I don't think you can make that case at all. I agree that season one is more adventure/boldly go than later seasons, but it is written badly. Wesley is a Mary Sue. Dialog is stilted and campy (TOS was over the top, but never campy when it was good). It could be racist (matter of honor) and sexist (Angel One), stupid…

I was 8 and I could tell it was poorly written dreck. I love Roddenberry and I think he put together the only good characters and setup the Trek franchise would ever see again, but he wasn't writing well at this point. Things do improve after he departs the staff during Datalore, but not by much until season 2.

Ha ha ha, sure. We'll hang out and drink tranya.

I don't understand this fascination with wireless charging. Putting something down on a pad plugged to a wall is as much effort and plugging into a cord plugged to the wall. Until power is beamed to my device while I'm using it no matter where I am wireless charging is stoopid.

Let me rephrase that: I have a bacon number. Suck it.

My Bacon number is 4 if it matters.

The Big Goodbye is 1x12. Angel One is 1x14. Check your episode guides again. And if you find Minuet sexy and interesting then, well, get out more. Datalore is a simple evil twin trope complete with a physical deformity (the twitch). And with laugh lines like the black guy saying "my brother, I like the sound of that"…

Really? Datalore? Angel One? 11001010011010110101 where Picard and Riker crush on the must uncompelling femme fatale in the history of fiction? Come on.

I always liked the possibly fan invented idea that Kirk was the Admiral in "Too Short a Season", which I consider to be the only strong episode in TNG's first season. If Kirk died while coming to grips with the damage he'd done flouting the Prime Directive it would have been real poetic justice.

I don't understand why they had to photograph the film on 35mm and THEN scan it. Why not just scan the original. There must be so much detail lost in this restoration.

Yeah, China's going to devalue our money so we can buy less of their stuff.

Brannan Braga should have unwanted sexual acts performed on every orifice of his body by the fake, CG dinosaurs before being drawn and quartered and then consumed by them. Anything to keep him from making any more bad sci fi.

I'm very disappointed this image wasn't in the headline. You're getting sloppy, Giz.

Yeah, and their arms got longer. Where are all you silly, argumentative people coming from?

Farinas's Law states that in any conversation that involves a group of people being wronged someone from the offended group will join the conversation claiming it doesn't bother them. This is supposed to be taken as the end of the conversation because one person from the group is expected to represent them all.…

I don't know what you're arguing. That the shirt isn't green or that I misspoke. Those are two different issues. You win the second one, I guess. The film stock and lighting is what determines the shirt's color. You're right, it's not always green in photo shoots. You got me.

This almost sounds like a "Planet of Hats" trope. Mars may not be as big as the Earth, but it's still pretty big. Couldn't lava be responsible in one area and not in another just like on the Earth?

Oh, what the hell: one more thing from an interview with Theiss himself, just to really make you feel like a dope:

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=79291

Hey, look. You're wrong!