Day 30 - Favourite Trek Series
Sep. 22nd, 2019 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeThis is an impossible question. It's like asking me to choose my favourite friend.
TNG was my first Trek. It's comfortable and familiar, and yet sometimes still surprises me.
Voyager took me from adolescence to adulthood, and formed a lot of my tastes and preferences.
Discovery gave me inspiration when my well was dry, and I fell in love with a degree of enthusiasm I really didn't think I was capable of anymore. I'd be less disappointed by season 2 if I didn't love the series and characters -- yes, even the ones who aren't Kat -- so much.
TOS is fun and funny and occasionally brilliant. DS9 is more than occasionally brilliant, and clever, and important. (I suppose, if we were going with the friendship analogy, DS9 is the acquaintance I admire very much, but am too intimidated by to seek a closer relationship.) ENT sets out the groundwork and worldbuilding for the series that came before and after. TAS is ... there.
I have no doubt I'll love Picard, and find joy in Lower Decks, and there's about a 95% chance that I will take the first older women in a position of authority to appear in the untitled Nickelodeon animated YA series and attach myself to her like a limpet clinging to a rock.
One of the things I realised, coming back to Star Trek fandom in 2017, is that it's okay to walk away for a decade. The franchise, and the fandom, will still go on, and if you choose to return, that's not a step backwards, it's just a reunion with an old friend.
TNG was my first Trek. It's comfortable and familiar, and yet sometimes still surprises me.
Voyager took me from adolescence to adulthood, and formed a lot of my tastes and preferences.
Discovery gave me inspiration when my well was dry, and I fell in love with a degree of enthusiasm I really didn't think I was capable of anymore. I'd be less disappointed by season 2 if I didn't love the series and characters -- yes, even the ones who aren't Kat -- so much.
TOS is fun and funny and occasionally brilliant. DS9 is more than occasionally brilliant, and clever, and important. (I suppose, if we were going with the friendship analogy, DS9 is the acquaintance I admire very much, but am too intimidated by to seek a closer relationship.) ENT sets out the groundwork and worldbuilding for the series that came before and after. TAS is ... there.
I have no doubt I'll love Picard, and find joy in Lower Decks, and there's about a 95% chance that I will take the first older women in a position of authority to appear in the untitled Nickelodeon animated YA series and attach myself to her like a limpet clinging to a rock.
One of the things I realised, coming back to Star Trek fandom in 2017, is that it's okay to walk away for a decade. The franchise, and the fandom, will still go on, and if you choose to return, that's not a step backwards, it's just a reunion with an old friend.
