What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

This is The TrekBBS.

Getting invested in weird things is the reason this board exists.

 

And Donald Trump is the emcee.

 

Yeah I agree, I didn't even know that the warp nacelles were the warp nacelles until reading this forum. I don't know how many decks the ships have, I don't know how fast the various warp speeds are supposed to be etc. etc. etc.
Because none of it matters to my enjoyment of the series. To me the ship is just a location, hence why I also tend to rank them by how much I like the interior sets.

But yeah, to each their own.

 

Over the internet yes, where there is no tone of voice and facial expression.

 

Ferengi comedy episodes of DS9 comprise most of the funniest episodes of Trek - period.

 

I did say "most."

 

It and I were both 20 then…

 

Kirk: "someone check.out the compartment above me, I hear a man and a woman talking."

 

Anyone order a whole bunch of cereal?

 

This is my final post on TrekBBS. Long story. And it's too bad it had to come to this, but irreconcilable differences combined with the fact that I no longer feel comfortable posting here have led to this decision.

For my last post, I'll say what I said in my first post back in 1999. I don't think the next Star Trek should be a copy of a copy of a copy. I thought it just as much 22 years ago as I do today. That's why I enjoy Discovery and Picard. That's why I may look forward to SNW, but I don't think I'll like it as much. Star Trek should branch out. To different times, different places, different circumstances, and even not on a Federation Starship. Not just repeating planet-of-the-week adventures of the Enterprise over and over and over again. It might be fun for a little while, but it's just going where we've already been before.

Signing off. If you want to contact me, do it over PM, and I'll give you my email address. Otherwise, I'm done with this place. Over and out.

EDITED TO ADD (7/24/21): Guess I had one more in me. We'll see about from here. Never say never, but no promises.

 

Is it a controversial opinion that Tribbles isn't in my top 10 TOS episodes? I think it was, 30 years ago. Maybe overexposure. I even wince a little when a tribble shows up in a new Trek product.

 

Jellico was a good battlefield Captain and Starfleet produced very few who were better. He was just a lousy peacetime Captain.

 

I’ll go you a step further: he was a damned sight better officer than Riker. To flip out over changing the watch bill and other matters within the captain’s prerogative shows just how right Picard was.

 

Riker was overrated as an officer. He was a great guy, but just like Kirk was a shitty Admiral it's fair to point out that Riker just wasn't the best bridge command materiel. I know, I know, he eventually got the Titan and helped Picard's Enterprises out of several scrapes but let's not fool ourselves: Riker's the guy you want to hang out with, not necessarily serve under.

 

Did Jellico save the Federation from the Borg?

No, he did not.