Which of the ST:TNG spinoffs or films is your favorite?

United States
January 29, 2007 12:41pm CST
With the success of Star Trek:The Next Generation, itself a spinoff of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry and Rick Berman ensured that the visionary view of the future would thrive in the vast wasteland of TV and capture the hearts of viewers. The series, which originally aired from 1987 to 1994, was followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and four feature films. Of these, my favorite TV spinoff is DS-9, because it had a somewhat grittier, Ft. Laramie-in-Space feel to it and the relationships between characters was less idealistic than those created by Roddenberry. My favorite movie spinoff is First Contact. The other movies were okay, but First Contact was full of excitement and adventure...plus the evil Borg Queen!
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• United States
3 Feb 07
Wow, I posted this same question a day or so ago. Sorry I didn't check to see that you had already done so. That's something I have to work on...checking to see if my subject is already being discussed. LoL! Anway, my favorite ST series is TNG. I'm rather partial to Voyager also. I haven't seen DS9 that much, but when I have watched it in the past, it didn't keep my attention as much as the other two. Enterprise just didn't do it for me either, although it was okay. The original series was terrific in its time, but a bit cheesy to most people these days, but I still love it! I guess my favorite ST: TNG movie would have to be Nemesis. But I love them all. I really liked the 4th Star Trek movie with the original crew: "The Voyage Home." I love storylines that deal with time travel. TNG had several episodes about time travel also.
• United States
3 Feb 07
Oh. yeah. "Enterprise." Forgot about that one, but that's more of a Trek prequel, even though the rank insignia used on the uniforms was a visual echo of ST-TNG's rank pips. It wasn't a bad series; I thought the premise was good, but unfortunately I think Paramount and the producers failed to realize that maybe TV audiences were "Trek-weary."
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• United States
4 Feb 07
If J.J. Abrams' Star Trek XI does well at the box office next year, maybe Paramount Pictures will create another TV series. And I think you'll be alive to see it!
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• United States
4 Feb 07
You could be right, but I'm ANYTHING but Trek-weary. I just eat the stuff up! But I just could not get into that one. And I tried so hard, not only because I'm a Trekkie, but because I adore Scott Bakula. Oh well, we can just hope the next one is better.
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• United States
29 Jan 07
I would have to agree with you, that First Contact has been the best film in the series. They covered many different aspects, including time-travel, and some of the best acting in the entire series took place on that ship when the Borg was threatening Captain Picard. "Blow up the damn ship." Great line!
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• United States
30 Jan 07
First Contact also has one of the funniest "inside joke" lines I've ever heard: uttered by Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell), it goes something like this: "You're astronauts on some sort of star trek?"
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@tenn77 (184)
• United States
27 Jul 08
I would have to agree with you groomtobe23, the first contact was one of them best film in the series. but i thought the star trek the next generation was the best series.
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• United States
21 Mar 07
First Contact was a very short movie, but there was a lot of action in it. Plus being that they were back in time, we actually saw exactly what started Earth being the United Federation of Planets. I enjoyed Deep Space Nine also. At first, I did find it somewhat boring, but it really picked up when Michael Dorn joined the cast, & it constantly involved the Klingons. It was sort of sad to see Captain Sisko perish though, but it did answer the question of why his marriage to Cassidy Yates was going to bring misery. I enjoyed Voyager, too, but not as much. I was disappointed with the ending, being that they only showed the USS Voyager arriving into the Alpha Quadrant to be greeted by a bunch of escort ships & then that was the end. I would have liked to have seen more, such as greetings between the Voyager personnel & the other Starfleet officers.
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• United States
30 Apr 07
Wonderful reply! Thanks for participating!
• Philippines
13 Jul 07
About your comment on voyager's ending...I'll keep this short...You're absolutely right.
• United States
6 Feb 07
My favorite of the shows was definitely Deep Space Nine. I liked the darker, grittier edge to it that the stories had. TNG was great, especially after years without any original Trek except for the books and movies. But I really liked DS9 because Sisko wasn't always "right". He wasn't always sure that he made the right decision, sometimes he took the lesser of two evils. He wasn't held up as the perfect Captain. He seemed the most human of them all. I liked the diversity of the cast too. With more different races inhabiting the place it created a lot more fun and potential. Of the movies, my favorite was First Contact. It had humor and action. I didn't like the Borg Queen because I thought it took away the whole point of the Borg collective, but I chose to overlook that!
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• United States
7 Feb 07
DS9 had the distinct advantage of NOT having been created by Gene Roddenberry or vetted by him. Let's face it, his concept for an idyllic Federation/Starfleet where everyone got along, the ships were really exploration vessels rather than warships, and all the Utopian touches of Star Trek were fine from a certain sociological aspect, but lousy for television drama. ST-TNG didn't really get good until Gene stepped aside and let Rick Berman run the show, and even then it was "wussier" than DS-9, which embraced dramatic conflict between the characters wholeheartedly.
@nickeeg (74)
4 Feb 07
Of the series, I have to disagree with you and say I enjoyed Enterprise the most. It did get a bit obssessed with relying on action and special effects to try and grab more viewers, but it was the only Trek series I had stuck with all the way through since TNG. I get the feeling DS9 improved as it went along, so might have to go back and check that out sometime. Of the films, First Contact is undoubtedly the best of the TNG ones. Nemesis tried so hard to be good, but the bad casting of the young Picard didn't help a story that was also a bit rough around the edges. Probably the best one for space battles though. Put it on your surround system and crank up the volume! Nick
• United States
6 Feb 07
Actually, I liked Enterprise a lot. I missed a few episodes now and again, but I was sorry to see it go in 2005.
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• Philippines
13 Jul 07
TV spin-off I'd have to go with Voyager, love seven of nine and B'ellana. As for the movies, I think your right First Contact was the best. Liked the story about the first warp flight of zefram cochrane, and ofcourse who doesn't love the borg queen.
@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
16 Sep 07
I am not sure that I really have a favorite because I enjoyed all of them. I guess that if I had to pick one of them though it would have to be Deep Space Nine. Like I said though, I enjoyed all of them to much to really pick just one as a favorite.
• United States
27 Sep 07
DS-9 was definitely a great show. Thanks for replying!
• United States
28 Mar 07
i liked voyager. deep space nine was kind of slow i thought. enterprise i didn't like at all..although they did go into explaining the first klingons a bit.
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@LithiumX (16)
8 Aug 07
Nemesis FTW. Voyager FTW. I like hi-teh stuff.