Comments on: Weekly Poll Results: Best Star Trek Series

By: Barrakithree

Barrakithree — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:45:58 +0000

What about the Animated Series?

By: Stargazer2893

Stargazer2893 — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:51:37 +0000

@Sens- Thats Deanna not Dianna, and Feelix not Phlox(wtf)! My god…(jk) anyway…TNG FTW!!!!! Started watching as a young child and was instantly hooked. I LOVED the Traveler, awesome concept!

By: Sens

Sens — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:09:30 +0000

I have seen every star-trek episode at least once. And every series has it’s pro’s and con’s. Enterprise had for me the best season; no 3 with the xindi. TOS had the best character: Spock. TNG is my favorite series; the most impressive cast: Dianna with Will and Data and Picard and Worf. Only Jordi could get on my nerves. TNG also has the best captian. DS9 was also good, really enjoyed the interaction between Odo and Quark, also the dominion story line was one of the better. But if you want to see a Sci Fi series about a space station; watch Babylon 5 and get blown away. Voyager has the best doctor (although I also loved Phlox) and is really about exploration and survival which gives the series an edge. In voyager I missed characters that stand out.

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:31:27 +0000

The results of the original series are mostly based on positive answers given to a brute captain who gets the girl.

I don’t like this because it’s james bond style, and is surreal. But I did like the original series because of the better friendship, adventure spirit, everything is possible, and depth of character.

I liked TNG second, because it is slightly more industrialized, but more than makes up for good acting, more realism in not only gadgets and hardware, but also in the way space travel should be executed (always with caution).

I would have wished to be a brain for startrek movies, I’m sure I’d have a lot of technological, mechanical, and electrical ideas to share to improve these series.
Too bad they already finished!

Deep space nine is a big drop down from the original series. Like many, Spock is a great character; perhaps the idea that there is a superior being than humans out there intrigues people, and we don’t see that on DS9!
I find also DS9 to have lousy actors, although it gets a little better further down the series, a lousy captain, mediocre plots, and most certainly a lousy scenery! Most eps are being shot on a station which is enormously boring, no real technological breakthroughs, no deep studies into science, no depth of character or character diversity, I find DS9 deeply disappointing, and only saw it because I did not have anything else to see!

I yet have to see enterprise and voyager, but from what I’ve grabbed from some episodes, is even more lousy acting, more fakeness, less depth of character, more weirdness, less realism, and most important of all, a big let downer is too much tech talk jibberish!
sentences like:
“Hyperbolic hypersonic phaserinducer, with magnetic flux core” really are a let down!
You’d imagine people naming these things something else than latin names! Instead, call them “the K-drive”, or “did you check the static conductors, and energy paths”?
Those things make sense!

The few episodes I’ve seen from Voyager and enterprise make me believe even coffee is called something extra terrestrial!

By: iisan7

iisan7 — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:34:55 +0000

DS9 is just a tremendous show– I am constantly surprised how modern it is in its design (even if it owes a lot to B5), themes, and even its aesthetics. More than any other series, it stands up (especially the last three seasons) as something that could as easily have been produced today.

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:30:05 +0000

I have just completed watching seasons 2-4 of ENT on HDNET. My daughter and I are stunned that the series was cancelled. It deserved better. The theme song seems to be the biggest gripe on this board. The theme song, are you serious. People who complain about trekkies make arguments along the same shallow vein to explain why they “hate sci-fi” or Star Trek. If you checked out at the theme song, as I did when I was young and admittedly stupid, you need to do what I did and watch the episodes now. The telling of the back stories for the chronologically later installments is absolutely superb. The acting on the show is as good as any other in the series and the 3rd and 4th seasons are amazing.

I will be revisiting DS9 which I left in the second season under its original run. I will also check out Voy which I have never watched. I will say the depth of ENT surpasses TNG easily.

The TNG episode “Casino Royale” proves my point. This episode is simply a vehicle to put DATA in a cowboy hat in a casino. The story is terrible. A Samaritan alien species sets up the casino based on a book so the lone survivor of a crew can have his world. There is no way for the guy to leave. The TNG crew gets trapped and had some crew other than DATA’s happened upon this guy they would have been stuck there too. Luckily, DATA gets them out. TNG is a fun show to watch with terrible stories that are absent of character development over the course of the run. The shows are so similar and absent of development that it is truly scary. Data, the non human, is the only character that develops over the course of the show. So my list:

ENT
TNG
TOS
DS9
I will be watching DS9 and Voy to see if they can go up my list.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:16:53 +0000

TNG is my favourite so far but it is the only one i have watched through all seasons.

I’m starting to watch the others so i’ll see.

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:23:23 +0000

Well, it is incredibly difficult to pick just one, they are all fantastic. My main problem is that why does everyone hate the “Enterprise” intro?! Not only is a good song by itself, but the intro is beautifully done, showing the improvement of space exploration and Star Trek’s origins.
And @James Neary, how is Enterprise not canon? It actually helps explain some unanswered questions, such as why the TOS Klingons don’t have ridges and whatever happened to TOS’s USS Defiant. Enterprise definitely was cancelled way before its time.

By: Roberto P.

Roberto P. — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:50:30 +0000

In my opinion the best series is Enterprise, especially the 3rd season where the writers where not forced to develop a plot that should run only within a single episode.
I also found (and I was surprised) Jolene Blaloc being the one who best characterized her role. She was very credible throughout the whole series. Each character was deeply developed, the stories weren’t filled by technobullshit, none of them were boring such as some TNG episodes who tended to transform Star Trek into a Shakespeare stage drama.
DS9 was a bit too boring, plots were too simple. Voyager was ok by itself but it reached superb moments thanks to Robert Picardo.
My 2 cents

By: James Neary

James Neary — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:46:17 +0000

My favourite is DS9. When I was younger it was TNG, but I love the depth of DS9 with the story and how the characters deal with different issues and how they live with consequences. The other series don’t really touch on this other than Enterprise (which I hate).

I hate Enterprise because the characters are bland and are all the same. There is nothing orginal about it. It’s a bad copy of all that has gone before.

Voyager is good, but there is a bit of cheese now and again in that series. Also, Janeway’s voice annoyed to start with. Some of the actors/charcters in this series seem to be finding their feet in the first few seasons. Some just don’t. Harry Kim’s character is boring and Neelix can being annoying. I especially loved the episode when Tuvok ‘kills’ him in the holodeck because he annoys him.

TNG is just a colourful show with good characters and actors that fit the roles well. I don’t think all of them stood up well on the big screen compared to the orginal series cast.

The orginal series I enjoyed, but obviously some episodes are well dated and rubbish (like ’spock’s Brain’). I prefer the movies, personnally. But without the series we wouldn’t have the movies.

My ratings:

1)DS9
2)TNG
3)VOY/ORG
4)ENT ( I haven’t bought this one. I pretend it’s not even part of the canon).

Fair assessment?

By: Rama

Rama — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:28:22 +0000

VOYAGER only … reasons –>

1 ultimate sci fi
2. kes
3. se7en of nin9
4. holodeck
5. holo doc
6. tuvok and his witty humors
7. friendship of Kim and Paris
8. new morals and emotions every episode..
9. sit back and grab a cola … amazin show…

By: Thomas Atkinson

Thomas Atkinson — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:16:45 +0000

Enterprise for me. It’s key episodes are either eye-opening, action-packed or emotionally-hooking.
In case you’re wondering, the key episodes are:
1.Broken Bow
2.Shockwave parts I and II
3.Congenitor
4.First Flight
5.The Expanse
6.Twilight
7.Similtude
8.Kir’Shara
9.In A Mirror Darkly Parts I and II
10.Terra Prime

Thank you to all who appreciate Enterprise!!