What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Kor]

"The Royale(TNG)" is close to peak TNG for the first two seasons. I'd easily place it in the Top 10 of the first 50 episodes of the series.

I probably revisit this one more than any other season 1-2 episodes.

Kor

 

[Orphalesion]

Bah...not for me, I consider the Royale one of the worst episodes in any Star Trek show.

Then again, I'm the weirdo who likes Haven.

 

[eschaton]

I too, like holodeck adventures that for some reason don't take place on the holodeck.

 

[Trek Survivor]

"The Royale(TNG)" is close to peak TNG for the first two seasons. I'd easily place it in the Top 10 of the first 50 episodes of the series.

One of my faves (but I rate season 2 as one of the best) - love it when Trek doesn't take itself too seriously.

 

[Vale]

Season two of Lower Decks has felt a little flat.

 

[GNDN18]

The only Star Trek episodes worth watching are the ones with Brian Brophy in it.

That’s right.

And don’t forget it.

 

[Paul755]

It has taken me years to do a TNG full re-watch. I have all the BR disk sets, and they look and sound amazing....but man...Season 6 and Season 7 were really just dull and unremarkable in spots. It's still better than 85% of anything else on TV (especially at that time)...but it is more of a slog than I ever imagined.

I’ve always thought in S7 you could tell they were ready to jump to the movies and were just playing out the string.

 

[Vger23]

Season two of Lower Decks has felt a little flat.

Very uneven. Brilliant mixed with painful.

 

[Paul755]

I haven’t watched the finale yet but I think it’s been about the same as last season…bloody brilliant.

 

[Lord Garth]

I've been busy today IRL and the moment's passed. So... onto something else.

Earth should not be Sector 001. That's pretty species-ist.

 

[dupersuper]

I've been busy today IRL and the moment's passed. So... onto something else.

Earth should not be Sector 001. That's pretty species-ist.

I don't mind Earth being sector 001, but the idea that Earth is on the border of the Alpha and Beta quadrants always bugs me. It doesn't match with the dialogue at all, especially on DS9 once the Dominion turned up.

 

[Imaus]

I've been busy today IRL and the moment's passed. So... onto something else.

Earth should not be Sector 001. That's pretty species-ist.

It's the capital. Why would it not be the center or 001? It's not speciest for the capital to get that designation.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Earth is the founding member who brought all the other core founding members of the UFP together.

I think we deserve to be "Sector 001".

 

[Phoenix219]

Season two of Lower Decks has felt a little flat.

It has had me laughing uncontrollably to the point of tears more than once this season.

Of course, I don't watch it sober (marijuana), so there is that.....

 

[Lord Garth]

It's the capital. Why would it not be the center or 001? It's not speciest for the capital to get that designation.

Earth is the founding member who brought all the other core founding members of the UFP together.

I think we deserve to be "Sector 001".

The problem is more everyone else calling it Sector 001. Meaning anyone who's not in the Federation.

 

[Neopeius]

Star Trek TOS is the only iteration of Star Trek that is science fiction.

I don't mean in relation to today as the science is now woefully outdated, but for its time, TOS was way more SF than any later iteration. The regression started with TWOK and only got worse as the show went on, each Trek less interested in positing the future, less deriving from the literary SF tradition.

This is not a dig on the quality of the shows, just the SF content. SW is fun to watch, too, but it's not SF.

 

[fireproof78]

Season two of Lower Decks has felt a little flat.

Mixed is my feelings. Mariner and Boimler pretty much were the only consistent interesting part.

 

[fireproof78]

This is not a dig on the quality of the shows, just the SF content. SW is fun to watch, too, but it's not SF.

SW has never been SF.

 

[eschaton]

Star Trek TOS is the only iteration of Star Trek that is science fiction.

I don't mean in relation to today as the science is now woefully outdated, but for its time, TOS was way more SF than any later iteration. The regression started with TWOK and only got worse as the show went on, each Trek less interested in positing the future, less deriving from the literary SF tradition.

This is not a dig on the quality of the shows, just the SF content. SW is fun to watch, too, but it's not SF.

The way I'd put it is that TOS was a sincere attempt to bring literary SF of the time to the screen...meaning the full range of science fiction in the mid 1960s.

In contrast, later Star Trek drifted into being self-referential. It was no longer about exploring SF concepts, but exploring the existing Star Trek universe. Which is why later developments in SF (like transhumanism) get such short shift.

 

[fireproof78]

Star Trek became a period piece instead of actually speculating on future humanity. More's the pity.