What is your favourite Trek series, and why?

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I heard that in Startrek X (Nemesis), Captain Picard will meet Admiral Janeway!

That is not fair!
The Captain of one of the best shows is still only Captain, while Janeway, the Captain of the worst Startrek show became an Admiral.
And probably Riker is still just a Commander...


Mustrum Ridcully

 

[Viking Bastard]

Picard was offered Admiral-ship twice, but turned it down both times.

And remember that discussion between him and Kirk in GEN?

Kirk pretty much says: "Don't get promoted, it's BORING!"

 

[Ranger REG]

Twice? I thought he was offered once. The other time, he was offered the position of Commandant of Starfleeet Academy.

Riker has turned down 3 command assignments with captaincy.

Nah, I'm glad they promoted Janeway to a desk job, even though she can order subordinate Captains to any task ... just as long she remain behind the desk and not in the Captain's Chair.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

So, from this point of view, it is okay. That is true... Maybe it is really better this way.
But, on the other side - as a captain, Janeway lost dozens of shuttles. What will she lose as an Admiral?

 

[Ashtal]

TNG rocked da house.

Why? Besides being a strong show, with a diverse and interesting cast, I have one word to say: DATA.

Cutest Android Ever.

 

[Ranger REG]

BADA-BOOM!

OIC. You have a thing for animate object with no emotion, like a battery-operated se-, ... um, massager.

Just Kidding.

* ducks for cover *

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Every Startrek show needs a Spock/Data/Odo/HoloDoc.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I voted for DS9, without hesitation. Why?

(Warning, this is primarily justifying DS9 over TNG. TOS and Voyager just blew, IMO, and Enterprise hasn't been on long enough)

1) The supporting cast on DS9 was better than any of the others. Not that the others had much of a supporting cast, but the very nature of DS9 being on a space station allows for more of one.

2) The arc. I would have liked TNG a lot more if there was a point to it. Conversely, it's exactly why I hated Voyager so much - they had a very interesting premise and destroyed it. No, DS9's arc wasn't that original (or original at all, if you believe in the DS9/B5 ripoff), but at least teh show had a direction.

3) Avery Brooks is the man. He's what I imagine when I think of a captain.

4) I found the characters to be a little more interesting than TNGs, and a little more realistic I think. I just don't see a man turning down captain-ship three times because he likes where he is. Everyone was a little too goody-two-shoes for me on TNG.

-1) On the other hand, I hated the Ferengi and Holodeck episodes. Especially the Ferengi ones, which made them more slapstick than the greedy, coniving little bastards they usually are.

 

[beta-ray]

I picked DS9...

Although I have to applaud TOS for starting it all and having some of the best comraderie of all the series so far, I couldn't pick it as #1.

I loved TNG for what it did to TOS... it took it (and in its third season) matured it and gave it some volume. Picard and Data are great characters...

DS9 really put a spin on Trek. Now trek was responsible. No longer just go to a planet, mess it up and go away, DS9 had to live with consequences. TNG at times got preachy and DS9 explored those themes. Although not all of its episodes were great, overall the show stayed consistent. Plus it wasn't just a couple of characters in the show that were interesting, ALL of the characters (to me) were interesting... EVEN the side characters. My favorite quote from DS9 "It's easy to be a saint in paradise".

Voyager... well... there were a couple of okay episodes in Voy, but it never lived up to its potential. They had the blandest characters (I liked the doc) of any of the series thus far. What normally would happen is that they'd have a pretty cool premise and beef it up with action and then totally blow it with a crappy resolution. Besides Janeway was NUTS.

TAS was okay, but amusing at best I think. Maybe yesteryear and the slaver weapon was cool.

Enterprise.... not a bad start... most of the characters are somewhat bland, but it's okay so far.

All just my opinion of course.

 

[Ashtal]

Re: BADA-BOOM!

OIC. You have a thing for animate object with no emotion, like a battery-operated se-, ... um, massager.

Just Kidding.

* ducks for cover *

HEE!

No ... okay, yes, he's damn cute, but most of the time I was rooting for him to get his emotion chip in. I dunno ... there was something about the way Data was always trying to be more human that I thought was more compelling than Spock's aloofness, 7 of 9's scorn, and Odo's arrogance. He seemed so sincere and genuine and I identified with the way he was always trying to connect with people, to understand why they were doing what they were doing.

Granted, I still love Spock, and Odo to a lesser extent, though it does get annoying when I watch the Trek Monolith continue to recycle the "what does it mean to be human" motif - now with T'pol. At least they've gone to lengths to give it a different spin each time, although personally I thought 7 of 9 was the weakest permutation. She was mostly there because of other ... 'assets' that I think in some ways got in the way of telling her story. Then again, Voyager's cast never seemed to gel the way the others did.

And I do regret not keeping up with DS9. It seems that near the end, they finally got it in there head that ongoing storylines that change things over time is a GOOD thing, but by then, I could never catch it regularly and I was missing a ton of backstory.