Akamia
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I love Star Trek. My favorite show in the franchise is The Next Generation, and I’ve seen almost every film and show within thus far. However, I realized I may have to turn in my combadge if I never see the original series, the one that started it all, so I’ve been watching TOS on Netflix with a family member over the past month or so. Even now as I type this post, I am in the middle of Season 2.
I’d like to know what people’s thoughts are about the original series. It is remembered fondly by many. Watching it myself, I can only wonder if a nostalgia filter is involved with that somehow. Certainly, it may have been good for its time, but I don’t have the benefit of watching this show through the lens of someone who lived in the 1960’s. In my opinion, this show has not aged particularly well; much of the science (at least in Season 1) is preposterous, even for soft sci-fi, and many of the attitudes are horribly outdated. Indeed, a good handful of episodes involved Captain Kirk destabilizing civilizations because he didn’t like the way they did things, even when it was absolutely none of his business. I initially suspected the franchise’s Prime Directive was created because of this man, but it turns out he does it in spite of said directive at times, even after we establish the Prime Directive exists at all. VOY had similar problems going on, and while the situation there is different, the ethics were no less questionable.
I intend to continue watching this series to completion, of course, and I may watch the Animated Series afterward. But I cannot say I really enjoy this show thus far. It has far too much of Roddenberry’s influence for my taste. This was a problem for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but in a very different way; from what I understand, Roddenberry was the one responsible for all the long, drawn-out shots that made the movie feel like a padded out episode of the show itself, which, whether it would have made a good episode or not, made the movie horribly boring to watch as far as I’m concerned. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan was superior in just about every way.
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I’d like to know what people’s thoughts are about the original series. It is remembered fondly by many. Watching it myself, I can only wonder if a nostalgia filter is involved with that somehow. Certainly, it may have been good for its time, but I don’t have the benefit of watching this show through the lens of someone who lived in the 1960’s. In my opinion, this show has not aged particularly well; much of the science (at least in Season 1) is preposterous, even for soft sci-fi, and many of the attitudes are horribly outdated. Indeed, a good handful of episodes involved Captain Kirk destabilizing civilizations because he didn’t like the way they did things, even when it was absolutely none of his business. I initially suspected the franchise’s Prime Directive was created because of this man, but it turns out he does it in spite of said directive at times, even after we establish the Prime Directive exists at all. VOY had similar problems going on, and while the situation there is different, the ethics were no less questionable.
I intend to continue watching this series to completion, of course, and I may watch the Animated Series afterward. But I cannot say I really enjoy this show thus far. It has far too much of Roddenberry’s influence for my taste. This was a problem for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but in a very different way; from what I understand, Roddenberry was the one responsible for all the long, drawn-out shots that made the movie feel like a padded out episode of the show itself, which, whether it would have made a good episode or not, made the movie horribly boring to watch as far as I’m concerned. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan was superior in just about every way.
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