by QorDaq » January 14th, 2017, 3:12 pm
I, of course, am a big ST fan, though and as many of you know I count myself a Klingon fan first. So keep that firmly in mind as I rattle off my personal opinions, and that's all that they are, about Trek. You've been warned.
That said; I was a TOS baby, so Star Trek has always been a part of my life in some manner or another. My favorite series is DS9, but this is heavily colored by my fondness for all things Klingon as DS9 really dug into Klingon culture on a much deeper level than other series.
However, without Worf becoming a fan favorite during TNG, I doubt we would have been treated to the exposure to said culture in the first place, and TNG offered many significant starting points for future Klingon development. Additionally, I feel that a great debt is owed to TNG for the level of continuity and longer running story-arcs that would become even more common with future Trek shows.
To date, and I say this with a strong sense of sadness, the only really terrible show in my opinion was Voyager--though even this lame duck had some good moments. The next Trek iteration, Star Trek: Discovery, I intend to pass on entirely during it's initial broadcasts, and will not watch until it makes it to DVD (if it does), as I am really offended by CBS' approach and assumptions that they can compete with Hulu and NetFlix in the American market on the backs of Star Trek fandom... I, for one, won't play ball on that court.
Anyway, the first two years of TNG struggled due to some crazy behind the scenes politicking, and the quality of the stories shows this unfortunate reality with a very strange pseudo-idealism that made hippies happy and often lost Sci-Fi fans... By the end of S2, on the other hand, things started to improve and the show ended up being pretty good for the most part.
I could go on and on, but really the bottom line comes to this; I am almost exactly the same age as Star Trek. So it has been a very interesting experience to share birthdays (almost), with and watch the evolution of the franchise. When considering any given time of my life, I can look back and remember what was going on with Trek at that particular juncture, which films or series were in production, where fandom was at, and so on... It's pretty cool.
maj!
maj! = Klingon word for "Good". Used in the context of "I approve".
- vay' DaneHbogh yIchargh!