Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
As lame as Insurrection was, I would still rewatch it if it popped up on TV. But Nemesis is just unwatchable. Having outsiders run the creative team was supposed to refresh the franchise, but it all comes off like bad fanfic. It pops the cringe-o-meter.
I find myself watching VOY more these days, probably because I've watched DS9 so many times that I need a break from it. The bad stuff is still bad, but I find comfort in watching it now because it's a ship show like TOS and TNG. DS9 was beautiful, but it can't really be revived or replicated as a premise. It's Trek as a bus station. The characters and storylines have to be audacious and fascinating for it to work (luckily they were on DS9). But you can always try to make another ship show -- it's what Trek is designed for.
Having said that, not much of new Trek appeals to me. They won me back with the Picard series, but even then I was shouting at the screen half the time.
I find myself watching VOY more these days, probably because I've watched DS9 so many times that I need a break from it. The bad stuff is still bad, but I find comfort in watching it now because it's a ship show like TOS and TNG. DS9 was beautiful, but it can't really be revived or replicated as a premise. It's Trek as a bus station. The characters and storylines have to be audacious and fascinating for it to work (luckily they were on DS9). But you can always try to make another ship show -- it's what Trek is designed for.
Having said that, not much of new Trek appeals to me. They won me back with the Picard series, but even then I was shouting at the screen half the time.
