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 : Marcovaldo Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 21:50:40 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos "ANIM8Rfsk" wrote in message news:BF61441F.543F8%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net... > in article 29onj1h20h6vlnm03pca259fbnr5flcvev@4ax.com, The Merry Piper at > merry_piper_YOUR@COATyahoo.com wrote on 9/29/05 5:46 AM: > >> On 29 Sep 2005 05:21:39 -0700, electrictroy@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> rec.arts.startrek back in 1987/88/89. Back then Trekkies were up in >>> arms & saying the Next Generation was an insult to the original Trek >>> series with Kirk, Spock, et cetera (and Picard was a wimp). >> >> Some of them but by no means all of them. I have been watching Star >> Trek since the 1960's and I, among many fans I know, was looking >> forward to the new series. >> >>> 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. And Picard is still a wimp. .