Least favorite Trek

[I am not Spock]

Enterprise.

Voyager at least took itself and the Trek legacy seriously, and produced some good episodes. ENT was rushed into production, was badly written, and tried way too hard to be contemporary and edgy.It's going to date horribly in the years to come. That theme song is enough to make you want to puke.

 

[BigFoot]

TNG... it's just so preachy. It also hasn't aged very well.

 

[MrPointy]

Enterprise for me. I don't hate it, in fact I enjoyed much of it, but I was frustrated by the inconsistent writing and tone of the show more than Voyager.

I have a nostalgic love of Voyager as it's the first Trek series I really got into, so I enjoy it despite its numerous flaws.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I voted Voyager. And not because I dislike it. I don't. I just like the others more.

 

[KayArr]

Gary Mitchell said:

KayArr said:
Did the two of you read my posts stating that I'm just about to start watching DS9? Sometimes it's a good idea to read all the way to the bottom, especially when a thread is only 2 pages long!

It is also good to watch more of a series before pigeonholeing into one category. I did read that you were going to watch more of the show and I'm glad. The snarky comment about reading the whole thread wasn't needed though.
I hope you like the show.

Sorry if it sounded snarky, wasn't meant to be. There's no tone setting on internet posting--maybe I should start using smileys!

 

[Stardate]

my least favorite Trek is DS9. TOS is the best and i also like VOY and ENT.

 

[Keith1701]

Angel4576 said:
Voyager.

Enterprise was pretty poor, but Voyager was just plain awful.

I agree.

 

[darthvincor]

Jefferies said:
For me that would have to be Enterprise – by a million light years! It was ill-conceived and badly written. Out of the 100 eps or so that they had, I can remember a handful of really good ones. The rest were mediocre at best or simply plain horrid. Also this series did not treat previous Trek with respect, it completely ruined the Vulcans and the first officer was a pathetic joke. The excuses they stooped down too to get this girl naked! Decon rubdowns and what was it? neural pressure? What else is there to say...

Hear, hear.

 

[KayArr]

darthvincor said:

Jefferies said:
For me that would have to be Enterprise – by a million light years! It was ill-conceived and badly written. Out of the 100 eps or so that they had, I can remember a handful of really good ones. The rest were mediocre at best or simply plain horrid. Also this series did not treat previous Trek with respect, it completely ruined the Vulcans and the first officer was a pathetic joke. The excuses they stooped down too to get this girl naked! Decon rubdowns and what was it? neural pressure? What else is there to say...

Hear, hear.

Yeah, and if Gene Rodenberry had been around, he'd have written himself into the decon scenes to touch Jolene himself!

At least we got to see as much of Trip as T'pol over the course of four years.

 

[MyCylon]

ENT

 

[Angel4576]

Enterprise and Voyager currently accounting for 76% of the vote between them.

 

[Venardhi]

I skipped a lot of the later Voyager episodes just cause I didn't care anymore, but tuned in for most of the last season purely out of curiosity to see how the story ended. I cared little and less for the characters and found it sloppy and derivative and just uninspiring.

Enterprise takes the cake though not because it was worse, but because I liked the picture of those early years of humanity taking to the stars and meeting the neighbors that I had in my head a lot more than what we got. So for me it was more the fact that I just couldn't picture it as the predecessor to TOS. It just didn't jive.

 

[blakbyrd]

Voyager.

 

[DarthTom]

BalthierTheGreat said:
I'd have to say Enterprise by a nose. The basic idea was good -- take away all the goodies and let space feel like a dangerous place. Unfortunately it wasn't well executed.

Alien Nazi's was the low of the entire series and makes Threshold look like award winning Television by comparison.. So, Enterprise easily was the worst.

 

[Smiley]

I had to say ENT. I still like the show, but it has the worst ratio of great/crap of the franchise and the fewest number of great episodes overall IMO.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

TNG.

My reasons:

1. The entire thing hasn't aged well. Seasons 1 & 2 are practically unwatchable now, and the rest, while better in this regard, still feels very '80s.

2. I think that out of all the Trek shows, it is least like the the Original. Maybe the format is the same, with the whole 'alien of the week' thing. And the ship is named "Enterprise". But there the similarity ends. Because TOS presents us with flawed heroes as the centerpiece of the series...and it is these flawed heroes who manage to make a difference - learning for themselves and instructing others at the same time - not only through their words, but through their own mistakes. In TNG the heroes are already perfect, and so 'regular army' that they are boring and one-dimensional. And they do not approach problems like the TOS crew did...because there is no trial & error on TNG. They already know EVERYTHING. And will be happy to tell anyone who asks as much.

Which leads me to....

3. I really, really, REALLY cannot stand that smug superiority that characterizes the TNG crew. The view that they are perfect, can do no wrong, and that they are there to 'instruct' other races in the 'correct' view of the universe is exceedingly annoying. And incidentally, has become even MORE annoying during my own country's current Presidential administration.

4. Some of the TNG actors are really annoying. Marina I-can't-get-a-job-outside-of-Trek Sirtus is especially so, running around making nasty comments about other Trek shows when she was clearly the weakest link, by a LONG, LONG margin, on her own. Never has an actress who was such an incredible waste of space been so very proud over the fact. Because if it hadn't been for TNG, Marina Sirtus would probably still be saying "You want fries with that?" on a regular basis.

Her and Frakes hogging the ENT finale didn't help my opinion of either of them, by the way. ENT may have not been the best Trek ever or anything, but that cast AT LEAST deserved the dignity of their very own send-off. But Frakes and Sirtus were such money-grubbers that they didn't for a moment put themselves in those actors places. Instead, they were quite happy to rush right in and hog the entire finale for themselves.

 

[drasche]

Niorah said:
Enterprise.

I'll just make the effort to consider it to be actually part of Trek, especially and only for this poll.

It'll never happen again.

Same here.

 

[Noname Given]

Garibaldi O'brien said:
I went with Voyager. Worst Trek Ever.

QFT - That show SHOULD NEVER have gotten a full seven seasons.

 

[Phily B]

Voyager. Seven seasons of total crap. I didn't see much of Enterprise after season 1 (which was just as terrible), but I saw some episodes from season 4 which were pretty good.

 

[mattwitz]

I think it takes a couple of years for a show to come into it's own. The only difference is whether the network is willing to be patient about it. I'd say the first two seasons of all series were total crap, while subsequent seasons steadily improved. I'm just sad that Enterprise wasn't given a chance...I mean, starting with the third season, it got SOOO much better. I think people are too hard on it; I mean, can you imagine if star trek next generation had only been on for 4 years instead of seven? or voyager for 4 years? Getting canceled right after they bring in seven of nine?