I didn't mind the space-dolphin; I rather liked having really alien (as in non-humanoid) members of Starfleet/the Federation and seeing how they interacted.
DS9 is my favourite of the new Treks, as well; Voyager was ruined for me because they couldn't seem to decide what they wanted to do - dump a crew in a completely new quadrant of the galaxy without the familiar supports of the Federation and get back to the whole "new life, new civilisations" bit, or do some hand-wavium so that it wouldn't take them sixty years to get home after all. Plus, Harry Kim - most unfairly treated ensign in Starfleet! Seriously, the stuff Tom Paris (and his manpain) got away with and ended up being promoted, while poor Harry was the textbook officer and remained "Ensign Kim" and couldn't so much as hold hands with a pretty alien without an official reprimand or it turning out the alien wanted to eat him :-)
Also, Brannon Braga and his bloody time paradoxes. Yes, yes, we get you're really clever how you can put a twist on the old time-travel story, now stop doing it eleventy-billion times, please!
I don't talk about Enterprise. The high hopes I had for that (seeing as how they got Scott Bakula in to play Archer) and then how it turned out - sorry, Vulcans are not sex-kittens (T'Pol) or toffee-nosed gits (rest of 'em) and just - blah!
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Date: 2013-03-28 11:51 pm (UTC)DS9 is my favourite of the new Treks, as well; Voyager was ruined for me because they couldn't seem to decide what they wanted to do - dump a crew in a completely new quadrant of the galaxy without the familiar supports of the Federation and get back to the whole "new life, new civilisations" bit, or do some hand-wavium so that it wouldn't take them sixty years to get home after all. Plus, Harry Kim - most unfairly treated ensign in Starfleet! Seriously, the stuff Tom Paris (and his manpain) got away with and ended up being promoted, while poor Harry was the textbook officer and remained "Ensign Kim" and couldn't so much as hold hands with a pretty alien without an official reprimand or it turning out the alien wanted to eat him :-)
Also, Brannon Braga and his bloody time paradoxes. Yes, yes, we get you're really clever how you can put a twist on the old time-travel story, now stop doing it eleventy-billion times, please!
I don't talk about Enterprise. The high hopes I had for that (seeing as how they got Scott Bakula in to play Archer) and then how it turned out - sorry, Vulcans are not sex-kittens (T'Pol) or toffee-nosed gits (rest of 'em) and just - blah!
DS9 was great, though.