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It's been too long. You can't bring a show back after five years, it wouldn't feel the same.
Yes and no. They brought back Star Trek. It didn't feel the same.
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It's been too long. You can't bring a show back after five years, it wouldn't feel the same.
The show returned as The Next Generation...
...which was, after a respective three seasons, several times better than the original series.
It pains me to tell you this, but the entire franchise enjoyed a six-year golden age following the creative divestment and death of Roddenberry. Fourth season on, utopian talk was usually treated as cant.I never cared for the preachy, kum-ba-yah PC tone of TNG.
"Soporific." You meant to use the word "soporific." Brent Spiner runs rings around Leonard Nimoy. Better singer off-set, too.Also, the later series never came up with a character as interesting as Spock.
TNG had characters. TOS had cutouts decorating Shatner's overwrought performances.I will agree that, once the first couple of seasons were behind them, the TNG crew got their production values about a mile higher than those of the original Star Trek.
Heh.Kha-a-a-n!
Heh.
Which one was that? About the [lesbian] lovers?
That's right, a kind of galactic warmism, bringing on the "speed limit" which writers tried to acknowledge for some time afterward. PC to the end, perhaps, but less kumbaya; certainly so by the fourth season of Deep Space Nine.Oh, and by the way... "Force of Nature" was a seventh-season episode. Don't you tell me that Star Trek PC died with Roddenberry...!
I can report that when one is challenged with "Who are you to judge?," the rejoinder "Who do I have to be?" really works.or the campy exhilaration of listening to him proudly repeat The Declaration of Independence.
TNG is and will always be the best.
But that is just my opinion.
In Next Generation, you see a different sort of idea. The Federation is more established, there are more guidelines, expectations, and bureaucracies. Some of the individual ideas are given up to unity and a sense of stability, although you can still discern their existence under pressure.
I don't trust its idealistic picture of the future; that looks like a kind of propaganda to me.
Series:
- TNG
- DS9
- VOY
- TOS
- ENT "The Series of Which We Do Not Speak"
Movies:
- II Wrath of Kahn
- VII Generations
- VI Undiscovered Country
- I Motion Picture
- VIII First Contact
- X Nemesis
- IX Insurrection
- III Search for Spock
- IV Voyage Home
- V Final Frontier
It's a television series, obviously it would be nice if it was actually true...