After reading the thread title my first answer would have been 2360s. 
Then I looked at the voting options.
Then I looked at the voting options.
What's your favorite decade of Star Trek?
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Going with 90s. some of the best episodes of Trek appeared in that decade. This new decade holds a lot of promise too. There was a time it seemed like there wouldn't be any Trek in the 2010's but, and while it has been devisive, I would say that it's my number two choice.
Season 3 of TNG did start in late 89 but it continued in the 90s and then came season 4 and so on, so I guess my answer has to be 90s.
even though I grew up watching TOS and TAS... 90s is the best decade for Trek imo. VOY... 'nuff said.
It could be. I really only got into Star Trek in the 00s, but I have immersed myself in the 60s-70s material that I really love. The 80s are okay, but already more of a mixed bag that I don’t love as wholeheartedly. I appreciate that it finally became truly easy to watch TOS and TAS in the 00s, but I still can’t vote for the 00s.
I think if things go the way I think they're going to go, I'll like the 2020s for Star Trek better than the '90s.
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Most of the best TNG, all of DS9 and most of Voyager? 90s for me.
Though 20s look like they’re off to a great start.
Though 20s look like they’re off to a great start.
1990s for me.
TOS in the 1960s was pretty great, all things considered, but recent rewatches - especially for sub-par episodes, have dated very badly.
The 1980s, as much as I love the Kirk films and TNG season 2, don't hit the high points that TNG and DS9 did in the 1990s. (I lamely consider all of TNG season 3 to be 1990 despite its first half made in 1989.)
Ask me the same question in the mid-late 1990s and I'd have said "1960s".
2000s didn't have much - either burnout or regurgitation in scripts that wasn't any better than the burnout but made with more polish (seriously, ST09 and ST NEM both regurgitate from the well of Trekdom, one was given more flair... and lens flare, either as a substitute for castor oil or to appease the ADHDTV generation... that and the 2009 flick also used a similar plot blueprint that the Brady Bunch movie used in 2009 (take bits of the original show and scribble an umbrella plot loosely around those, which also takes care of the nostalgia factor. Add in some token cameos and voila. At least the Brady movie was being intentionally funny and not unintentionally so. ) )
The 2010s stink. Prequels are lame enough, and are rendered lamer if zero attempt to fit into continuity - not even a token attempt - is made with plot/script points. Some episodes and shorts seem apocryphal if not other descriptions, and would be outright if it weren't (ironically) for the prequel's time period used (before Kirk, regardless if it's TOS 60s Kirk or KelvinKirk, the show makes more sense in the Kelvinverse but we're told it's in the same universe as 60s Kirk and thus is far easier to successfully heckle with its gross inconsistencies, over-reliance on glossy superficial visuals, likely to compensate for the lack of care, deftness, and depth in a number of scripts or at least set pieces. IMHO, YMMV, it's still Trek but it's not my favorite era and it's okay for those who adore the 10s to lambaste the 1960s. For some issues, they can't be blamed.)
TOS in the 1960s was pretty great, all things considered, but recent rewatches - especially for sub-par episodes, have dated very badly.
The 1980s, as much as I love the Kirk films and TNG season 2, don't hit the high points that TNG and DS9 did in the 1990s. (I lamely consider all of TNG season 3 to be 1990 despite its first half made in 1989.)
Ask me the same question in the mid-late 1990s and I'd have said "1960s".
2000s didn't have much - either burnout or regurgitation in scripts that wasn't any better than the burnout but made with more polish (seriously, ST09 and ST NEM both regurgitate from the well of Trekdom, one was given more flair... and lens flare, either as a substitute for castor oil or to appease the ADHDTV generation... that and the 2009 flick also used a similar plot blueprint that the Brady Bunch movie used in 2009 (take bits of the original show and scribble an umbrella plot loosely around those, which also takes care of the nostalgia factor. Add in some token cameos and voila. At least the Brady movie was being intentionally funny and not unintentionally so. ) )
The 2010s stink. Prequels are lame enough, and are rendered lamer if zero attempt to fit into continuity - not even a token attempt - is made with plot/script points. Some episodes and shorts seem apocryphal if not other descriptions, and would be outright if it weren't (ironically) for the prequel's time period used (before Kirk, regardless if it's TOS 60s Kirk or KelvinKirk, the show makes more sense in the Kelvinverse but we're told it's in the same universe as 60s Kirk and thus is far easier to successfully heckle with its gross inconsistencies, over-reliance on glossy superficial visuals, likely to compensate for the lack of care, deftness, and depth in a number of scripts or at least set pieces. IMHO, YMMV, it's still Trek but it's not my favorite era and it's okay for those who adore the 10s to lambaste the 1960s. For some issues, they can't be blamed.)
Not always. I wasn't even alive in the 1960s and rate TOS than certain incarnations of Trek and the Twilight Zone (while somewhat oversimplified) still beats every attempt to remake it (especially the attempt from the 1980s) But this unspoken alleged rule of "nostalgia must dictate" isn't entirely true. Or any DSC watcher that then stumbles on TNG or TOS, or even TMP though the chance of that is a bit lower, and says it is the best is not impossible either (it can work both ways; newer can be better, so can older).
I first watched Star Trek from 1991 to 1999. Theoretically, I "should" be a hardcore TNG/DS9/VOY Fan but TOS and DSC are my favorite Star Trek series and the thing that most interests me about PIC is how it'll be different from '90s Trek. So there you go.
I grew up in the '80s and '90s, but a lot of what I like comes from outside of those decades. It annoys me to no end when I see people my age who limit what to they like to when they were young. Nothing before or after. I think anyone who thinks "everything before I was born sucks!" or "everything after my youth sucks!" are two sides of the same exact coin. They have more in common with each other than they'd like to admit. They've both closed themselves off to everything in one direction or another. And someone who thinks both is even worse.
I grew up in the '80s and '90s, but a lot of what I like comes from outside of those decades. It annoys me to no end when I see people my age who limit what to they like to when they were young. Nothing before or after. I think anyone who thinks "everything before I was born sucks!" or "everything after my youth sucks!" are two sides of the same exact coin. They have more in common with each other than they'd like to admit. They've both closed themselves off to everything in one direction or another. And someone who thinks both is even worse.
At first, I said the 60s because TOS, but upon reflection I changed to the 70s because that's when I discovered TOS. It was an exciting time for me and I watched every episode in rerun continuously over those years.
As to the 90s, yes you had a lot of ST, but I couldn't get as excited about it as I did in the 70s.
As to the 90s, yes you had a lot of ST, but I couldn't get as excited about it as I did in the 70s.
That's how I feel about the 90's- Lots of volume....but almost too much. Star Trek stopped being special/event worthy during this timeframe for me.
I'd still probably put it as my second-favorite Trek decade though.
The 1960s, because that was when they made the best Star Trek series.
The 1980s, my teen years. A movie every few years. If my local station wasn't already showing it, TOS would be brought back on during a new movie's release to boost that station's ratings. It was at this time that I began taping TOS on VHS, or buying the VHS releases from Paramount when I could. New novels every few months (three or four times a year if I remember right). DC was putting out the best run of comics, although that was the period when my comic reading dropped off a little. To me at that time, comics became "something for kids", and it woudnt be until around 2001 or so that my thoughts on that changed. In 1987, TNG premiered. I still remember being excited watching that first episode when was 17. Great times.
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