One franchise that I have enjoyed off and on throughout the years is Star Trek. Granted it’s origin predates even my birth, and I was 5 when Star Wars came out and was a far bigger fan of that. But the undeniable presence of Star Trek began on this day 43 years ago!
On September 8th 1966 Star Trek premiered on NBC with the episode The Man Trap. 43 years ago the USS Enterprise began boldly going where no television show had gone before, and this summer it proved that there was more than enough dilithium crystals in the old warp nacelles to keep going for some time yet.
So after 5 Television series and now 11 feature films, Trek went from a devoted cult following, to a successful run of TV shows to modest feature film boxoffices and finally fading out before a new reboot/sequel sparked new interest.
Star Trek The Original Series
Star Trek The Next Generation
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Star Trek Voyager
Star Trek Enterprise
Star Trek (new film)
Each had its own flavour and approach the the Trek universe. Which one appealed most to you?
Babylon 5 my friends. My dream would be to see the series get re-released with updated special effects. I’ve never been so hooked on any series that’s come out since.
Agreed Todd
Babylon 5 with a 5 year (meant to be 4) story arc, hard for any sci fi show of the time to beat it but DS9 was very close
The Original Series never was my thing.
I loved TNG. I was nearly obsessed with it in high school.
I loved Deep Space Nine even more, though I went from near obsession to mature appreciation. Despite the suspicious similarities between DS9 and Babylon 5 and the fact that I eventually loved B5 more, DS9 was my #2 favorite show for a long time and would probably still be in my all-time top 10.
I hated Voyager and couldn’t stay interested in Enterprise, though now I regret missing some of Enterprise’s final season.
The original series rules and still is the best series to date. Most fun and sexy one of the bunch.
43 years! Who would have believed it.
The show that would not die still lives.
Forgot to say my problem with Enterprise was Scot Bakula, not the acting.. I just kept thinking Dean Stockwell was going to walk through a bulkhead and tell him the probabilities of who he was there to help and how long before he could leap.
Enterprise never really floated my boat no problems with the story lines or even the aliens they invented that were never in the star trek universe before (little silly considering this is meant to pre date every series thus far.
Being born in the early 80’s TNG was my bread and butter and still to this day love that they managed to get such an accomplished actor like Patrick Stewart for 7 seasons.
But for me Deep Space Nine was my favourite by a country mile the first couple of seasons were ok but once the dominion and the jem-hadar came in I was hooked perfect soldiers and the changelings were great villains add to that Avery Brookes, Colm Meanly and Rene Auberjones and that’s a TV show.
Voyager has a special spot simply for the whole delta quadrant thing but for me Deep Space Nine was brilliant. and I know im probably alone with my thoughts but hey just my opinion
I know a lot of people hated it but I haven;t loved any of the series as much as Enterprise. Enterprise made the characters seem so much real and interesting (until the later seasons when it became more like a soap opera).
I grew up watching TNG, but when Enterprise came out, it really blew me away. For me, it went against the grain of what Star Trek had previously been: clean, bright, happy episodes and stories that taught a life/moral lesson.
Enterprise was dark, gritty, dirty and violent (especially the 3rd and fourth seasons) to an extent that Star Trek had never been to.
The third season story arc blew me away, much like BSG did some years later. I absolutely loved seeing the precursor to the United Federation of Planets when the galaxy was still very much cowboys and indians, with no interstellar rules and treaties in-place. I also throughly enjoyed episodes such as Regeneration and In a Mirror, Darkly Pt. 1 & 2 that reckon back to classic Trek episodes while maintaining the continuity of the Trek universe.
While Enterprise holds a special place in my heart, I found the series finale to be downright horrible and a cop-out of the fantastic story-writing that had occurred during Enterprise’s four season journey. To end a series, that fans fought to bring back for seasons 3 and 4, so lamely (having the episode be a holodeck recreation that Commander Riker was running on the Enterprise-D) was just bad taste and an insult to the fans.
I enjoyed the new Trek movie, but not as much as the classics. Something just did not sit right with me about some of the actors chosen for roles, the new look of the technology (mind you I loved the exterior look of the Enterprise). Other than that I could have cared less for the new “reboot”.
I was a Next Gen fan as a kid and loved the new Start Trek movie.
I like the the original series a lot, and of course star trek 09′.