Can we talk about TNG for a minute?

[Ward Fowler]

I was in Junior High School when TNG went on the air and I still don't think of it as the Star Trek I grew up on. TOS holds that distinction.

 

[Sector 7]

Sector 7 got my ire up but before I calmly addressed his points, I spewed at you. I apologize.

I missed where you calmly addressed my points. I look forward to reading your response. It is very pleasurable when those of differing viewpoints share without anger.

TOS was a fun adventure, which occasionally made you think. TNG tried to make you think a lot, but it sometimes forgot the 'fun' part of the equation.

This was also the point of my post. They are different shows for different eras.

I don't know if technobabble or biotechnobabble counts as hard science but...

TNG did better on television and TOS does better in movies. One doesn't necessarily fit the other and that's all there is to it. For some reason, TPTB either weren't able to translate TNG to the big screen or they flat-out just wouldn't.

TNG managed to last twice is long on television and three more series came as a result of it but that's where TNG worked best.

Right now, it doesn't seem like there's anywhere for Star Trek to fit on television but movies are a different story. So we're getting the Star Trek that fits the current situation.

^(Bold is mine for emphasis.)
While TOS is my first love (and who can ever forget their first love?), I also enjoy TNG, but for very different reasons and not as deeply as TOS.

For the poster who seemed incensed by the use of TOS... I had never seen that abbreviation until I came to TrekBBS. In fact, it took awhile before I realized what it meant. However, I do not think of it as an insult. Rather it is just a way to differentiate it from other series also bearing the Star Trek name. This is especially good since now we also have a movie with the name Star Trek (ST09). From what I see, Star Trek is the umbrella term for the entire franchise, so TOS recognizes that it is indeed The Original Series.

 

[Neumann]

.....

And TNG will always be the best. TOS was a cheap space opera coined for wild west, then we had Deep Space Kaboom, Janeway in the Sky with Assholes, and EastEnders in Space.

Especially in Germany, the biggest proportion of Trekkies are TNG fans. So, quit TOSsing around rumours.....

uh yeah pretty socialist eh? lol no wonder!!!

have some respect for tos... after all TNG had spock separate into 4 characters and called itself an ensemble cast made of every side of spock's personality!!!

 

[Anji]

I think the popularity TOS is experiencing has to do with the fact that we live in troubled times now, and, like it did in the 1960s, that series gives us hope that inspite of our differences we will learn to get along.