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Overdosing on Star Trek: The Next Generation
Good things can be bad things if taken in excess. I learned this recently from re-watching all the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. All 178 of them. It took me about two years. That might sound like a relaxed schedule, but that is one ST:TNG every 4 days.
Watching so much ST:TNG is not good for you; especially if you like Star Trek and you want to continue liking Star Trek. When you watch so much Star Trek close together you begin to notice certain things.
1) There seems far too many omnipotent or near-omnipotent alien species in the universe; Q, the Douwd, Nagilum, the Traveler, and those big space jellyfish from pilot, just to name a few.
The Enterprise is always running into super-powerful aliens. How many can one universe hold? And for beings so powerful they never seem to know about each other.
2) Holodecks seem to cause more trouble than they are worth.
The safeties on that sucker get compromised a lot! For goodness sake! Never turn on your holodeck if you happen to be crossing some weird celestial phenomena. You could lose control of your ship or do something totally wacky like create a new life form. Both of which might kill you during the glitch.
Even Chief O'Brien makes fun of how many times the holodeck malfunctioned in a conversation with Worf in season four of Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
3) Their technology is far too advanced.
Does that sound weird? Think about it. There's nothing they can't do. Between the transporter and the replicator and the limitless times they combine the two, they can do anything. Watch the episodes and you'll notice that they keep coming up with stuff to limit their limitless technology for the sake of the episode's plot line. This planet has a field where we can't use transporters. We can't replicate that thingy because it's made of some special material.
Despite these minor annoyances I still enjoy watching Star Trek. I'll probably watch them all over again in a few year so my son and daughter can get hooked.
In some respects my "minor annoyances" made me glad about the J.J. Abrams "reboot". It seemed like a perfect opportunity to start fresh and not "paint themselves into a corner" with too much super-technology... Hmmm. Let's see there is "Scotty's super-long-distance-transporter" and the "Khan death-reversing-super-blood-serum". (Sigh.)
PS: I've started re-watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
Have a great day.
