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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 : ANIM8Rfsk
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 08:11:27

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

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.


> 
> It will always be second place to "Star Trek" but TNG is still a good
> series.  
> 
>> I don't consider TNG an inferior show.  Nor do I think the New
>> Galactica is inferior.  Different, yes, but not inferior.
> 
> It depends on how you mean inferior.  An Olympic Silver Medallist is
> inferior to the Gold Medallist in his or her chosen event but not an
> inferior athlete in any other definition of the word.   Thus is TNG
> inferior to TOS but it is still a very good series by any definition
> of the word.  
> 
> I enjoyed the original BSG but like the new one much better.
> 
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> The Merry Piper
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