A few months ago I was ranking the crews by departments, until I kind of ran out because the different roles vary show to show. Only two shows have a communication officer (gee wonder who was better). Neither DS9 or Voyager had a navigator (Sulu or Paris? Not sure, Paris is a better pilot but Sulu has combat experience), Voyager had no science officer (Data, Dax or Spock, ugh). And TOS had no security officer (man Worf, Odo, or Tuvok who would you pick?!). So I was thinking if there was anything else and realized I could just decide which crew was the best.
#5.Enterprise
It’s no secret I did not get into this show and the reason lands right on this boring cast. Archer was a bad character but well played and T’Pol was awesome but that’s it. They’re just so bland and boring. This is the first Trek show I honestly felt like the casting sucked.
#4.Deep Space Nine
A lot of people are disagreeing with me I know. Like the other lists I did I’m not saying that this crew was bad it just wasn’t my personal favorite. And this crew did rock league with badass Sisko. You really felt like every character was a pro who excelled in there job.
#3.The Next Generation
Ok full disclosure. The last two and first were easy. It was deciding between this and the next was hard. I’ll explain why I chose how I did on the next section. As for this crew, they did the impossible. They convinced pissed off Trek fans that it was ok to like Trek without Kirk and Spock. The characters are so well done from Date to Geordi to Troi. We still love them almost 40 years later.
#2.Voyager
Ok so how can I say this? Especially when Voyager has been called TNG light. And even I’ll admit it’s not the best Trek show for different reasons. Over the years I’ve found myself coming back to Voyager more then Next Generation. And this year I think I’ve finally figured out why, as I alluded to in another article. TNG has great characters, but Voyager felt more like a family. In TNG you can have an episode where one or two characters hardly appears. That’s much more rare on Voyager. TNG was people I’d work with, Voyager is people I’d hang out with.
#1.The Original Series
Obviously. I mean of course I’d pick the classic. I talked the other day about how one of the big reasons Star Trek IV worked is because it gave all our characters something to do, no one was ignored. There’s a reason why people love coming back to this show over and over and over again aside from the stories and stuff like that. It’s because we love spending time with these people. This has to be one of the best cast series ever.
Agree? Seriously disagree? Let me know.
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