Star Trek - Series and Films

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As we get further into DS9, the general quality of the stories and the acting (with some notable *coughs* Bashir *coughs* exceptions) is much better than TNG.

TNG has SIR PATRICK STEWART, a Shakespearean ac-tor. And Whoopi Goldberg, who has achieved an EGOT.

DS9 has aged better in almost every way. DS9 gave its ensemble cast a more centered world to occupy compared to the somewhat sterile feel of TNG. It’s serialized long-form space opera storytelling helped to give the world and characters a chance for far better development compared to TNG’s individual one-and-done episodic approach. But TNG was the right series in the right place at the right time. To this day TNG feels like the “true Star Trek experience” to me, even if DS9 is clearly the better show in general.

DS9 is a space station orbiting one planet. Also the first Star Trek series to be created without the direct involvement of Gene Roddenberry.


TNG’s intro (just like the original ST):

Space: the final frontier.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
Its continuing mission:
To explore strange new worlds.
To seek out new life and new civilizations.
To boldly go where no one has gone before!

And that’s exactly what they did.

Every week.


DS9? Gas station by a worm hole.