Hello everyone, first sorry for my english because i'm french and i may make a few mistakes.
I hope i'm posting in the right section
I create this topic to say what i think about trek from my perspective, since i have only known star trek for a few month.
One day in march, i saw one voyager episode on a french paytv channel. The one with the doctor trying to speak to a missile. I liked it so i decided to watch star trek.
I chose to begin with enterprise because 1/ First one in timeline
2/widescreen and good CGI
So i begun with Broken bow, and i have to admit that i was kinda lost at the end of the episode. I thought that it would begin with earth first contact with an alien culture so i had no idea what the vulcan were doing on earth.
I found some info online about WW3 and first contact and i understood better.
I whatched Season 1 and 2 very quicky, i was really looking for the next temporal cold war episode each time.
I think that season 1 and 2 were good intro to trek, it introduced vulcan, klingon, andorian and the mysterious romulan. (The fact that daniel was not gonna tell archez about them really made me wonder who they were).
I was a little disapointed with season 3 because i didn't like the xindi that much.
Season 4 premiere was totally disapointting imo, with a totally ununderstandable conclusion to the temporal wold war (never happened yet xindi attack on earth still took place :/ )
I loved the rest of the season, espacially the romulan one.
About the series finale, TATV, it was TOTALY confusing to me, i had no idea who those people were.
I was disappointed because that wasn't much closure to the romulan arc so i wanted to watch TOS.
The jump from TATV to The cage/ Where no man has gone before was VERY DIFFICULT.
There were no way this enterprise could be more evolved than the NX-01, quite the opposite in fact.
The first few TOS episode were totaly boring IMO and i almost stopped watching.
Then there was the first romulan episode and it made me realise that, even without CGI, there could still be great episodes.
For the rest of the serie and TAS, the characters slowly grew on me, even if i still thought most episode were pointless.
In July, i watched the TOS movies. The first one was totally boring, i was waiting for something to finally happen but it never did.
The next 5 were great (exept maybe for the fith).
I started TNG in late July. I was much easier to adapt to TNG that it was to TOS, i rediscovered riker and troy, data had already been pre-introduced in ent season 4, and the enterprise-D seems like a plausable ship.
I didn't like season 1 that much but from season2 to the end, it was great, especially the few borg episodes (good continuity with the enterprise episode by the way, at the end of the borg introduction episode, i remembered arche's word that i had almost forgotten, that they had only postponed the invation)
Then came DS9, even if i preferred TNG 7/8 for DS9 season 1 and 2, starting from season 3 onward it was great.
What i espacially loved is that there fewer and fewer filler episodes as you go into the serie. Season 5 finale was incradible, i never expected them to lose DS9, and when they did, i assumed they would get it back in the season premiere, but i was wrong, it took a very long time to retake DS9, which was more reallistic.
About Voyager, which i'm watching in parallel to DS9, i love the principle of the series, stuck in the delta quadrant, but there were terrible filler in the first 3 season imo, and i hated the kazon.
Season 4 was much better, with year of hell and the whole hirogen-contacting starfleet arc.
I'm actually at mid-season5 for voyager and mid-season 7 for DS9 and i think they both get better as time goes by.
Voyager reintroduced the borg after first contact, and i hope they'll be the main enemy in season 6-7 like the dominion actually is in DS9.
DS9 has some incredible episode,
Finally about the TNG movies, i liked generation as a transition from TOS-TNG but first contact was imo way better.
About Insurrection, i do not hate the movie but IMO it has nothing to do there. It is the middle of the dominion war, and nobody seems to really care. Moreover, Nog just log his leg and quark chose to leave on vacation, sure :/ .
I'm really looking forward to the end of the dominion war and how voyager will handle the borg, i hope i won't be dissapointed.
I hope i'm posting in the right section
I create this topic to say what i think about trek from my perspective, since i have only known star trek for a few month.
One day in march, i saw one voyager episode on a french paytv channel. The one with the doctor trying to speak to a missile. I liked it so i decided to watch star trek.
I chose to begin with enterprise because 1/ First one in timeline
2/widescreen and good CGI
So i begun with Broken bow, and i have to admit that i was kinda lost at the end of the episode. I thought that it would begin with earth first contact with an alien culture so i had no idea what the vulcan were doing on earth.
I found some info online about WW3 and first contact and i understood better.
I whatched Season 1 and 2 very quicky, i was really looking for the next temporal cold war episode each time.
I think that season 1 and 2 were good intro to trek, it introduced vulcan, klingon, andorian and the mysterious romulan. (The fact that daniel was not gonna tell archez about them really made me wonder who they were).
I was a little disapointed with season 3 because i didn't like the xindi that much.
Season 4 premiere was totally disapointting imo, with a totally ununderstandable conclusion to the temporal wold war (never happened yet xindi attack on earth still took place :/ )
I loved the rest of the season, espacially the romulan one.
About the series finale, TATV, it was TOTALY confusing to me, i had no idea who those people were.
I was disappointed because that wasn't much closure to the romulan arc so i wanted to watch TOS.
The jump from TATV to The cage/ Where no man has gone before was VERY DIFFICULT.
There were no way this enterprise could be more evolved than the NX-01, quite the opposite in fact.
The first few TOS episode were totaly boring IMO and i almost stopped watching.
Then there was the first romulan episode and it made me realise that, even without CGI, there could still be great episodes.
For the rest of the serie and TAS, the characters slowly grew on me, even if i still thought most episode were pointless.
In July, i watched the TOS movies. The first one was totally boring, i was waiting for something to finally happen but it never did.
The next 5 were great (exept maybe for the fith).
I started TNG in late July. I was much easier to adapt to TNG that it was to TOS, i rediscovered riker and troy, data had already been pre-introduced in ent season 4, and the enterprise-D seems like a plausable ship.
I didn't like season 1 that much but from season2 to the end, it was great, especially the few borg episodes (good continuity with the enterprise episode by the way, at the end of the borg introduction episode, i remembered arche's word that i had almost forgotten, that they had only postponed the invation)
Then came DS9, even if i preferred TNG 7/8 for DS9 season 1 and 2, starting from season 3 onward it was great.
What i espacially loved is that there fewer and fewer filler episodes as you go into the serie. Season 5 finale was incradible, i never expected them to lose DS9, and when they did, i assumed they would get it back in the season premiere, but i was wrong, it took a very long time to retake DS9, which was more reallistic.
About Voyager, which i'm watching in parallel to DS9, i love the principle of the series, stuck in the delta quadrant, but there were terrible filler in the first 3 season imo, and i hated the kazon.
Season 4 was much better, with year of hell and the whole hirogen-contacting starfleet arc.
I'm actually at mid-season5 for voyager and mid-season 7 for DS9 and i think they both get better as time goes by.
Voyager reintroduced the borg after first contact, and i hope they'll be the main enemy in season 6-7 like the dominion actually is in DS9.
DS9 has some incredible episode,
Finally about the TNG movies, i liked generation as a transition from TOS-TNG but first contact was imo way better.
About Insurrection, i do not hate the movie but IMO it has nothing to do there. It is the middle of the dominion war, and nobody seems to really care. Moreover, Nog just log his leg and quark chose to leave on vacation, sure :/ .
I'm really looking forward to the end of the dominion war and how voyager will handle the borg, i hope i won't be dissapointed.
Imagine being stuck in a movie theater watching that (after having seen Star Wars just a few years previously, and greatly anticipating the first Star Trek since TOS was cancelled!) I went with my Dad and we were both bored out of our skulls!!! Good thing the movies got better.
