Star Trek warps into the Sunset

[commander bunnypants]

The end of an era.

Damn I am sad :cry:

Live Long and Prosper

Commander BunnyPants

[commander bunnypants]

1. kick

heellllooooo

CB

[Deja Q]

2. YIPPIE!

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

Should have been killed of in 1994, with the movies now starting.

Generations was a long TV episode, with some needed scenes cut out or redone, never mind that "All good things" being a better flick in terms of having potential. (the background info on both stories is cool, too. I do love Generations, but its original ending was - all things considered - better and more ironic, which was sorely needed compared to what we got (pandering drivel).)

First Contact is pure fanwank and not worth anybody's time, despite a core idea that's the best ever (Starfleet assigns Picard at the border thinking he'd crack. Well, he does crack contrary to his crew thinking otherwise.) But fanwank aside, there are a few problems as well, never mind needless time travel and the plot so deliberately camped up it lost all sense of suspense in the process. The movie's a joke, despite Director Jonathan Frake's best efforts.

Insurrection, while it tries to appeal to new folks, and has some damn good direction, it seems to upset the fanbase too much. Oh, as with First Contact, the music sucks almost as badly too. Why not keep Dennis McCarthy, instead of bringing in an old fossil past his prime, existing to only prove once again that Trek is too old for its own good?

Nemesis is utter cattle cack, the only good thing about it is it has an ending, though its length teases us into thinking this atrocity is going to go on forever... and the ONLY time the viewers ever got enthusiastic was when Riker spouted "The Kirk Manuever" for no reason! Never mind how many Kirk-era movies this one ripped off, never mind other sci-fi franchise movies... please keep that director and both writers (brent Spiner and John Logan EQUALLY) away from another pen, paper, and word processor for the rest of their lives. UGH!

DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise also demonstrate they have no soul of any kind and exist only to line Berman's coffers with greenbacks.

Trek is dead.

Finally.

Berman drove it into the ground. Not just by 6 feet. By 6 miles. Even the Klingons were turned into boring forehead fodder by the end of season 6... and the borg, let's pretend they never existed after "The Best of Both Worlds".

And now on BBC1, is the newest episode of "Doctor Who" - after a 16 year hiatus, it is back and actually FEELS fresh and renewed.

[Chovexani]

6. Preach it brother!

Though I'd have to respectfully disagree with the lumping in of DS9. I think that was the last good Trek ever, despite some stuff about it I didn't like.

But Berman (and to a lesser extent, Braga) ought to be arrested for franchise assassination.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

3. It will be back...

As one thing I learned from watching a few sci-fi shows (and I'm totally plagiarizing this from Babylon 5) "Faith manages".
If B5 can stagger its way through it's five-year story (I'm referring to the struggles to get all five years on the air, which was a monumental struggle), then Star Trek will definitely be back soon.
Someone will come up with an idea that re-invents the franchise, and it will be fresh and new and exciting again.

[okieinpain]

4. oh it sucked, battlestar galatica is much better.

[Cannikin]

5. I LOVE Galactica, but I plan to watch Enterprise just to see how it ends

I tuned out some time in season two, I think.