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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 : Brian Henderson
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 19:10:50

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

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.  Between TOS
and TNG, it felt like the Roddenberry vision of the future got even
more ridiculously utopian, it came off largely as the wonderful humans
had to show all the primitive aliens how great we were.  And let's not
forget Wesley Crusher, boy deity.  TNG might have slowly grown into an
almost  watchable show, but it just can't recapture the fun that TOS
had out of the gate.

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