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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 531617" data-attributes="member: 6092">Enterprise by farOkay, this is going to start something but I want to preface this by saying this is all my opinion.As someone else said, TOS stands alone.  It has affected us culturally more than many other shows and has stood the test of time.  I might not like watching some of the acting but it opened up so many doors for so many other good things.So, sticking to the "current" shows:#4 Voyager - I watched the first two seasons before I was completely turned off by this show.  Completely.  My issues were mainly continuity.  This show should have had the most continuity of any show but had less than TNG.  I also got sick of Janeway's preachiness.  I kept feeling as if she knew they were going to get home, which wasn't certain as per the finale, and so that's why she clung to the Starfleet ideals.  Starfleet has great ideals but if it is going to take 70 years to get home, those ideals just might be lost.  It tried but it just didn't work for me.  I have more issues but I will leave it at this.  #3 DS9 - Okay, this is third because I watched it more than Voyager and I did watch the finale but it lost me after three or four seaons.  I LOVE B5.  B5 had a plan from day 1.  DS9 did not.  I didn't appreciate that they claimed to have had a plan, that strangely ended up being nearly exactly like B5s, in the Trek universe, AFTER B5s plots were known.  I also have issues with the Sisco and Worf characters.  This is a good show, though.  I like O'Brien, Bashir and Kira.  I liked Gul Ducat as a villain.  I liked the tailor Cardassian.  (name?) I liked Kai Win for how irritating she was in doing what she thought best.  They had some excellent episodes with her.  I liked the development of the Bjorans and Cardassians, rather than coming up with new species.  I also liked the Defiant.  All in all, a good series.  #2 TNG - Okay, season one is painful to watch.  (And my wife and I recently did on DVD.)  After that, this series gets it right and keeps going.  I have to complaints about them.  Again, no continuity.  (I heard that DS9 was better about this but I don't know as I never saw the Dominion Wars.)  They did have some continuity but sometimes it is so subtle.  It is only by seeing them in a row that you can even see the continuity.  Good characters.  Riker, Data, Geordi, Picard, Barclay, Q are all reasons to watch the show.  Also, I loved how they finally started doing multiple plots as well as side things such as the poker games.  (Watch Season 1 and how each episode is only about ONE thing.  I think it took until mid way season 2 before they stopped doing that.)  Stories were interesting but again sometimes some follow up would have been nice.  #1 Enterprise - Okay, complete continuity here.  In one episode, they are traveling towards a planet.  It takes them two more episodes to get there and it is talked about the entire way.  Well done!  An over-arcing theme is much better, imo, than individual episodes where you forget that you just lost your best friend just yesterday, as happened on the other shows.  Enterprise is also unique in that it gets to make excellent references.  It does assume knowledge but no more than most people probably have due to TOS.  For example, when they first encountered the Romulans, that was excellent.  As they talk about technology or any developments, it is interesting knowing what will happen.  Great things there.I think the thing that has won me over, though, is that I like, or at least don't dislike, all of the characters on Enterprise.  There is no sub plot or character development that I don't like to see.  Therefore, all of it is interesting.  That's just my two gold pressed latinums worth.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />edg</blockquote>

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