This may be one of the first times we've disagreed on such a fundamental issue.
aside: hi sapote, how you doing?
Kirk kinda bugs me. I don't know why, he just does. I spend almost every minute of TOS slashing McCoy and Spock hardcore. I don't really feel the Kirk/Spock until Search for Spock. There, I said it. And even there I get this weird feeling like even within the text everyone thinks Kirk/Spock, even Sarek's all 'whatcha doing with his brain, Kirk?' and then Kirk's all 'he didn't give it to me! He gave it to...Bones'. Please don't kill me too hard, my mother she is sick, I have many starving children.
I love Picard deeply for the following reasons 1)Patrick Stewart 2)tea. earl grey. hot. 3)reads classic literature and quotes it. Often. I rather like TNG. It's so optimistic. I watch my share of bleak and/or depressing space futures and it's so comforting to me to be able to watch a show where it all works out. That people can get better. And that we can still be people when we do it, not glowy squids or whatever. TNG is my comfort place when I am sick. (HATE WESLEY THOUGH, OMG)
DS9 was good, even though it had this almost anti-TNG vibe. I always like to say that DS9 is the consequences. Which kind of sucks, sometimes. I think DS9 would be a wildly different show if it was made today. For example, one of the main characters self-identified as a terrorist. Yeah. Sisko is cool. And a good cook, which is a tremendous plus in any person.
Voyager was the Star Trek I watched real-time in an actual watching way, not a family tv time way. Next Gen was just going off air when I got aware of TV. I loved the series finale hardcore. The borg man, they just won't die. Janeway started off awesome and then got written more and more inconsistently as time went on, but I still love her to tiny pieces.
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aside: hi sapote, how you doing?
Kirk kinda bugs me. I don't know why, he just does. I spend almost every minute of TOS slashing McCoy and Spock hardcore. I don't really feel the Kirk/Spock until Search for Spock. There, I said it. And even there I get this weird feeling like even within the text everyone thinks Kirk/Spock, even Sarek's all 'whatcha doing with his brain, Kirk?' and then Kirk's all 'he didn't give it to me! He gave it to...Bones'. Please don't kill me too hard, my mother she is sick, I have many starving children.
I love Picard deeply for the following reasons 1)Patrick Stewart 2)tea. earl grey. hot. 3)reads classic literature and quotes it. Often. I rather like TNG. It's so optimistic. I watch my share of bleak and/or depressing space futures and it's so comforting to me to be able to watch a show where it all works out. That people can get better. And that we can still be people when we do it, not glowy squids or whatever. TNG is my comfort place when I am sick. (HATE WESLEY THOUGH, OMG)
DS9 was good, even though it had this almost anti-TNG vibe. I always like to say that DS9 is the consequences. Which kind of sucks, sometimes. I think DS9 would be a wildly different show if it was made today. For example, one of the main characters self-identified as a terrorist. Yeah. Sisko is cool. And a good cook, which is a tremendous plus in any person.
Voyager was the Star Trek I watched real-time in an actual watching way, not a family tv time way. Next Gen was just going off air when I got aware of TV. I loved the series finale hardcore. The borg man, they just won't die. Janeway started off awesome and then got written more and more inconsistently as time went on, but I still love her to tiny pieces.
Let us not speak of Archer.