Star Trek Favourite Series

TNG for me. I think Season 3 of TNG is the peak of anything Star Trek. You had the morality and politics, but you also had the sense of exploration and well, "magic" that DS9 lacked for me. Episodes like The Defector are simply on another plateau. Not that DS9 is bad, but there's a bit too much angst there. Ooh, Sisco is so badass because he deals with Q differently than Picard did. The last few seasons of TNG did start to turn more towards the darker DS9-style (along with some utterly stupid plot devices like Riker having a twin and Diana having a little sister she didn't know about), but overall I definitely like it the most, and it managed to have a pretty good finale.

Oh, and Ron Jones > Dennis McCarthy > Jay Chattaway. That's part of why I prefer season three over four and five, which are also pretty good. (aside from Commander Sela, which I think was a lame way to bring Denise Crosby back into the series; I can't believe Gene Roddenberry actually approved that one - Yesterday's Enterprise was a fantastic episode that didn't need to be used for something so lame) Jay Chattaway had the one Inner Light theme and he hasn't done any exciting music since. (which unfortunately translates to DS9 having completely dull and unmemorable music) Ron Jones had the cool Romulan theme and for each episode he would create an original motif and work with it in various ways to great effect. Gotta love the feel of Booby Trap when they step onto that ancient ship. That sort of thing stopped existing in Star Trek once Rick Berman and Brannon Bragga took complete control. With them you have those ever so contrived science conflicts just to remind folks that Star Trek is still sci-fi. It's just not the same. Besides, their way of tying up loose ends and creating brilliant drama is by senselessly killing everything, as was demonstrated in the Generations movie.

Jam it back in, in the dark.