Rgirvan44
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Joined: 10/3/2006 From: Punishment Park
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ORIGINAL: Timon Oh come on HIM, The Original Series has some of the best episodes of Trek - Devil In The Dark, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Amok Time, The Naked Time, The Enemy Within...mostly the Series 1 eps. Like I said, the stories and themes are great, timeless even in most cases, which is why they cropup again and again through Trek series and movies. However, the execution is often laughable by today's standards. Case in point: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SQeMknVWuU0&feature=related I really think you have to be a diehard fan to appreciate the original series, which is why I recommend starting from the movies and working through almost chronologically (in our time not Trek chronology). Thats hilarious. And still more exciting than the majority of Next Gen episodes. Well each to their own. I enjoyed alot of the TNG episodes. Especially the Borg ones. The Borg ones were good. I wouldn't say Next Gen wasn't very good because it had a lack of action. It was just the tone of the whole thing. Even when they did do more "realistic" episodes it tended to be forgotton come the next one. The rule of measure I tend to use is Riker without beard = bad episode, Riker with beard = good episode (or at least not as bad as the intial seasons). Deep Space Nine wasn't always dark but it did interesting stuff with its cast. Odo - the Spock of that show, actully ended up having a fundamental role to play in the overarching storyline and did more than try and learn to be human - something which applied to the rest of that show. Aliens didn't regard humanity as something to aim for while in Next Gen Picard loved telling Worf how human he was becoming. Aliens in DS9 would have told Sisko to shove it for saying that.
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