What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[gweeps]

I just chalk up the inconsistent character development to human frailty. People are not as consistent in terms of changing for the better as we'd like. They have default behaviours. Writers, actors, viewers, everybody. Which is why most retcons don't work because you need to allow those ping-pongy attitudes and actions to gradually lead characters to somewhere new, or at least familiar.

 

[mr.peany]

This has probably been mentioned but I actually prefer seasons 1-2 of TNG and think season 7 is the worst. Always thought that whilst the scripts were clunky, the storyline’s were more adventurous and imaginative and there was better direction, cinematography, music etc

 

[cooleddie74]

Season 7 is largely mediocre with a handful of memorable and good episodes but not enough.

 

[Ethros]

I think most of Season 7 was written by picking a character name out of a hat, followed by a relation

Geordi's... mother
Worf's... brother
Crusher's... grandma
Picard's... "son"
Deanna's... sister
Data's... mother

 

[Richard S. Ta]

This has probably been mentioned but I actually prefer seasons 1-2 of TNG and think season 7 is the worst.

Those first two seasons have improved with age I feel. More than Seasons 3-7 it really feels like 'TOS with money and SFX technology behind it' in Seasons 1-2. The lighting and cinematography as you say. I would have swung totally the opposite 10 years ago, but these days, for me, Seasons 1-2 are the best TNG ever did.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I think most of Season 7 was written by picking a character name out of a hat, followed by a relation

Geordi's... mother
Worf's... brother
Crusher's... grandma
Picard's... "son"
Deanna's... sister
Data's... mother

Enterprise's... child

 

[MAGolding]

I think most of Season 7 was written by picking a character name out of a hat, followed by a relation

Geordi's... mother
Worf's... brother
Crusher's... grandma
Picard's... "son"
Deanna's... sister
Data's... mother

Enterprise's... child

Very good. But that still makes only 7 episodes out of 26, or about 0.2691 of them, not most of them.

 

[Oddish]

Very good. But that still makes only 7 episodes out of 26, or about 0.2691 of them, not most of them.

Quite a recurring theme, though.

 

[Farscape One]

A very recurring theme. That's basically 1 in every 4 episodes.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

A very recurring theme. That's basically 1 in every 4 episodes.

More than a quarter of the whole season.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

More than a quarter of the whole season.

Yeah, that's a lot, and it still is a lot even without "Emergence."

 

[1001001]

I love Emergence.

I don’t care who know it.

Off to Vertiform City!

 

[Oddish]

I actually enjoyed it as well.

 

[Farscape One]

While "Emergence" was not the best of the season, it was an interesting idea. But it did something that I was waiting for. It finally gave the most overlooked, and arguably the most important, character in TNG her own episode.

I am, of course, talking about the Enterprise.

 

[gweeps]

Season 7 has a bunch of good and even a couple great episodes.

 

[Turtletrekker]

While "Emergence" was not the best of the season, it was an interesting idea. But it did something that I was waiting for. It finally gave the most overlooked, and arguably the most important, character in TNG her own episode.

I am, of course, talking about the Enterprise.

Something I really appreciated about Emergence was that it did something that Star Trek had gotten away from, discovering a strange new life form. A new civilization.

 

[cooleddie74]

The "Emergence" life form was basically an embryonic form of what Zora would become in the 32nd century in DSC. It was never one of my favorite TNG episodes but it had an interesting premise and at least tried to do something bold in that final season.

 

[Oddish]

What would have been crazy bold, since it was near the last episode, was actually have the emergent intelligence take over the ship, beam everyone to safety, and fly off with the Enterprise at the end.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"Emergence" was also fun, in no small part because of David Huddleston, gods rest his soul.

 

[simbit]

TNG seasons 1-3 are better than seasons 4-7, or at least more creative, with a few exceptions (on both sides)