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Best Ending

  • 21-11-2011 10:19am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31


    In your opinion, Which Star Trek Series had the best ending and why?
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    mister_h wrote: »
    In your opinion, Which Star Trek Series had the best ending and why?

    TNG had a great ending, very optimistic & complete.
    DS9 also had a great one, though bittersweet seeing the crew go their seperate ways & Sisko gone.
    VOY was poor to middling.
    ENT was poor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 mister_h


    I'm very happy to agree with you that ENT was poor from start to finish.

    DS9 was probably my favourite though, even though i hated that whole "Vic Fontaine" thing they had going on, it ended as realisically as it could. Characters went there seperate ways because their outlooks were affected by war while at the same time remaining close. I always loved the O'Brien/Bashir Bromance and they ended that well.

    Voyagers ending should have taken longer it was a bit too neat and i would have liked to see what happened to the crew after they got back.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    DS9's ending was far too rushed IMO. The Dominion arc should have been resolved much sooner, like the end of the previous season. Then again I always felt the outbreak of hostilities between the Federation and the Dominion was a mistake. It should have remained a "cold" war until the end imo. I'm probably alone in thinking this though. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    TOS, underwhelming, if you limit yourself to the series ended with a rather camp and bad episode. If you regard the films as a natural extension of the show, which I do, then the ending of TUC was Shakespearen and genius, it tied up the whole fed/klingon conflict which imo was a hallmark of the series and resolved it with an enlightened message of peace and optimism.

    TNG: Best ending out of all Star Trek shows, a conclusion that philosophical with dialogue between philosopher characters who don't go into emotional displays would never be allowed in the media today, such as it is concerned with pandering to emotions and in your face messages (Nolan's Batman a prime example although its a film).

    DS9: First half, good for anyone who was into that whole Dominion war thing which was overrated, second half utter utter utter complete utter crap.

    VOY: You felt like you had completed an arduous marathon by the time they finally got home. That's how much I wanted it to end. It was a painful physical exertion to keep watching it. And Neelix getting the pompous send off, fck that. Worst Star Trek show ever.

    Ent: Strangely enough I thought the ending was so bad it was kinda good. It was funny to see an overweight Riker stroll around the enterprise. And because I didn't care much for the show I didn't really care if it was an affront to the expectations of star trek fans, who cares, the whole show was boring and crap so it doesn't matter if they recapped what would have been another few years of tedious Trek history in a single episode, they were doing you all a favour by wrapping it up quickly, by saying "and yadda yadday, they lived happily ever after, DONE!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    TOS, underwhelming, if you limit yourself to the series ended with a rather camp and bad episode. If you regard the films as a natural extension of the show, which I do, then the ending of TUC was Shakespearen and genius, it tied up the whole fed/klingon conflict which imo was a hallmark of the series and resolved it with an enlightened message of peace and optimism.

    TNG: Best ending out of all Star Trek shows, a conclusion that philosophical with dialogue between philosopher characters who don't go into emotional displays would never be allowed in the media today, such as it is concerned with pandering to emotions and in your face messages (Nolan's Batman a prime example although its a film).

    DS9: First half, good for anyone who was into that whole Dominion war thing which was overrated, second half utter utter utter complete utter crap.

    VOY: You felt like you had completed an arduous marathon by the time they finally got home. That's how much I wanted it to end. It was a painful physical exertion to keep watching it. And Neelix getting the pompous send off, fck that. Worst Star Trek show ever.

    Ent: Strangely enough I thought the ending was so bad it was kinda good. It was funny to see an overweight Riker stroll around the enterprise. And because I didn't care much for the show I didn't really care if it was an affront to the expectations of star trek fans, who cares, the whole show was boring and crap so it doesn't matter if they recapped what would have been another few years of tedious Trek history in a single episode, they were doing you all a favour by wrapping it up quickly, by saying "and yadda yadday, they lived happily ever after, DONE!"

    You don't like Trek much really do you :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 mister_h


    EnterNow wrote: »
    You don't like Trek much really do you :)

    OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH... Second Degree Plasma Burn!!!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    EnterNow wrote: »
    You don't like Trek much really do you :)

    haha, well I like TOS and TNG, but the others aren't great and I have the sneaking suspicion that a lot of trek fans force themselves to like DS9 because they need at least 3 of the trek series to be good, otherwise they'd have to admit that the majority of trek is dross except for the first two series and some of the movies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 mister_h


    I have the sneaking suspicion that a lot of trek fans force themselves to like DS9 because they need at least 3 of the trek series to be good, otherwise they'd have to admit that the majority of trek is dross except for the first two series and some of the movies.

    I would disagree with this. With the Addition of DS9 running parrallel to TNG for a while, it gave a sense of scale to the trek universe and took the spotlight off the Starship Enterprise. It showed that things were happening in the Federation Elsewhere and made this fictional verse that much richer for it. Plus the fact that it was set on a station meant that they could not be so episodic with there storylines and an element of continuity was present that didn't show up in TNG until the borg stories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    mister_h wrote: »
    I would disagree with this. With the Addition of DS9 running parrallel to TNG for a while, it gave a sense of scale to the trek universe and took the spotlight off the Starship Enterprise. It showed that things were happening in the Federation Elsewhere and made this fictional verse that much richer for it. Plus the fact that it was set on a station meant that they could not be so episodic with there storylines and an element of continuity was present that didn't show up in TNG until the borg stories.

    Yeah but I remember me and my friends of the time having a parody of DS9 involving people sitting at their stations with everything running smoothly and no drama or action anywhere in the vicinity. DS9 could be pretty much summed up as that, or Sisko talking endlessly about baseball or Quark and Rom providing unnecessary and wrong comic relief. Its like a tired sigh on an overcast Sunday afternoon. That pretty much describes it, even the war scenes were beige, nothing really changed, it was about as far as sanitized vanilla trek would go into gritty darkness, they didn't have armour, there was no gore or swearing or rock music, it was just 4 of them against 4 Jem Hadar in those formal uniforms with phaser rifles. Actually forget that early comparison to a Sunday afternoon, its more like vanilla Morrowind without all the mods.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 mister_h


    I Was recently told that Ronald D. Moore did BattleStar Galactica because of creative disagreements on Voyager.

    The claustrophobic enviroment and constant drinking and "Frakking" that was going on was originally meant to happen on Voyager, Moore said that this is a more believable outcome when you hurl a Ship across the Galaxy with little to no hope of getting home in any realisitic time frame.

    Wow that would have been fun to watch.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    mister_h wrote: »
    I Was recently told that Ronald D. Moore did BattleStar Galactica because of creative disagreements on Voyager.

    The claustrophobic enviroment and constant drinking and "Frakking" that was going on was originally meant to happen on Voyager, Moore said that this is a more believable outcome when you hurl a Ship across the Galaxy with little to no hope of getting home in any realisitic time frame.

    Wow that would have been fun to watch.

    That would have been awesome. There could have been a mutiny, Janeway would get killed or demoted and become a background character, Chakotay would also get bumped off. That Suther psychopath dude would have made a great tyrannical nut case, Neelix would have been sent flying on a photon torpedo, the Doctor would be one of the only "good" characters perhaps similar to the dwarf in Game of Thrones. Seven of Nine would be an evil dominatrix. Paris would have struggled between his good and criminal tendencies as the reluctant right hand man of Suther.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    That would have been awesome. There could have been a mutiny, Janeway would get killed or demoted and become a background character, Chakotay would also get bumped off. That Suther psychopath dude would have made a great tyrannical nut case, Neelix would have been sent flying on a photon torpedo, the Doctor would be one of the only "good" characters perhaps similar to the dwarf in Game of Thrones. Seven of Nine would be an evil dominatrix. Paris would have struggled between his good and criminal tendencies as the reluctant right hand man of Suther.

    Yeah, if Roddenberry were still alive I can see him green-lighting that as its fits so snug in with his vision of the future.

    In all seriousness, there should have been much more tension & uncertainty in VOY. Along the lines of Stargate Universe etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭Daith


    "All Good Things..." is the best episode.

    However I think "What You Leave Behind" is the better finale if that make sense? There was some issues alright (Dukat/Sisko final, the amount of recycled space battle footage). Yet I still think it's a perfect bookend to the show and practically the only one that shows how much change happened to the station and her crew.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Yeah but I remember me and my friends of the time having a parody of DS9 involving people sitting at their stations with everything running smoothly and no drama or action anywhere in the vicinity. DS9 could be pretty much summed up as that, or Sisko talking endlessly about baseball or Quark and Rom providing unnecessary and wrong comic relief.
    Did you actually watch DS9?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,438 ✭✭✭livinginkorea


    mister_h wrote: »
    I Was recently told that Ronald D. Moore did BattleStar Galactica because of creative disagreements on Voyager.

    The claustrophobic enviroment and constant drinking and "Frakking" that was going on was originally meant to happen on Voyager, Moore said that this is a more believable outcome when you hurl a Ship across the Galaxy with little to no hope of getting home in any realisitic time frame.

    Wow that would have been fun to watch.

    I remember reading that somewhere and when watching Battlestar it kept entering my head...if this was VOY that would have been so cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    TNG's "All Good Things..." by a country mile. Great episode.


    DS9 was a good series overall. I'd agree it's overrated and the Dominion War was boring. Seasons 3 to 5 were pretty solid though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Goldstein


    "So, five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit..."

    How can you improve on perfection?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    two janeways in one episode
    that's how


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Goldstein


    two janeways in one episode
    that's how

    Ha, there were 285,000+ Picards in Parallels :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭OldeCinemaSoz


    TURNABOUT INTRUDER

    Season three was pretty poor I know
    but a wonderful final episode on TOS.

    A great turn by The Shat.

    Shatner was great as The Captain but if Jeffrey Hunter
    hadn't died so early would he'd have been the great Kirk?!?!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Underdraft


    I always consider All Good things to be the end of TNG but Star Trek 6 to be the end of TOS. Different rules for different shows! :)

    Ent was the worst tho. A pointless mess of a show that borrowed nearly anything good it had from the other shows and almost fittingly had its own ending hijacked by TNG for no good reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    Yea, TNG really had the best ending without a doubt. It managed to look back over the years and also look forwards and felt really special while closing the pilot episode theme of the Q coming to judge humans.

    DS9 and Enterprise felt like they had endings that can only be described as exercises in tying-up loose-ends. By the time DS9 ended I was so worn out watching the same giant space battle in every other episode that I was just glad it was over. It was exciting to see the first time they did it in Way of the Warrior but by the final episode it had become tiresome and meh. It was as though they had found the one thing they were good at and just kept hitting repeat as a substitute for decent storytelling. As for the Pah Wraiths, the less said about those graduates from the Hogwarts School of How-To-Write-Good-Sci-Fi the better. In generally, the war should have been wrapped up earlier and the scope of the final episode should have been maybe a bit less grandiose.

    The same point can be made about Voyager; maybe they could have got home a few episodes earlier instead of fitting that biggie into the final episode. And they could have dispensed with destroying the Borg altogether because they had really gone to town enough on this species throughout the rest of the show. I would have preferred to see the ending being a tie-in to the first episode where we find out the fate of the Ocampa or more about the Caretaker's species. It would have been nice to see the ship that the Caretaker's people were travelling in show up in Federation space and for the ending to put a new twist on the plot in the pilot episode.

    The unconvincing Seven and Chakotay love story they desperately tried to weave into the final few episodes was obviously an attempt to address the lack of character development amongst most of the main characters throughout the series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    AngryLips wrote: »
    The unconvincing Seven and Chakotay love story they desperately tried to weave into the final few episodes was obviously an attempt to address the lack of character development amongst most of the main characters throughout the series.

    They alluded to this earlier when she created a Chakotay hologram to "practice" with and I quite liked the route they were taking with it. But you are right, it was heavily rushed and they just shoved it into the last episode to give Janeway a reason to "want" to change things. Not like the 40 crew members she lost along the way would matter or anything.........:p

    As a finale though, it was good. DS9's and TNG were both excellent in my opinion. Enterprises was truly, truly awful. It was pointless, killed characters for no reason and gave no closure. But that was to be expected from the show as it was not good overall......which was a shame as it has some really great episodes. "Twilight" in season 3 sticks out as a very memorable episode. "Through a mirror darkly" was also brilliant. I would recommend any trek fan watch them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    AngryLips wrote: »
    Yea, TNG really had the best ending without a doubt. It managed to look back over the years and also look forwards and felt really special while closing the pilot episode theme of the Q coming to judge humans.

    DS9 and Enterprise felt like they had endings that can only be described as exercises in tying-up loose-ends. By the time DS9 ended I was so worn out watching the same giant space battle in every other episode that I was just glad it was over. It was exciting to see the first time they did it in Way of the Warrior but by the final episode it had become tiresome and meh. It was as though they had found the one thing they were good at and just kept hitting repeat as a substitute for decent storytelling. As for the Pah Wraiths, the less said about those graduates from the Hogwarts School of How-To-Write-Good-Sci-Fi the better. In generally, the war should have been wrapped up earlier and the scope of the final episode should have been maybe a bit less grandiose.

    The same point can be made about Voyager; maybe they could have got home a few episodes earlier instead of fitting that biggie into the final episode. And they could have dispensed with destroying the Borg altogether because they had really gone to town enough on this species throughout the rest of the show. I would have preferred to see the ending being a tie-in to the first episode where we find out the fate of the Ocampa or more about the Caretaker's species. It would have been nice to see the ship that the Caretaker's people were travelling in show up in Federation space and for the ending to put a new twist on the plot in the pilot episode.

    The unconvincing Seven and Chakotay love story they desperately tried to weave into the final few episodes was obviously an attempt to address the lack of character development amongst most of the main characters throughout the series.

    All of the season endings with the exception of TNG just felt like the series going through the motions. DS9 was boring, standard big battle piece, by the numbers, epic whatever. But not original. Voy was insulting with the easy defeat of the Borg, the ship doing a sommersault when it should have been in bits by the end of the show, Ent was a farce, so pitiful that I actually feel sorry for it, TOS's finale was just a stock episode with added sexism. Although I count TUC as its real ending, which was a masterpiece, poignant and tieing up 20 plus years of trek history in a powerful message about peace and diplomacy (Kirk overcoming his well justified hatred of Klingons etc). TNG AGT was the best series ending hands down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Although I count TUC as its real ending, which was a masterpiece, poignant and tieing up 20 plus years of trek history in a powerful message about peace and diplomacy (Kirk overcoming his well justified hatred of Klingons etc). TNG AGT was the best series ending hands down.

    Hard to argue with that :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Underdraft wrote: »
    I always consider All Good things to be the end of TNG but Star Trek 6 to be the end of TOS.

    I agree, love the ending of the undiscovered country, gives it one last hurrah. A mission where you wonder what adventures a geriatric, world weary crew will get up to before coming back.

    Kirk: I think its about time we got underway ourselves. [sits on captain's
    chair]
    Commander Nyota Uhura: Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to put back to Spacedock immediately...to be decommissioned. [long pause as Kirk contemplates the order]
    Spock: If I were human, I believe my response would be...go to Hell. [Kirk looks at Spock] If I were human.
    Chekov: Course heading, Captain?
    Kirk: Second star to the right... and straight on till morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,217 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    I suppose "All Good Things" was my favourite ending. DS9 was my favourite Trek series and while I liked the ending, finding it quite a satisfying ending to the characters, I always hoped that DS9 would have ended on a downer. I've said it in another thread but I always thought that, since Paramount were already working on another Trek spinoff (Enterprise) that they should have ended DS9 on a downer: The Federation well and truly beaten and the Dominion taking over the Alpha Quadrant and that the next series should have been set about 100 years later with a battered and beaten (and a lot less smug) Federation trying to rebuild in, essentially, occupied territory. DS9 was the one show that had the balls to do it and when Enterprise was announced I was pretty disappointed.
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    Thankfully a couple of years later we got Battlestar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    I suppose "All Good Things" was my favourite ending. DS9 was my favourite Trek series and while I liked the ending, finding it quite a satisfying ending to the characters, I always hoped that DS9 would have ended on a downer. I've said it in another thread but I always thought that, since Paramount were already working on another Trek spinoff (Enterprise) that they should have ended DS9 on a downer: The Federation well and truly beaten and the Dominion taking over the Alpha Quadrant and that the next series should have been set about 100 years later with a battered and beaten (and a lot less smug) Federation trying to rebuild in, essentially, occupied territory. DS9 was the one show that had the balls to do it and when Enterprise was announced I was pretty disappointed.
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    Thankfully a couple of years later we got Battlestar

    Yeah a downer ending would have been great, the defeat of the dominion was a little bit too contrived.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Yeah a downer ending would have been great, the defeat of the dominion was a little bit too contrived.

    I dunno, had the Cardassians not turned, it could have gone either way. I kinda liked the whole Cardassian rebellion part, the oppressor becomes the oppressed etc. Then an almost Maquis-esque struggle on their part, ultimately turning the tide of the war.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,217 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    EnterNow wrote: »
    I dunno, had the Cardassians not turned, it could have gone either way. I kinda liked the whole Cardassian rebellion part, the oppressor becomes the oppressed etc. Then an almost Maquis-esque struggle on their part, ultimately turning the tide of the war.

    Oh yes, I loved the Cardassian thing too but only DS9 would have had the balls to do a downer ending. That was my biggest problem with Enterprise: It was bland-on-bland with some bland on the side (Can't even remember the name of the translator or navigator and couldn't be ar*ed TBH)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    Personally, I think had Enterprise started with season 3 as their opener with the Xindi attacking earth, more people would've been hooked in and watched the show.

    It wasn't stellar by any means, but it was a story. People like Arc's and its one of the reasons why DS9 worked so well in my opinion. Standalone episodes don't bring about any character progression. Everything remains the same after the hour is over and goes back to the way it was.

    With an arc, the writers can do things to the characters that actually matter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Underdraft


    Kirby wrote: »
    Personally, I think had Enterprise started with season 3 as their opener with the Xindi attacking earth, more people would've been hooked in and watched the show.

    It's kind funny but Iirc that was the only time Ent tried to do it's own thing and as a result probably produced its strongest episodes. Season 1+2 was mostly riffing on familiar themes and Season 4 was pretty much just a direct homage to TOS. I don't know why they were so deliberately tried to copy the other shows rather than coming up with something new for itself but that's the way it went. Even the Ent finale didn't have enough courage to not lend from previous shows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Kirby wrote: »
    Personally, I think had Enterprise started with season 3 as their opener with the Xindi attacking earth, more people would've been hooked in and watched the show.

    It wasn't stellar by any means, but it was a story. People like Arc's and its one of the reasons why DS9 worked so well in my opinion. Standalone episodes don't bring about any character progression. Everything remains the same after the hour is over and goes back to the way it was.

    With an arc, the writers can do things to the characters that actually matter.

    Their first mistake was naming the show and ship 'Enterprise'

    A pre-TOS show didn't sound so bad, but they ****ed it right up. The signing of the Federation charter, the Earth-Romulan war(did ENT even touch this) etc

    Also, Archer was so annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    The signing of the Federation charter, the Earth-Romulan war(did ENT even touch this) etc

    Also, Archer was so annoying.

    They signed the charter in the last episode.

    Their hands were tied with the Romulans due to the fact that star trek cannon stated at that time, nobody had ever seen one. They had the romulans early on where enterprise stumbled into a Romulan minefield but that was about it.

    And yes, Archer was annoying.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I actually find the last episode of ENT kinda interesting. DS9, VOY and ENT were all spin-offs of TNG; and with each new series, TPTB always claimed that they were going in a different direction. And conceptually this was true. If you look at the pilot episodes of DS9, VOY and ENT, they all seemed like a significant departure from TNG. But in the end, DS9 was the only one that actually avoided becoming TNG-lite. This was the whole problem with DS9, VOY and ENT: they never escaped the shadow of TNG and either ended up trying to recapture the success of it or living with the status of being a dark horse. The fact that TPTB initially tried to present ENT as being some sort of reboot is laughable. It's fitting therefore that the last TNG spin-off series should end with what is essentially an episode of TNG.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    I actually find the last episode of ENT kinda interesting. DS9, VOY and ENT were all spin-offs of TNG; and with each new series, TPTB always claimed that they were going in a different direction. And conceptually this was true. If you look at the pilot episodes of DS9, VOY and ENT, they all seemed like a significant departure from TNG. But in the end, DS9 was the only one that actually avoided becoming TNG-lite. This was the whole problem with DS9, VOY and ENT: they never escaped the shadow of TNG and either ended up trying to recapture the success of it or living with the status of being a dark horse. The fact that TPTB initially tried to present ENT as being some sort of reboot is laughable. It's fitting therefore that the last TNG spin-off series should end with what is essentially an episode of TNG.

    I think it was suited as an epilogue piece. Its actually a bit of a sad episode, star trek acknowledging its own irrelevance/staleness at that point and gracefully bowing out with a subdued quiet episode, the product of over saturation and creative exhaustion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭kitakyushu


    Just watched the final ep of VOY again for the first time since it aired. The time-travelling Janeway does seem like a bit of a cop out. Interestingly, apparently the the original story *WAS* the fate that Admiral Janeway timetravels back to prevent in the final aired episode. (ie Seven dies and the crew make a choice that means they don't get home for another 16 years.)

    Personally I think it would have been very powerful and suprising to have the crew make a choice that left them stranded and to have them not reach home by the final episode. For fans of Quantum Leap
    just think how much of a kick in the guts it was when you found out Sam never made it home. But it didn't ruin the show, if anything it only made his effort more heroic.

    Also the original ending for Voy would have bookended the show with Caretaker better than the ending we got. Both TNG and DS9 got final eps that bookended nicely back to their pilots (and clearly this was the plan with the voy finale) but I guess they just chickened out at the last minute.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    The Voyager ending annoyed me because they spent 7 seasons trying to get home, and all we got was a 'oh look, we're home...credits'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Goldstein


    Kiith wrote: »
    The Voyager ending annoyed me because they spent 7 seasons trying to get home, and all we got was a 'oh look, we're home...credits'.

    Begs the question why did the Borg not just send 100 ships into Earth orbit in the first place if Voyager could take a Borg transwarp conduit there. Always so many plot holes with the Borg.

    Was rewatching Dark Frontier a few days ago (pretty good feature length episode) but continuity was all over the place with TNG. If Starfleet knew about the Borg 20 years ago, why didn't anyone (except Guinan) know about them in Q-Who? ?

    There's also the question of the ablative armour, transphasic torpedoes & other tech from the future shifting the balance of power after Endgame. The federation would have been massively powerful thereafter as would (assuming they recovered) the Borg who assimilated the ablative armor tech from the future shuttlecraft and Janeway's knowledge of the transphasic torpedoes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Both TNG and DS9 were good.

    Voyager had already destroyed the idea of the big bad Borg so it was no surprise they beat them again to get home, it was really drawn out and the doctors name Joe was a terrible joke.

    Enterprise was another terrible ending but if the series was taken up for 5th season then the edited version could have proved interesting, as it was it came off as a last attempt to bring Enterprise into the Star Trek people knew from previous series but failed miserably.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭FGR


    Prequels imo are always a bad idea. Canon, nostalgia and the imagined scenarios of incidents referred to in the likes of TNG, DS9 etc are completely ruined.

    I didn't enjoy ENT, and it wasn't the fault of the cast. I could have imagined them having a great time if it was set in TNG era/the future.

    I remember the rumours of a series based on the Titan. That would have been far superior than ENT or VOY.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 Captain Chapman


    Ok, I'm not going into my personal opinion on all the series, as far as endings go, I have to go for Voyager. I know this is going to be controversial and I will probably be booed off the internet for even thinking it, but read my explanation.

    First off, I am not denying that it was a poor ending for the series. Some sort of welcoming home scene would have been nice, but the fact that the whole series was based on a relatively small vessel defying all odds to get home, when they finally enter federation space I did get a deal of satisfaction and a feeling of finality to the whole thing.

    That is my extremely poor excuse for choosing Voyager as my best ending.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Ok, I'm not going into my personal opinion on all the series, as far as endings go, I have to go for Voyager. I know this is going to be controversial and I will probably be booed off the internet for even thinking it, but read my explanation.

    First off, I am not denying that it was a poor ending for the series. Some sort of welcoming home scene would have been nice, but the fact that the whole series was based on a relatively small vessel defying all odds to get home, when they finally enter federation space I did get a deal of satisfaction and a feeling of finality to the whole thing.

    That is my extremely poor excuse for choosing Voyager as my best ending.

    To boldly post what no one has posted before :p

    I see your reasoning though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 Captain Chapman


    To boldly post what no one has posted before :p

    Haha, yes that did enter my mind as I was typing. I thought I would be virtually assassinating myself.


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