Breja: Picard and Data. I know it's the obvious, unoriginal answer, but they are the most interesting, with best episodes and best actors. Then Worf, a cool, complex character, and Riker, who is very likeable, the kind of guy you'd want to hang out with, and still would follow as a leader to hell and back.. I don't care much for Dr. Crusher, and I don't like Troy. She's just mostly stuck up, with an air of thinly veiled arogance about her.

Breja: Oh, so many. Q Who and Best of Both Worlds, obviously for Borg. Measure of a Man and The Most Toys for Data. Chain of Command and The Inner Light for Picard (one of the three best Trek episode ever for me) and finally Darmok, my favourite episode of the series, and of all Star Trek.

Breja: Rascals. Just... no. As much as I love this show... just no. It's not even "wacky" it's just silly on the level of "the knight from Monty Python should show up and wack everyone with the rubber chiken".

And Shades of Grey, though it's hardly even an episode. It's a clipshow of the first two seasons, put together because of writer's strike back then. This one you really can skip, there is nothing there worth anyones time.

Breja: Picard and Data. I know it's the obvious, unoriginal answer, but they are the most interesting, with best episodes and best actors. Then Worf, a cool, complex character, and Riker, who is very likeable, the kind of guy you'd want to hang out with, and still would follow as a leader to hell and back.. I don't care much for Dr. Crusher, and I don't like Troy. She's just mostly stuck up, with an air of thinly veiled arogance about her.

Breja: Oh, so many. Q Who and Best of Both Worlds, obviously for Borg. Measure of a Man and The Most Toys for Data. Chain of Command and The Inner Light for Picard (one of the three best Trek episode ever for me) and finally Darmok, my favourite episode of the series, and of all Star Trek.

Breja: Rascals. Just... no. As much as I love this show... just no. It's not even "wacky" it's just silly on the level of "the knight from Monty Python should show up and wack everyone with the rubber chiken".

And Shades of Grey, though it's hardly even an episode. It's a clipshow of the first two seasons, put together because of writer's strike back then. This one you really can skip, there is nothing there worth anyones time.

Breja: Me too. Also, if you reject 60's wackiness, you might end up rejecting The Prisoner, one of the best and, beneath the wackiness, most serious an thought provoking series ever.

Elmofongo: Not even The Original fucking Series, the show that gave us the most whacky episodes ever, went as far as turning the cast into children. And the closet thing they did was a virus that rapidly aged them to old age.

Breja: And I liked that episode. But Rascals... not only is the premise stupid, but it only gets dumber as it goes on. It's honestly worth watching once, just to see the sheer WTF of it all. Ah well, I guess it's only fitting for the series that has the best episode in all of Trek to also have probably the worst one.

Elmofongo: Is that actress who played Sulu's daughter really Takei's Daughter?

Breja: I doubt it, as George Takei is gay.

Elmofongo: Shocker. But eh don't care.

Never understood the guy's popularity. Is it his voice? Is it because he said fuck you to Shatner?

Breja: I read that they roconciled. I hope it's true, there is few enough of the original cast still with us, they should stick together.

I hear he did some good work on the gay rights front, and for American-Japanese relations. And he was always very positive towards the Trek fandom, showed up as guest star in one of the fan-made continuations of TOS. Fans always like it when an actor embraces the show and fandom.

RWarehall: I remember the first season of TNG being a little uneven. Troy made me cringe with how many episodes her psychic abilities stated the obvious. It reminds me of Galaxy Quest and Sigourney Weaver just repeating exactly what the computer says. There are still good episodes, but the series greatly improves as it starts to find its rhythm after the first season.

RWarehall: I remember the first season of TNG being a little uneven. Troy made me cringe with how many episodes her psychic abilities stated the obvious. It reminds me of Galaxy Quest and Sigourney Weaver just repeating exactly what the computer says. There are still good episodes, but the series greatly improves as it starts to find its rhythm after the first season.

Breja: True, the first season is much weaker than the rest. It's very obvious the show is trying to find it's way, it's kind of a test drive to see how to make it work. There are good episodes there, but later the overall quality improves by leaps and bounds.

Elmofongo: Aren't all first seasons to any show starts off weak?

snowkatt: err didnt i say that the first season of tng is wildly uneven you numpties ? ;p
it took till season 3 for tng to get really good and find its own identity instead of trying to be tos with higher production values