What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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It was. Not so much anymore.
To be fair, they couldn't really come down on John Gill. He was in a drug induced catatonic state when they found him and the bullets didn't do him any favors.
Just TOS alone makes the 23rd century the best.
To be fair, the 23rd century has had the second most amount of coverage, so it's easy to call an era with 151 episodes and counting the best. (With the 24th having the obvious most. And with at least 616 episodes and 5 movies taking place in that century, it'll almost certainly always be the one with the highest count.)
If the 22nd century had the same amount of coverage, we could get a better comparison.
If the 22nd century had the same amount of coverage, we could get a better comparison.
I'll put the original 79 episodes up against any other century.
234 good ones?
Far greater nunber than that.
I've found the ratio usually holds. About a third are good, a third are mediocre and a third are bad. TOS has Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the original Enterprise, which makes even the bad ones worth watching.
With only a very few exceptions of truly horrendous episodes of TOS, I agree with you that even the bad ones are worth watching.I've found the ratio usually holds. About a third are good, a third are mediocre and a third are bad. TOS has Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the original Enterprise, which makes even the bad ones worth watching.
Eh...I'll lean towards TOS on most things, with Kelvin s close second but good grief are the bad ones for me unwatchable.I've found the ratio usually holds. About a third are good, a third are mediocre and a third are bad. TOS has Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the original Enterprise, which makes even the bad ones worth watching.
The 22nd century got 98 episodes. The 23rd has 102 if you add The Animated Series to TOS, and with the six TOS movies and the opening scene of GEN that's 109 canon stories set in the 23rd century, not much more than ENT gave us for the preceding century.
Past tense. Used to.
Past tense. Dropped out.
In both instances, they were civilians. They were at one time under the authority of Starfleet, but that authority ended when they separated from that organization.
Therefore, they were no longer subject to any of Starfleet's general orders.
ENT had too much of a "TNG but with grapplers, no shields and a chef that cooks most of your ship's food" feel, but when it got 22nd century weirdness and deep space exploration right it got it VERY right.
Just wasn’t enough of it. I always roll my eyes at the Reed birthday episode.
Although that specific episode, "Silent Enemy," has one of the eeriest and most effective alien species in Trek history, a species with a bizarre design and appearance that speaks no words, simply boards the ship to poke around Enterprise's systems and then flies off into the void, never to reappear. Malcolm's birthday cake subplot doesn't bother me but it also does little for me.
It just took away from the seriousness of the A plot, for something plodding and forgettable.
The Prime Directive is stated to be a Starfleet regulation, though we do know from Who Watches the Watchers the Federation's civilian exploration service (those guys who wear the silver jumpsuits) do follow it when observing pre-warp cultures, though they have a loser interpretation of it than Starfleet given the lead scientist in that episode thought since the Mintakans were already worshipping Picard as their god he should just go head and create a religion and issue commandments to keep them in line.
In my head canon, I assume Nikolai also worked for them.
In my head canon, I assume Nikolai also worked for them.
They might agree to follow it since it seems they are dependent on Starfleet for support.
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