Best Trek Season 1?

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Which of the five shows had the best first season?

NOTE: I allowed multiple choices, but please refrain yourselfs from mocking the thread, as I do this because I wonder if anyone is torn between the choices. For instance, one may say TNG and DS9 had the best two first seasons, but all other shows's first seasons sucked - know what I mean?

Well?

 

[GodThingFormerly]

TOS.

TGT

 

[Kegek]

TOS. It's one of the best seasons in the franchise; and when weighed against the first seasons of the other shows, all of which were lackluster, it wins.

 

[Lonestar]

TOS, it jumped right into the action as if it had been running for years previously.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

TOS, it jumped right into the action as if it had been running for years previously.

Precisely my feeling. It felt like they knew what they were doing with the shows, and how.

 

[Michael]

The first season of TOS was the best. The first year of ENT is my second favorite.

 

[HoundDog]

I agree with what the others said: TOS Season is the best.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Personally, I believe DS9 had the best season, post TOS time.

TNG's first season, while getting a couple of the characters right, was stambled with far too many flawed episodes, and too many bad (or at the very least, uninteresting) ones. Finally, it lacked freshness for the most part, which the show found for itself the next year. Still, its mighty entertaining, in its own weird way.

VOY's first season acted like a TNG-lite show. In fact, it acted this way for the entirety of the show's existance. Despite a mighty good opener, the season lost me in interest, quite quickly. In fact, I was mighty bored for the most part.

ENT's first season was promising, like its premise, but Bragga and Berman just had to ruin the potential fun of the first adventure yet.

DS9 was, on the other hand, mighty enjoyable, with ever lasting power. While not Dominion-themed as the rest of the seasons would be, we get the best introduction for the main characters yet, and some really potent storylines. Like with TOS's first season, this is a season that one can watch over and over, and not be bored with it the slightest. Great fun.

And yes, TOS's first season was, by far, the best first season. It is also my favorite season on all things Star Trek. It was the virgin Trek, truly going where no man has gone before... Boldly.

Overall, TOS, and with a little distance, DS9, are, IMO, the best First Seasons on Trek.

 

[egonbeeblebrox]

TOS, it jumped right into the action as if it had been running for years previously.

Yep. When I picked up the first season randomly, I hadn't seen any episodes of TOS in years. I was completely shocked at how strong the season was. It's definitely the best season the Franchise ever had, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[drasche]

TOS alone for me. IMO, all other series were weak in comparison.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

TOS.

The first season of Enterprise was also relatively good, compared to the lackluster first seasons of TNG, DS9 and VOY.

 

[DS9forever]

TOS
DS9
TNG
ENT
VOY

 

[blakbyrd]

Star Trek (1966-1967)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1994)

 

[amdmiami]

I think Voyager had the strongest first season.

 

[TrekNut87]

TOS .

 

[Orac]

TOS - no contest. The others were good too but in an average Shatnerless way.

 

[CoveTom]

As is the consensus, TOS. The other shows each had some high points in their first seasons, but none had as consistently good a first season as TOS, and some of the first seasons, ala TNG and Enterprise, were downright bad.

 

[LeadHead]

Voyager, most of treks first seasons have a lot of inconsistencies and make it uneven. Voyager had the least of those problems.

 

[chancellorjake]

TOS had the best first season, but DS9 would be a very close second.
TNG's first season was simply dreadful and don't even get me started on VOY's first season.

 

[StolenThunder]

TOS. Grown to enjoy TNG S1 a lot too, so that'd probably be a close second with Voyager. DS9 has some excellent episodes but it's a little simple at times.