Yep. I love Shatner's Kirk and dearly but even when my Mom was watching TOS in the 1960s Spock was the character that was more popular and got more fan mail.
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Yep. I love Shatner's Kirk and dearly but even when my Mom was watching TOS in the 1960s Spock was the character that was more popular and got more fan mail.
Honestly, I don't think he was meant to be the most interesting. He was meant as the strong, leading man, the person that provided a center to the show with his consistency, but then have interesting things happen too him, rather than necessarily be the most interesting. Spock was definitely the most interesting. Though, I think the popularity took everyone by surprise, based on Nimoy's "I Am Spock" book.
The issues being you have to find actors that fit the bill to start with. I agree, the future of Earth is a medium brown. Truly black or white people will become rare. Sadly that future is not now.
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This was likely fairly hard during Berman Trek, but shouldn't be an issue now. But most of what made it hard was the active bias of casting directors against racially ambiguous actors. Default was white, and if you were too mixed to pass as a typecast minority you were screwed. Vince Diesel has a great short film he did on this before becoming famous.
I always found it weird how damn few Latinos were on Trek in the 1990s, considering finding Latino actors even back then in LA was easy.
TNG became more "comfortable" as time went on; oh, the show's overall quality did improve, but they lost some of that initial daring...that quasi-TOS atmosphere. In any case, I wasn't a fan of the martial tone TNG adopted during its later seasons (right around the time Deep Dish Nine debuted).
Early TNG was trying to be a sci-fi series, later TNG was just trying to be TNG.
A fire can provide warmth, though, even if its particular fuel source is disgusting
; it has a use.
It gave us Admiral Leonard McCoy, Lore, Dixon Hill and L.Q. "Sonny" Clemmonds. It was a mess but it did have some gems.
Watching all of Trek in production order is a slog, since TNG season 1 comes so soon after TOS season 3.
Well, you have TAS in between; for those who don't go for that, which is many, but not I, that's another problem.
Plus, some films intervene. That starts with TMP, which many people also find to be a problem (also not I); indeed every film has its share of critics.
Yeah, there are 22 TAS episodes and four theatrical films in between Season 3 of TOS and Season 1 of TNG so it's not as if even the television franchise went into an 18-year hibernation.
I don't think TNG season 1 is a slog to get through. It's not the best season, but ut certainly is not as bad as many say.
TNG Season 1 isn't bad overall, I just think the quality varies. Focusing on all the positives:
- I'd put "1001001" up against any episode from any other season of Star Trek, TNG or not. Before the Moriarty hologram, or The Doctor, or Vic Fontaine, there was Minuet.
- "Conspiracy" is up there too as another episode I hold very high regard.
- "Datalore" is no "A Piece of the Action" but it's still fun to watch.
- "The Naked Now" has long been a guilty pleasure of mine and I've said that on here years (decades at this point).
- "Where No One Has Gone Before" sparks the imagination in a way a lot of other episodes don't.
- "Heart of Glory" sums up Worf pretty well.
- "Coming of Age" is a solid Wesley story that sets up the Remmick subplot.
- "The Battle" is a great episode, shows us the Stargazer, and makes the best use of the Ferengi, pre-DS9.
- I love "The Arsenal of Freedom" as just a fun story that splits things up (literally) with Geordi on the battle bridge and most of the rest of the crew fighting that robot-thing zapping at them.
- "We'll Always Have Paris", "Lonely Among Us", "Haven", and even "Encounter at Farpoint" have a lot I enjoy.
- As bad as most of "Skin of Evil" was, I do feel for them especially at the end when they watch Yar's goodbye.
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