At least it was fun in a goofy sort of way, unpretentious, obviously low budget and using technology in their (presumably, with enough suspension of disbelief) super duper, tremendously advanced battle starships that was NOT mid-Twentieth Century, such as retro land-line chunky phones with rotary dials and wall clocks “to confuse the enemy” (and to save money on props?), according to the second version fans. I actually liked the original Battlestar, the one created by a Mormon and with several hints (or so say those who have read it) to passages in the Book of Mormon. Because the less said about that one, the better. Well, at least I can be very slightly happy that, so far, nobody has mentioned “Battlestar Galactica (reimagined)”. Much (most?) of the time after the end of a TNG episode, that was the end of my engagement with the story. As a friend once put it, the stories were morality plays, which had us thinking afterward. But the original ST provided more consistent enjoyment/enlightenment for me.
My favorite episode, because of its startling nature, was one where Beverly Crusher wandered about the Enterprise while chunks of the ship kept disappearing into nothingness.ĭon’t get me wrong: I did enjoy watching TNG. Not that TNG was devoid of memorable moments. To quote a certain Vulcan, I found that interplay “fascinating.” 🙂 By contrast, the interplay between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy was almost Freudian in nature, where McCoy represented the id (emotional), Spock the ego (rational), and Kirk the superego balancing their respective considerations.
It was more of a hodgepodge of moderately interesting characters. Some episodes I found rather sophomoric (sorry, couldn’t tell you any more what those episodes were, only my recollections from the time).Īnd in my view, the major characters didn’t mesh together as well as those of the original series.
While TNG was a welcome return of the franchise, IMO the stories were of inconsistent quality, certainly less consistent from week to week than those of the original series. After the Star Trek drought of the ’70s and most of the ’80s, I eagerly watched TNG when it came out, as well as Voyager and Deep Space 9.
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