OT: Star Trek Nemesis

[dogscoff]

I'll throw my Ratings in here. Maybe someone should start a poll?

B5: 9.5 - just about perfectly executed plot arc. A bit dodgy in the first series, and some distinctly wooden acting in places, but overall a near- perfect blend of space opera and personal drama.

Farscape: 8 Good characters, decent plots and a break from the same old same old "guys in uniforms uphold human values of truth & justice". A bit episodic but very fresh and imaginative. Loses marks for not having a handy TLA

DS9: 7 The best of the Treks. The competition from Bab5 did it a lot of good, IMHO when it started to introduce politics & (gasp!) story arcs.

TNG: 6 A bit cheesy & episodic by today's standards, but I remember it looking fantastic when it first came out. It really did a lot for sci-fi at that time. Oh, and Patrick Stewart is the most convincing starship Captain ever.

SG1: 5 Nothing amazingly good about it, but nothing wrong with it either. Good for a Sunday afternoon if it's on TV. If I watched more of it I could probably get into it.

TOS: 4.5 Silly, silly, silly. Hopelessly outdated, with hardly any continuity and shallow cowboy characters. You can hardly class it as sci-fi, but it did something amazing for the genre and it gets points for that.

VOY: 4 Formulaic and dull. This did nothing new or interesting, it just gave everyone what they expected while pandering to the lowest possible denominator. Just about watchable, I suppose.

Enterprise: ?Never watched it. Don't intend to.

Space A&B: 2 Overly militaristic techno gun-porn. It's a while since I watched any but I remember thinking it was way too far to the right, and not in an ironic "Starship Troopers" way. It had a few moments of watchability, but by & large, unentertaining crud.

Andromeda: 2 Pretty crap so far, it reminds me more of that ****ty space precinct than anything else, although I confess I've only seen 3 or 4 episodes. Far too glossy for me. The Captain badly needs a haircut.

And for my "whatever happened to..?" entry, I nominate the excellent "Alien:Nation", about a few million of aliens who get stranded on earth and become the new ethnic underclass. There was a buddy cop element, and some realy good characters. I seem to remember they left a series a cliffhanger then cancelled the show! NOOOOO!

[ September 05, 2002, 16:39: Message edited by: dogscoff ]