A Collection of Controversial Opinions, Part II
43 positions on Star Trek
The original series (TOS) is indisputably the greatest of them all.
Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy are the greatest characters in Star Trek.
In spite of constant claims to the contrary, Star Trek is essentially a work emanating from the Christian tradition.
With the exception of two or three episodes, TOS’s third season is just as good as the first two.
The TOS series’ worst episode was not Spock’s Brain.
The TOS series’ worst episode was The Mark of Gideon.
The plot device of duplicate Earths was a great idea that should have continued in later Star Treks.
Star Trek II is the greatest of all the films.
Star Trek III is the second greatest of all the films.
Most of the human characters in The Next Generation (TNG) are artificial and unreal.
Commander Riker is mostly kind of a wuss.
The holodeck ruined the plot of many an episode.
There are many great episodes of TNG, some the best in all of Star Trek.
The Borg is the best villain race in all of Star Trek.
The first two TNG films feel like movies; the second two are like two-part television episodes.
Deep Space 9 (DS9) is better than TNG.
The best regular character in DS9 was Quark.
Odo is a close second to Quark.
The best guest character in DS9 was Garak, who is also one of the greatest characters in all of Star Trek.
The Chief is the best human character in DS9.
Sisko is a great masculine leader and character.
The Bajorans are kind of annoying and whiny.
The Major is still a good and sympathetic character in spite of this.
We’re told often how wonderful and special Jadzia Dax is.
It’s hard to understand why Worf would fall in love with such an annoying character like Jadzia Dax.
Ezri Dax was a better, more real character than Jadzia Dax.
Doctor Bashir only gets better as the seasons progress.
The best villain in all of Star Trek was Gul Dukat.
The Prophets’ limited ability to communicate with linear creatures is their own shortcoming.
The best character in Voyager is the Doctor.
Captain Janeway is a good character but her Katherine Hepburn voice is difficult to listen to.
Captain Janeway’s hairstyle dramatically improves in the later seasons.
The human characters in Voyager suffer from the same problems as TNG.
The alien races in Voyager are mostly kind of boring.
The human characters in Enterprise suffer less those from those problems in TNG and Voyager.
The series, at first, spends too much time explaining how technical advances were made.
The series tries too hard to explain certain differences between TOS and later series.
The Vulcans in Enterprise are quite insufferable.
Later Star Treks had trouble explaining what was so special about humans.
The Mirror-Mirror universe idea got overused and thus should have remained just as the one TOS episode.
Star Trek has the best alien races in all of science fiction.
Star Trek has the best ship designs in all of science fiction.
Star Trek died as a franchise in 2009, and its corpse has been decomposing ever since.