This ep all the way to Sarek’s death in TNG’s ‘Reunification pt 1' tells the long sad tale of a father who was ashamed of his half human son and a son who simulatenously resented, and yet craved his father’s love, acceptance and approval until they were both old men, only to never resolve their differences due to…

Which is ironic because Galaxy Quest is more true to Trek than many Trek movies.

So true, Rom had leagues more depth than most of the Voyager crew

My favorite TNG Riker moment was in an early episode where he was in his quarters watching a holovid of two women ‘playing harps’ and he looked visibly annoyed when his private time was interrupted by a hail from the bridge.

Yeah the problem is most of the cast of Voyager was written so damn flat & uninteresting most of the time

I kinda liked how sadisticly dark Tuvik was (as an episode, not the character).

The TRUE Riker Maneuver

Wesley Crusher had the unfortunate task of being a wish fulfillment avatar for Eugene ‘Wesley’ Roddenberry himself. Hence the writing making his character an intolerable Mary Sue.

The sad thing is that nothing in the original screenplay indicated that those aliens were remotely African and in fact hinted it was more of an Asian samurai like culture (hence ‘Code of Honor’). All the horribly anachronistic imperial colonial African imagery were purely the creative choices of director Russ Mayberry.

The TNG characters in their early seasons were definitely victims of being the mouthpieces of Roddenberry’s arrogance, ego and unrealistic way of portraying characters as perfect and essentially difficult to identify with TV audiences. It’s a good thing that Pillar and Co. pulled back on that big time and showed the…

His vision for ST after TOS was really hamstrung by his ego and very limiting and restrictive algorithm for telling ‘Star Trek’ stories.

Except we should never forget the episode featuring Planet Africa

No, more like Gene Roddenberry’s stringent storytelling guidelines put the writers in a box and really tied their hands and ability to tell good human drama and identifiable fleshed out characters who acted, well... human.

Nice summary of the DS9 use of holodecks, what we saw was usually much more utilitarian

Im with you on Our Man Bashir, the baseball ep (that Vulcan captain was SUCH an incredible dickbag) and I have a soft spot for Vic Fontaine, not because I cared for 50s Vegas, but the actor was great and it was used in some great eps, especially Its Only a Paper Moon

What's funny is that I grew up watching TOS reruns as a kid in the late 70s-early 80s and that was only 10-15 yrs after the show ended. It already felt dated & old to my young eyes at that time. The TNG/DS9/Voyager series still hold up for me even 30 yrs later but I admit that early seasons of TNG are painfully 80s…

Don't force them, let them discover it on their own in due time.

Problem is the series increasingly relied on the Doctor & Seven to tell good stories and aside from Janeway, the rest of the cast continued to be poorly written & developed

Voyager has some good or even brilliant eps much like DS9 has some bad or even abysmal eps.

First Shapp!