What's your favourite Star Trek Series?

I originally voted DS9 but having bought and watched all the episodes of Enterprise recently I'd be inclined to vote for that (just to give it an extra vote at this stage )

I voted DS9. I watched TNG first when I was growing up, but the later seasons of DS9 were the first trek shows that I watched each week as they were first released.

I did also enjoy Voyager, never watched that much of TOS, and didn't get into Enterprise, but am going to watch season 1 soon.

I liked the long story dark war story arcs of DS9, and the same themes and techniques are shown carried over to BSG by the common writing pool between the later DS9 seasons and BSG.

Aside from the war arcs which were more gripping than the arcs in Voyager or TNG for me, I thought DS9 had some great stand alone episodes. Even during the later war arcs there were many single episodes that explored the darkness and humanity in war.

I really enjoyed the DS9 characters. Sisko, when he loses his hair and grows a beard becomes a bad ass, but an interesting bad ass. I think the acting and the character are good, though inferior to the acting and character of Picard. O'Brien and Bashir make a great duo; interacting well together as well as being interesting characters in their own right. O'Brien's war background and resulting prejudices come out, Bashir, particularly when his past comes out, becomes more than just a nerd.

I don't enjoy Odo all the time as a character, but he does have some great moments. Worf of course is excellent and added much to the show when he arrived. Jadiza and Kiera don't stand out so much for me compared to Trek characters in the other series.

Character-wise I think the secondary characters make DS9 stand out from the other series. Garak, Quark, Rom, Nog and to a lesser extent Jake are all layered characters even though they are very much in supporting rather than main roles. As an aside, didn't that renegade officer Michael Eddington show the maquis in much more depth and complexity than the quickly assimilated maquis officers on Voyager? Aside from a few episodes early episodes of Voyager could you honestly see the differences between the regular obedient trained and loyal starfleet officers with the passionate and driven rebel freedom fights or for that matter the former jail bird?

The "bad guy" characters are more interesting and more persistant than the other Trek shows I have watched. Weyuon is one of the best bad guy characters I have seen in any show; malign, cynical, yet ultimately loyal to his cause and bringing humour. Dukat and Damar are also both interesting for different reasons. The female shapeshifter wasn't a character I liked though, and I never enjoyed Winn as a foil, even though she served a narrative purpose.

Compared to Voyager and TNG, Jake is the least annoying child character in my opinion. He can still be annoying, but not to the extent of Wesley and that little girl from Voyager. The choice to be a journalist rather than a starfleet officer like his dad, sets him apart from conventions and shows that while starfleet officers are the main characters in the shows, they aren't all that is to aspired to in the ST galaxy. As a journalist he does come into his own during the station occupation. Nog is an under appreciated child character. In the earlier seasons he questions and critiques hooman/federation philosophy. Later he becomes a model starfleet cadet rejecting both the differing paths of what should be his alternatve role models; Nog or Quark. And his own war experience adds further depth to his character.

I won't dwell on religion too much other than to say as with BSG it adds nice mystery but it can be unsatisfying when it is used to quickly resolve big plot issues and it is more difficult to resolve the religious ends of story arcs than it is to introduce the mysterious religion set up.

My final part of my pro-DS9 rant is to point out how well I think the show does comedy. DS9 took the Ferengi rubbish from TNG and made them hilarious. Whether in full Ferengi episodes or small parts of other episodes Ferengi humour is done very well. At certain points Quark critiques federation and humans very well and it is presented in a humourous way. But even Ferengi aside DS9 has plenty of humour from Garak, Weyon, mocking Worf and plenty of O'Brien/Bashir stuff.

I love the non-stop combat action of the next generation, as oppoesd to the long, drawn out philosophical debates of DS9 or the stream of softcore pornography of voyager.

The ORIGINAL series for me (I dont watch any other)

EXCELLENT REPLY!!!

That new STAR TREK movie was complete crap! (I dont even wanna see it (I am a purist and that is crap using other people pretending to be Kirk,etc))

norrie rugger wrote: »

Are you calling a movie crap that you have not seen?

I tell you what so. I've seen it and it is crap!

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I tell you what so. I've seen it and it is crap!

As star trek its utter utter rubbish :mad::mad:

As a stand alone sci fi callled "space academy" or something else stupid its watchable.

Wow, i'm three years on boards and only now have i come across the Star Trek forum

TNG gets my vote as it is the series that i grew up with and got me hooked on Star Trek. I can remember watching it as a four year old on Saturday nights and being fascinated by it. In later years Sky One would show it at 5pm and i had many fiery arguments with my mother over not being let watch it before i went to do my homework. For me, the characters in TNG and the chemistry between them far out-shines the other series (the original excepted). Some of the one liners from Picard, Data and Q were just fantastic. The many battles with the Romulans, Klingons and the Borg were memorable, some of the plots and sub-themes went far deeper than most sci-fi series, which rely on effects or simple plots alone. Good examples of this would be the love triangle between Riker, Worf and Deanna or Data's attempts to attain human traits. Often the sci-fi part was put to one side and we saw episodes that were full of raw emotion. It was more than just a sci-fi series, it was a piece of pioneering genius.

TOS was good, but citing "it's the original" as a reason why it's better than the others is a bit stupid.