bkev said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
I'm starting on TNG now. I'm two episodes in already, and so far I haven't seen anything all that interesting. It's too early to give up the ship yet, though, so I'll give it at least half a season before I decide whether or not to bother continuing with it.
Season 1 minus the pilot with Q is absolute garbage... and even that has its crap moments. Season 2 improves a little but the stories are still so silly and most of the actors haven't really hit their stride yet.
Seriously. You could practically skip everything EXCEPT "The Measure of a Man" and "Q Who" and still feel comfortable with everything after.
I'm about eight episodes away from finishing season 1, so I can see what you mean ;-)
So far I've found most of the episodes I've seen painfully mediocre. "The Big Goodbye", "11001001", and (to a lesser extent) "Where No One Has Gone Before" and "Datalore" were pretty good, but so far they're the only real exceptions.
I find a number of characters to be pretty decent (Picard, Riker, Data, Geordi, etc.), but they certainly don't have the chemistry the TOS characters had. I don't like Troi and Wesley Crusher very much, though; she's a fifth wheel who contributes nothing more than pointless exposition in a boring monotone, while he is given more focus than he deserves and is, frankly, starting to get on my nerves.
And can anyone tell me what is up with all the human aliens? I can understand why TOS used them - it would have been too expensive back in the 60's to produce anything really elaborate on a regular basis - but what excuse is there here? It seems to me that the creators are just being cheap, lazy, and uncreative.
I'm going to go on and watch season 2. To be honest, though, a lot of the stuff I dislike in future ST productions seem to have their roots in this series and, really, I'm surprised it managed to survive cancellation to last seven seasons.