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.
VI is alright. It’s got a great, worthy story, but it suffers horribly by looking cheap as hell.
From reused TNG sets (observation lounge, ten forward, engineering) to poor effects (warping to camera after “Come on, I need you,” the pan around the 1701A while Chang says “Tickle us do we not laugh…”), the movie was in dire need of more money and polish.
As send offs go it’s good. I just wish it looked more in keeping with Wrath of Khan, Meyer’s masterpiece.
Wrath of Khan is amazing. Khan quoting Moby Dick at the end was great