Heartened by my informal poll on TOS board

[Photon]

about if they liked DS9 or not. Looks like only 2 really disliked out of nearly 50. I didn't count God Thing's answer b/c it was so asinine.
Perhaps, there may actuall be a glimmer of hope for a return of one of our favs.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Surprisingly favorable.

 

[mrs260]

I always knew those TOSers had good taste.

 

[toughlittleship]

Nice to hear. TOS has actually taken TNG's place as my second favorite series.

 

[Photon]

TNG hasn't aged well. If you can possibly extrapolate the timeperiod TOS was made, they did pretty good w/existing tech. My ONLY beef is they didn't see the digital tech coming or didn't know how'd it look. All in all, its aged gracefully.

 

[James Bond]

Wow. Even Warped9 "kinda liked it at first". There may be hope yet.

 

[Kegek]

mrs260 said:
I always knew those TOSers had good taste.

If that's the case, it may be unwise to call 'em 'TOSers'. That term sounds and is spelled very similar to 'Tossers', a British dirty slang insult.

 

[mrs260]

TOSians?

 

[intrinsical]

Trekkies (The original trek fan label)

 

[PorthosShadow]

That kind of response from TOS'ers doesn't really surprise me mainly because I always DS9 as being closer to Gene's original vision of a Wagon Train to the stars. DS9 in alot of ways was like a western which was its intention. So no, it doesn't surprise me they like it.

 

[Photon]

Interesting. CW has always said that Gene wouldn't approve of DS9's darkness and moral uncertaintude and of course an outright war. I like you comments and agree.

 

[scotthm]

Photon said:
Interesting. CW has always said that Gene wouldn't approve of DS9's darkness and moral uncertaintude and of course an outright war.

Would that be the Gene Roddenberry of 1966, or the Gene Roddenberry of 1986? I think many of his ideas about Star Trek changed quite a bit over the years.

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[Photon]

Speaking of that, what happened w/him besides his coke addiction. TOS has open comments about the "Son of God" and TNG is far in the direction of evoltution-its wild. TOS was, at times, cheesy but at least it wasn't preachy.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

scotthm said:

Photon said:
Interesting. CW has always said that Gene wouldn't approve of DS9's darkness and moral uncertaintude and of course an outright war.

Would that be the Gene Roddenberry of 1966, or the Gene Roddenberry of 1986? I think many of his ideas about Star Trek changed quite a bit over the years.

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I remember reading that a friend Of Roddenberry's said that he would have been all to happy to have any Trek show succeed financially even if it wasn't a letter perfect reflection of his original utopian vision. That helped mature his idea of what Star Trek could be. Apparently he was a great guy to some, but he wasn't, Saint Gene.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Actually, good results in the TOS doesn't really surprise me. I think most DS9 fans like TOS as well.

I think that of all the Treks, TOS and DS9 are alike....and TNG, VOY and ENT are alike.

 

[MyCylon]

I agree that TOS and DS9 are alike in many ways. I've felt DS9 is most closely rated to the orginal show for some time now. So, no, it doesn't surprise me that many TOS fans also like DS9 (and DS9 fans like TOS).

 

[scotthm]

PKTrekGirl said:
I think that of all the Treks, TOS and DS9 are alike....and TNG, VOY and ENT are alike.

Kirk and Sisko are a lot alike. They are men of conviction, but they believe in getting results, even if they have resort to 'uncomfortable' methods to achieve them.

Picard and Janeway, likewise, are a lot alike. They seem to hold their own personal code of ethics above all else, and heaven help any mission that gets in the way (with some exceptions, of course.)

I find Archer the odd man out. He just always seemed to me like he was making it up as he went along, and wasn't too sure what was going on.

But I think it's the similarity of the captains that tends to unite TOS fans and DS9 fans.

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[PKTrekGirl]

^ I think that is a very good analysis, and I agree.

 

[indranee]

Archer SHOULD have been making it up as he went along!

in may ways, his decisions, or his indecisiveness, were very realistic. he's the first. he HAS no blueprint. he SHOULD be the odd man out.

 

[patlandness]

PKTrekGirl said:
I think that of all the Treks, TOS and DS9 are alike....and TNG, VOY and ENT are alike.

I feel compelled to chime in here: this is just another example of "TOS/DS9 chic", as if TNG hasn't the right to stand with those two fine shows.

TNG is *nothing* like VGR and ENT. The people behind TNG actually gave a damn about what they were making as opposed to the tired going-through-the-motions of UPN Trek.

What so many Niner's often forget is that there would be *no* DS9 without the hard work of the people of The Next Generation that set the elaborate groundwork for DS9's tenure. (And yes, I'm aware what TNG owes to TOS).

To me Quality Trek is a trinity of TOS-TNG-DS9. (And then, there's UPN Trek, *sigh*)