DS9 - I loved the stations stationary nature, allowing a much deeper dive into the featured stuff like Bajorans and Cardassians than we could get on a ship-board show where we get 45 minutes to introduce and develop a race or culture or world and then bam, next episode we are going to be 70 light years away…. great setting, characters and, once it got into the Dominion arc, gripping storylines.
LD - I love how it had fun *with* Trek and all it’s quirks but never seemed to be laughing *at* it (or its fans).
TOS - plenty of stuff didn’t age well, but this is where it all came from, so, respect is earned.
SNW - a few silly episodes every now and then, but even my beloved DS9 had ‘run along home.’
ENT - I wanted more from the writing, particularly for anyone not named Archer, T’Pol or Trip, but it had some cool stuff, and is one of the few I can rewatch without a ton of fast-forwarding or skipping entire episodes.
PRO - it was for kids, so I gritted my teeth and ignored the slime dude, and focused on how cool it was to have a Tellarite, a Brikar and a Medusan on the crew.
TNG - also didn’t age well, IMO, and not generally rewatchable for me, except for favorite episodes like Darmok. Still, like TOS, it established a ton of great stuff that makes it foundational.
SFA - hard to place, since it’s barely out of infancy. Still, freshman year is over and we still don’t really know who Genesis is? I want to like it more than this, but it’s fighting me.
DISC - a problem I have with many shows is a knee-jerk contrarian nature that results in me liking ‘lower decks’ type characters and resenting any character that i feel like the writers are shoving in my face. I would have liked more development of Owo, Detmer and Airam, for instance, and about 93% less Michael Burnham. Every time she defied orders and the story bent over backwards to make everyone else wrong and her right, I wanted Saru to snap and toss her out an airlock.
VOY - I didn’t forget this one, I just didn’t like it.
LD - I love how it had fun *with* Trek and all it’s quirks but never seemed to be laughing *at* it (or its fans).
TOS - plenty of stuff didn’t age well, but this is where it all came from, so, respect is earned.
SNW - a few silly episodes every now and then, but even my beloved DS9 had ‘run along home.’
ENT - I wanted more from the writing, particularly for anyone not named Archer, T’Pol or Trip, but it had some cool stuff, and is one of the few I can rewatch without a ton of fast-forwarding or skipping entire episodes.
PRO - it was for kids, so I gritted my teeth and ignored the slime dude, and focused on how cool it was to have a Tellarite, a Brikar and a Medusan on the crew.
TNG - also didn’t age well, IMO, and not generally rewatchable for me, except for favorite episodes like Darmok. Still, like TOS, it established a ton of great stuff that makes it foundational.
SFA - hard to place, since it’s barely out of infancy. Still, freshman year is over and we still don’t really know who Genesis is? I want to like it more than this, but it’s fighting me.
DISC - a problem I have with many shows is a knee-jerk contrarian nature that results in me liking ‘lower decks’ type characters and resenting any character that i feel like the writers are shoving in my face. I would have liked more development of Owo, Detmer and Airam, for instance, and about 93% less Michael Burnham. Every time she defied orders and the story bent over backwards to make everyone else wrong and her right, I wanted Saru to snap and toss her out an airlock.
VOY - I didn’t forget this one, I just didn’t like it.
