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Frankenbuddha - May 14, 2009 2:57:25 pm PDT #1388 of 30000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Where did you watch the first episode of TNG? Did you have a geek gathering of friends?

Saw it in college, in a dorm room, with a group of friends. We were...disappointed.

DS9 was my show, BIG TIME. It only took them a season to work the kinks out. TNG seemed to take longer, and be more inconsistent once they did.

DavidS - May 14, 2009 2:57:48 pm PDT #1389 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dana is quick on the draw!

I didn't know that was Spock's mother's maiden name. But I bet it's hard currency in the land of fanfic crossovers.

DavidS - May 14, 2009 3:02:47 pm PDT #1390 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Here's one guy's list of the best Trek episodes.

His top ranked DS9:

7. Rocks & Shoals
11. In the Pale Moonlight
13. Children of Time
17. The Visitor
22. The Quickening
25. Trials and Tribbelations
29. Our Man Bashir

Glamcookie - May 14, 2009 3:04:07 pm PDT #1391 of 30000

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

TNG! Loves it! No love for Hugh?

Connie Neil - May 14, 2009 3:06:10 pm PDT #1392 of 30000

brillig

"Our Man Bashir"!

"Kiss the girl, get the key. They didn't teach me that at the Obsidian Academy."

§ ita § - May 14, 2009 3:06:10 pm PDT #1393 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think TNG had a less talented cast. Stewart carried many of them. Things averaged out better in DS9, so I think the scripts could go more places. And they embraced the arc and the dark without becoming unremittingly bleak.

Frankenbuddha - May 14, 2009 3:24:38 pm PDT #1394 of 30000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think TNG had a less talented cast. Stewart carried many of them. Things averaged out better in DS9, so I think the scripts could go more places. And they embraced the arc and the dark without becoming unremittingly bleak.

Exactly - season 1 they tried to mainly be a stand-alone ep show, but once they embraced at least some sort of arc, the show went through the stratosphere (so to speak) for me.

le nubian - May 14, 2009 3:25:58 pm PDT #1395 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Season 1 had to be like that tho, they were operating under a writer's strike which really affected the quality of Season 1 of TNG.

Dana - May 14, 2009 3:58:57 pm PDT #1396 of 30000

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

But I bet it's hard currency in the land of fanfic crossovers.

I got it from the Trek novels.

Those are some pretty great DS9 episodes.

Typo Boy - May 14, 2009 4:06:54 pm PDT #1397 of 30000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

John McGrath discusses TNG with his fiancee Vicki:

Vicki: Which episode is this?

Me: The one with the alien that turns in to the glowing energy being at the end.

Vicki:....

Me: I should be more specific.

"Me" in this quote is John, not me.

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