"The Royale" is another episode which gets shit on. It tries to be bad, and viewers aren't sure how to take it.
I agree with this. I didn't like Pulaski at first but by the end of S2 I wish she had stayed. Not like Crusher got anything spectacular besides becoming the ghost rider.
It is a bit funny because DS9 does a few enemy-mine style plots. Quark & Odo trapped on a planet. I'd even argue Rocks & Shoals is closer to the film though necessarily truncated.
Like Geordi, I couldn't tell you a thing about Bev's personality, except that she likes dance and aerobics.
It's also interesting that Picard actually argued for Worf's suicide. Not to look for technicalities, but an actual argument for it.Like Geordi, I couldn't tell you a thing about Bev's personality, except that she likes dance and aerobics.
"The Host" was one of Gates' better performances, so it's unfortunate that she molested Riker.
"Ethics" is kind of interesting (plastic barrels toppling our proud Klingon!) because the amoral doctor gets results. "Nothing Human" was more up-front about the Mengele comparison. It's the same dilemma, though: History will remember Russell as a miracle worker, and Crusher as a Doubting Thomas who stood in the way of progress, which is a hard pill to swallow.
I'm gonna go for some of my more obscure favourites
She keeps calling time-out on the bombardment to offer Sisko refreshments. Like "The Ship" is a Sonic drive-in, and she's a waitress on roller-skates.
To back up what james Fargo said...tos is supposed to be cheesy/hokey.. that's part of the charm..and the (good) stories shine past the cheesy.
I've always loved "Conscience of the King", a truly amazing episode that stands the test of time. I also really liked "The Doomsday Machine" because of Windom's performance.
Schisms is specially terrifying when you consider that all those people claiming to have been abducted by aliens back in the 20th or 21st Century (and even before that), where in fact telling the truth but nobody could help them because "aliens aren't real!".
Voyager was consistently bad, but Enterprise was bland.
The studio wanted a band to show up and play in the mess hall every episode. A real one. Like it was that Las Vegas show with James Caan. But gosh that was a terrible theme song. Sickeningly saccharine, lyrics on the nose like a red rubber ball that squeaks when you squeeze it, and it already felt dated in the pilot episode. The promos before the first episode had a different song, I don't remember what it was, but a lot of commentators wished they had used that one.
I know it put off long time fans. But the instrumental intro was apart of how the franchise had gotten typecast.
Y'know I was thinking the other day of a potential Trek show, but how to make it cool and fun. I liked what Voyager did where it assembled it's crew, kinda like in Mass Effect. So here's my pitch:
At this point, anything Star Trek does will be unfavorably compared with something else. BSG did the flotilla of ships. Andromeda had the Federation in tatters. B5 did the formation of a Federation, as did Star Trek under Brannon Braga (your mileage may vary).
It's the best-rated of the Trek shows on TV.