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What is your favorite Star Trek series?

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edited April 2011 in Ten Forward
Just something I've been curious about since I started playing: What TV series does everyone prefer?

Personally, I grew up on ST:TNG. Definitely my favorite of the shows, I always loved the interactions between the crew members.. Data's neverending quest to become more human.. Worf's struggle to integrate himself into a federation crew.. Riker's desire to be the first officer his captain needs.. I could go on for a while. I think it was one of the better TV shows in general and perfectly casted.

I was pretty big into Voyager as well, after Seven of Nine joined the crew.

As far as the original series and DS9, there are characters I like a lot, and I enjoy the shows, but for me, none will ever compare to TNG :)

What about you guys? What are you favorites and why?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    The Animated Series. I saw it first run many years ago before most players were even born. Back then there was TOS and TAS... TMP was still 5 years away.

    TAS took the franchise and added to it, even if it was a children's show. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I grew up with TNG too but at the time I wasn't really the right age. I didn't actually care for it at all and was just on because my Dad had the remote and well, he was bigger than me...

    Funnily enough a few years later and my Dad started watching TNG again and I got into it, now it's my favourite. I watched all the other series from there, I like them all but TNG has stayed my favourite and the only one I really don'tlike is Enterprise.

    Oh I'm fully grown now and my Dad is still bigger than me so I had to move out for control of the remote...

    Two months later I got a girlfriend and she moved in but it was fun while it lasted.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I grew up on The Original Series, so that one holds a special place in my heart. :) After that, I'd say probably Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine and Enterprise.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    TNG was orignally my favourite, but once I got in to DS9 it became my firm favourite...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I liked The Next Generation, and the new Star Trek Enterprise with Captain Archer.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    ENT. I never really liked the other ones, but that is because I grew up without a lot of exposure to entertainment, so when I finally got around to seeing some Star Trek ENT was what was recent. Couldn't really get past the age of the other Star Treks and get at the story goodness within.

    Probably why the latest Star Trek movie is my favorite as well. I tend to disregard things that aren't recent. I am aware of my own flaw though so no flames necessary!

    All that said I'm not a true Star Trek fan so I don't look for the same essence others do in the series and movies. Mass Effect is my favorite universe, with Star Wars as a close second.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    When I was 6 years old my father woke me up in the middle of the night. He explained to me that there was a show coming on TV that he wanted me to see, and he had been waiting for a specific episode to come on.

    When I got downstairs he had a blanket laid out on the floor, with two big pillows and a huge bowl of popcorn. I sat there as excited as a six year old boy can be and watched my first episode of Star Trek, "The Trouble With Tribbles".

    From that moment on I was completely hooked on all things Star Trek. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for The Original Series, for obvious reasons. However, all of the different shows have their good points.

    :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    The Enterpise is my favorite .

    The Animated Series. I saw it first run many years ago before most players were even born. Back then there was TOS and TAS... TMP was still 5 years away.

    TAS took the franchise and added to it, even if it was a children's show. :)

    There is an animiated series!?!?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    DS9....and honestly,it got much better with season 3.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I didn't really get into Star Trek until I started watching Enterprise reruns on HDnet.

    If I try to think in terms of best story writing, etc. DS9 is probably the best IMO. But Enterprise will always be my favorite for the "nostalgia" factor of it being the first series I watched from beginning to end.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    SHARKFORCE wrote: »
    DS9....and honestly,it got much better with season 3.

    I like DS9 in total. I know it got better after season 3, but I really don't think it was that much better. It had a strong start and just got better as it went along.

    I was really dissapointed with Enterprise, so much potential wasted. Especially with the early cancellation.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    This is easy; for me it's TNG!!! Heck I wasn't even in my teens yet when the show was on, but it was my favorite! Following behind TNG was Knight Rider and AirWolf and the first season of Seaquest DSV.

    Sorry for going off topic, but I couldn't help myself. The best part is that now I have them on DVD! YEA!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    AaronH wrote: »
    I like DS9 in total. I know it got better after season 3, but I really don't think it was that much better. It had a strong start and just got better as it went along.

    I was really dissapointed with Enterprise, so much potential wasted. Especially with the early cancellation.

    Great responses so far!

    DS9 was a great series. I love how it started with the battle of Wolf359 and Sisko's first ship then jumps a few years into the future. Colm Meaney was a god-send to Star Trek. A very great, underrated actor. If you havent seen his movie, Layer Cake, I suggest you do.

    I love how it took a deeper look into the Cardassians and Ferengi. Two of my favorite TNG species! DS9 showed us what they were all about. I honestly cant visit DS9 in game without spending at least an hour hanging out in Quark's bar. He was always my fav DS9 character :D

    WIsh I added "who is your fav character?" to my original post :P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    TOS of course!

    Followed by TAS.

    Next gen was Awesome in the CG department, but it's best episodes either copied TOS episodes completely or actually included some TOS in them. It was way too pacifistic with weak characters. Picard was always wanting a meeting in the middle of something. Someone said it was made during the time Gene Roddenbury was going crazy? Worse thing about it was Wesley Crusher.

    DS9 had potential. It started strong, but it looks like the Babylon 5 team must have complained because all of a sudden everyone is friends? More Awesome CG.

    Voyager was annoying because Janeway would always ask for and take someone else's opinion rather than actually making a command decision on her own. Stille more Awesome CG and the Prometheus! :)

    Enterprise. This would have been a good show if they cast anyone but Scott Bakula as Archer. In the books, Archer was more like Richard Dean Anderson, but he was busy with Stargate SG-1. :( I would cringe whenever Bakula was on screen or even hearing him talk. I gave up on Enterprise long before they tried to pass off a non modified Giraffe skull as being from the extinct AVIAN Zindi. Sad that Bakula killed Trek. :( There was also Awesome CG in this series.

    New movie is lots of action, but short on substance. Just like JJ Abrams. I liked it anyway because it's time line deletes all the pacifistic Treks that cam after TOS and TAS. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    TL;DR version: TOS, TNG, TAS, DS9, VOY, ENT.

    My favorite is TOS. The first episode I remember seeing is 'Who Mourns for Adonais?' when I was 7 years old ('Batman' was my favorite TV show at the time). I think it was during the 2nd season that the last image shown in the end credits was that scary alien puppet thing from 'The Corbomite Maneuver'. I'd always look away just before he showed up because I was scared of him. :eek:

    It wasn't until the early 70s, though, that I finally got to see all of the TOS episodes. One of my local stations showed 'Star Trek', along with 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea', on weekday afternoons. That was when I became a true fan of the show. I remember seeing 'Elaan of Troyius' for the first time - when Elaan beamed aboard the Enterprise and the camera panned up from her feet to her head I about fell out of my chair - she was drop dead gorgeous! It wasn't until years later that I found out the Troyan ambassador was green. I watched the Animated Series ('Yesteryear' = great Star Trek episode), of course, and was excited about The Motion Picture.

    The Next Generation is my second favorite, although it took me a while - probably halfway through the first season - to warm up to it. Favorite characters: Picard and Data.

    I liked Deep Space 9 at first, but for some reason didn't see much of it after the first couple of seasons. Same with Voyager. I've only seen a handful of episodes after 7 of 9 came along. Enterprise was on UPN, right? Whatever it was on, I couldn't get that station here at that time, so I didn't see any of it during the initial run. Still haven't seen all of it. It's my least favorite, even though I really like some of the characters - Hoshi Sato, Trip, and T'pol.

    Ta daa.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Well I grew up on re-runs of TOS and TNG, and grew up during DS9, Voyager, and ENT.

    But overall I say Voyager is my favorite :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I grew up on TOS and TNG, watching them with my father. I never really got into the other series very much, though.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    TOS was my favorate, it had the spirit of exploration to it, I found TNG to ..well kind of like our ships sailing the seas now as instead of when Captain Cook did it. DS9 is my second fav, loved Sisko as a Captain , he wasnt afraid to break regs and be 'The Bad guy' if he needed to be. He and Kirk would have got along fine. Have any of you seen the various fan series on youtube? Try this LOVED IT :Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xkyghl9Elg
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    1. Deep Space 9 10/10
    2. The Original Series 9/10
    3. The Next Generation 9/10
    4. Enterprise 7/10
    5. The Animated Series 7/10
    6. Voyager 6.5/10
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Voyager definitley. TNG was way too boring, it was mostly just everyone having fun and games, and turning into drama queens. DS9 was mostly a soap opera before the Dominion Wars
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I'd have to say that TOS is my absolute favorite because I grew up watching it with my Dad. Beyond that, I would rate the different series as follows......

    1) TOS
    2) VOY
    3) DS9
    4) ENT
    5) TNG
    6) TAS (TAS is last only because I've only recently started watching it.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    While I grew up during the TNG run, my heart will always belong to TOS for the Saturday afternoon reruns I watched with my Dad, who grew up on TOS.

    Plus, I really really enjoyed the Original Cast movies.

    There were some parts of TNG that I liked, but overall, it didn't hold the same appeal for me as TOS did. DS9 was barely watchable for me, and VOY as well, though VOY was a bit more enjoyable than DS9, at least until the Borg were introduced.

    Finally, there was ENT. While the first season and the Temporal Cold War were weak in my opinion, I really loved the direction the show headed in Season 4, especially the "Founders of the Federation" story arc with the Andorians, Tellarites, Vulcans and Earth. That is what the whole series should have been, but since it wasn't, the show died in it's prime.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    The best episodes of Enterprise was when they used their CG to fly a Constitution Class ship around blasting everything. Highest rated as well!

    As in all other Trek series, their best ratings were when they had some TOS in the episode. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    1) DS9 (Sisko is awesome, great sotries, characters, music, perfect!)

    2) TNG ( great sense of family, fantastic stories)

    3) TOS (very well done stories, nice retro feel, a little stale at times)

    4) VOY & ENT (tied for horribleness)
    Thlaylie wrote: »
    The best episodes of Enterprise was when they used their CG to fly a Constitution Class ship around blasting everything. Highest rated as well!

    As in all other Trek series, their best ratings were when they had some TOS in the episode. :)

    I like TOS, but I don't think I agree with that. Many of the best episodes of the respective series had no TOS stuff

    1) Best of Both Worlds
    2) In the Pale Moonlight
    3) Timeless
    4) Message in a Bottle (pretty much every Doctor episode ever)

    Actually, I think In a Mirror Darkly part 2 got trumped by Twilight. But part 1 was top.

    But, yeah, a lot of good episodes used TOS stuff.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Thlaylie wrote: »
    The best episodes of Enterprise was when they used their CG to fly a Constitution Class ship around blasting everything. Highest rated as well!

    As in all other Trek series, their best ratings were when they had some TOS in the episode. :)

    That was one episode that I DIDN'T enjoy. Personally, I felt it was tacked on and not very well done.

    My favorite was the "Babel One - United - The Aenar" story arc, followed closely by the "The Forge - Awakening - Kir'shara" story arc.

    These are really what I expected the majority of Enterprise to be about. Along with "First Flight" I expected really a series wrapped around the very pioneer days of Starfleet, wrapping our hands around something as new and tantalizing as warp drive, the successes and failures of this new technology, and the encounters with the Tellarites, Andorians and Vulcans that would take us from "Young upstart punk of the galaxy" to a long lasting friendship and alliance that would span 250+ years.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    That was one episode that I DIDN'T enjoy. Personally, I felt it was tacked on and not very well done.

    My favorite was the "Babel One - United - The Aenar" story arc, followed closely by the "The Forge - Awakening - Kir'shara" story arc.

    These are really what I expected the majority of Enterprise to be about. Along with "First Flight" I expected really a series wrapped around the very pioneer days of Starfleet, wrapping our hands around something as new and tantalizing as warp drive, the successes and failures of this new technology, and the encounters with the Tellarites, Andorians and Vulcans that would take us from "Young upstart punk of the galaxy" to a long lasting friendship and alliance that would span 250+ years.

    Sounds like you and I were both unhappy with enterprise for the same reason.

    I did like some of the early andorian episodes.

    It looked like they were moving more in the direction of laying the foundation of the federation towards the end, but sadly, the series was cancelled prematurely.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I remember one day coming back from the supermarket with a bunch of free photographs of the Apollo missions and then later that night scaring myself silly by watching the TOS episode 'Arena.' It was 1969 and I was nine years old. I hid under the duvet and was certain I could hear a Gorn outside in the garden. Ssssssssss!

    I never lost contact with TOS and was thrilled with ST:TMP and WoK... but I found TNG a little too... perfect and clean and politically-correct. Some episodes leapt out, for sure... but on the whole, I never clicked with it. Same with DS9 and Voyager, unfortunately. Both Voyager and Enterprise also seemed a little... ummm... soap-opera-ish but lacking the tension of BSG.

    Having said that - I've seen the lot and have had a blast doing so... so I'm not moaning.

    Still... think... there's a gorn... outside... Ssssssss!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    AaronH wrote: »
    Sounds like you and I were both unhappy with enterprise for the same reason.

    I did like some of the early andorian episodes.

    It looked like they were moving more in the direction of laying the foundation of the federation towards the end, but sadly, the series was cancelled prematurely.

    Agreed.

    And really, there needed to be much more focus on the Klingons, and what we did to make them our MORTAL enemies when Kirk's day rolled around.

    Also, more information on the Romulans, and why we went to war with them.

    There is so much Enterprise could have accomplished as a series, taking us to the very foundations of what we know of a the Trek Universe, and yet, all that potential was pretty much squandered on Suliban and that idiot Daniels.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    TOS and DS9, some parts of Voyager, and the TNG movies. :)

    Oh and Enterprise until they got bogged down in that silly temporal war storyline.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Voyager I suppose, because the doctor is funny and seven of nine is sexy.

    On the other hand, my favourite episode is the DS9 one where they integrate with the tribble episode from TOS - that was some clever work.

    There are good episodes in each series but being a TV show there are many routine episodes and a fair number of dire ones so it's difficult to say that one series is better than another.
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