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FAVORITE THINGS:
Star Trek Series: DS9. It was the one i was happiest to watch, every time it came on, even though there were a few bad episodes.
Star Trek Movie: ...Wrath of Khan, mostly for Khan.
Star Trek Character: i really like Captain Sisko, which is saying a lot as the hero is not often the best character. but then, i think, Kira Nerys was also the coolest in terms of personal history and development throughout the series.
Star Trek Pairing: Jadzia Dax/Worf. it's canon, it's marriage, and it's ethnic in a way that doesn't piss me off.
Alien Race: the Klingons have such a rich heritage, and are so central to the series.
Alien World: Romulus seemed really interesting. although... grey.
Federation Class Starship: the Runabout probably doesn't count, because it's somewhere between a shuttle and a whole ship, but i liked that it had limited warp drive and that they were all named after rivers.
TOS Episode:
TNG Episode:
DS9 Episode: "The Siege of AR-58" was fantastic. It showed the real drama of what it means that Starfleet is a military force, in a way that totally blew up the whole Utopian mythology of Trek for me.
VOY Episode: oh, i've got nothing.
ENT Episode: whichever one was the last, thank the Q-continuum i'm glad that's over. although i kind of liked Hoshi.
Star Trek Quote:
LEAST FAVORITE THINGS:
Star Trek Series: ENT. Sorry, guys.
Star Trek Movie: To my surprise, it's not ST V (aka What Does God Want With A Space Ship?); no, I dislike ST: The Slow Motion Picture even more. The Shatnerian extravaganza had some fun moments.
Star Trek Character: Jonathan Archer
Star Trek Paring: Chakotay/Seven. On Seven's behalf, not Chakotay's.
Alien Race: the Kazon. Poor, underdeveloped and badly written things. See, the Ferengi started out badly, too, but then they got DS9, so a bad start is no excuse!
Alien World: Dead heat between several "just like Earth in historical period X" worlds on TOS. So not fond of this concept. But the chicago gangsters were semi-amusing and the Romans allowed for some cute cracks about ratings and tv, so really, how to beat the Yanks and the Coms and Kirk reading from the Declaration of Independence? Easy. The winner is: the planet featured in "Patterns of Force". Yep, the one with the Nazis.
Federation Class Starship: no objections to any of them.
TOS Episode: "Patterns of Force". As opposed to "Spock's Brain", which is unintentionally hilarious, this is just insultingly dumb. Closely followed by: Turnabout Intruder. ST sexism at its worst.
TNG Episode: Which one was the Riker-centric endless flashback show?
DS9 Episode: The one with teenage Molly, wild-child. It's even worse to watch now because AtS sort of went there with Connor and did it so much better...
VOY Episode: "Threshold"
ENT Episode: The series finale. People, even with my very limited show knowledge, what were you thinking? You could have done that episode in the middle of any season and it would have been okay. Not bad, not excellent, just okay. But as a show finale, it was horrible.
Star Trek Quote:
Can't quote it by heart, but it's O'Brien calling Sisko the best Captain he ever served with in the s3 finale. This is where my inner child gets active and yells "you served with Jean-Luc Picard, too, Miles, and I don't care whether the Sisko becomes a god or not, the Picard is better!"
CHOICES:
Trekkie or Trekker? Either.
Kirk or Picard? Sisko.
Defiant or Delta Flyer? two words: cloaking device.
Tribbles or Targs? Targs, yay!
Coffee, Black or Tea, Earl Grey? Raktageno.
Porthos or Spot? Spot. awwww.
EMH or Data? Data. The positronic brain was one of the coolest technological things about Trek, IMHO. The EMH is emblematic of the overall trend toward holography that i was really not too keen on in the later series, with few-- i mean *few*-- exceptions. sorry.
Pah-wraiths or Prophets? the Prophets were kind of morally superior for my tastes. The Pah-wraiths seemed more like actual Gods, in that they made a lot of isht happen in the plot.
There you have it!