[Sailor Steve]

It's funny, I'm just the opposite. I was a teenager when the original aired, and since I was at that time an avid reader of science fiction I loved that show. I've never figured out what all the negativity over William Shatner was. I saw him in a few other shows at the time and thought he was okay, but I thought Kirk was the perfect action hero for the time...well, along with Jim West, but that's another story. I've found Shatner to be the only one of the original cast who actually shows a sense of humor about himself, and he's been more than willing to play the fool as well as the hero or villain.

On the other hand, I didn't like Next Generation at all. The actors were fine, but the writing always seemed to me like they were trying so hard to make a better Trek that they forgot what science fiction was supposed to be about. There were a few really good stories, but for the most part I thought they were overbearing and preachy. I gave DS9 a chance but it was more of the same for me. Of course that meant that I didn't stick around for the later years that everyone praises so highly. Maybe someday I'll check it out again, but not today.