What are your favorite 10 Star Trek seasons? Not necessarily the best, but your favorite. I was going to say three, but that leaves too much out.
In chronological order (and not including current seasons):
TOS Season 1
TOS Season 2
TNG Season 3
TNG Season 4
TNG Season 6
DS9 Season 4
DS9 Season 6
VOY Season 4
DSC Season 1
PIC Season 1
Honorable Mention: DS9 Season 2. It's an underrated season, and the only reason I didn't include it is because even though it started strong and finished strong, I thought it had a soft middle. TNG Season 5 also has a soft middle.
"Where are DS9 Seasons 5 and 7?" Usually when I think back to DS9, most of the episodes I think of are from the fourth or sixth season. Plus S7 was where DS9 was starting to show its age when it wasn't focusing on Ezri or the Dominion War. As for S5, it's more like "how the fourth season became the sixth." It was a transitional season and more on my take about transitional seasons below... I'll pretend "Let He Who Is Without Sin" didn't happen, since it was such an outlier. We all have our off-days.
"Where's DSC Seasons 2 and 3?! I thought you'd have them on there for sure!" Nothing wrong with DSC Season 3, except that it was 10 episodes of set-up and three episodes of rush. It works better as individual episodes than as a season as a whole. They dealt with The Emerald Chain and the crew's adjustment to the 32nd Century way too fast.
As for Season 2, I'll say what I've always said: It's a creeper heat, it took a few episodes for me to get into the swing of it (not including "Point of Light", which was really more like a throwback to Season 1), and ultimately it didn't stick with me. I liked the feeling and tone of Season 1 better. And I also prefer what it's become since. Leaving Season 2 as kind of the odd-duck where -- in retrospect -- it was becoming what it was going to become, but it wasn't quite there yet. I guess Season 2 was the show going through an awkward puberty right down to even its voice changing (with the change of showrunners, and Michelle Paradise joining in before becoming showrunner herself in S3). The end of Season 2, to take the analogy even further: DSC leaving the 23rd Century was like an 18-year-old leaving home.
Note: Yes, I think the '97-'98 Season was a good one for Star Trek, and it would take a solid 20 years for anything else to break into my list. Though, in fairness, Star Trek was off the air for 12 of them...
In chronological order (and not including current seasons):
TOS Season 1
TOS Season 2
TNG Season 3
TNG Season 4
TNG Season 6
DS9 Season 4
DS9 Season 6
VOY Season 4
DSC Season 1
PIC Season 1
Honorable Mention: DS9 Season 2. It's an underrated season, and the only reason I didn't include it is because even though it started strong and finished strong, I thought it had a soft middle. TNG Season 5 also has a soft middle.
"Where are DS9 Seasons 5 and 7?" Usually when I think back to DS9, most of the episodes I think of are from the fourth or sixth season. Plus S7 was where DS9 was starting to show its age when it wasn't focusing on Ezri or the Dominion War. As for S5, it's more like "how the fourth season became the sixth." It was a transitional season and more on my take about transitional seasons below... I'll pretend "Let He Who Is Without Sin" didn't happen, since it was such an outlier. We all have our off-days.
"Where's DSC Seasons 2 and 3?! I thought you'd have them on there for sure!" Nothing wrong with DSC Season 3, except that it was 10 episodes of set-up and three episodes of rush. It works better as individual episodes than as a season as a whole. They dealt with The Emerald Chain and the crew's adjustment to the 32nd Century way too fast.
As for Season 2, I'll say what I've always said: It's a creeper heat, it took a few episodes for me to get into the swing of it (not including "Point of Light", which was really more like a throwback to Season 1), and ultimately it didn't stick with me. I liked the feeling and tone of Season 1 better. And I also prefer what it's become since. Leaving Season 2 as kind of the odd-duck where -- in retrospect -- it was becoming what it was going to become, but it wasn't quite there yet. I guess Season 2 was the show going through an awkward puberty right down to even its voice changing (with the change of showrunners, and Michelle Paradise joining in before becoming showrunner herself in S3). The end of Season 2, to take the analogy even further: DSC leaving the 23rd Century was like an 18-year-old leaving home.
Note: Yes, I think the '97-'98 Season was a good one for Star Trek, and it would take a solid 20 years for anything else to break into my list. Though, in fairness, Star Trek was off the air for 12 of them...
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