quote: The fourth was ST:Enterprise, which they decided on.
Other than the Academy one, which would have been like hell on earth, I think they picked the most boring one. Another ship flying through space! How novel!
They should have done a more interesting idea which deviates from what we were used to, like the Star Trek: Away Team idea or something. They needed change, and they didn't choose the one that would change it.
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I remember the most stunning thing about the ST:TNG finale for me was that they broke out of the everybody-in-the-same-plane-and-with-the-same-orientation thing.
Actually, it's been so long that I could be wrong about this. Wasn't that the episode where a future-version of the Enterprise came out of nowhere from what, to everybody else, was below, and blasted the heck out of another ship? Or did this happen in one of the movies?
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I find it interesting how in many tv shows that contain boyfriend/girlfriend situations after the two we were hoping would get together finally do get together they don't last that long, or break up and frequently get back together if they're major characters...for instance, Zack and Kelly on Saved By The Bell, or Rachel or Ross on friends. Thinking about it, this seems more frequent in sitcoms.
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The ST:TNG finale had Picard jumping through time. There were 3 versions of the enterprise at that anomoly -- one where Picard had barely become captain, one with Picard 8 years later (at the end of the show), and one captained by Admiral Riker.
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I too am of the opinion that they shouldn't have made Enterprise, but instead put the entire franchise on hiatus, waited half a decade or so and jumped to the future 400 years from the time frame of Voyager/DSN into a totally different era in which everything is in a sort of decline and aliances have utterly shifted.
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"All Good Things" is by far one of the best episodes of any Star Trek series. The future Enterprise (GalaxyX - Class, NCC 1701-D) has a cloaking device and some sort of new age phaser mounted on the dorsal side of the saucer section. Very cool design, Riker had the ship refitted when he was made Admiral.
And yes, we are massive, massive dorks/geeks.
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quote: I remember the most stunning thing about the ST:TNG finale for me was that they broke out of the everybody-in-the-same-plane-and-with-the-same-orientation thing."
That was indeed amazing and it is matched in quality (IMO) only by the film "First Contact" and several two-parter episodes in "Voyager" ("Year Of Hell", certainly, plus "Scorpion") and the entire last story arc of Deep Space Nine during the final season. Those for me were the height of the Star Trek franchise.
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I always wanted them to do a Trek series from the point of view of the Klingons. The Klingons are one of the most fascinating fictional cultures ever devised, and they've even developed a language for them that real people have actually learned and can speak. I think having a whole series set on a Klingon world or space station or ship (though it would have to be better lit than Klingon ships have traditionally been) would be a wonderful opportunity to explore and enrich their culture even further. And it could even teach us valuable lessons about ourselves . . . or some crap like that. Mostly I just think it would be cool. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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On the last page someone mentioned "Strange Days." My husband and I love this show because the science is so bad. Then we found out that NBC has it on the air as educational programming. We have discovered there is usually about one sentance each episode that includes an actual scientific principle, so now we watch just to find it.
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