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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 : Sat Oct 01 2005 18:25:18

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

in article 1128195306.695919.233570@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, Magnus,
Robot Fighter at pavelb1@cox.net wrote on 10/1/05 12:35 PM:

> 
> 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.

Well, TNG started out with real writers, but got rid of them rapidly.  And
then got writers that weren't even TV writers, that had NO writing
experience.

> 
> 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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