5f8 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 : rgorman Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 06:48:06 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:03:32 GMT, Louis M. Brown wrote: >On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:59:55 GMT, rgorman@block.net (David Johnston) >wrote: > >>On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:21:52 -0400, ToolPackinMama >> wrote: >> >> >>>> I disagree with that. I think Voyager was the worst, simply because >>>> they so BLEW the potential that they had! For every holodeck ep, we >>>> could have seen exploration of the Delta Quadrant, but we didn't. >>> >>>I don't disagree with that. >> >>I do. Voyager just didn't have all that much potential. It was so >>limited by it's concept. For example, "exploration of the Delta >>Quadrant". Apart from deliberately jumping into every dangerous and >>unknown spacial anomaly just in case it might bip them back home, >>there was very little potential for exploration because the only thing >>that interested them about their surroundings was how to leave them as >>quickly as possible. So obviously they aren't going to stop and check >>out planets to see what's on them. > > >...even though they did? Yes. Having people behave in a manner inconsistent with the premise isn't a good idea. Not mind you that any of the Voyager episodes I saw had planetary exploration that I can recall. . 0