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 : Steven L.
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 21:33:19

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

Brian Henderson 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?
> 
> 
> Yes, I still think TNG is vastly inferior to TOS and it always will
> be.  Not necessarily because it was different, but because it just
> wasn't done that well.  TOS was fun to watch.  A lot of TNG took
> itself too seriously and because it took itself so seriously, all of
> the really ridiculous plot devices, technobabble and irrational,
> illogical uses of superscience became even more absurd.

I agree with all this, but there's one more point:

The "leading lady" of Star Trek was always the "Big E" herself.  And
of all the ships in all the Star Trek series, it's the TOS Enterprise 
(together with its uprated movie version) that will be the one people 
will always remember.

The TOS bridge, the engineering deck, the hangar deck, all gave you a 
real feeling of practicality and vastness that you were inside a huge 
ship--something I never got from the tiny TNG engineering deck with its 
warp core looking like a double boiler with neon lights.  Or the TNG 
bridge looking like the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel.  Or the TNG hangar 
deck looking like a two-car garage.

In the finale of ENT in the Mirror Universe, you got to see the TOS Big 
E's sister ship and even though it was 40 years since Jeffries designed 
it, it still looked beautiful.

The TNG Enterprise never came close.


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