Star Trek: Discovery

[palitoy]

oof that gave me motion sickness, I am getting old.

[Sideshow Spock]

New promotional ad.. kinda cool in that you can use the pointer icon in the upper left corner to spin 360° around the ships..

[Klosterheim]

Amen, Hector, amen. Those who've never seen it have no idea what they're missing, do they?

The was one episode of Farscape that I found to be the funniest episode of science-fiction or any series ever made!

More funny that Red Dwarf in parts.

[emeraldknight47]

Those are not minor tweaks...those are MAJOR tweaks!

Enterprise listed at three and DS9 at five?

The only thing I liked about Enterprise was Jolene Blalock as T'Pol...

DS9 was friggin awesome...the Dominion War was baddarze...it made TNG almost boring.

Photon torpedoes coming at ya!

Please don't fire on me, Cap'n! LOL!

As is the case with pretty much everything on this list, one thing begets another. So, without TOS, no TNG, without TNG, no Wolf 359, henceforth no Sisko and likely no DS9.

[Hector]

Those are not minor tweaks...those are MAJOR tweaks!

Enterprise listed at three and DS9 at five?

The only thing I liked about Enterprise was Jolene Blalock as T'Pol...

DS9 was friggin awesome...the Dominion War was baddarze...it made TNG almost boring.

Photon torpedoes coming at ya!

[emeraldknight47]

My fave Star Trek TV shows, from best to worst:

1. Star Trek original series
2. Deep Space 9
3. The Next Generation
4. Voyager
5. The animated series
6. Enterprise

Discovery, remains to be seen...

Your list of TREK rankings is similar to mine, Hec, with a few minor tweaks....

1. ST:TOS - Because without it, really, would there BE any other TREKS? Plus the Kirk/Spock/McCoy triumvirate has yet to really be equaled (IMHO) in modern pop culture.

2. ST:TNG - Make it so! OK, compared to Kirk, Picard was definitely more diplomat and less cowboy, but he had strongmen Riker, Data and Worf to do the heavy lifting for him. Plus, Season Three cliffhanger---"I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futIle (gotta have that Brit "I"). Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service US." "Mister Worf----FIRE." Had me on the edge of my seat for months!

3. ENTERPRISE - Because I'm a big fan of Scott Bakula, seeing how things get their start and, ya gotta admit, the ship design for the NX-01 is pretty damn sweet! Plus, Porthos! Who doesn't like beagles?

4. ST: TAS - We got decent animation, original actors voicing their characters and some truly mind blowing s**t that you'd never see in a live action show (until these days) due to budgetary constraints and the sheer limitations of practical and photographic effects.

5. ST:DS9 - Because Sisko was a cool-cat, bad-arse before Samuel Jackson was, especially with the addition of facial hair.

6. ST:V - Janeway was acceptable as a female captain, part Kirk and part Picard. Tuvok is my second favorite Vulcan, the holographic Doctor was always entertaining, B'Elanna Torres made ridged noggins sexy and Seven of Nine, well, she was just WOW! Ship design probably the saddest of the shows (although I'm not a huge fan of Discovery's appearance as of yet). Did have one of my fave TREK two-parters, "Year of Hell," with Kurtwood Smith as a badarse alien determined to wipe Janeway out (although I did keep expecting him to call some "dumbarse" at some point).

[emeraldknight47]

My fave Star Trek TV shows, from best to worst:

1. Star Trek original series
2. Deep Space 9
3. The Next Generation
4. Voyager
5. The animated series
6. Enterprise

Discovery, remains to be seen...

Or should that be "remains to be discovered....?" LOL!

[emeraldknight47]

Farscape, man, I loved that show...

Amen, Hector, amen. Those who've never seen it have no idea what they're missing, do they?

[hedrap]

IMO Voyager only ran for seven seasons because it was on Paramount's own network. I feel certain if it had been on any other it would've been axed long before that. Seven of Nine was definitely added to the mix to attract male viewers.

That's factually correct. Voyager was the linchpin of UPN. It literally guaranteed network carriage for the entire channel. It had the best channel ratings in a "Tallest Dwarf" way.

[Hector]

My fave Star Trek TV shows, from best to worst:

1. Star Trek original series
2. Deep Space 9
3. The Next Generation
4. Voyager
5. The animated series
6. Enterprise

Discovery, remains to be seen...

[SKotK]

^I wasn't referring to the number of seasons, rather the reason that many seasons stayed on the air.

Ah...I see now; I just re-read what you wrote and see I was reading it wrong. Whoops!

Regardless, I do believe in the 7-season limit for most shows.

--SKot

[Hector]

Farscape, man, I loved that show...

[Klosterheim]

DS9 did feel it needed to bring a fan favorite character in Worf, tho. I'm am sure that was intended to boost ratings.

And it was nice that the added Gowron too, and a whole lot of Bat'leths.

And Klingon ships.

-But even Space 1999 had to start a new season with new characters and one main character was a Bond Girl.

Farscape gathered new characters.

Sometimes it is needed by the story, sometimes it's only for ratings.

It would have been good if Buck Rogers In The 25th Century lasted 7 seasons, they told unusual stories. (of course TNG might not have done so well if that space science-fiction gap in the 1980's did not occur in the U.S.)

Buck became too serious, though, and the series had a drastic change of characters and settings. (but, it was really starting to find it's stride when it went away.)

Star Trek: TNG made it through, but they did have to find Picard a girlfriend! Ha!,Ha!,Ha!

[sprytel]

Star Trek has always used sex appeal to sneak in its more cerebral, sci-fi concepts... that goes all the way back to Kirk and his fondness for alien women in short mini-skirts.

[thunderbolt]

IMO Voyager only ran for seven seasons because it was on Paramount's own network. I feel certain if it had been on any other it would've been axed long before that. Seven of Nine was definitely added to the mix to attract male viewers. That's my point...TOS, TNG, DS9 didn't need that. But, that's just my opinion. When this new Trek hits, we'll see what happens. I'm not expecting a whole lot though.

DS9 did feel it needed to bring a fan favorite character in Worf, tho. I'm am sure that was intended to boost ratings.