What your favorite Startrek series?

[ens_tino 0]

Whats your favorite Startrek series. Mine is TNG.

[Tovan 0]

I enjoy Ds9 and TNG, their themes are nice. TNG has pretty good stories and Ds9 is just weird and wonderful fun with wormholes, the dominion and wormhole aliens. Voyager i kind of like but i never liked to travel :).

[Captain Huff 0]

I love TOS, TNG, and Voyager, so I had a hard time picking one, until I realized that the one I got most excited about coming to DVD was Voyager - I have plans to buy the entire run. Okay, I know I'll buy TOS too when it's packaged in nice boxes and on sale, and I'll probably pick up the later seasons of TNG when they also hit the bargain shelves... but Voyager gets my credit card plopped on the counter as soon as I see it.

[Nemesis 0]

Personally I picked TNG because simply it pressed upon several moral issues and great character developemant and also had everything wrap up in that episode except some 2 parters. There was also that multiple plot thing where they had problems with Cardassians one week but problems with Romulans the other then back to the Cardassians the next sort of thing. I did enjoy DS9 although it had that multiple plot thing aswell it was too focused on one plot that basically took up about half the series. Voyager well it had its moments but it lacked the multiple plot exprience it was too flippy floppy and they over used the borg in later part of the series it should've cooled down after passing through Borg space but it only got worse.

[Webmaster 20]

My personal favorite is Deep Space Nine. Of all the various Trek series, DS9 was the one that truly most "human". The level of character interaction and the various relationships was truly phenominal.

 

There were the main stage characters that were backed up by a well-done set of secondary characters (for example, the Grand Nagus, the Kai, Shakkar, Kaiko & Molly, etc) in such a way that truly let us understand what made each of them tick.

 

It was the only series that actually made the crew deal with the results of they're own actions. If they messed up, we actually still had the problem later to deal with. I personally am not a big fan of plots that are totally wrapped up in a nice, neat, little package at the end of the hour. Could you imagine that on our Advanced Sims? lol. Not too much fun.

 

It was also the series that I think showed what being in the "military" really is like as well. I think they played the war very well with the crew having to face an extended period of discomfort, inconviencence, and loss. War is not just sending in a ship one day with phasers firing... and after a couple cool CGI effects, all is good again with the bad guy blasted back to the stone age. LOL

 

I've gotten the first 5 seasons of DS9 on DVD now. Will be ordering the 6th and 7th together next month after the next paycheck. :)

[FredM 0]

Hey there,

 

I only have two major complaints about DS9. Perhaps three...

 

1) The entire "Sisko as god" subplot was a bit much. Up til Season 7, I could handle most of it. But then they really went off the deep end.

 

2) Two wars back to back. Star Trek is supposed to be showing a universe we all would love to be in. Not one where we're having a war with the Klingons, followed by a war with the Dominion, folloed by....

 

3) They were slightly arrogant to think they would have enough entertainment without having some type of "mobility." Being in the same place does, eventually, cause you to run out of ideas. You can only have so many ion storms disrupting traffic. Thus the introduction of the Defiant. I think it would have been smarter to have done this 3rd or 4th episode in.

[Seiben 0]

TNG, by far. Voyager, a close secongd, but that's mostly because of Seven. :) Anyways, TNG was the series that first got me intersted in Star Trek. Characters, plots, speicies were all superb. Didn't really get interested in DS-9, and the only TOS episode I watched in full was the mafia episode and the hippie episode. Data. he was the man! :)

[Merina 0]

Voyager rules because of how they deal with each other and haveing the urge to get back home to earth.

[Dumbass 0]

Voyager rules because of how they deal with each other and haveing the urge to get back home to earth.

Maybe they had the urge to get back to Earth BECAUSE they have to deal with each other. :)

[T'Aniz Jozef 0]

Character and plot, I can get that on loads of TV shows. Continuing story arcs...nothing new. Even special effects...kinda same old same old, after awhile. But a story with an idea...a truth...saying something about who WE are. That's still so rare on the tube.

 

That's why I still love TOS. At it's best, the stories are about something. Not just a plot. And not just characters. (Lord knows I get enough characters every day on the subways here in New York City!) But an idea to make me think again about what it means to be human. Or how we're not really being human...in the best tradition of humanity.

 

Just watched again "The Apple," and for all it's old-fashioned look, the questions it raises are just as important today. As we import our way of life...now in the middle east...is this indeed what we should be doing? The story does not answer questions, it raises them. The debate between Spock and McCoy in that episode is timeless. TOS dealt with the toughest of questions. It didn't flinch. For guts, alone, it is my personal favorite. :)

[FredM 0]

Voyager rules because of how they deal with each other and haveing the urge to get back home to earth.

Hey there,

 

Voyager had some good moments....starting with Season 5. Before that, the complete and total disregard for this little thing called continuity shot the show in the head on numerous occassions. If they'd stopped trying to make it into a soap opera, going so far as to add Jeri Ryan just for the hope of increasing male viewership, I'd have more respect for the show.

[Nemesis 0]

Hey there,

 

Voyager had some good moments....starting with Season 5. Before that, the complete and total disregard for this little thing called continuity shot the show in the head on numerous occassions. If they'd stopped trying to make it into a soap opera, going so far as to add Jeri Ryan just for the hope of increasing male viewership, I'd have more respect for the show.

Hey no hitting below the belt there Jeri Ryan played a very good role but it did get to borgy but she played a more human Data character and I loved it and lets be honest she was better then Kes who was too goody tooshoes or imature :)

[ens_tino 0]

It did get way to borgy. I mean how many times could they possibly kill the Borg Queen and somehow a replacement always shows up.

[Webmaster 20]

I mean how many times could they possibly kill the Borg Queen and somehow a replacement always shows up.

That's one of the interesting things about the Borg... they're ability to adapt and keep going. :)

 

It's not like our other favorite Trek characters being killed several times and being brought back. (Kirk, Scotty, Picard, et al) :)

[ens_tino 0]

It's not like our other favorite Trek characters being killed several times and being brought back. (Kirk, Scotty, Picard, et al) :)

Thats true too. All of them have died at some point. Like Picard in that one episode where he gets shot on that planet and Q gives him his life back.

[Barnabas Collins 0]

TOS IS THE BEST AND ALWAYS WILL BE YAY TOS YAY!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :D

[Captain Huff 0]

Tuesday nights at 11 PM on the Star Trek Simulation Forum. ;)

[Nemesis 0]

Tuesday nights at 11 PM on the Star Trek Simulation Forum. :)

Always room for plugs now isn't there huff :)

[Nemesis 0]

Hey there,

 

Voyager had some good moments....starting with Season 5. Before that, the complete and total disregard for this little thing called continuity shot the show in the head on numerous occassions. If they'd stopped trying to make it into a soap opera, going so far as to add Jeri Ryan just for the hope of increasing male viewership, I'd have more respect for the show.

I have to disagree there Fred, The addition of 7of9 although one prupose was to increase male viewership but thats nothing new: Deanna, Jadzia, Ezri, Belanna, and Kes also servered that purpose. Is it disgust not in the least these girls were shown to do as much as any of the guys and superceed them at times. The specific 7of9 character was going to be male at first but was changed because the series did have a stronger appeal to women then it did men, most likely because Paris had a Hans Solo like attitude. Now with the show appearing like a soap opera as you say I simple retort in saying, Have you ever even watched a soap opera at Voyager made sense I didn't see and you slept with my butler's ex-wives child and now I'm pregnant nonsense. Your comments also about Jeri Ryan I think insult her acting ability which I believe she is fairly gifted in if you viewed her newer series Boston Public which I am a fan of.

[NDak 0]

wow i am agreeing with nem ::runs::

 

You really can't say much about adding the 'hot women'...have you seen the outfits they wore in TOS?!?!?!?!

 

 

at anyrate...I voted for TNG....its the best...nuff siad...as for Voyager I actually really liked it I thought that out of all the Captains, Janeway was the most...real.

 

As for DS9 I am with Fred on this one 'Sisko as God' is just way too much to handle in addition half the 'plot story arc' seems stolen from Babylon 5...but that's me...

Edited January 19, 2004 by Ern_Ndak