Star Trek

[Rakjavik]

Much debate over the preference of many of people. TOS (The original series) TNG (The next generation) VOY (Voyager) DS9 (Deep space nine) ENT (Enterprise) Many different scenarios of Star Trek. Which one is the best? Well I'm not actually looking for a poll but more of an opinion. I was a child of TNG. So that will always hold a certain amoint of nostalgia for me. I still think of Jean Luc as the most badass captain ever. But.. My partner has gotten me on Voyager right now. (which apparently is the lowest rated star trek) I love Voyager, the thing with star trek is once you know the characters, it always pulls you in. I am on season 4 of Voyager, I have seen every ep of TNG. Jean Luc is a badass, but Janeway is also a force to be reckoned with. I have not seen Enterprise, but I've heard it's a good show. What is your opinion?

[spockman]

On Voyager... Firstly, I don't like how Janeway pretty much breaks every code of good leadership recognized by the military a dozen times each. She always thinks people are trying to sabotage her when they are just questioning either an unwise or entirley hypocritical/unethical decision... And during about the middle third of the series it seemed like every third or fourth episode was based on a temporal anomoly. And it didn't pose the gray ethical questions like TNG did. Moral decisions where there, but they didn't have as much depth as those presented in, say, 'I, Borg' or 'The Defector.' And sometimes the drama level seemed a little... forced. On TOS... My favorite. I liked the characters, but more improtantly I liked the stories and the fashion in which problems had to be solved through intuition. Think, "The Corbomite Maneuvr" and especiallay "Balance of Terror" (Whoes child was Wrath of Khan jsut as Vger was a child of NOMAD. Awsome episode.) The greatest of all episodes, (in my opionion,) was the Galileo 7 and is found in the first season of, you geussed it, TOS. On TNG... Also had great problem solving, but focused alot on character development and moral issues. As previously mentioned, episodes like 'I, Borg' really made one think. Objectivley, probably the most well done of all Star Trek's, though my favorite is till TOS, (just barley.) I am almost always very involved in the story and attached to the emotions. There's a sense of realness that's very apparent and makes TNG one of my favorite series period. On DS9... Eh. Social commentary often too blatent, and the moral questions are more about a lesson than posing a gray philosophy. The characters don't solve problems in a Trekkian manner, so I care much less about the action. Which wouldn't bother me a whole lot if it didn't get too soapy at times. On ENT... Not saying that it's good or bad. It's just not 'Star Trek.' Conflicts are solved, but they are neither presented or resolved in a Trekkian manner. In the end, the tone feels closer to Stargate or even something else totalaly alien then like Star Trek. For that reason, I never got into it.