... I always assumed season 3 to be the bad one.
I personally actually liked the first two, Enterprise's start seasons are better than TNG's, imho.
Am I the only one?
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I remember the "fan service" being wildly divisive / largely looked down upon at the time of release.
I don't remember season 3 being better or worse, though I did roll my eyes pretty hard when they decided to go to the Land of Space Nonsense where Mysteries Abound, which I think was season 3.
Hard to say which series had the rougher start, IMO. I can get onboard with the TOS-ish cornball nature of ENT, and I like it for what it is, but TNG found its footing and matured, and I don't feel like ENT ever pulled that off so it just kinda... stayed the same.
I agree. I enjoyed the first 2 but the third season was quite bad.
ENT be divisive like that. Personally I rank S3 as the best of ENT and first 2 seasons is them trying to “just do what worked before” but not really succeeding.
I think what I dislike the most about early ENT (besides decontamination) is how they seemed to just throw away all the guest stars. Quantum leap costar especially was a travesty of wasted potential.
I unpopularly dislike Ent and DS9 once they move to the grim war story arcs.
I would agree that Enterprise's first season was generally better than TNG's, but I mostly enjoyed Season 3 of Enterprise.
I don’t remember alien nazi episodes. In TNG?
nazis, nazis everywhere. tng is one of the few without them, actually :D
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The reptiloid nazi twofer (Voyager) was really bad. Does every Star Trek series have one? I don't remember anything like that in TNG.
Really? I quite enjoyed "The Killing Game"... The Hirogen made an interesting addition to the series.
They fleshed out the culture of the "Predators" and made them a voyager villain. The "hunt is all" race.
It was an interesting idea, but those 2 episodes were a pretty odd premise. If holodeck technology was so revoluntary for their culture, they should have worked to incorporate it into their ships, not build a huge holodeck simulation on voyager and enslaved its crew.
I think they were fun too, but just strange in a clearly "bottle episodes" kind of way.
It was definitely one of those holodeck adventure stories. I was disappointed that the Hirogen didn't show up as much in the later seasons (the extent of their communications relay network suggested that they used to have a vast territory), although they did come back to the fallout of "The Killing Game" in Season 7's "Flesh and Blood".
Enterprise? No, no, no ... DS9.
Me and TNG. I could never get into it and couldn’t slog through the first few seasons to get to anything decent.
Shame. Season 3 has some real bangers.
I use seriesgraph to get to the good stuff in things like old Top Gear episodes.