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 : David B
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 17:05:17

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

"Steven L." wrote:

> 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.
>

It looked like the lobby of some cheap Vegas casino.

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