Your Trek?
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Wombat
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I grew up on TOS -- I was always stunned (even as a kid) that Lost in Space constantly beat it in the ratings!
ST: TMP (aka Star Trek 1) was okay, but no great shakes
ST2: TWoK was great -- it worked best if you knew the original story, but it also is a taut film all on its own.
ST3: TSfS -- ummm, it gets you from 2 to 4. Essentially it would have worked better as a (shorter!) tv episode, but as a film it lost me.
ST4: TVH -- this one was for all the old fans! Kirk & Co being themselves under strange and silly circumstances. For me this will always have a special place because I was living in New Hampshire and was homesick for the San Francisco Bay Area, so...
ST5 -- forget it. Didn't exist. Move along, nothing to see here...
ST6: TUC -- ...wow... This is a great film for me. Timing, of course, is everything. Watching this film in the waning days of the Cold War when it looked like the old Soviet Union was going to shatter into a million component pieces, this is essentially what Star Trek did best -- take a contemporary issue, put it through a sci fi transmogrifier, and then look at it with a bit of a distance. Well written, exciting, tense, funny, this is the best of the Trek films for me.
I have seen the first two TNG films. The first one (Generations?) was bland, like much of the show. The second one (First Contact) was great fun, but I was bored with the whole Borg aspect. I haven't seen the other two.
For me, the best series is DS9. Complex characters, long story arcs, moral greys, conflicting "rights" and "wrongs" amongst essentially good people -- this was great television. Probably also explains why it is the only tv show I own a full run of (HATE the packaging, though!)
ST: TMP (aka Star Trek 1) was okay, but no great shakes
ST2: TWoK was great -- it worked best if you knew the original story, but it also is a taut film all on its own.
ST3: TSfS -- ummm, it gets you from 2 to 4. Essentially it would have worked better as a (shorter!) tv episode, but as a film it lost me.
ST4: TVH -- this one was for all the old fans! Kirk & Co being themselves under strange and silly circumstances. For me this will always have a special place because I was living in New Hampshire and was homesick for the San Francisco Bay Area, so...
ST5 -- forget it. Didn't exist. Move along, nothing to see here...
ST6: TUC -- ...wow... This is a great film for me. Timing, of course, is everything. Watching this film in the waning days of the Cold War when it looked like the old Soviet Union was going to shatter into a million component pieces, this is essentially what Star Trek did best -- take a contemporary issue, put it through a sci fi transmogrifier, and then look at it with a bit of a distance. Well written, exciting, tense, funny, this is the best of the Trek films for me.
I have seen the first two TNG films. The first one (Generations?) was bland, like much of the show. The second one (First Contact) was great fun, but I was bored with the whole Borg aspect. I haven't seen the other two.
For me, the best series is DS9. Complex characters, long story arcs, moral greys, conflicting "rights" and "wrongs" amongst essentially good people -- this was great television. Probably also explains why it is the only tv show I own a full run of
(HATE the packaging, though!)
Tarrasque Wrangler
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Final Frontier. They photon torpedoed God. 'Nuff said.
ThirdWizard
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My parents were ST fans in the 60's. I was watching ST:TOS when I was 4.
Lord Mhoram
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I can honsetly say I've been around Trek (can't say watching even if I want to) since before I was born.
My mom watched TOS every week while she was pregnant with me, and I was around with the show on TV as a baby, watched the reruns on TV, sluffed school to watch the movies first showing. Waited with bated breath for TNG to start airing....
I can't point to a time before Star Trek in my life.
My mom watched TOS every week while she was pregnant with me, and I was around with the show on TV as a baby, watched the reruns on TV, sluffed school to watch the movies first showing. Waited with bated breath for TNG to start airing....
I can't point to a time before Star Trek in my life.
BrooklynKnight
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Tarrasque Wrangler said:
They Photon Torpedoed an alien who CLAIMED to be god. As kirk pointed out.
I've lost count of how many "godlike" races there are on the trek universe. (Godlike compared to humans anyway)
didnt TOS have like 5 of them all on its own?
Tarrasque Wrangler
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BrooklynKnight said:
BK, I bet you're the kind of guy who stands up during a comedian's set and yells out "Hey! I like airplane food!"
F'real, I gotta go with "Wrath of Khan" as the grabber. I'm all about the Montalban. But if I had to pick a best ST film, it'd most likely by "Undiscovered Country". It didn't require you to know as much about the TV show as Khan did, while at the same time being a nice last chapter to the TOS saga.
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