Star Trek series coming in 2017

[SirAndrewD]

Dear God, what's next...... Ensign Jar-Jar?  L:-) L:-) L:-)

Shhh, they might be listening.

[bbmike]

If anything is certain it's they are not listening.  :'(

[Steelgrave]

^What he said.

[SirAndrewD]

If anything is certain it's they are not listening.  :'(

You are, unfortunately correct. 

They're at least not listening to TOS fans.  Checking out places like the TrekBBS, there's a lot of TNG and later fans that are happy about the direction, so there is a division. 

But, TOS fans like myself and seemingly the majority here seem to be left out.  I mean, I'm not asking for them to use cardboard sets and random flashing lights made on a shoestring budget.  I just want to see something that is a modern interpretation so we at least feel like we're in the same universe. 

And adding random Spock siblings was already unpopular in Star Trek 5.  Sort of a head scratcher that they think it's a good to tap that poisoned well again.

[bbmike]

^You do reach, brother.  ^-^

[SirAndrewD]

^You do reach, brother.  ^-^

I'm no Herbert.

[BanzaiCat]

So, to wear my ignorance on my sleeve as I am wont to do, why is Voyager a crap series?

I enjoyed it, more or less. The Vulcan woman's eyes being misaligned were kinda distracting. Deep Space 9 is by far my favorite of all the ST series, but Voyager isn't that bad.

[Staggerwing]

So, to wear my ignorance on my sleeve as I am wont to do, why is Voyager a crap series?

I enjoyed it, more or less. The Vulcan woman's eyes being misaligned were kinda distracting. Deep Space 9 is by far my favorite of all the ST series, but Voyager isn't that bad.

Vulcan Woman? On Voyager?

[SirAndrewD]

So, to wear my ignorance on my sleeve as I am wont to do, why is Voyager a crap series?

I enjoyed it, more or less. The Vulcan woman's eyes being misaligned were kinda distracting. Deep Space 9 is by far my favorite of all the ST series, but Voyager isn't that bad.

Voyager...good?

You are not of the body.   You will be, absorbed.

[Staggerwing]

No, he would be more likely of the Celestial Temple. Kai Something-or-other.

[bbmike]

No, he would be more likely of the Celestial Temple. Kai Something-or-other.

Kai Meow.

[bbmike]

So, to wear my ignorance on my sleeve as I am wont to do, why is Voyager a crap series?

I enjoyed it, more or less. The Vulcan woman's eyes being misaligned were kinda distracting. Deep Space 9 is by far my favorite of all the ST series, but Voyager isn't that bad.

DS9 is second favorite, you gain +5 to your INT attribute.  :P

For me, Voyager was a show that had a great setup for the Star Trek universe. A Federation starship that was stranded 70 years away from Federation space! It's going to be exciting seeing them trying to keep that ship running with duct tape and chicken wire while meeting completely different aliens and space stuff. I bet they show up at Deep Space 50 with a 1985 Ford 6.9L Indirect Injection (IDI) diesel engine strapped to the hull and running on dilithium fumes!

What did we get? TNG 2.0 (but not even TNG quality). The characters were all as dull as watching Picard order hot tea. The only memorable character was the hologram doctor. And he was a hologram! The ship? It ended up with faster engines!  #:-)

Sigh. I'll stop there before this gets nominated for a Prattian Post of the Year Award.  :dreamer:

[BanzaiCat]

Sigh - I meant the KLINGON woman, obviously.

I agree that Robert Picardo was the high point of that entire series. Overall, though, it was intriguing as hell. I didn't like how the series ended (let's just fast forward this here...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz...okay you're back to Earth, yay...wait, huh?), but the characters weren't too bad. Janeway was a good character, though Chakotay was a huge forced shoe-horn into the story...

Anyway, yeah, I'll shut up too before I get into a sixty-paragraph treatise on the merits of the series versus the other ones.

But DS9 was frikkin' brilliant. I loved that series. It had the best ST episode (The Visitor) of all time among all ST series. IMO of course.  O:-)

[mirth]

Voyager was okay, but it was the weakest of the Next Gen series. I like Kate Mulgrew, but Janeway seemed to become more shrill as the series went on. Most of the other characters were 'meh'. Neelix was Jar Jar level annoying for me.

I'm with Mike, it always seemed like a second rate TNG.

[Staggerwing]

Robert Picardo was definitely the standout, especially in the first few seasons. Eventually the writers gave his character the 'Hot Lips Houlihan discovers her kinder side' treatment.