While I love TNG (even though the cast can’t shut up) and that was the first Star Trek I was familiar with since I was 6 and a fan of reading rainbow when it came out I would say that the original series is my favorite (can happily watch Trek through Enterprise). My dad watched Original Series reruns since as long as I can remember.
The sendoff for the original crew always gets to to me and it just contrast that with writers today who live to crap on or deconstruct the works of better writers. I saw they are making a new blade runner with a delusional man, Disney is making a new Neverending Story, and Netflix is butchering… I mean remaking the Chronicles of Narnia.
One good thing about Star Trek is that I have a lot of books to read. I was at a convention once and a guy had a bunch of Star Trek books for a quarter a piece so I left with a bunch.
I love that the movies became unabashedly about the three male leads. Kirk,Spock,and McCoy were wonderful through their movie run. I like that Kirk didn't change his prejudice because of some self righteous speech but by seeing people further gone than him. I wonder if the cabal could turn Kirk to their side if he didn't have Spock and Bones.
Plummer and Warner were amazing Klingons, which looking back at their body of work who would've guess. Seeing a subordinate like Sulu rise up to captain was pretty cool. Klingons are just cool. I hate their backstory has been retconned numerous times now. We like our brow ridge Klingons, Ka-pla.
Too bad Sulu's legacy is the geriatric wokester of today.
And I love the line about Shakespeare in Klingon. But that moment when they are ordered to return to Earth and Kirk says “second star to the right and straight on til morning” followed by the final Captain’s Log is such a great moment.
Those are the Klingons I consider canon. I saw what Discovery did to them
Discovery Klingons are not in my head canon, even if they are “official”, at this point…
Ironic, really, since the last two Trek series (Discovery and the other one) seem to go against all the previous established lore to that point…
But yeah, much like how the 2007 movie Romulans bear almost no resemblance to that “race” in any prior media, I guess we can say the same for the recent Klingon “experiment”…
Just decided to read up on a bit of Discovery’s “lore”, because I remembered that they also fucked with the androids of Trek (Airiam, in the Discovery-verse, who also runs counter to established Trek lore)…
Man, that show was an absolute shitfest. Like, we’re they going for the wokest show on TV, that had as little as possible in common with its source material, or what??!
Yes, Kurtzman hates Star Trek he just wanted a platform to virtue signal enough to fail his way upward in Hollywood like big bro JJ.
Warner is amazing in everything.
"If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!" Evil.