Preferred Trek Era

[Arpy]

T.O.S. period, space exploration, not preachy space diplomacy...
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the latter shows, just not as much as good ol' Star Trek
with no bloody A,B,C or D..

Right, no preachy space diplomacy! Only preachy cowboy diplomacy!

That bloody alphabet line is mine; you can't have it!

I wish we could divide the periods further.
TNG
TOS
TOS Movies
DS9
The first two TNG movies
JJ
VOY
The last two TNG movies
ENT

 

[DeepSpaceYorks]

TOS Movie Era number one. It's just such a fascinating and underdeveloped dynamic, I'm particularly obsessed with the period between TMP and TWOK.
Then the TOS Era. Not much to say about this really, just pretty brilliant but it's all there on screen for me. What i like about the movie era is the gaps.

 

[Sibyl]

My love for Star Trek started before TNG (TOS, The TOS Movies), but I need to say that TNG hit just at the right point in my life to call it my Trek.

That said, my favorite era is TOS Movies. I just love the sets, props, ships, and uniforms (Yes, I even kinda like the TMP unis).

Second would be TNG.

Third is TOS.

I didn't pay much attention beyond that.

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

I prefer the TNG/DS9/VOY era and onward.

 

[Phil123]

TOS movies
TNG
TOS
ENT
Kelvin

The TOS movies (II and III in particular) got me into Trek as a child, though I had seen some TOS as well. This era will always be the essence of Star Trek to me.

TNG is the era I knew best with 3 shows and 4 movies running throughout most of my childhood/adolescence.

TOS is the original, from which all things came, and also formed an important part of my childhood. The movie era however, always seemed more like a real lived in world to me than the show. Better production of course, but also considerably more character depth and development.

ENT I like, looked very much like it could be our near future.

Kelvin stuff has failed to really connect with me, save the first 15 mins of 2009 which are great.

 

[Arpy]

I think II-IV were spectacular. I grew to appreciate the Director's Cut of TMP quite a lot and keep it dear to me, but it's kind of a nice side-tale. V is the made-for-TV Trek Special I can half-pay attention and smile to while I'm doing other stuff. XI is a quirky picture with a racist galaxy and Submarine Starfleet and smoothish Klingons...Kirk's line to Azetbur at the end should have gotten him shot for condescension, but It's an okay flick.

All together, I love TOS movies.

GEN is another made-for-TV Trek Special that's passable, if we must, dear Captain. FC's a good one. INS is a dull rough cut they had to go back and do reshoots for that they forgot to. NEM is dreck.

TNG ended with "All Good Things..." They should have done a movie version of it or "The Chase" or a handful of others.

Kelvin lacks soul. It's too zip-zoo Hey Kids we're Millennial-ifying the franchise, yeah! We're awesome! They need more humanism and thoughtful human dilemmas. Considering alien cultures seriously, not distractions from getting back to besting babes in the latest e-games. There needs to be more than catastrophic consequence porn.

...some thoughts...I'm sick and my sleeping pill is really kicking in. Ta...

 

[Tundra Saint]

The TNG/DS9 Era.

 

[1001001]

The TNG/DS9 Era.

Agreed.

Cool username, BTW.

 

[Kor]

TOS era.
Retro-futurism all the way. It's the only Trek setting I would want to live in.

Kor

 

[Vorpal_Blade]

TOS-TAS era. It is what I grew up on and to me, that is Star Trek.

 

[Amaris]

Kelvin timeline, followed by TOS movies, followed by TOS

I was watching "Beyond" last night, and I just love that aesthetic as well.

 

[Ralphis]

I gave my vote to the TOS-movie era, but it really is a tie between that and the TNG era. Those two eras are what I grew up with, and I'll always have a soft spot for them.

But ST Beyond sold me on the Kelvin Timeline, so if there are ever more movies in that timeline, and if they're as good as Beyond, I could see a three-way tie developing.

But choosing between all the eras listed is like choosing between your children, I love them all!

 

[Leto_II]

TOS movie era, specifically Star Trek VI. The whole look, technological aesthetic, is how I like it.

Same here, exactly to a "T" -- the visual aesthetic expressed in Star Trek VI is probably the absolute pinnacle of the TOS movie-era for my money (including the crew uniforms, onboard technology, etc.), and more importantly, the galaxy itself is in a very interesting place, in terms of the politics and other aspects compared to the TOS television era and the 24th Century.

But probably most importantly of all, it's where the characters themselves are at by that point in time, being much older and wiser than their TV-era versions, which culminates during the events of The Undiscovered Country.

 

[Tenacity]

Right, no preachy space diplomacy! Only preachy cowboy diplomacy!

Cowboys are cool. Diplomats not so much.

 

[Amaris]

Same here, exactly to a "T" -- the visual aesthetic expressed in Star Trek VI is probably the absolute pinnacle of the TOS movie-era for my money (including the crew uniforms, onboard technology, etc.), and more importantly, the galaxy itself is in a very interesting place, in terms of the politics and other aspects compared to the TOS television era and the 24th Century.

But probably most importantly of all, it's where the characters themselves are at by that point in time, being much older and wiser than their TV-era versions, which culminates during the events of The Undiscovered Country.

I could have done with less racism and mind raping from my heroes, though.

 

[Arpy]

Cowboys are cool. Diplomats not so much.

Nah, opposite. I'd rather watch House of Cards, or West Wing, over...over....???...over whatever Westerns are on today.

 

[Mojochi]

My favorite time during the franchise is the TOS movies, but my favorite era in the Star Trek universe's history? It's TOS. There is just something so bare naked about it. They seem so much more vulnerable to how truly awesome deep space is. Every nook & cranny of it possesses some gut checking discovery, to either fill your spirit with hope or possibly freeze your soul with terror. Every morning you wake up, you are sailing off the edge of the world, into an unknown, that promises nothing safe.

 

[Tenacity]

over whatever Westerns are on today

A cowboy is a type of person, not just a job description.

James Kirk was a "cowboy."

 

[N7operative84]

TNG, DS9, and Voyager have my favorite moments and stories in the series. I consider TOS films very good .Third place comes in with TOS the series. As much as I enjoy TNG's era, I hope we get a post Nemesis or even a "New Generation" era, with Trek 09 not a factor.

 

[Horizons96]

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