Caught an episode recently on BBC. It's a bit like watching a local theater group attempting their own Star Trek series on barely evolved video cameras.
TOS is far worse. SDTV sucks, burn your DVDs!
Like using a 40 year old VGA monitor on your PC (I actually have one in the garage).
Whatchu talkin' bout Willis?!
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shareI've been watching it on Heroes & Icons. Still find it as interesting as when it was first broadcast.
shareI recommend the Season 2 episode, 'Q Who'. That'll get you back into it.
shareStill quite watchable. Great series. Great visual effects. Sometimes BBC shows it in standard definition, which looks crappy. Be sure to see it in high definition. Watch for a shot at the end of the opening credits where, if you look close, you can actually see a guy walking around inside through a porthole. Awesome!
shareOk, I'll give it a shot. I remember most of the plots being, "Is this reality? What happened to reality?"
I did like the character Q and the Borg.
Nowadays I actually find Deep Space Nine less interesting. I was just watching an episode last night and thought it was boring.
share"Nowadays I actually find Deep Space Nine less interesting. I was just watching an episode last night and thought it was boring."
Why is this a trend? People write a tiny, barely two-sentence post, that reveals that they judge a long-running TV show based on _ONE_ episode they probably didn't even understand, and consequently their toddler's attention-span-mind 'found it boring'.
Come on, if you are going to say something, at least ELABORATE, tell us WHY you thought it was boring, which episode it was, what the story was all about and so on. It's hard to agree with someone that just throws a generic insult into the air and then goes away.
I find this planet boring, but I won't come to discussion forums to say this and then leave without elaborating.
Geez.. LEARN TO WRITE, you ... damn.... Earthians!
As a kid, when the show was new, I really enjoyed watching it.
sadly, at the time, I missed most of the last season.
30-35 years later, I just watched the whole show over the last few months. The first seasons (especially season 1) definitely showed their age and the stories were sometime laughable, but the later seasons were much better.
Hedy's right, STNG definitely got stronger as the seasons went on. In fact, considering how strong it finished, I think it's too bad there wasn't another two seasons done.
The real shame though is that it was video taped and the digital effects have aged badly. Even TOS was shot on 35mm film and is HD.
That's Hedley!!
shareI thought I read that TNG was also filmed on 35mm but they did all the editing and FX after they transferred it to video.
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Well, I'm not sure - it might have been filmed. It's too bad that TOS is visually gorgeous to watch but TNG isn't.
If it was shot in 35mm, they should go through the effort to restore the series using new DFX.
First of all, episodes are not fish, you don't 'catch' them.
Secondly, _AN_ episode? You are not even aware that TNG has varying quality in its episodes, and some episodes are AWFUL TRASH, while others are 'actually pretty intriquing'?
Thirdly, how does a 'local theater group' (local to what? Which locality are you talking about, and why would 'locality' be an essential thing to mention?) 'attempt' a 'series'? Series is not something you 'attempt', it's not an activity. You mean they are attempting to recreate a series by ACTING?
You don't have any logic or understanding of anything, even simple english language, so your sentiments are not very valuable to the discussion.
Furthermore, you do not mention the episode you supposedly 'caught' somehow. Which season was it, the first one?
You also avoid elaborating on WHAT about it made it .. (and I will clean up your brain vomit).. SEEM like a group of wandering amateur thespians attempting to create their own Star Trek show.
Of course it should be obvious that 'video cameras' do not, have not, and probably never will 'evolve'. Technology is not nature, only natural things evolve, and even them, not as much as we think (a fish can develop better fins and gills, but it won't 'evolve' into a bipedal land-entity).
The only evolution worth talking about is spiritual evolution anyway, and you are proving to be a Neantherdal in this respect.
But don't worry, at least your output is congruent with your other displayed qualities in your remarkable post - remarkable, because you managed to pack so much stupidity in such a small, tiny post.
In my opinion, only stupid people that have nothing to say because their minds are devoid of meaning and understanding of anything, write these 'SMS text messages' in discussion forums, that would allow much longer posts (though never long enough for some reason). But hey, this is just my opinion.
I made the mistake of trying to watch it on BBC and the quality of the images was distracting and bad.
The blu rays are much better. But very expensive.
"I made the mistake of trying to watch it on BBC and the quality of the images was distracting and bad."
WTF are you talking about? Star Trek TNG hasn't been shown on BBC since at least the early Noughties!
Or are you talking about the bastardised BBC which is an extremely minor cable channel in the States? Fuck that shit, if so!
Probably BBC America which is on our cable system.