I Wrote For Star Trek: The Next Generation & Deep Space Nine, But I'll Never Pick A Favorite Show!
Play Favorites With Classics? Does Spock Lie Or Eat Meat? It's Not Logical!
United Federation of Planets Special Assembly gathers and is now in parliamentary session. Planet Diplomats wait alongside one another in sectional attendance. Central Issue: Select Favored Exploratory Adventures Among Two Legendary Starfleet Installments.
Come to order! Attend! We await your answer. Choose your favorite, Terran!
Me play Trek favorites over the two shows I’ve written for and dearly love? No, I’ll never do it. What me worry over which Star Trek spin-off I wrote for is better? Here’s a much better question. What the hell is better anyway!? You can’t get me to choose. NEVER EVER!
Hailing Frequencies Open: Have I made myself dilithium crystal clear, Starfleet super secret department Section 31 Interrogators?!
Whew! OK. That’s out of my system. It feels so much better. It’s as if Dr Crusher or Dr. Bashir hissed a hypospray on my worked up humanoid physiology. My torrential rant has died an unceremonious death. Happy now?
Seriously! And believe it or not, all in all, that pretty much was completely serious. I can never choose one over the other. It’s simply not going to happen. It’s like Dr. McCoy jumping to teach a Starfleet Academy TED Talk motivational class on how to relax by using the transporter for all your recreational travel needs.
Flavorful Science Fiction
Our appetites dictate much of what we choose to experience and to share with the others in our lives. Much like being more in the mood for say Thai food for dinner one night instead of dining on Italian or Mexican, Star Trek boasts many flavor complexities. The dark, war stories of Deep Space Nine may indeed intrigue us for awhile, though the inspiring exploration of Captain Picard’s crew beckons to tune in on Next Generation to see what’s out there.
Like so much in life, it’s a creative balance.
Why does one have to choose anything over the other? Except for maybe selecting gourmet chocolate over the chalky, cheap barely indigestible stuff, I don’t see the reason for following such a compulsion. I guess it’s our human nature to try to put one thing over another. In this case, folks, I’ll politely pass.
Nah, I won’t choose one over the other - be it show, series cast or starship. The Borg buster Defiant took awhile to come into use for Ben Sisko’s crew, but once we saw her, we fell in genuine love. That doesn’t mean Jean-Luc Picard’s Galaxy Class Enterprise beauty is going to somehow lose our fervent admiration and loyalty.
Growing up while watching William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy play Kirk and Spock respectively, I couldn’t imagine another Trek series coming along to compliment the original series so wonderfully. That we as fans got the now classics Next Generation and Deep Space Nine to elegantly expand Gene Roddenberry’s universe, we should count ourselves lucky, and we should never have to choose between such well produced and deftly integrated chapters of our beloved sci-fi saga.