I think Season 7 of TNG would have beaten Season 3 TOS to the botton, if it wasn't saved at the last minute by All Good Things.
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I think Season 7 of TNG would have beaten Season 3 TOS to the botton, if it wasn't saved at the last minute by All Good Things.
TNG season 7 does have a handful of highs though, in my opinion. Lower Decks, All Good Things, Parallels, Attached, The Pegasus, and Preemptive Strike.
People would choose to see all the episodes of TNG Season 2 above all the episodes of TOS Season 3 or TNG Season 7? I'm befuddled.
SULU!
Gotta love those Monster Maroon uniforms.
In terms of story/writing, while it was lovely to see Sulu, Rand and the Excelsior again, I think it was a bit of a missed opportunity. Another time travel/Yesterday's Enterprise-esque plot would've been more interesting, IMO. It seems like a waste to get George Takei back just to reenact his scenes from Star Trek VI, there should have been more for him to do. The whole Tuvok little girl memory thing was weird and not very compelling.
I was hoping for more interactions between the VOY cast and the crew of the Excelsior, but we didn't get any. I'm usually not a huge fan of Braga's episodes, and while it was fun, it was somewhat disappointing in my eyes.
Well you've got the far superior DSN's thirtieth anniversary special to come "Trails and Tribble-ations". Now that is an example of how to do a love letter to the fans.
DS9 has a ton of stock shots with real models and only introduced episode specific CGI at a later stage.
Voyager relied on CGI much more heavily early on.
Not sure if that influences your perception of picture quality.
Voyager relied on CGI much more heavily early on.
Not sure if that influences your perception of picture quality.
I started watching Enterprise when it was added to Netflix on July 1st. I gave up on it in the first season in its original run, coming back for certain episodes (augments, mirror).
Precious Cargo just started....
Edit: Done. Thanks to this thread my expectations must have been so low that this episode didn't strike me as horrendous as people have made it out to be. It's still bad, the guest actress was terrible, the relationship was nails on a chalkboard irritating, but I didn't see it as the worst episode of Trek ever made.
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Effects hold up better than Enterprise's as well thanks to the model work, imo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any interlacing on the DS9 DVDs, while Voyager has it on most shots. I think it effectively halves resolution on non-CRT TVs, making it fuzzy.
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I vastly prefer the design on DS9, from costume to sets, but Voyager looks far crisper, IMO.
I don't think anyone wore the TOS uniform better than Terry Farrell.
You should go back to watch Trouble with the Tribbles. Don't tell me that Sisko and Dax aren't pelting Kirk with tribbles!
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I've watched it multiple times myself and I love it each time.Ahhhh... I just watched Trials and Tribble-Ations.
Just perfect. What else is there to say? I've been excited to watch it for some time now, and yet, it fully surpassed my unusually high expectations.
My two favourite Star Treks collide in this episode, a 30th Anniversary love letter to the original show, where the crew of the Defiant go back in time to the setting of the famed Original Series episode, The Trouble with Tribbles, to save the old Enterprise from being destroyed by none other than that damned Klingon spy, Arne Darvin (played brilliantly by none other than a returning Charlie Brill). And it really really worked. Of all the episodes in this franchise, I've probably re-watched The Trouble with Tribbles the most, and the way the production crew seamlessly integrate the DS9 cast into it should be seriously rewarded. I don't know how they did it, but it's fantastic.
I like the fun episodes a lot, almost more than I do the more serious episodes, and while Trials and Tribble-Ations might not have the all-time greatest story, it's REALLY fun, possibly more fun than any episode I've seen in any of the shows up until now.
I love me some Kirk, Spock and McCoy and '60s Enterprise sets. I love me some DS9. And I loved the shit out of this episode!
I think they used some of the same CGI tech. for this episode that was used in Forest Gump that made it look like he (Gump) was interacting with Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, etc.
@Bad Thoughts, it would explain why they just kept falling out on top of his head.
There are so many fun moments in the episode, but I think this one is the lynchpin: where the two crews were interacting, and where the DS9 crew was written into the story.@Bad Thoughts, it would explain why they just kept falling out on top of his head.
I assume you noticed the two Agents, Dulmur and Lucsly, were an hommage to the X-Files' characters of Mulder and Scully?
I've watched it multiple times myself and I love it each time.
I think they used some of the same CGI tech. for this episode that was used in Forest Gump that made it look like he (Gump) was interacting with Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, etc.
@Bad Thoughts, it would explain why they just kept falling out on top of his head.
From what I read they did, the FX people even did a test to prove they could do it. Basically inserted someone into a previous episode and asked if the producers if they could spot if something was wrong with the shot. Though they did actually use a scene from "Mirror, Mirror" as well if memory serves when Sisko interacts with Kirk.
Yes, I believe the scene they used from Mirror, Mirror was the one at the end when they are back in their own universe is the one where Kirk is talking to and signing a PADD for a new female yeoman whose counterpart was the "captain's woman" in the mirror universe. They just replaced her image with Avery Brooks.
I wish they could have done something like that for TNG's Relics when Scotty goes to the holodeck recreation of the old Enterprise.
I wish they could have done something like that for TNG's Relics when Scotty goes to the holodeck recreation of the old Enterprise.
Trials and Tribulations stands as one of the entire franchises most "fun" episodes. It just goes places you really didn't expect and doesn't hold back hitting every note of fun, nostalgia and pure fan service. There really isn't anything else quite like it in the rest of the series. About the closest you will get is the two part Enterprise "Through the Mirror Darkly". Which goes in a delightfully different direction for its drooling fan service.
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