Which Star Trek series do you enjoy?

[Multicore]

Blake's 7 anyone?

Oh no no please god help me. As Ozzy had it.

Blake's 7 is an interesting case. I think it represents its zeitgeist well. Gloomy, bad-tempered, argumentative, pessimistic, almost monochromatic brown and black, cynical. For a sci-fi fantasy that was different.

In the progression of Sylvia and Gery Anderson's work there's a similar turn in Space: 1999 first series. The mood has shifted from Swinging London, bold colors and hot bods in groovy costumes to moody, de-saturated, slowed down, lots of staring into the distance and contemplating the threat and consequences.

Siri? There were two talking computers on Blake's 7. The ship sounded like Bagpuss and then there was an arrangement of plastic and xmas lights in a perspex box, an unbelievably annoying knowitall that sounded like an angry, vindictive Professor Yaffle.

I'd like to watch a bit of Blake's 7 again to remind myself of the doom and gloom brits felt back then.

 

[Snarfie]

I love how the Borg evolved all the way through to Picard. Their first encounter in TNG, thanks to Q, was iconic, especially that moment walking freely inside the Borg Cube because they didn’t even see you as a threat. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[bluefuzz]

Gloomy, bad-tempered, argumentative, pessimistic, almost monochromatic brown and black, cynical.

My kind of show then!

I don't actually remember it being all that gloomy, just charmingly naff in that typical BBC way. I remember quite liking it though. For real dystopian sci-fi gloom I think the first series of Survivors (1975) takes the biscuit, perhaps followed by Edge of Darkness (1985).

 

[bluefuzz]

I'd like to watch a bit of Blake's 7 again to remind myself of the doom and gloom brits felt back then.

There seems to be quite a lot of it on YT ...

 

[Multicore]

For real dystopian sci-fi gloom I think the first series of Survivors (1975) takes the biscuit, perhaps followed by Edge of Darkness (1985).

I don't think I could stomach Survivors again. I don't recall Edge of Darkness.

If you want to really put the anorak on: Ace of Wands.

 

[Chagall]

I love how the Borg evolved all the way through to Picard. Their first encounter in TNG, thanks to Q, was iconic, especially that moment walking freely inside the Borg Cube because they didn’t even see you as a threat. Absolutely brilliant.

Yeah, that episode is brilliant. First time you see Picard and the crew actually scared. The whole concept of the Borg as a hive mind is nothing new, but it worked great as a threat to the core principles of the Federation.

But then they introduced the Locutus and later the Queen in Voyager and the whole thing fell apart. Assimilated Picard should have just been a drone, stripped of his humanity, doing drone things...

 

[JSmith]

Assimilated Picard should have just been a drone, stripped of his humanity, doing drone things...

But drones don't drink tea, earl grey, hot.


JSmith

 

[Snarfie]

Yeah, that episode is brilliant. First time you see Picard and the crew actually scared. The whole concept of the Borg as a hive mind is nothing new, but it worked great as a threat to the core principles of the Federation.

But then they introduced the Locutus and later the Queen in Voyager and the whole thing fell apart. Assimilated Picard should have just been a drone, stripped of his humanity, doing drone things...

I liked how vulnerable Picard was in that episode at the end asking Q for Help knowing he lost 18 crew members. You didn’t usually see that kind of emotional depth in these more or less military-style shows back then.
It made the whole thing feel more real and intense.

 

[Mart68]

I'd like to watch a bit of Blake's 7 again to remind myself of the doom and gloom brits felt back then.

What do you mean 'Back then'?

We're always like that. That's why we (used to) make better sci-fi shows.

(Professor Yaffle was based on Bertrand Russell BTW).

 

[Multicore]

What do you mean 'Back then'?

We're always like that. That's why we (used to) make better sci-fi shows.

I think there has been some variation both in the sentiment and the way it reflected in media. But we end up on politics if we talk more about that.

 

[Count Arthur]

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[Chagall]

But drones don't drink tea, earl grey, hot.


JSmith

 

[Mart68]

I think there has been some variation both in the sentiment and the way it reflected in media. But we end up on politics if we talk more about that.

Nah, I think it's a combination of the miserable weather and the post-industrial dereliction.

That's why Californian-made sci-fi is more happy-clappy. You can't be dystopian when it's warm and sunny every day and there are palm trees.

Politics is rubbish everywhere so can be discounted as a factor.

 

[SpinifexV]

Where's ST: The Animated Series? Being a kid in the eighties, I sometimes caught re-runs of that series on TV, and it was my introduction to Star Trek.

 

[Chagall]

Where's ST: The Animated Series? Being a kid in the eighties, I sometimes caught re-runs of that series on TV, and it was my introduction to Star Trek.

I didn’t add it because The Animated Series is more of an appendix to TOS than a standalone show. But you’re right, fair point.

It’s too late to change the poll now, so let’s just agree TAS counts as part of TOS.

 

[Mart68]

Where's ST: The Animated Series? Being a kid in the eighties, I sometimes caught re-runs of that series on TV, and it was my introduction to Star Trek.

Not seen it since the 1970s but I recall it being watchable. I've never seen it re-run in the UK but possible I missed it.

 

[Sal1950]

Not seen it since the 1970s but I recall it being watchable. I've never seen it re-run in the UK but possible I missed it.

Never seen it, I haven't watched anything animated since I was around 12.

 

[Karmacoma]

For your pleasure

 

[Sal1950]

For your pleasure

That was fun, thanks.
For me TNG, will always be the one to beat. Casting, acting, writing and such were the high points of both the TV and Theatrical releases.

 

[WideEyedToad]

TNG, voyager, and DS9.
I didn't always have time to watch shows, but we're hooked on those. The other ones, not so much.