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Gothic Sponge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:15 PM
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Calling all Trekkies/Trekkers!
Edited on Sat Oct-09-04 07:15 PM by Gothic_Sponge
Post your favorite series.

Mine:

1. TOS
2. DS9
3. TNG

I liked some of Voyager when series started, but it got lame as it progressed. I've never been a fan of Enterprise. I also dig the 1973 animated series. :)
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:17 PM
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1. I liked basically all of them
But Enterprise is the only one I go out of my way to watch. I'm not really a Trekkie, I just like sci-fi stuff. :)
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:19 PM
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2. In this particular order:
1-DS9
2-TNG
3-TOS
4-VOY
5-ENT

Movies:
First 4,8,6,2,3,9,7,1,10,5 Last
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DarthDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:20 PM
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3. I Can't Get Into Enterprise

They're "retconning" too much.

1) TOS
2) DS9 - - with the exception of some truly, truly awful episodes
3) VOY
4) TNG - - although I prefer Voyager mostly because of TNG's terrible first season and a half or so, before it hit its stride
5) ENT


My favorite episodes of each - - "The Doomsday Machine" (TOS); "The Homecoming/The Circle/The Siege" (DS9); "Endgame" (VOY); "Tapestry" (TNG). Not sure about Enterprise.
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DarthDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:22 PM
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4. Oh, and the Movies . . . .

2,4,6,8,7,10,3,5,1,9
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:29 PM
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5. OK, here's mine
Edited on Sat Oct-09-04 07:30 PM by Ladyhawk
1. TNG (except the first season...what were they thinking???)
2. DS9
3. TOS
4. VOY (couldn't they have found a better Captain Janeway?)

I haven't watched any Enterprise episodes, so I can't comment.

My favorite movie was Star Trek IV, the Voyage Home.

After that, let's see: 2, Generations (I liked it better than most people did), 3, First Contact.

The rest were just ho-hum as far as I'm concerned. I could take them or leave them: a waste of motion picture production costs.

I've watched ST: The Motion Picture many times, but I keep forgetting what it was supposed to be about. :) Let's see...there was some bald chick...and V'ger, which was a knock-off of Nomad. Kirk circled the Enterprise in his shuttle about five hundred times to show off the sexy new special effects...and then I just kind of forget what happens after that. :)
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:38 PM
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6. Well, in order...
Edited on Sat Oct-09-04 08:06 PM by salvorhardin
  1. ST: TOS
  2. ST: TNG
  3. ST: DS9
  4. ST: TAS
  5. ST: Enterprise
  6. ST: Voyager


As for the movies...
  1. ST II: The Wrath of Khan
  2. ST IV: The Voyage Home
  3. ST: The Motion Picture
  4. ST III: The Search For Spock
  5. ST VIII: First Contact
  6. ST VI: The Undiscovered Country
  7. ST VII: Generations
  8. ST X: Nemesis
  9. ST IX: Insurrection
  10. ST V: The Final Frontier


Even though it was not as good as Wrath of Khan or The Voyage Home, The Motion Picture will always have a special place in my heart simply for the scenes where Scotty flies Kirk over to the newly reoutfitted Enterprise. Seeing that in the theater back in 1979 was quite special and brought a tear to my eye. At the end of The Wrath of Khan I cried openly, along with many others in the theater despite knowing what was coming.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:44 PM
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7.  1. TOS 2. TNG 3. VOY
:-)
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:55 PM
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8. 1. TOS 2. TAS 3. TNG
I was just about to say, "Did no one mention the animated series," but I see you did. Um, good!
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:07 PM
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9. Mine:
1. TOS
2. VOY
3. TNG
4. DS9

Don't watch Enterprise.

Favorite eps:
1. Trouble with Tribbles and I, Mudd
2. I don't know the names of the episodes :(
3. Best of Both Worlds pt 1 and 2
4. Trials & Tribblelations
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 11:11 AM
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17. Scorpion
The two-parter that introduced 7of9 and Species 8472.
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:10 PM
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10. DS9 TNG Enterprise Movies STOS STV
LOVED DS9!
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:15 PM
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11. yay, another DS9 lover!
:hi:
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:25 PM
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12. yep
I thought the Dominion War was far more interesting that yet another 1960s speech from Kirk.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 08:52 AM
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15. IMHO, the Dominion War was a mix of
WW II movies and Babylon 5 (in terms of the attempt to create a multi-episode story arc).

Entertaining, but B5 did it better for me.

Still, seasons 4 and 7 were DS9's best (except for the bad baseball game episode, :puke: )
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Gothic Sponge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 08:30 AM
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13. Kick
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 08:35 AM
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14. I like the campy, fun side of Star Trek
So my favorites are the originals and Enterprise. A little bit of silliness is fun. The others are really too "heavy" for me.
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lakemonster11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:22 AM
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16. 47!
1. DS9
2. TNG/TOS
3. VOY

I think that Deep Space Nine was the best series because of the wonderful story arc the writers developed. The characters, even originally minor ones like Garak and Damar, were so fleshed-out by the end of the series. I think Garak is my favorite character in all of Star Trek (besides Spock of course).

The Next Generation was the first Star Trek series I watched. I think it's a wonderful show. Patrick Stewart is such an incredible actor, and some of the scripts just blew my mind. Will Riker is my least favorite Star Trek character, though he doesn't bother me as much as he used to.

The Original Series is enjoyable in an entirely different way. The shows are campy and silly a lot of the time, but I love Spock and McCoy, and, I have to admit, Kirk has grown on me over the years (I used to HATE him, but now I have a certain fondness for him).

Even though I like quite a few Voyager episodes, I was highly disappointed with the series as a whole. In my opinion, the writers dropped every interesting storyline that they ever came up with! There was no continuity in character.

I haven't seen enough Enterprise to rank it compared to the others. I love Scott Bakula (I'm a big Quantum Leap fan), so I've liked what I've seen. It has a nice look to it.

Of the movies, I like First Contact the best. I also like The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, and certain scenes of the fifth movie (I usually watch it on tape so I can just fast-forward to my favorite parts).


Have you seen this scene in the animated series?

Kirk, having just watched Sulu kick some alien's ass, says, in this (I'm not kidding) flirtatious voice, "You'll have to teach me that some time."

Sulu, in an equally flirtatious voice, answers, "It doesn't just take physical strength. You have to be *inscrutible*."

Kirk stares at him for a second and then says, leering, "Why, Mr. Sulu, you're the most *scrutible* man I've ever met."


I thought I was crazy, but I showed it to some friends, and they all agreed that it was full of innuendo. Anyway, it kept me entertained for a while.
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