What is your favourite Trek series, and why?

[Shadowdancer]

I voted for TNG over DS9, but just barely. I found the quality of the TNG episodes to be more consistant than DS9. When DS9 was good, it was really good, but when it was bad, it could be awful.

I never really liked the original series. I saw some of it in its original run as a kid, and saw just about every episode in syndication, also as a kid. One of my sisters loved it and we had to watch it every afternoon after school. Back in the days before cable TV, we only got two stations, and only had one TV, so we didn't have a lot of choices. I watched the original Star Trek, but never really liked it.

The animated series was a little bit better than the original series.

I never got into Voyager. The episodes I saw didn't impress me.

I like Enterprise so far. I think it has a lot of potential. It ranks third in my voting.

 

[Tempuswolf]

It was a hard choice between good old Star Trek, Star Trek the Sat. morning animated show (remember the Kzintis & slaver weapons!), and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but I've got to give it to DS9.

I whole heartedly agree with Doc Subtlety, the episode "In the Pale Moonlight" should have been recognized with an Emmy nomination. Seeing Benjamin Sisko, a good man, struggle with his conscience over a desperate, evil act to bring the Romulans into the Dominion war was just damn good television.

Besides having a great stable of regulars who played off each other superbly (Miles & Julian, Julian & Dax, Dax & Benjamin, etc.), I really loved the supporting characters: Kai Wynn, Vedic Berail, Keiko O'Brien, The Female Changeling, Wayoun, Sloan. My favorite character would have to be Garrick, his acerbic wit and urbane veneer thinly veiled his essential dangerousness. He was a great foil for the Federation mind set.

 

[Jaws]

I like Enterprise

I watched the original Star Trek as a kid. It was fun then. Every Sunday before church. You couldn't ask me to watch it now.

I didn't get back into Star Trek until near the end of The Next Generation. I was on vacation in San Jose, Ca for three weeks when one the cable stations out there had a TNG marathon. Shown most of the ones where Data was the main character.
You could watch Star Trek practicully anytime out there with all the cable stations that was showing them.

Deep Space Nine I rarely watched. I didn't like any of the characters except Worf. And my opinion was already made before he came along.

I thought Voyager had a good start but then went downhill. 7 of 9 was cool at first but got old fast.

I have seen every episode of Enterprise (I Think). I really like all the characters and I'm a fan of Scott Bakula. Loved Quantum Leap. The cliffhanger at the end of the season has me skeptical though. I hope they don't mess this up.

I have never seen the animated series that I can remember.

1. Enterprise
2. The Next Generation
3. Star Trek
4. Voyager
5. Deep Space Nine

Peace and smiles

j.

 

[Wolf72]

RangerWicket old pal ... you need to re-watch the pilot episode and first season of ST:tNG ... Worf's growl is almost literally saying "GRRRRRRR" ...

and yet I can remember liking it the first time I saw it too

My vote is for Enterprise, the original series shouldn't even count ... as the first it's got a special place no matter which series you like best.

 

[KnowTheToe]

The Next Generation was probably the best, but 7 of 9, wow! I had to vote for Voyager. Sorry for the shallowness of the post, I will blame it on hormonal imbalance or my parents, you choose.

 

[Purple]

I too went with DS9. While I enjoyed TNG quite a bit, and have really started to get into Enterprise, DS9 to me shows the universe of Star Trek the best. Not just Starfleet, but Bajor and Cardassians all around.

It also had some of the best supporting characters - Gul Dukat (the first ~4 seasons), Garack and Kai Winn. She is the only character on any show that I can actively remember hating every time she was shown. Shame she didn't have a worse end.

-Purple

 

[Tempuswolf]

...Kai Winn. She is the only character on any show that I can actively remember hating every time she was shown. Shame she didn't have a worse end.

-Purple

She burned too fast for your liking, huh? Flash fried was too good for her? I think she got her turn on the karmic wheel when she found out that she had been sleeping with Ducat.

 

[Doc_Subtlety]

Leaping back in to agree with the people who mentioned Garrick. That "simple tailor" was my favorite character in Trek history.

(Although Picard, Sisko, Kira and Odo all deserve honorable mention.)

 

[Storminator]

I voted for TOS, as the classic and innovative in so many ways. TNG was obviously of higher quality, but was much less daring.

Voyager was such a disappointment. As a concept it had such promise, but the execution was so abyssmal. One of the central ideas of Star Trek is the ultra civilization of the Federation. Problems of crime, poverty, and simple human failings are largely absent from society as a whole. Voyager should have played on the theme of gentle drift from that ideal. Forced to survive on their own, the crew should have degenerated into a desperate band of thugs, losing original (and by implication upstanding) crew members and replacing them with locals (naturally the riff-raff of space).

By the time Voyager returned to Federation space, they should have been a bunch of barbarians the Federation was appalled to call their own.

But nooooooooo.

PS

 

[Fyrie]

Enterprize: Why? The song baby, the song!