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 : Atlas Bugged Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 21:37:15 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos "Mike" wrote in message news:433C8417.584047B1@rochester.rr.com... >I like all the Star Trek series to some extent. Me too, but I have had trouble with ENTERPRISE because of quality and DS9 because I think it was even more dopey-liberal at times than first-season TNG. > In TOS, you got Kirk and a Romulan Commander in a battle to the death > with a certain amount of regret between the both because deep down > inside they respect each other and could be friends in another reality > but are duty bound to their own sides. Both hate war but both know thier > responsibility. One of these people will die at the hands of the other. "Balance of Terror" with Mark Lenard, a great episode. > In TNG, you have the Ferengi ship and Enterprise neutralized by a higher > outside force on a planet. They both go to the planet and we see the > Ferengi are simply goofy caricatures of Reagan era conservative > stereotypes in a sharp toothed, big eared, elfin packages and the > Enterprise people are the enlightened, pacifistic and so superior. All > the Enterprise people have to do is chat with the higher life form and > let them know "Hey, we are as advanced and enlightened as you are" and > all is well. > > I find the TOS episode a bit more compelling. > > Anyway, in later seasons they tempered it and had some great, GREAT > episodes, but never got the balance achieved in the original series. Right, well, I thought they more than made up for this with the Borg. If this was not a metaphor for Communism and collectivism, I don't know what could ever be. And what was the verdict on the Borg? The greatest evil ever encountered or dreamed of in the ST universe. I found this to be pretty "balancing." .