83b 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 : Mirror Spock Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 11:14:46 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos On 1 Oct 2005 12:35:06 -0700, "Magnus, Robot Fighter" wrote: > >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. Yeah, I liked Wesley a little better when they put him in a real uniform and stopped having him save the ship every episode. However, the annoyance came back full force when they decided to have him become a traveller. * Robinson . 0