Subj : Re: TNG vs TOS - anybody still think Next Generation sucks?
To   : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Michael Bowker
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 12:23:52

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

ToolPackinMama wrote:

> ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> 
>>> On 29 Sep 2005 05:21:39 -0700, electrictroy@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>>> Is there anyone out there who, ~15 years later, still thinks TNG is an
>>>> inferior-quality show & and insult to the original series/fans?
>>
>>
>>
>> Absolutely.  I think it's way worse than I thought it was when it was on.
>> Any time an ep starts, I find it almost completely unmemorable, and then
>> when I finally do remember, I say "Oh, this one.  This is a lousy one" 
>> and
>> turn it off.  There probably aren't more than a dozen, two dozen eps tops
>> with any rerun value at all.  Way less than real Trek, and TNG got a LOT
>> more times at bat.  It's still better than Voyager or Enterprise.
> 
> 
> I pretty much agree with that assessment.

I'm not sure TNG is better than Voyager or Enterprise?  I do agree with 
everything else. :)

Voyager started really really horrible and then improved to just awful. 
  So in someways it was the most improved of the new ST.  I think some 
of the B plots of the later series returned to the spirit of ST and the 
discussion on the nature of man and what it means to be human.  But in 
general TOS is far better than anything else and the rest were more or 
less equally bad (although each in it's own unique way).  So, I'd go 
TOS, DS9, (TNG, Voyager, Enterprise) where TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise 
tie for third place.

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