Gary
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Star Trek
Ok, this is my last daylight savings joke for now. Feel free to use this to remember which way the time goes, and now, onto more interesting things.
I'm well on my way to finishing up Star Trek Voyager, the one Star Trek series I hadn't seen all of, and I've come up with a description/rating of all of them, so here goes.
Star Trek, the original series, is like your mom's home cooking. Something familiar, with substance, that can keep you going if you need it to. It's also something with limited variety, and you almost always know what you're going to get.
Star Trek, the animated series, is like delivery at 10pm. Your choices are limited, and you're almost always left wanting once the food arrives. There are some interesting flavors, and every so often you encounter a flavor you like, but it's not the gamble you want to take every night.
Star Trek, the next generation. This is like going out to a reasonably priced restaurant. It has sustenance, but it's never exactly what you want. Half the time, what you really want isn't on the menu, or isn't what you expected. You could live on this for a while, but you'd probably want to change it up so your cholesterol gets a break.
Star Trek, Voyager. This is kind of like opening a bag of potato chips. It's fun for a while, it's something you do every now and then, but if you eat too much of it, you don't feel that good. It doesn't have the sustenance needed to be a full meal.
Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, is like going out to a fine restaurant. It has a lot of flavor and sustenance, but it's not always what you expect. Often it's a happy surprise, but every so often, it's not. It's someplace you can say with pride that you eat at, but most people won't know where you're talking about, and they'll ask you if you're talking about one of those reasonably prices restaurants.
Now Star Trek, Enterprise, I couldn't decide on. It's either popcorn at a movie theater, or a snack you make for yourself. You want it to have subsistence because it's quite enjoyable, but most of the time, it doesn't, and like a snack you make for yourself, the flavors don't always go together.
And lastly, the new Star Trek movies. These are like fast food. It smells good, it looks goods, but it has almost no nourishment, and if you eat too much of it, you pray for a death, but sadly, it doesn't come.
And that's my take on it. I started with watching the original series, so I'm guessing those who started with next gen would place next gen as mom's home cooking, but I don't. To me, they're difficult to go back and watch, and they feel more dated than the original series. With Enterprise, it was difficult for me to classify it, because the show had two very different feels in it, maybe more. It starts out episodic, becomes arcing, then shifts back to episodic (right at the end, as a side note, whoever decided that bringing in next gen for the last episode should have been fired). There will probably be a bunch of people who disagree with me on the last one (the new Star Trek movies), but to me, they took a franchise that tried to be a social commentary, and made it a generic sci-fi action movie. You could replace the enterprise with any random starship, and the crew with the crew from starship troopers, or BSG, or just random made up future people, and it wouldn't change a thing about the movies, so to me, that's the worst thing they could do. As I said though, there are quite a number of people who would disagree with that.
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