful to describe a gormless fellow schoolboy, to much merriment.) The word "BRAIN" had to be delivered in a sepulchral half-whisper, dropping the pitch of the voice as low as possible, with a short pause before uttering the word to give it dramatic impact.
 
TheVat said:
Yes, the interesting polarity between McCoy and Spock made for good dramatic/comic tension, for one example (as well as Spock's complex inner conflicts between his human and Vulcan halves). And Lt Uhura was a groundbreaking role in the sixties. I always had a fondness for Scotty, too, and enjoyed episodes where he got a little more screentime.
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Polar opposites made their interactions interesting to say the least. Dr McCoy with his emotion and compassion, against war, violence and such, and of course one of Captain Kirk's main confidant, along with first Officer Spock. The emotional compassionate Bones up against the cold hard logic and reason of Spock, while at the same time, each retaining mutual respect for each other. All in all some great characters in a great TV series and movies over the years, including Scotty, Lt Uhuru, Chekov and Sulu, and how each character progressed through the star Trek Academy, some even commanding their own Star ships. Head and shoulders imo above the far more "fanciful" Star Wars. While both obviously went outside of science in many of the scenarios, the one that always struck me was the Star Trek USS Enterprise ship when in orbit. Always orbiting apparently sideways around some planet. Just a small complaint of mine!
 
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