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Originally Posted by ducati_EL34
Take off the rose colored glasses. Star Trek The Next Regurgitation changed Trek history in the pilot episode. They further changed it in the 1996 movie, Star Trek: First Contact.
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I wear no rose colored glasses, and I am not a Trek-can-do-no-wrong kind of fan. 1960s Star Trek and a lot of 1960s rock music were two things you had to like because of what they could have been if they had been born perfect. But I still liked them. I also liked TNG which became a better series after Gene Roddenberry's influence waned. DS9 was a self limiting format from day #1, and by the time it got involved with the Dominion war I had lost interest in it. Voyager had promise, but the trip home evolved too slowly, and it eroded the Borg's invincibility to make them manageable adversaries. Mankind became one of two races capable of kicking Borg butt. Yay for us! Regardless, I liked it's last episode. The last series, Enterprise, was a victim of franchise fatigue and the limitation that it could not accomplish greater things than the original series. It had it's suspense and adventure, but it was doomed to inferiority.
As for TNG's pilot episode, I do not understand how it changed Trek history. It was a Roddenberry-ish plot examining what 'we' were doing 'out there'. Q held 'us' up to examination. There was a scary alien life form. 'We' could have shot at it, but instead resolved the perceived threat through understanding. TNG was minor refinements to the Kirk-era format with a new ship and crew.
And as I remember First Contact, it changed nothing. It actually kept a change from happening.
In spite of the few and small imperfections that crept into the Trek universe over the years I like all the series. Not all the story lines shine equally but they all have a few memorable gems. What I have watched was not time wasted.
