Star Trek

Favorite treks? DS 9 and voyager. Then enterprise. Then TOS then Next Gen.

Though discovery probably had the best premier in trek.

Monday if I´m not mistaken.

DS9 is #1 for me.

I liked how humans and their Federation weren't painted as this perfect utopian society that everyone else in the galaxy was in sheer awe of, and tripping over themselves to be apart of. There still were issues common to the franchise, namely humanity apparently being the only species with a diverse culture and skill set, but all in all, it was nice to see the Federation knocked down off it's pedestal.


Voyager was meh, the characters were interesting enough, seven of nine especially, but after what that show did to the Borg I just lost interest in it. I mean a single exploratory vessel taking down the entire collective without breaking a sweat, while the Enterprise and the majority of the Federation armada could barely hold out against one cube just reeked of plot armor and narrative favoritism to me. Though to be honest, my interest in the Borg was on the decline anyway when they introduced the concept of the Queen and individuality to the collective.


TNG, I couldn't get into, I know that the later seasons get better but I couldn't ever get over that initial hump of the earlier episodes. That, and I found the general 'preachy-ness' of the Federation to off putting, and Comander Data's frequent bouts of "I want to be a real boy" shenanigans began to grate on me after about the five hundredth time.


TOS is a classic. I haven't seen all of it, but the episodes I did see are the epitome of what Star Trek is.

Enterprise was another meh show for me, though T'Pol was certainly a looker.

I am not a big fan of the Borg with the Queen making no sense to me, but I loved the intergration if the Maquis and the Federtaion motive, and that endless journey home setting. And, well, the crew was my favorite, and they were heavy on holodeck episodes that are always lots of laughs. I'd have loved DS9 more than Voyager, but Dax is my least favorite Treck character ever, and she gets a lot of screen time...

True to that. In case of TOS whether you consider The Cage, Where No Man Has Gone Before, or Man-Trap as 'Pilot', they're all pretty below-average.

'Encounter at Farpoint' was okay-ish at the time, but didn't age too well, and is recommended to skip on repeat-views, just like two-thirds of TNG season 1.

'Emissary' wasn't too bad, but that Founders-piece took a bit too long.

'Caretaker' was okay, but not awesome.

'Broken Bow' was pretty decent in my opinion.

But yeah, I like Discovery's first two better than what came before.

i wouldn't put it past them to lie.

The Empath.  I know were you're coming from, it is patchy and the least said about the crappy aliens the better, but I didn't want to list the usual suspects "City on the edge of forever"cough...but I really named it as it displays the strength and heart of the TOS triumvarite so well and how unbreakable it is.  Also sometimes the apparantly "weakest" of the group and most unlikeliest people can perform great acts of heroism and self sacrifice.  For me I'm not really interested about everything else that's going on in the episode, aliens etc,.I just particulary like the personal interplay and dialogue between the three heroes in this episode.

So I agree dramatically and technically it's not one of the best Star Trek episodes but it does display and captures the essence of the  Kirk, Spock, McCoy triumvarite and their emotional dynamic and that's what I particulary like.  It's an emotional judgement not a logical one.  

I don't blame you, since I have my faults as well:
My personal TOS favorite is 'The Paradise Syndrome': Kirk with amnesia and living among the planet's inhabitants for a while before regaining some of his memory, marrying (and impregnating!) one of their beautiful women. Some clarification on *why* a lot of aliens look so much like humans (seeded by an ancient race called "Preservers" in this case). Spock FAILING to solve the problem of the week in his first pass (to destroy that asteroid on a collision course with said planet).
Sure McCoy is incredibly annoying in this episode, and since the 'aliens of the week' are savage "American-Indians[sic]" believing white-Kirk is a god, thus "racist" in today's SJW terms, and the solution in the end is pretty cheesy/far-fetched, it's one of those episodes which often gets overlooked for being crap.

However: His wife died for standing up for Kirk. Kirk actually even showed remorse for her dying (with his unborn child). It was an unexpected emotional moment...

It also must be said that there were quite a few really beautiful women playing some of the guest roles in that sixties-show. And not just because of their outfits:
 

The Ferengi and Deep Space 9 in general were just pretty awesome.  Granted at times they still descended into Caricature but...well again Deep Space 9 in general was one of the few times Star Trek took a good long hard look at itself and actually had a conversation on the merits of what they were proposing philosphically.  Instead of just judging us 'backwards primitives'.  That, the Maquis Arc, and the 'Paradise Lost' two parter are some of the best parts of Trek ever.  And some of the Xindi arc but that was another show, and more just good storytelling.  

I am hoping Discovery continues in Deep Space Nines footsteps.  

And with: 


Indicates this show could actually be off to a very good start, and its for that...and a couple of other scenes...despite a few rough patches...I am actually very excited for this show and hope it does well.

"By Any Other Name", also a great episode in my opinion, where the Enterprise was commandeered and rigged to go Warp 11.5 to go to the Andromeda galaxy.

Where Kirk was forced to randomly choose the fate of two redshirts in the beginning of the episode and the pretty brunette woman was not the one who lived to see another day.

I'm always wondering where these enhancements to the warp engine went off to when they hit the "reset-button" at the end of the episode...

Yeah there were plenty of silly episodes among all the series. Some of which are okay, like Fistful of Datas, but others are (in my opinion) terrible, like that Robin Hood-episode, or that baseball one on DS9, or TOS's Shore Leave.