All SF is welcome to me, even if it is not that great, or the stories are not ones that I like. I'll watch anything me
TOS for me is the best as I grew up with it, and the vibrant primary colours and camaraderie between Kirk, Spock and McCoy are timeless for me.
TNG was pretty good, it got better and better. Always liked the interaction between Data and Geordi. Wish Dr Pulaski had stayed on in some capacity though.
DS9 had some great characters, and liked the concept...just wished they had made more out of the Dominion War...I mean where was the damn
Enterprise? Flagship of the fleet, and not present in battles...could have done better guys, and could have had more battles too! Apart from that, damn good.
Voyager is the one I like almost as much as
TOS, and not because of Seven. Finally, a female captain who kicks arse, and a fantastically smug Doctor. And an Asian-American in a much bigger role than George Takei's Sulu, something that I was wanting a lot more of. Thanks for that guys.
Enterprise...got mixed feelings about this one. I could accept it as AH due to the events in
First Contact, and what Zefram Cochrane saw there. However, the whole Xindi thing was somewhat unnecessary I thought. Emphasis on Earth's relations with the Romulans and events of the Romulan War would have been nice. Less emphasis on the Klingons, definitely no Borg, and more utilisation of other
TOS races. No meeting of races only later encountered by
TNG etc. The good things: liked Phlox and Hoshi, wish more had been done with Hoshi though, liked the final season where it got back to it's roots with the mirror universe, Gorn, Tellarites and other stuff. Should have been more of that. Shran and the Andorians were done well. Didn't like Trip's death, it was a very poor way to write out a character, and thought the last episode was a cop out. Overall, the series had some really great bits, but was a wasted opportunity, and could have been so much more.
Star Trek: Animated Series, pretty damn good, and they were free to illustrate things that could not be easily done with special effects at the time. Wish Chekov had been in it though.
All the movies are fine, with the exception of
V, which apparently did not get made the way Shatner wanted it to be made, as the studio had other ideas, and cut a lot of stuff out. They also made certain the ending was not what Shatner intended by not providing enough funds to finish it properly. The book shows what could have happened on screen, and is a pretty good read.
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