Unpopular Trek Opinions — What Are Yours?

[JustKate]

Bajorans got on my nerves almost all the time and part of the reason why I couldn't really get into Deep Space Nine.

Funny, my unpopular opinion (as stated several pages ago) is that I like Bajorans and think they were one of the best developed races in Trek.

I wonder whose unpopular opinion is more unpopular?

Funny yet absolutely accurate, too. We really can get a really warped perception of...well, all kinds of things, just depending on one faction happens to be the most vocal at any given moment. Almost any properly constructed survey would, for example, show that either TOS or TNG (probably TNG) was the most popular show in the history of Trek, but here on the BBS, DS9 often wins those polls.

 

[muldwych who]

I dont like Checkov or Bones and am slowly going off of Kirk

 

[Zameaze]

I dont like Checkov or Bones and am slowly going off of Kirk

Why, hang it all, let life go by,
It is but bubbles we pursue;
They burst at last, and then we sigh
Goodbye to Kirk and all the crew.
We have our time to smile and sigh,
Who knows the false from all the true?
Let us enjoy before we die,
Scotty and a friend or two.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Bajorans got on my nerves almost all the time

I feel that way too, but it's not reason enough to not be able to enjoy the series as a whole. You could just do as I do and skip/fast forward through the scenes/episodes that focus heavily on them.

 

[Volvic]

Bajorans got on my nerves almost all the time

I feel that way too, but it's not reason enough to not be able to enjoy the series as a whole. You could just do as I do and skip/fast forward through the scenes/episodes that focus heavily on them.

It was one of a few reasons I couldn't really get into the show, and, boy, did I try to. I loved B5 back in the day, so the fact that the series was set on a station didn't bother me at all. It had more to do with the fact that half the main cast just left me cold no matter how much I tried to like them, the prophet thing annoyed me, and by the time the Dominion war started hotting up Worf appeared bringing all his Klingon friends with him, thus making me lose any real interest I had in the show. The Bajorans were merely the icing on the cake.

I do appreciate the fact that on paper DS9 was probably the best series out of all the ST shows and there was some great ideas in there. It just didn't click with me no matter how much I wanted it to.

 

[Peardancer]

1. I don't like Worf. The actor seems to have had a sense of having to play a sort of Klingon personality and tried to make it interesting, but had no genuine feel for who Worf was going to be.

2. Riker is flat, boring, and creepy.

3. I like Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - definitely a mess but unique Trek in its own right.

4. I think Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is much better than Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (of course, both are brilliant). TSFP is a rich, somber, spiritual, and intense masterpiece.

5. I am strongly partial to the Animated Series and consider it a legitimate piece of the Star Trek universe.

 

[MNM]

I dont like TOS. At all.

 

[indranee]

I like ENT, Archer, A/T'P, ENT's second season. I liked STV as well as Nemesis better than the other one that was a turd.

 

[6079SmithW]

Enterprise was a great show, perhaps the best. The aesthetic look of the technology, uniforms, ect. and spirit of the show just seemed to most accurately represent our possible future in space exploration.

The NX-01 was one of the best starship designs and its interior set design was better than every other Enterprise that we've seen. It looks much better than the Akira, which it supposedly ripped off.

 

[xortex]

Picard = Frank Burns - saving lives is my job.
Riker = Donald Pinopscott
There was one episode where Riker entered the ready room and instead of going around a chair to sit he swung his leg over it and sat. Was that my imagination or did someone else see that episode. You have to be a real afficionato to notice these things, not that I am.

 

[RandyS]

I dont like TOS. At all.

Fair enough.

Why not?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Money in this case meaning 'physical currency which you carry around', like bills and coins. But there are such things as Federation credits, we've heard them mentioned several times. It's all automatic, though - you don't hand over a pile of currency, all transactions are 'electronic'. Kind of like people today who use only debit/credit cards and never carry cash.

That's probably the only way to make sense of the "we don't use money" statements: semantics. Like a person who would say "money? No we don't use it today" because they are using a credit card. Which, of course, means they are in fact using money, since money doesn't have to mean "cash".

Indeed. Heck, it's what I do today. I don't use cash (it's cards only for me) so as far as I'm concerned this is just one more way that Trek was ahead of its time.

 

[Cheapjack]

Money in this case meaning 'physical currency which you carry around', like bills and coins. But there are such things as Federation credits, we've heard them mentioned several times. It's all automatic, though - you don't hand over a pile of currency, all transactions are 'electronic'. Kind of like people today who use only debit/credit cards and never carry cash.

That's probably the only way to make sense of the "we don't use money" statements: semantics. Like a person who would say "money? No we don't use it today" because they are using a credit card. Which, of course, means they are in fact using money, since money doesn't have to mean "cash".

Indeed. Heck, it's what I do today. I don't use cash (it's cards only for me) so as far as I'm concerned this is just one more way that Trek was ahead of its time.

What an intellectual leap!!

_______

'But where is the profit?'

'The profit of saving all our lives'

 

[Tachyon]

Voyager is great series.

Neelix is a great character - he has depth many Trekkies choose to ignore.

 

[T'Girl]

Voyager is great series.

Neelix is a great character - he has depth many Trekkies choose to ignore.

This. Neelix, how many Trek characters really could have peasured a klingon female and lived? Paris doesn't count because Belana was only half klingon.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

A few of my opinions that few agree with:

- DS9 was overrated, and Avery Brooks performance as Sisko was by far the worst acting in any Trek series.
- While far from perfect, Enterprise was an enjoyable series throughout its run.
- Data and The Doctor are not sentient. Both are simply very clever examples of programming that have no more self-consciousness than a toaster.
- Picard is indirectly responsible for billions of deaths due to his decision not to destroy the Borg in "I, Borg."
- The use of the Beastie Boys song in JJ's Trek film was absolutely brilliant.

 

[Peardancer]

I dont like TOS. At all.

Really? What Trek do you like?

 

[Peardancer]

A few of my opinions that few agree with:
- The use of the Beastie Boys song in JJ's Trek film was absolutely brilliant.

Quite agreed. It was perfect!

 

[Joeman]

Just thought of another one...


Although I think Shuttlepod One is "OK" (5/10), it's my least favorite episode of season one of Enterprise.

 

[Peardancer]

Joeman, I really like your quote. "If I whisper in your ear ..."