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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 : Magnus, Robot Fighter
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 13:35:06

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.  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.

TOS is superior (for the 567th time. They used REAL Science Fiction
writers. TNG used a stable of TV writers.

And Wesley gets knocked about too much. He was fine. And once they
actually got him in a uniform he was GREAT. He provided a great dynamic
with Picard. The youthful brash Ensign contrasted with the reserved
Captain....I wish someone would have told that before Wheaton
left...what a waste. Btw, i do realize I'm probably alone in thinking
this.

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