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I know, I know...it's a cliche for us to enjoy Star Trek. But I do! A lot.

When I was younger, I didn't get it. I was too busy reading my books (which was one of my obsessions) to watch a full hour of something on tv. Even when a started watching tv more often and friend in high school would go on and on about Star Trek, I kind of tuned him out.

Then...then, I put aside my book and saw an episode of Voyager for the first time. And that was it. Kate Mulgrew was my woman, through and through. It didn't stop there. I got my hands on TNG reruns, TOS reruns, eventually even DSN. I could not get enough. I practically had a solo-party when Enterprise came on for the first time (because not only was it Star Trek, but the amazing Scott Bakula!).

For me, Voyager started my love, but it isn't my favorite. I like them all equally (even though Enterprise diverged from "the system").

Which ST series do you like, or which started you into liking it? Why?

I like the original the most, it is campy and funny to me. When ever Shatner freaks out, it's comedy gold. Like the camera will zoom in on his face and he will look all grave and sweaty, then he will suddenly lash out, Hilarious. I like TNG the most as far as being an interesting dramatic show. I couldn't get into the others as much.

Data is my favorite TNG character. If that isn't cliche, then I don't know what is.

I'll add, the show that got me intersted in star trek was the animated series that used to come on when I was a kid. I think it came on right after sparticus, which incedently, had nothing to do with the real sparticus.

I haven't watched any Trek in years now, but I loved pretty mostl of them growing up (except Voyager - awful show). It was TNG that first got me into it all and it spread for them. Took me a while to get into DS9 but it'd probably the only one that I could face watching now. Most Trek just seems oh so awfully dated in terms of structure that I think I'd just be bored to tears by all of the "monster of the week" type episodes over again.

I grew up on Star Trek. Sci-Fi's been showin' me 4 episodes of Enterprise every Monday night this year. I haven't seen that before, so it's really cool. Also, once a week a local station shows TOS digitally re-mastered with new and/or enhanced special effects. Some of that's really good.

When I was a lot younger, I didn't like Star Trek, since I liked Star Wars. When I was eleven and I got the Sci-Fi channel, my dad had turned on The Original Series, and I ended up watching it. The episode was "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." I liked it, so I watched the show again, and soon I was watching it every night. I've seen TNG, DS9, and recently Voyager on Spike.

Has to be original series for me... I started watching it here in the uk when I was 10. They showed it on BBC every weeknight from what I recall, from 6-7 or somesuch. I loved it and I still love it. Spock was one of my first crushes, lol, and I still love the sparring between he and McCoy. Great characters...never keen on Kirk though. I watched most of TNG but DS9 was my next favourite, and I became obsessed with Odo and the actor who played him...I wrote him letters, and he wrote back and very nice man in real life... kind. Sent me a postcard when he was in London after meeting me after a play he was in. Heh. I mostly watch the original series now.

That's really cool about Rene whose surname I can't spell. He always seemed like he'd be a decent guy, but it's nice that he actually takes the time and effort to do that sort of thing. I hadn't seen him in anything since the end of DS9, but then I started watching Boston Legal and he's right there alongside William Shatner. Weird as it is, it took some getting used to seeing them together, as if they shouldn't be in the same time period. Which sounds dumb, but it made more sense in my head at the time.

Man, I really want to watch some DS9 again now.

Not seen that... it is a shame I stopped writing to these people. It is something I have done since I was little...written to the actors etc that I become obsessed with. Rene Auberjonais is the spelling. I was quite ill when I wrote to him with anorexia, and he told my mother I looked unwell... sent a postcard the next day. Nice man, really. Tom Baker of Dr Who also wrote back regularly... another decent guy. I didn't write to any other Star Trek actors. But I wrote to most of the cast of Dr Who, right back to William Russell from the original 1963 series, heh. I used to talk to the guy who voiced k9 on the phone as he put his phone number after his address on his letter. Anyways... I might start a separate topic for this!

FYI: Rene Auberjonois played Father Mulcahy in the original M*A*S*H movie.

TNG was clearly the best.
Not even close.

Favourite epsiode "Darmok".

even though TNG was great there were no Vulcans, I need a Vulcan to have a character to relate to... and what about the movies, all nine of them pretty hit and miss. my favs are TMP, Wrath of Kahn, First Contact... The one with the Whales sucked though...the next film seems to have alot of potential with Matt Damon as Kirk and Adrian Brody as Spock, JJ Abrams of Lost and Alias is set to direct for a winter 08 release... until then Live Long and Prosper...

I don't think they've decided who will play Kirk and Spock officially, have they? I think Adrian Brody would be good though. I'm not as sure about Matt Damon.

There are ten movies.

When I was a kid I liked the original series a lot, my fondest memory was one day when I was sick and I was in bed all day and watched the episode "Obssesion" aired on TV.

When the movies came out I loved them, I fell in love with the saga mostly because of the utopian view of the future, which was unique.

I noticed then a lot of people liked star wars a lot better, I like star wars too but star trek is special, I liked most the Kirk-Spock-McCoy relationship a whole lot better than Luke-Solo-Leia. I thought I was the only kid who liked ST

Growing up I was getting away from the show a little until a solar eclipse came out and I got very excited about it, that I loved reading articles about space and astronomy as a teenager and I started watching TNG which was aired then.

And I loved it, to this day this is my favorite show ever, I have to say this is the best of the entire saga

My favorite character is Data, I remember he was one I wanted to hang out more than anybody else lol. I relate to him somehow, but the character I relate to more is Barclay. The technology of the show is one thing that a liked a lot, specially the replicators and the holodeck.

About the other shows DS9 is poor to me I don't really like it, Voyager is ok, not the best but it's ok, I like Enterprise, episodes are entertaining but I do have a problem with continuity and I feel the show contradicts cannon and it feels more contemporary which I dislike a little.

From the 5 shows my personal votes from the best to the poor are
1. TNG
2. TOS
3. VOY
4. ENT
5. DS9

I like the Borg.

yeah its all rumors and fluff until they start shooting, I think IGN reported they were offered.




I decided not to count Nemesis, with good reason. Remans? come on!