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 : Magnus, Robot Fighter
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 16:02:11

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


ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> 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.
>

I want to interject that while DS9 is arguably the best Trek....Sisko
is often virtually unwatchable. Avery Brooks pacing and weird choices
often bring an episode to a grinding halt. For instance that Bond,
Julien Bond episode...Jesus what is Brooks thinking in that...

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