What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
- Thread starter Amasov
- Start date
Insert obligatory CW teen drama snark here
V
Vale
Guest
Well... that's just good taste.
V
Vale
Guest
I don't expect the Federation to work exactly the same as the modern-day USA. Other types of federal union are available, after all. For one thing I expect it to be a bit more like the EU in terms of member state sovereignty, since members seem to be able to unilaterally secede without triggering a civil war.
Maybe controversial on Trek forums, but probably not overall. Never saw B5 myself, but I hear it's great
"All Good Things...(TNG)" isn't as good a series finale as "What You Leave Behind(DS9)." There. I said it.
It's not.
V
Vale
Guest
Sure, once you get past the bad acting, weak writing and middling SFX...
It is, in my opinion at least, the best TV show ever made.
It was the best acting Walter Koenig ever did in front of cameras. But that's about all I can say for it. 
V
Vale
Guest
Sure, once you get past the bad acting, weak writing and middling SFX...
We're on a Star Trek forum. People in glass houses...
"The Wire" is easily one of the best DS9 episodes, and a big step up in terms of quality.
It's one of those eps where the dialogue between the two leads (Garak and Bashir) really clicks naturally. Some eps like "Equilibrium" also had a better relationship (writing and performance wise) between Dax and Bashir, as they felt more like genuine colleagues than the early seasons' attempts to give Julian some romantic action. 
Of course, there's some clunkers mixed in as well, like "Meridian."
Not a bad idea in concept but a very poor execution in many ways.
Tracking 1001001's disenchantment with Trek in real time has become one of my favorite pastimes on the BBS.
I think I do, too. Watching them both at the time they originally aired, you could tell B5 knew where it was going much more, because JMS had a pre-planned five year arc. DS9 would proceed in fits and starts, going in one direction for six months and then going in a completely different direction for the next six. As a result, DS9's continuity doesn't hang together nearly as well as B5's. And B5 was consistently more creative with its makeup, set design, costume design, and ship design with more limited resources. I just wish B5 had gotten its 5th season renewal sooner, so it could've hung on to some of its cast members for longer and better paced out the end of the Earth War and its aftermath.
Last edited:
"The Emissary" is a better Trek pilot than "Encounter at Farpoint", "Caretaker", "Broken Bow", "The Vulcan Hello", and possibly even "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
Tracking 1001001's disenchantment with Trek in real time has become one of my favorite pastimes on the BBS.
It's not with Trek....
Apologies.
It's not with Trek....
Tracking 1001001's disenchantment with the TrekBBS in real time has become one of my favorite pastimes on the BBS.
Apologies.
Tracking 1001001's disenchantment with the TrekBBS in real time has become one of my favorite pastimes on the BBS.
Now you're on the trolley!
Star Trek: Dyson Sphere
Talk about the ultimate Space Station, it's the Dyson Sphere that JLP & Scotty found, turn that into a new UFP / StarFleet managed Space Station and the drama around it.
Imagine trying to be the upper management of the newly renovated Dyson Sphere.
No, they had a lovely scene in episode 5 of this season.
Last edited:
The show could potentially tie into Prodigy and how SF/UFP used the Dyson Sphere to create/contain/shrink a Protostar and make it usable for TransWarp.
Similar threads
