I think this is my second watch through of Enterprise, it definitely has its moments and Phlox is possibly my favorite medical officer. I’ve watched DS9 5-6 times and Voyager like 3, TNG is probably at 4. I’m a little embarrassed to say I’ve only watched a handful of TOS episodes but I’ll probably give it a go here after I finish this run of Enterprise.
Definitely recommend TNG but the first season is rough and there’s really only a handful of good episodes, most of them were scripts that were meant for TOS and the translation was not great. I think part of that made me a little reluctant to try TOS because I assumed planets where the aliens are African coded and have fights to the death was the average episode.
TOS has some really great episodes - the benefit of just getting actual scifi authors to submit scripts. And then it has, uh, well some of it is probably also due to the scifi authors…
Honestly the episode Dear Doctor shoots that prospect straight out the airlock for me. Condemning a whole species to extinction because it, let me check the notes here, “wouldn’t be ethical”. Now the living conditions between the Valakians and the Menk are sure as shit not anywhere close to good, that much I can agree with. But let’s even get into how the episode states that wouldn’t be ethical to cure the Valakians of a genetic disease that they somehow evolved into, the reason given is that the Menk are about to have a ‘evolutionary leap’ but will only have it if the Valakians go extinct. Yes a straight up appeal to letting nature/god sort it out, and that interfering in a alleged cosmic plan would be oh so horrible a sin to commit. Good god I hate this episode, and I hate how it’s the origin story for the prime directive.
If it wasn’t any indication, I hate Prime Directive episodes from TNG onwards, especially the ones that seem to make the high ranking characters of the shows all of a sudden afraid of consequences from out of nowhere for no discernible reason.
I think this is my second watch through of Enterprise, it definitely has its moments and Phlox is possibly my favorite medical officer. I’ve watched DS9 5-6 times and Voyager like 3, TNG is probably at 4. I’m a little embarrassed to say I’ve only watched a handful of TOS episodes but I’ll probably give it a go here after I finish this run of Enterprise.
Definitely recommend TNG but the first season is rough and there’s really only a handful of good episodes, most of them were scripts that were meant for TOS and the translation was not great. I think part of that made me a little reluctant to try TOS because I assumed planets where the aliens are African coded and have fights to the death was the average episode.
TOS has some really great episodes - the benefit of just getting actual scifi authors to submit scripts. And then it has, uh, well some of it is probably also due to the scifi authors…
Honestly the episode Dear Doctor shoots that prospect straight out the airlock for me. Condemning a whole species to extinction because it, let me check the notes here, “wouldn’t be ethical”. Now the living conditions between the Valakians and the Menk are sure as shit not anywhere close to good, that much I can agree with. But let’s even get into how the episode states that wouldn’t be ethical to cure the Valakians of a genetic disease that they somehow evolved into, the reason given is that the Menk are about to have a ‘evolutionary leap’ but will only have it if the Valakians go extinct. Yes a straight up appeal to letting nature/god sort it out, and that interfering in a alleged cosmic plan would be oh so horrible a sin to commit. Good god I hate this episode, and I hate how it’s the origin story for the prime directive.
If it wasn’t any indication, I hate Prime Directive episodes from TNG onwards, especially the ones that seem to make the high ranking characters of the shows all of a sudden afraid of consequences from out of nowhere for no discernible reason.