Random Bitching About Star Trek TNG

Yep, that's what they get for not asking Jonathan Frakes to be the director.

is it any wonder they hit the reset button with the most recent movie? blew canon right out the porthole! means everything about trek..classic, tng, DS1, voyager, enterprise now never happened.

Originally Posted by vt1099ace

is it any wonder they hit the reset button with the most recent movie? blew canon right out the porthole! means everything about trek..classic, tng, DS1, voyager, enterprise now never happened.

Yeah, that was pretty brilliant of them. I loved the new movie. I thought it was very accessible for people who had never seen any of the TV series or movies. My sister liked it, and she thinks that Star Trek is lame.

Originally Posted by madhatter

Yeah, that was pretty brilliant of them. I loved the new movie. I thought it was very accessible for people who had never seen any of the TV series or movies. My sister liked it, and she thinks that Star Trek is lame.

oh, the movie itself was better than I expected, but nullifieing everthing to reset for a new generation of potential fans who may have heard of the characters but never saw any of the original or follow up series I can understand, the franchise was pretty long in the tooth, but the more I thought about it, the more it came across as a cop-out.

A few more...


1.)

"Full stop"

"Relative to what Cpt?" Presumably earth (sector 0,0,0), but what if your portion of the galaxy is moving in a wildly different way? Is it a relative full stop then?

2.) Much of engineering seems to be based on tweaking the abilities of the ship to get just a little bit more performance out of it. Shouldn't the computer be doing this? Shouldn't there be some standard protocols too for when your primary shields are failing instead of manually redirecting power from an area of one's choosing? Do you really want to make this decision on the fly in between Romulan disruptor blasts?

3.) Picard's new uniform in season 5 is just stupid. Did zippers fall out of fashion in the future? Doesn't form follow function??? Oh well...

Alright, hopefully this will be my last...

1.) When ever something comes on the main view screen, do you really need to wait for the CPT to ask you to magnify it.

"Bring the alien vessel up on the main screen"

"There it is CPT, the little crimson fleck in the lower left hand corner."


2.) Why do historical references seem to omit everything from the 21st through 24th centuries?

and lets not forget...fuses...one can save alot of crewmen and equipment with a few of those babies installed instead of letting power surges EXPLODE your control consols!

But back to TNG, the good...

As an attempted to bring back (and update) a series that was aired 30 years before...it was a worthy effort, the first season I can give the benifit of the dought to the actors being unfamiliar with each other, nerves because of the reputation of the original series...BIG SHOES TO FILL!...and even writers unfamiliar with the trekverse.

I'm sure Will Weaton is a nice enough guy (check out big bang theory), but they wrote him an awful part, making everone else look incompetant, they had the characters in all the wrong positions, but once they moved everone around (levar burton (jordy) to engineering, Micheal dorn (worf) to security, created that sexual tension by bringing in Dr Crusher for the captain, allowed the captain to actually DO something, even letting the lives of other crew members (besides the main six) poke in once in a while (remembeer the poker game with the lower officers?) and show there are enlisted operating the ship things got better, more 3 demensional.

that didn't really start until about third season.

personal opinion, Patrick Steward can act circles around any one else on the set...A shakespearian background cultivates a presence no other experience can match.

Originally Posted by vt1099ace

and lets not forget...fuses...one can save alot of crewmen and equipment with a few of those babies installed instead of letting power surges EXPLODE your control consols!

I laughed hardily and aloud at this. = )

I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but what bothered me most about TNG and Star Trek in general is how unrealistic it is about human nature. If all the situations that the Enterprise encountered happened in real life, it would not have ended neatly at all like TNG, all nicely packaged, wrapped with a little bow, and a nifty moral to boot. No, in reality, shit would go down. That's why I love Battlestar Galatica...talk about an unnervingly accurate portrayal of human nature.

Exploding consoles first appeared in Wrath of Khan and they've never left. It's a difficult problem, how to portray damage, without actually causing damage.

The world views of Trek and BSG are radically different. The whole point of Star Trek is that in the future mankind has evolved and overcome many of the problems of today. This viewpoint differs from most science fiction. I thought the new BSG series started out all right, but was pretty weak in its later seasons. I remember that when Enterprise was canceled saying I'd much rather BSG had been canceled instead.

I also can't share the love for the new Trek movie. To me it's the worst Trek film so far, even worse than Nemesis. I'm not saying it was without merit, but it doesn't deserve the praise it has received.