What's your favourite Star Trek Series?

AMKC

doyler55 wrote: »

I love the new films with Captain Kirk but Picard and Janeway ware my favourites would love to see one made with theses

We can only hope. Id say Kate Mulgrew would be happy to do Janeway again and Patrick Stewart is always happy to do Picard even if he is getting on in years.
TNG need one last film one that gives a good ending and am sure Janeway could be in it too but it more than likely will never happen now.

degrassinoel

Evade wrote: »

I think he was only a 3rd year cadet when he was commissioned so it's even worse.

I like to think Harry got a couple of back to back promotions after Voyager got back to the Alpha Quadrant

just finished watching the show again, there was an episode in the final season that attempted to explain that by saying that voyager was a small ship and that they couldn't have so many officers.
Although that doesn't explain why Tom Paris got demoted to ensign and re-promoted to lieutenant while he's just a helmsman.
Kim had actual command of voyager regularly on the nightshift. And iirc his only black mark was when he boned that alien without asking the doctor or captain about it first.. Janeway was a bit rough on him for that one.
Funny though.

Evade

degrassinoel wrote: »

just finished watching the show again, there was an episode in the final season that attempted to explain that by saying that voyager was a small ship and that they couldn't have so many officers.
Although that doesn't explain why Tom Paris got demoted to ensign and re-promoted to lieutenant while he's just a helmsman.
Kim had actual command of voyager regularly on the nightshift. And iirc his only black mark was when he boned that alien without asking the doctor or captain about it first.. Janeway was a bit rough on him for that one.
Funny though.

The reason for keeping Harry as an ensign makes sense. Tuvok's promotion was weird too, he was third in line to command Voyager anyway why promote him to lietuenant commander.
Rank in Star Trek has always been a bit odd, Harry has given orders to lieutenants in Voyager and a chief petty officer in DS9 has lieutenants as subordinates.

Not to mention the drastically different amount of time it takes some people to get promoted. One of Riker's classmates was a captain in the first series of TNG, around 6 years after he and Riker graduated, a command Riker turned down in favour of first officer on the Enterprise IIRC so it's not like he was in another pseudo space navy organisation and put on the fast track. It doesn't seem to be too uncommon because there are others who've made it in a similar amount of time. Compare that to Picard who was still a lieutenant commander in his forties(ish) and Sisko and Janeway must have been close to forty by the time the made captain.

Inviere

helimachoptor wrote: »

Would have loved a DS9 film myself

To see how they screwed up TNG on the big screen, I'm hugely relieved DS9 was spared the same treatment

The_Valeyard

ando wrote: »

I'm not much of a trekkie but I do enjoy an episode or two at the weekends, but holy god.... DS9 is leading the poll. Its complete tripe. Voyager was the best

Arse! :P


DS9 was dark, broody, and showed alternate lifestyle choices in the 24th century. I think the characters on DS9 were much more developed than that of TNG or Voyager. Even the extras on DS9 had great backstories or actors playing them.

Morn was far more interesting than commander chakotay


But we all have our own likes

Jan_de_Bakker

TNG, always loved it, Picard made the show - such a diplomat.
I agree it has aged a bit, and the whole - "monster of the week"
format of the show lets some episodes down.
I have only watched TOS and TNG tho .. I should give DS9 a shot
since it's available on NetFlix...

RopeDrink

TNG for me. The characters are strong. Super-strong. Weak episode? Well, chances are there'll be something to like still. To anyone who says that that era didn't age well, you now have the absolutely glorious 60-FPS HD remasters floating about on YouTube -- the difference is astounding. I never had the opportunity to see too much of DS9 or Voyager given TOS and TNG were always on back when I even gave TV any kind of attention, but from what I have seen, TNG would still win out for me.

Now, back to the absolute tonne of fun compilations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dMOgnfNVQw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb62MFWg770

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h49MvqZfA8k

Let's not forget "Worf gets denied", Dorn himself even commented on it at some of his conventions. Poor Worf

Ping Chow Chi

you should go and watch DS9 Ropedrink (maybe give season one a bit of a miss though)

RopeDrink

As said, I've seen enough to know TNG would remain my favourite - but also enough to know the others are good, too. I've liked a lot of characters in mostly all of the shows (even Enterprise), especially the captains (yes, including Janeway), but TNG will not only hold a nostalgic sentiment for me, it is the one I always go to when I want a dose of Trek. Sure I was around when the original series was being shown on TV, but TNG is the image I think of if you say "Think of Trek" - and that's not a negative reflection on the rest as I quite enjoyed all of them, just on different levels than others.

MrVestek

I don't see Star Trek: Discovery on this pole. :P

my3cents

MrVestek wrote: »

I don't see Star Trek: Discovery on this pole. :P

Then you obviously missed the date the thread was started.

MrVestek

my3cents wrote: »

Then you obviously missed the date the thread was started.

AMKC

MrVestek wrote: »

I don't see Star Trek: Discovery on this pole. :P

Lol.

I think give it a few years and if its still going then put it on the pole or in a new pole.

Justin Credible Darts

DS9

Not only had it the best written stories, story arcs, had a darker theme, its recurring characters were second to none.

some of those secondary characters like Garak, Dukat, Martok, Weyoun etc had more depth than the cardboard cut outs of Geordi, Wesley and Crusher in TNG.

DeborahLQ

TNG is by far the best in my opinion, besides the original of course. I don't know what people saw in DS9.

TheValeyard

DeborahLQ wrote: »

. I don't know what people saw in DS9.

Get out.

AllForIt

DS9 and Voyager 50/50

I liked TNG when it appeared but I don't think the plots were as good as either DS9 or Voyager. There was the odd good one in the latter series but overall the writing was a bit weak. It was saved by Picard because of his stature as a actor and Data was a compelling character. I thought there was something a bit daft about kids and families in the lower decks. The ship had so many 'windows' that I used to think of it as an inter galactic hotel.

DS9 was a bit of a departure from the boldly going but it worked because of the strong back story. In itself I thought is was brilliant. But Voyager for me was the best traditional full quantum torpedo spread Trek with some very entreating nonsense episodes that in the end worked. I miss that and with the current new offerings I don't see we'll be going back to that style of Trek for a while.

Stark

DeborahLQ wrote: »

TNG is by far the best in my opinion, besides the original of course. I don't know what people saw in DS9.

First two seasons are ****e but after that it comes into its own.

Took me a long time to get into it as well as it was such a struggle to get past the first two seasons.

Compo82

My favourite would be in this order:

1. DS9
2. TNG
3. Voyager
4. Picard
5. Enterprise
6. TOS
7. Lower Decks
8. Discovery

Discovery has been a huge disappointment. It's actually getting worse as it goes on. Picard maybe still has some potential to get better hopefully.

Theboinkmaster

DS9 was my favourite by a mile - it was ahead of its time

StudentDad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119858838#Comment_119858838

DS9 wasn't bad - the characters of Garak, Bashir, O'Brien and Weyoun were my favourites. You can keep the pseudo-religious pah wraithy bits towards the end. To my mind they took a great character - Dukat - and wrecked him.

Inviere

DS9

TNG

SNW

VOY

LD

ENT

TOS

PIC

TAS

DSC

eadrom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121057874#Comment_121057874

You've left out SNW.

Boy there's a lot of Star Treks all of a sudden.

eadrom

1. TNG
2. DS9
3. TOS
4. SNW
5. LD
6. Voy
7. ENT
8. PIC
9. DSC
10. (TAS)

Difficult to place SNW and LD because they still feel quite new, but this feels about right for the moment. The top 6 there are all golden in my books anyway.

TAS at the bottom partly because I haven't really watched it all, at least not in a long long time.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121058322#Comment_121058322

Oops, cheers! Added now. Can't believe I forgot that!

RubyGlee

TNG the series that introduced me to trek will always be my favorite. I remember when I first watched voyager all those years ago I wasn’t too impressed and have never rewatched but after Picard binged it on Netflix and I really misjudged it. Sure voyager had a lot of flaws but it was actually quite good

Deja Boo

Next Generation are the only ones I've seen. For a sci-fi show, it's not too bad.

Theboinkmaster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121800818#Comment_121800818

Check out DS9 - was ahead of it's time. Especially season 3/4 onwards.

pixelburp

Star Trek: the Next Generation

"It's not too bad".

I mean. Yeah. It ain't. 🤭

Deja Boo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121808266#Comment_121808266

I watched one I found quite intriguing (Deep Space Nine S4 "The Visitor"), but that was it.

The other few episodes (idk from what season) I tried watching were, em, also "ahead of my time" lol, just not my cup of tea.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121822116#Comment_121822116

Great episode that. Yes in the beginning DS9 talks a while to get going it's a bit slow and a lot of talking but they are devolving g the characters and letting you get to know the characters. These are not just one dimensional characters they are characters you will come to know and love and even some of the secondary characters have better character building and development than any from TNG which I also like by the way or that other rubbish show who's name I shull not say here but that could have been brilliant but was not but hay at least it has given us SNW.

But anyway once DS9 hits its stride from season 3 onwards its all excellent.

Deja Boo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121844824#Comment_121844824

Good information, thanks! I am new to sci-fi and haven't truly appreciated it, sorry!

I was watching an episode of Next Generation, wish I knew which one, so you could listen to Geordi La Forge's exaggerated pauses mid-sentence. It was blatantly obvious (in this episode anyway) he was mimicking the exact over-dramatic speech pattern that William Shatner employed to capture attention as Kirk.

JustAPoorDreamer

1. TNG,

2. DS9,

3. LD

4. SNW

5. Enterprise

6. T.O.S

7. Voyager

8. PIC

9. T.A.S

The top six three are all brilliant the last 3 had flaws like Voyager ruining the Borg for instance, Picard with its crappy serenity ship, annoying Raffi and crappy 1st and 2nd seasons after a great start but it had a great 3rd season. The only season of Picard I would fully watch again is the 3rd season.

T.A.S was just OK but terrible animation.