Star Trek Favourite Series

I grew up on The Next Generation, so I have a soft spot for it. Patrick Stewart wins at everything he's in.

Despite its occasional hokeyness and overkill on filler, I liked Voyager a lot for the simple fact that I liked the premise and the characters. Voyager struck me as one of the more character-centric of the Star Treks, while I like. Neelix and Kes can die for all I care, but the rest of the cast tended to be pretty good (the Doctor!).

DS9 was okay, but for some reason I never got into it as much as TNG or Voyager. It had good characters, and there were some good episodes, but I just fell out of watching it for some reason. Plus the politics in later seasons bored me.

As for the other two... Never watched the original series. And I've seen maybe six episodes of Enterprise, every one of which I hated. Enterprise characters annoyed the hell out of me.

Oh, and in honour of the 40th, check out this Wil Wheaton episode review if you have some time to kill. He said in his blog that he's going to be reviewing TNG episodes in honour of the 40th anniversary, so this is hopefully the first of many. And it's hilarious. First sacrificial offering: "The Naked Now". It's one thing to read a review of a bad episode. But it's even funnier to read a review of a bad episode from someone who had to act in it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Fatt

I always thought Kate Mulgrew never got the respect she deserved. I loved her in System Shock 2 (the videogame), and she did a great job of playing a hardened captain.

She was in System Shock 2? Because I'm staring at a VA list for the game right now, and she's not on it. She's been in some interesting things (she was in Gargoyles, just like a dozen other Star Trek actors were), but I don't think System Shock was one of them.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Fatt

Ugh. I thought she played Delacroix, but now I remember Shodan used a voice adjuster/enhancer to disguise itself. It REALLY sounds like her, but I'm so busted. I'll still bet if anybody plays the game, they can not tell the difference.

For the record, both the Shodan and Delacroix voices were done by Terri Brosius, a game designer at (the now dead) Looking Glass studios. Looking Glass had some fantastic voice talent kicking around the office, Terri among them, and they did a lot of the voice-acting themselves in their games. You'll also recognise Terri as Viktoria in Thief 1 and 2, Lauryl in Thief 3, and a bunch of the female extras. Maybe Kate Mulgrew inspired her Delacroix voice.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.