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Star Trek meme!
From several people on my flist by now, and because, as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
artaxastra remarked the other day, I am a fandom dinosaur...
FAVORITE THINGS:
Star Trek Series: DS9, with TNG right behind it
Star Trek Movie: Wrath of Khan, followed closely by First Contact
Star Trek Character: One for the entire freakin' universe? Ah, well. Quark wins over Garak and Jean-Luc Picard and Dax and Spock and Q and Seven, all of whom I do love dearly.
Star Trek Pairing: Garak/Bashir ties with Dax/Quark. What? "All true love is unrequited", to quote another space show.
Alien Race: Cardassian-Ferengi tie. It really depends on my mood.
Alien World: Cardassia. Not in the sense of wanting to live there, of course! Closely followed by: Vulcan.
Federation Class Starship: Galaxy Class. Enterprise-D, my favourite E of them all.
TOS Episode: "The Trouble with Tribbles" (won't ever be not funny) ties with "Journey to Babel" (Vulcan family drama!)
TNG Episode: "All Good Things..." , the finale. Still, imo, the best of the Trek finales. It served the entire ensemble well, summed up what I loved about the show, and had it ending on a high note. If it doesn't count because it is technically two episodes, I'm going with "Family", which is the episode that made me fall in love, and also the one which retrospectively was crucial for Trek, because it was the first time something major that happened to a character (Picard's stint as Locutus of Borg) wasn't ignored in the next episode but written as a lingering emotional trauma he needed to deal with.
DS9 Episode: "In the Pale Moonlight" certainly gets my vote for best and most quintessential DS9 episode, but do I love it most? Mmmm. On some days. On others, I'm going with "Trials and Tribble-ations" as the best Trek/Trek crossover ever and such a love declaration to both ensembles, or with "The Wire" because among tough competition, it's my favourite episode for either Garak and Bashir, or with "House of Quark" because Ferengi/Klingon culture clash for the win, and Quark wins the day by being clever and brave in a Ferengi, not a Klingon way, and first signs of Quark-Rom fraternal love and... you see my problem?
VOY Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me" (aka the Doctor and Seven show; who just happen to be my favourite VOY characters)
ENT Episode: only saw three of the first season and all of the fourth. The Mirror Universe one, probably.
Star Trek Quote:
"Jean-Luc, Jean-Luc, sometimes I think the only reason why I come here are those wonderful speeches of yours." Q in "True Q".
LEAST FAVORITE THINGS:
Star Trek Series: ENT. Sorry, guys.
Star Trek Movie: To my surprise, it's not ST V (aka What Does God Want With A Space Ship?); no, I dislike ST: The Slow Motion Picture even more. The Shatnerian extravaganza had some fun moments.
Star Trek Character: Jonathan Archer
Star Trek Paring: Chakotay/Seven. On Seven's behalf, not Chakotay's.
Alien Race: the Kazon. Poor, underdeveloped and badly written things. See, the Ferengi started out badly, too, but then they got DS9, so a bad start is no excuse!
Alien World: Dead heat between several "just like Earth in historical period X" worlds on TOS. So not fond of this concept. But the chicago gangsters were semi-amusing and the Romans allowed for some cute cracks about ratings and tv, so really, how to beat the Yanks and the Coms and Kirk reading from the Declaration of Independence? Easy. The winner is: the planet featured in "Patterns of Force". Yep, the one with the Nazis.
Federation Class Starship: no objections to any of them.
TOS Episode: "Patterns of Force". As opposed to "Spock's Brain", which is unintentionally hilarious, this is just insultingly dumb. Closely followed by: Turnabout Intruder. ST sexism at its worst.
TNG Episode: Which one was the Riker-centric endless flashback show?
DS9 Episode: The one with teenage Molly, wild-child. It's even worse to watch now because AtS sort of went there with Connor and did it so much better...
VOY Episode: "Threshold"
ENT Episode: The series finale. People, even with my very limited show knowledge, what were you thinking? You could have done that episode in the middle of any season and it would have been okay. Not bad, not excellent, just okay. But as a show finale, it was horrible.
Star Trek Quote:
Can't quote it by heart, but it's O'Brien calling Sisko the best Captain he ever served with in the s3 finale. This is where my inner child gets active and yells "you served with Jean-Luc Picard, too, Miles, and I don't care whether the Sisko becomes a god or not, the Picard is better!"
CHOICES:
Trekkie or Trekker? Either.
Kirk or Picard? Picard. Oh Captain, my Captain.
Defiant or Delta Flyer? Defiant.
Tribbles or Targs? Tribbles
Coffee, Black or Tea, Earl Grey? Tea.
Porthos or Spot? Spot, of course. Insert Data's ode here.
EMH or Data? EMH. I mean, I like Data, but the Doctor (no, not that one) is for the win, even if his show isn't.
Pah-wraiths or Prophets? Neither. Bah. Loathe the Prophets. I have serious Prophet issues. Gimme Q any time, if it has to be one of these semi-divine beings.
artaxastra remarked the other day, I am a fandom dinosaur...FAVORITE THINGS:
Star Trek Series: DS9, with TNG right behind it
Star Trek Movie: Wrath of Khan, followed closely by First Contact
Star Trek Character: One for the entire freakin' universe? Ah, well. Quark wins over Garak and Jean-Luc Picard and Dax and Spock and Q and Seven, all of whom I do love dearly.
Star Trek Pairing: Garak/Bashir ties with Dax/Quark. What? "All true love is unrequited", to quote another space show.
Alien Race: Cardassian-Ferengi tie. It really depends on my mood.
Alien World: Cardassia. Not in the sense of wanting to live there, of course! Closely followed by: Vulcan.
Federation Class Starship: Galaxy Class. Enterprise-D, my favourite E of them all.
TOS Episode: "The Trouble with Tribbles" (won't ever be not funny) ties with "Journey to Babel" (Vulcan family drama!)
TNG Episode: "All Good Things..." , the finale. Still, imo, the best of the Trek finales. It served the entire ensemble well, summed up what I loved about the show, and had it ending on a high note. If it doesn't count because it is technically two episodes, I'm going with "Family", which is the episode that made me fall in love, and also the one which retrospectively was crucial for Trek, because it was the first time something major that happened to a character (Picard's stint as Locutus of Borg) wasn't ignored in the next episode but written as a lingering emotional trauma he needed to deal with.
DS9 Episode: "In the Pale Moonlight" certainly gets my vote for best and most quintessential DS9 episode, but do I love it most? Mmmm. On some days. On others, I'm going with "Trials and Tribble-ations" as the best Trek/Trek crossover ever and such a love declaration to both ensembles, or with "The Wire" because among tough competition, it's my favourite episode for either Garak and Bashir, or with "House of Quark" because Ferengi/Klingon culture clash for the win, and Quark wins the day by being clever and brave in a Ferengi, not a Klingon way, and first signs of Quark-Rom fraternal love and... you see my problem?
VOY Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me" (aka the Doctor and Seven show; who just happen to be my favourite VOY characters)
ENT Episode: only saw three of the first season and all of the fourth. The Mirror Universe one, probably.
Star Trek Quote:
"Jean-Luc, Jean-Luc, sometimes I think the only reason why I come here are those wonderful speeches of yours." Q in "True Q".
LEAST FAVORITE THINGS:
Star Trek Series: ENT. Sorry, guys.
Star Trek Movie: To my surprise, it's not ST V (aka What Does God Want With A Space Ship?); no, I dislike ST: The Slow Motion Picture even more. The Shatnerian extravaganza had some fun moments.
Star Trek Character: Jonathan Archer
Star Trek Paring: Chakotay/Seven. On Seven's behalf, not Chakotay's.
Alien Race: the Kazon. Poor, underdeveloped and badly written things. See, the Ferengi started out badly, too, but then they got DS9, so a bad start is no excuse!
Alien World: Dead heat between several "just like Earth in historical period X" worlds on TOS. So not fond of this concept. But the chicago gangsters were semi-amusing and the Romans allowed for some cute cracks about ratings and tv, so really, how to beat the Yanks and the Coms and Kirk reading from the Declaration of Independence? Easy. The winner is: the planet featured in "Patterns of Force". Yep, the one with the Nazis.
Federation Class Starship: no objections to any of them.
TOS Episode: "Patterns of Force". As opposed to "Spock's Brain", which is unintentionally hilarious, this is just insultingly dumb. Closely followed by: Turnabout Intruder. ST sexism at its worst.
TNG Episode: Which one was the Riker-centric endless flashback show?
DS9 Episode: The one with teenage Molly, wild-child. It's even worse to watch now because AtS sort of went there with Connor and did it so much better...
VOY Episode: "Threshold"
ENT Episode: The series finale. People, even with my very limited show knowledge, what were you thinking? You could have done that episode in the middle of any season and it would have been okay. Not bad, not excellent, just okay. But as a show finale, it was horrible.
Star Trek Quote:
Can't quote it by heart, but it's O'Brien calling Sisko the best Captain he ever served with in the s3 finale. This is where my inner child gets active and yells "you served with Jean-Luc Picard, too, Miles, and I don't care whether the Sisko becomes a god or not, the Picard is better!"
CHOICES:
Trekkie or Trekker? Either.
Kirk or Picard? Picard. Oh Captain, my Captain.
Defiant or Delta Flyer? Defiant.
Tribbles or Targs? Tribbles
Coffee, Black or Tea, Earl Grey? Tea.
Porthos or Spot? Spot, of course. Insert Data's ode here.
EMH or Data? EMH. I mean, I like Data, but the Doctor (no, not that one) is for the win, even if his show isn't.
Pah-wraiths or Prophets? Neither. Bah. Loathe the Prophets. I have serious Prophet issues. Gimme Q any time, if it has to be one of these semi-divine beings.