Soviet Heavy said:
Matthew94 said:
I would say Star Trek TNG. I loved the characters and some of the episodes are mind blowingly deep at times.
TNG and DS9 are on equal footing for me. They both present a very distinct and yet fundamentally different interpretation of Gene's vision. The Next Generation represents the very ideal of the Federation, as a utopian society that had moved past prejudice and hardship to build something truly great. The Enterprise's crew were the best and brightest, led by the very model of a starfleet officer.
If TNG focused on the ideal of the Federation, then DS9 focused on the reality. The utopia of the Federation faces hardships both within and without, and while it is an admirable aspiration to be like the model crew of the Enterprise, the reality is that such a goal is difficult to achieve without conflict and hardships. Particularly striking me is the barrier the Federation faces with Bajor and their religion based society. Facing people who have yet to pass over the threshold that the Federation has achieved causes friction, and it is never as easy to maintain the utopia as it seems.
Because of that, I tend to lean towards DS9, but I still love TNG. TNG shows the ideal endpoint of humanity, while DS9 follows the difficult path we walk to get there.
Seriously? Seriously? Wow... Yes DS9 was definitely all about the REAL Federation. LMAO!!! Dude, there is no REAL Federation. If there were Star Trek MMOs would work! There's the ideals of Star Trek and there's capitalizing on an epic failure to know how to write stories within those boundaries; I give you DS9, Voyager, Enterprise... Dear god did they milk those teats half to death. Hell lets be frank, three quarters of the way to death never mind half.
Did Q like DS9? No, no he did not. And he said it all: "Picard never would have hit me." And Sisco finished it nicely: "I'm not Picard." No, no you are not. Your not even human apparently, which is really great. Write a story about people who aren't people. Point... missed. Paramount should sue Rick Berman who has admitted he had no idea what he was doing with the franchise and just tried to milk it for all it was worth. He was shocked to get the chance to make Voyager. I was just sickened, guess it shows a certain short sightedness on his part.
Fringe is pretty interesting, so is Eureka. I'm not one for following series that often these days though, a whole lot of Lost syndrome floating around. It's probably thanks to the overwhelming success of the X-Files which likewise never wrapped things up one way or another to my knowledge and certainly didn't in the series. Babylon 5 was a remarkable piece of writing, no two ways about it, and Crusades would have been amazing if they'd been able to keep it's funding alive without ruining the show. The few episodes they have are awesome.
I say only three quarters to death because the 1st new movie they came out with recently was great and I'm looking forward to the follow up.
