DrCrowTStarwars said:
Picard and Riker fought all the timeand those briefing room scenes in every episode would show the crew arguing over what the right thing to do was before Picard put his foot down and made his choice,you know just like Kirk use to do with Spock and McCoy. How many knock down drag out fights and personal problems were there between the crew members on TOS again? Because I don't remember any unless you count Spock getting infected with the spores or Pon Far and that is an outside influence and not an internal conflict. You are cheery picking your examples to make TNG look bad and TOS look good.
Well, it has been over a year since I watched TNG, and large amount of episodes were just forgettable, so I can't be blamed for not remembering every single little detail.
Still, outside of that one episode where Troi lost her empathic abilities and the TNG movies, I can't remember a single instance of any major disagreement/argument between any of the crew members.
DrCrowTStarwars said:
For example you are acting like TOS always used aliens that looked like the rock creature for Devil in the Dark when a more typical example of what aliens looked like on the show would be The Apple. While you don't give TNG credit for aliens like the Crystalline Entity or the Sheliak.
I'm well aware that TOS used a lot of human aliens. My point, though, is that this can be excused because of budgetary/technological limitations of the time; I see no similar reasons for why most of the aliens on TNG looked the way they did.
And yes, I know a few exotic creatures like the Crystalline Entity and the Sheliak showed up in TNG. But they are the rare exceptions, and considering how long TNG ran, it's pathetic that significantly more alien aliens never showed up.
DrCrowTStarwars said:
This seems very personal for you and you seem to be going out of your way to make unfair personal attacks against the show and the people who worked on it. My guess is that you are one of those stuck in the mud old school TOS fans who sent Patrick Steward death threats for his crime of daring to try and replace Shatner.
Actually, before last Spring, I hadn't seen a single episode of TOS or TNG since I was in Grade 1 all the way back in the early '90s, so I'm far from and "old school TOS fan". And I like Picard, for the most part.
DrCrowTStarwars said:
You need to take a step back and take off the rose tinted glasses and see that TOS was not perfect and TNG did not have an unlimited budget.
No, TOS was not perfect -- far from it. The show was hindered by a lack of character development, character arcs, story arcs, and technical limitations, all of which are unfortunate results of the time the show was made in. Has TOS been made a couple of decades later, it probably wouldn't have suffered from these defects.
And no, TNG didn't have an unlimited budget. Still, would it have cost that much more to invest in more alien-looking facial prosthetics, a bit of body paint, and maybe some coloured contact lenses?
I don't believe anyone working on TNg was lazy,lazy people don't work 18 hour days and don't completely rewrite scripts that have been sent to them at the last minute because the story isn't working.
I'm not calling the writers lazy (well, they were when it came to the technobabble). I'm calling the people who were behind the design of most of the aliens lazy.
Of course, as I said, they might not be lazy, just lacking in vision.
I will admit in the third season when Roddenberry stopped controlling the day to day TNG showed a massive improvement in the story and character department,but you seem to be grasping at any reason to hate this show as if it hurt somehow or you think the people behind it are guilty of some kind of crime and should be in jail or death row.
I don't hate TNG -- I like a fair number of characters and episodes. However, that doesn't mean I don't think the show had far too many flaws and a rather large negative impact on the ST Universe.