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Doesn't mean it's not sometimes fun (I prefer TOS, campy though it may be), but claiming it is more that fluff is a sign you care too much about a TV show...

I think you are concentrating too much on the fluff and not the "deeper meaning" of TNG. Yes its crazy plots and people with rubber foreheads but its there to tell a story about the human condition, TOS and TNG were the only two Star Treks to really do that. After TNG it all became technobabble and alien of the week.

IMHO. Any random pick in my SF library is better than any ST:TNG episode. by a wide margin (I'll admit, I only kept good books, and dumped crappy ones).

I would say that Written Sci Fi is almost always better than TV and Movie Sci Fi. Just because you can do stuff you can't do in a 1 hr show or 2 hr movie. You will never see a ten year military STL expedition to Lalande 21185 in a movie!

All ST space combat is silly, BTW. Sad for those of us that dig space combat. When engagement ranges are SHORTER than mid 20th century naval combat... you're doing it wrong.

Agree with you there! I've never seen Space Combat done right in any sci fi TV show or Movie except for one early episode of (shudders) Andromeda...

Star Trek, ridiculous.
Star Wars, the same.
Battlestar Remake, good looking, got the weapons right but totally wrong in execution.
Stargate, much like Battlestar.

Fighter planes don't fight in visual range any more neither should space ships!


Actually the only time ST got space combat right was in TOS. Specifically Balance of Terror and The Ultimate Computer plus a few others.

BTW have you ever checked out Projectrho.com? I've dropped that name around here before and I think you would like it.