I was thinking it might be Voyager (though strange and new are not what I would call the planet of the week)
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Which crew explored the most "strange new worlds"?
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Voyager definitely encountered more NEW people and cultures. Covered more light years through unexplored space. Second place would be Enterprise D, Picard spent a lot of time interacting with old well known races like the Klingons and the Romulans. Even the Cardassians (who were new to the viewers) are depicted on screen as a previously contacted race. Third would be Kirk's crew, they made a fair number of first contacts and explored several new worlds.
Sisko and Archer each made surprisingly few new contacts. Archer about ten new contacts, Sisko about the same number.
Sisko and Archer each made surprisingly few new contacts. Archer about ten new contacts, Sisko about the same number.
Voyager. They even at one point say in the show that Janeway has made more First Contacts than anybody since Kirk.
It's kind of hard for it not to be Janeway's crew since her ship was the only Federation vessel in the Delta Quadrant (aside from the late Equinox) and spent two extra years in space than Kirk did.
I think Picard's crew had an impressive number of notable first contacts, but I think the Enterprise-D's duties as the Federation flagship kept it mostly close to home for the most part.
Archer's crew, though, was probably notable for making very important first contacts such as with the Andorians and the Tellarites, which were crucial to the eventual formation of the Federation.
I think Picard's crew had an impressive number of notable first contacts, but I think the Enterprise-D's duties as the Federation flagship kept it mostly close to home for the most part.
Archer's crew, though, was probably notable for making very important first contacts such as with the Andorians and the Tellarites, which were crucial to the eventual formation of the Federation.
Voyager made the most new contacts.
THE Enterprise is either a tie or second place.
Enterprise-D made fewer because most of their contacts were with familiar races or members of the Federation.
Archer made some contacts, some were disasters and others were beneficial.
Sisko was attached to a base and therefore was not able to make many contacts.
THE Enterprise is either a tie or second place.
Enterprise-D made fewer because most of their contacts were with familiar races or members of the Federation.
Archer made some contacts, some were disasters and others were beneficial.
Sisko was attached to a base and therefore was not able to make many contacts.
That depends, does TAS count?
I'd still go with Voyager.
I'd still go with Voyager.
Voyager, in terms of wholly new species. I think then Kirk/TOS and Archer tied, and Picard and Sisko last.
Kirk made first contact with a number of races, as did Archer. Sisko only discovered the Dominion and Picard the Borg and the Q (or the Ferengi, if counting his time as CO of the Stargazer).
Kirk made first contact with a number of races, as did Archer. Sisko only discovered the Dominion and Picard the Borg and the Q (or the Ferengi, if counting his time as CO of the Stargazer).
That was hardly surprising. Sisko's job was not to make new contacts. Although the Dominion races turned out to be among the most original and non-human in Trek.
Archer's ship was slower and less technologically advanced than the later crew and the planets he went were closer to home, so he should be expected to meet less new worlds.
I don't know the statistics as to who made the most new contacts. But while Voyager crew made a lot of new contacts, most of them weren't really all that "strange" at all. It's one of the disappointing aspects of the show - most of the aliens were quite ordinary and human-like (not just in appearance, but in behavior and culture as well), despite it being in the Delta quadrant. 8472 being an exception.
TOS featured a lot of extremely human-like aliens, but it also featured some "strange" ones - Talosians, Organians, Metrons, Horta, Trelane, Gorn, the M-113 creature, the androids from "By Any Other Name"... (and Medusans and Tholians, but of course they weren't "first contacts"). So TOS probably wins for most "strange" worlds, though TNG also had a few strange ones - the Crystalline Entity, the Tin Man, the aliens who possessed Picard in "Lonely Among Us", and of course Q and the Borg.
Two?
I do believe Voyager was more aligned to Gene Rodenberrys first ideas. I might be a very lot biased though 
I'd go with a toss-up between Kirk/Picard. Both explored much of what forms the basis for the entire Star Trek universe. At least it just seems that way to me.
Females walking around the ship in catsuits, I mean mini skirts?
I could not disagree more, and it actually is the core reason why I hate Voyager and why it sucks and why it always sucked from day one. However, if you think your assertion is true, please site your source.
The reason I say this is because I was reading somewhere, and I believe it was Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek, but I'm not positive at the moment, that, when the show was first being developed, perhaps as far abck as when the ship was called the Yorktown and not the Enterprise, the idea came across Roddenberry's attention to make the ship lost in space, stranded somewhere, with an ultimate mission to get home. Not only was this idea too similar to Lost in Space, but it also weakened the show for a myriad of other reasons, and the main reason I remember reading in that book was that he wanted to give the crew a new mission each week, something the crew should be doing, sent down from the command chain. The only way to do that was to keep ship close enough to be in touch with command chain. Whether the episode itself focused on that mission or not was not essential, but at least it gave each episode a point of drama right from the start, something to do. If, instead, an omnipotent being blocked their path, so be it. By giving the crew a mission, it made each episode more dramatically sound and fleshed out the universe the show was trying to depict. The writers of Voyager apparentlydidn't read this bit, and they were so desperate to make a show that was different than the others that they foolishly jumped on this absolutely asinine premise, and, sure enough, they ran out of ideas - and shuttlecraft - before too long. Roddennberry, along with Gene Coon, knew how to write a TV show including the dramatic needs necessary to allow the show to sustain itself. The people that wrote Voyager seemed to have forgotten during the twenty-meeting meetig during which the premise was being discussed.
Kirk had a five-year mission.
Janeway and her crew were stuck for seven years in the Delta Quadrant.
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