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Sorry if this thread has been made before but...how many of you are trekkies? I guess what's your favorite series, favorite character, and we'll say favorite race...
for me it's the original series, Dr. McCoy, and Gorn
oh and also I'd like to get opinions on the new Abrams movie...what did you all think of it? I thought it was a solid movie, stunning effects, but I wasn't too pleased with the whole alternate reality premise
Also we should add favorite ship, but that's obviously the Klingon Bird of Prey
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The movie had a lot of good moments, but the whole nobody on Vulcan or Earth can't do anything about a single ship that appears over their planet except run around in a panic bugged me.
When you think of it in the light that the Romulans couldn't handle a couple guys with swords that were able to land on the drilling platform made the premise a bit silly to me.
Never really watched B5 (don't take my nerd card away XD) but I do think the first season was meh. Once the Dominion War starts, the series got a lot better for me. Sacrifice of Angels is one of my favorite Star Trek episodes (Oh and that one where he hatches the conspiracy to get the Romulans into the war). I didn't much like the series finale though. Seven episodes you'd think they'd produce something... better...
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The Abrams vehicle was necessary if they were to get more life from the dead horse (after 10 movies, they had to go a different way and destroying one of the founders of the federation planets is a good way to reboot. Maybe in the sequel, we'll actually see the klingons without helmets on (makeup wasn't finished).
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Although my favorite ship is actually the Defiant. Starfleet should make more actual war ships. Having said that I do like the Borg sphere.
I also liked the new film - some bits did kind of make you go "eh?", but overall I did enjoy it more than probably any of the other Star Trek movies that I can recall off the top of my head (though that may be because I've not watched any of the others for years).
Overall I prefer DS9, when it gets to the Dominion war saga and ahs actual arcs. Cracking stuff indeed.
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Original series for me I guess, though Enterprise was good and I lapped up TNG back in the day. DS9 was ok but I could never get into Voyager. It just made me think about canoeing and remo williams.
Favorite character is Picard hands down. More than anyone else, Patrick Stewart managed to trancend the camp and bring us a rounded character. Q gets an honourable mention for being so damn cool.
Favorite race: Vulcans. Who doesn't like stories about elves?
Favorite ship is probably Picard's. I seem to recall a sizable component of civilians, like the whole disc part or something, and it gives me great lulz to think about picard ripping around the galaxy on all these dangerous missions with a city full of civilians on board for no good reason. Wasn't he always like 'we must detach the disc and save the civilians' or is that just in my head?
New movie was ok, but not as good as some of the other ones. Best part about it was the characterization of the old crew members looking all young, which i thought was well done.
I love Enterprise and Voyager. MY favrotits by a mile.
And i cant site through star trek film. TO much action. Action isnt what sci-fi and especially Star Trek is about. ITs about intellectual thought saving the day with violence being a last resort. The movie Just was action scene after action scene.
When threads like this come up it reminds me I need to get DS9, Next Gen and the movies on Blueray at some point.
Big Star Trek fan, liked the new movie and looking forward to the sequel.
Quark is my fave character mainly as I love the back and forth between him and Odo, Kira, pretty much everyone on the station. I am also a fan of Armin Shimerman, so really enjoy his playing of the role through-out the series. He gets so many great lines in DS9 though, although I have to be honest its hard to pick out a fave DS9 character, there are several contenders, although that is a good sign of how well it was made.
Obviously DS9 is my fave series, as is clearly shown via my Quark answer, after that I think I mark it as, TNG, TOS, Voy and then Enterprise. I really do hope we see another series eventually, as I am a fan of the universe and would like to see more of it on a weekly basis.
Fave race is Romulans, for several reasons, look, ships, oddly the whole Redemption Storyline, with Lursa and B'Etor being backed by Sela. Also I used to play the old Card game a lot as well, nearly always as the Romulans to my mates Klingons, as he was a big fan of them. (waits for Ravenblade to appear.. )
Oh and I love the D'deridex class Warbird.
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TOS, Nurse Chapel (and of couse, Lwaxana Troi), the TOS Romulan Bird of Prey, and the Ferengi.
Watched all the variations, as well as Andromeda. Still like the Original best, mainly due to the interactions between the main characters. There was a playfulness there that made them seem like people that had worked, and lived, together for quite a while. Something best illustrated by the banter at the end of the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode. The later shows just seemed to miss the mark on that aspect.
Liked the reboot, especially how they didn't just retcon the whole thing. Everything that happened in all the previous Treks is still valid.
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Hmmm, I liked TOS/TNG/DS9/Voyager grew on me,
characters Q as he sort of developed better with age.
And well, 7 of 9 is a hottie!
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DS9, Either Odo or the Doctor, Favourite Federation ship = Prometheus Class, Non-federation = The Breen Warships from DS9 or the Aquatic Xindi ones.
Like some bits of the Abrams film since i can see why the film universe needed a reboot but random bits bugged me like why the hell build a spaceship on the planet so to launch it you've got to then get it into orbit rather than the much more sensible (and done in series of star trek you see a ship being built) build the thing in an orbital shipyard.
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