Star Trek Favourite Series

To Celebrate the 40th Anniversary lets see which is the most popular of the shows.

I went with DS9 which I found to be the most original of the series and also had the most interesting characters. The show started off quite good but it was in the 4th-5th Season that it really became quality television.

After DS9, TNG and Voyager would be very close as my favourites. Unfortunately I never got around to watching 'The Original Series' enough.

Regarding Enterprise, I wanted to like it and I found the initial prologue idea very interesting. However I found that the acting performances lacked inspiration and the stories were average at best.

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I liked Ezri Dax a lot (More of the actor lol she's unique)

DS9 was pretty nice but I just got pissed at the flattening of building climaxes. The entire Dominion War seemed stretched out too far and ended too erm, plainly.

I definately prefer Babylon 5's story line to DS9 if you compare the 2 (I think they were both originally aired at the same time).

I too have never seen the TOS, I haven't even seen TNG lol

But I'll say my favourite is Voyager. The Borg encounters and the whole 1 ship away from home concept was nice. I just wished the ship could have been more of a hard hitter than constantly getting the crap beaten outta it.

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Well, I grew up with the Original Series, so naturally I'm going to look on that much more fondly than the successors. When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, my sister wanted to watch Sesame Street, but I wanted to watch Star Trek. Unfortunately, they were on at the same time, so we had to alternate.

TNG was good, and I watched it regularly. DS9 was also good, but that's were I started losing interest, and didn't pay attention to it the last couple of seasons. I never liked Voyager or Enterprise, and stopped watching both of them after a few episodes.

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DS9 at the top. Then TNG, then Original Series, then probably Enterprise (never saw a single episode) and then the abysmal shit that is Voyager.

Still, DS9 has nothing on Bab5, and Bab5 has nothing on the new BSG, but that's just not the question here.

Of the ST series, DS9 had the best characters and the most "space" for longterm story development.

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Deep Space 9 was the only one that had a credible ongoing story arc. Although I enjoyed many episodes of Next Generation, and the original Star Trek, they were mainly standalone stories, or at best two parters. I enjoy a story that is developed over time a lot more. Voyager tried the same thing, but it was always a little hokey - fun, but hokey - and crammed to the gills with pointless filler episodes just to make up the numbers.

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While I watched TOS for longer than my memory can serve, I grew up on TNG. I felt more of a connection I guess becuase being a child of the 1980s, it seemed more "relevent". Of course, this is nonsense because now it's dated, if not the most dated of all the series.

I enjoy ST quite a bit, with the exception of Voyager. I've tried to enjoy that show but it ultimately comes across as a really cheap gimick show that wants to emulate TNG's "diverse cast" - not a vulcan but a black vulcan - with third-rate ideas. Also - fuck Neelix.

DS9 I never got into - but now wish I did.

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I enjoy Star Trek The Next Generation the most. Especially the later episodes. Patrick Stewart is a VERY good actor.

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For me, it's a heads up between TNG and DS9. TNG has its episodes that were about life and other deep, philosophical shit. On the other hand it also had its share of episodes where there was just some sort of malfunction with the ship and they had to figure it out.

But I agree with Souluzar, DS9 had the best story arc. The majority of the latter episodes were contiguous so you had to watch them in sequence, not like TNG

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TNG for me, because that's basically the only series I've seen enough of to actually like. I grew up watching it, yet I never had the urge to watch any of the other series during this time. I'd like to watch the other series now though (especially DS9, which I have seen a few episodes of recently), along with watching TNG again, so I may buy them all on DVD one day.

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DS9, Enterprise, TOS, TNG, Voyager.

I like story arcs more than planet of the week style things, hence why DS9, with the Dominion War and Enterprise with the Xindi arc and the multiple arcs in season 4, really appealed to me.

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Originally Posted by Tellurian

Still, DS9 has nothing on Bab5, and Bab5 has nothing on the new BSG, but that's just not the question here.

I still haven't had time to check out this show. I watched the 2003 film that was made prior to the series.

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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.

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Voyager without question.

Most ST fans either love it or hate it to death, but it's the one that I followed from the beginning to the end. I was too young when TNG started and wasn't much interested in DS9 in the early years, but when Voyager came around in 95 I was old enough to follow along with the series.

Personally I liked the idea of introducing new species and being out of contact from Starfleet. Gave a fresh perspective on the series as opposed to the things we were familiar with in the Alpha Quadrant.

I also think that the Doctor is one of the coolest characters from any ST series ever. Watching him evolve from a tool into a member of the crew was one of my favorite story arcs of the entire show.

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I was speaking idiomatically.

I grew up with TNG, but I ultimately liked DS9 the most. TNG was interesting when I was younger, but I noticed that few episodes are really that memorable. DS9 is my favorite because of the continuing story line. TNG, TOS, and Voyager have a few interesting storylines, but nothing as monumental as the war for control over DS9. I never got in to Enterprise.

I think the one problem that each series carries is the space soap opera storylines. Roxanna Troy is obnoxious, which does carry some humor, but really has nothing much to do with anything in particular, and yet she has had so many appearances. There are also countless episodes that are supposed to help caracter development, or expand on plotlines, but their is more fluff than integrity.

I also thought it was funny to see Tim Russ, who played an extra on TNG, end up being Tuvok on Voyager.

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I voted for Deep Space Nine.
Mostly because of the great characters (not only the Main Characters, mostly all of the recurring gast stars as well) and the storyline, the sometimes "darker" feel (especially for Star Trek) and it was actually the first Star Trek series which tried something "epic" (ok, some of the early Borg-episodes in TNG could be descibed "epic" as well, but it was nothing compared to the stuff they did later - In TNG after one or two episodes, everything was fine again and the Enterprise moved on to the next planet of the week ) and at last, I liked DS9 a lot for the big space battles, lol. It was really fun to see all these Ships finally in some really big space fights.

Besides DS9, I really like TOS & TNG as well. I liked Voyager in the beginning, but later they did some really weird things here and there and they startet with stupid timetravel-episodes which maked not much sense. That trend was also set in Enterprise, and i never really liked the series until season 4. I enjoyed some of the epic stuff in season 3, but I thought the overall plot in season 3 was much to simple (nothing compared to DS9 or Babylon 5), so I never really cared for season 3. Season 4 was much better (finally) and they finally started to make "Star Trek" again which was the right decision. To bad it didn't helped the series. The last episode was crap, of course. Probably even "Spock's Brain" (TOS") or "The Fight" (Voy) were better than this bullshit.

I hope they get things right in the upcoming movie...
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Originally Posted by Fatt

I also thought it was funny to see Tim Russ, who played an extra on TNG, end up being Tuvok on Voyager.

I saw the episode which was on 2 days ago where he is a terrorist in a TNG episode.

I actually think he plays the Tuvok character really well on Voyager and is certainly one of the strongest characters for the show.

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Originally Posted by Ronz

I also think that the Doctor is one of the coolest characters from any ST series ever. Watching him evolve from a tool into a member of the crew was one of my favorite story arcs of the entire show.

While I hated Voyager, I did love the Doctor.

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Originally Posted by Vivace119

I saw the episode which was on 2 days ago where he is a terrorist in a TNG episode.

You got it right on. I also think I saw him on DS9. I really do have respect for the actor.

One thing I really found hillarious about DS9 was the Klingon / Ferengi racism.
Quark: Oh no! If Freganar is destroyed, the entire Ferengi race could be doomed!
Worf: I fail to see the problem.

The special guest apperances which helped tie the multiple series together was also really cool.

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Originally Posted by LeHah

Also - fuck Neelix.

Despite the fact that I enjoy Voyager sometimes, I wholeheartedly endorse this sentiment.

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DS9 I never got into - but now wish I did.

It ain't exactly too late, what with the show having been at least partly released on DVD. I don't know for sure if they released all of it yet, though. I'm sure that eventually they will, even if they didn't already.

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I said Voyager. Why? Because it seemed to be different and less of a defined world. TNG and DS9 seemed so blah because there where too many known elements. Voyager seemed to have just unusual stuff that could happen. DS9 was way too predictable and into political/philosophy stuff, not enough space action. I mean half the coolness of Star Trek is battling spaceships. DS9 has a crappy little space station. I definitely liked TNG alot back in it's heyday, but the thought of watching that series now makes me cring.

If I had to say anything about Star Trek, it is that the movies (ST II - ST VII) rocked my face off. I wish that they would produce more shows/movies around that time period in the ST universe. That would kick ass. Also, I would vote for these movies over the TV shows anyday.

I was speaking idiomatically.

TNG, not counting the shoddy early seasons. Why? Because the original is just... hard to watch, DS9 is a Babylon 5 rip off (and not as good, anyway), and Voyager is fucking painful at too many moments to be worth the effort. Also, Enterprise I haven't gotten around to yet, so I can't speak to it.

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Originally Posted by Dayvon

DS9 was way too predictable and into political/philosophy stuff, not enough space action. I mean half the coolness of Star Trek is battling spaceships. DS9 has a crappy little space station.

I find this statement amusing, since DS9 showed some of the largest space battles in the entirety of Star Trek, and that the last two seasons were pretty much exclusively devoted the Dominion War.

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Originally Posted by Soluzar

It ain't exactly too late, what with the show having been at least partly released on DVD. I don't know for sure if they released all of it yet, though. I'm sure that eventually they will, even if they didn't already.

Yeah, they have every season of each of these seasons out on DVD already, in America anyway. The only problem is that each season was $100 or more when they first came out. I think they've reduced the price on some of them, but I'm not too sure on which ones.

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Originally Posted by Lord Styphon

I find this statement amusing, since DS9 showed some of the largest space battles in the entirety of Star Trek, and that the last two seasons were pretty much exclusively devoted the Dominion War.

Sorry to say, but by the time the sixth and seventh season rolled around, I had long since been bored with DS9 and no longer even kept up with its happenings. Some of the crew was intriuging such as Dax, but we know how that ended. I am aware that the later space battles were 'big' but it's also the feeling of a specific space ship that I missed with the whole series. Sitting in a space station made the series felt stuck to me. They never seemed to 'do' anything, only respond to what was happening to them.

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