I know a lot of you like Next Generation better so I thought I'd balance my review of Space Seed with this one. Anyway, this one is about intergalactic speed limits. That's typically the kind of thing you get with Next Generation.RATING: 23%
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Typically? Defend yourself.
Intergalactic (I should probably say interstellar) speed limits, Picard's on his way to a conference, they're having a party on the Enterprise, etc, etc. I mean, not all three happen in this episode, but this kind of boring stuff happens like every second episode. Where's Abraham Lincoln fist fighting Genghis Kahn?
I suppose a lot of TNG was pretty mundane. I thought that stuff (Geordi's romantic woes, Crusher Jr.'s pubescent difficulties, Worf feeling like an Uncle Tom, etc.) was what made it human, though. I think it might have been Terry Eagleton (not that I'm a big fan) who said that the difference between low literature and high literature is that low literature depicts exceptional (and often beautiful) people dealing with exceptional circumstances, while high literature uses people's particularities to illustrate what is universal and common to all (I just totally butchered that). Not that it's always successful on TNG, but I think it had more strata of meaning and was more serious overall than the original series. Just my opinion--you've watched them all way more than me, so you're definitely entitled to a bigger vote.
That was the worst episode of TNG! How were they able to beam aboard the Fleming crew and escape the rift when their "SHIELDS" were up?
Without the shields being up the Enterprise wouldn't have survied!
survived -- The new ST versions and their revisionist history (just look at the lush they made the father of the warp drive out to be in the crappy TNG movies) cause me to mistype when my blood starts to boil. However, I did enjoy ST: DS9. That could be because it was not a straight rip-off of the original Wagon Train to the stars idea but more of a saloon with dance hall girls.
I like DS9, too, second only to TOS. I'm not saying I hate TNG, just that there are a lot of really boring episodes and that it seems really full of itself all the time.
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