The Death of Star Trek

Only one thing can save Star Trek.

BRING BACK DECENT WRITERS!

Shatner's campiness is the soul of Star Trek and always will be! I just can't get enough of Kirk's bulging eyes and absurd mouthing as he doubles over in pain inflicted by some alien life form or machine. It's classic stuff. His death in ST7 was a big letdown-- the hammy death scenes Shatner did in The Fugitive and The Six Million Dollar Man were both much more satisfyingly Kirklike.

Actually DS9 was the first "post-Roddenberry" series, and actually he was not that actively involved with TNG after the first few seasons, because of his health.

Personally I find Voyager to not only be the worst of all the series, but the only one that is near unwatchable. I've been revisiting all the Trek shows lately via DVD and Netflix, and catching up on Enterprise, which I didn't watch much of originally (mainly because Voyager completely turned me off of new Trek for years). TNG is my favorite, and still holds up after all these years. DS9 is terrific, and a truly unique Trek show, just as I had always remembered it. Enterprise is a surprisingly enjoyable show, even if it doesn't feel like it could actually be a prequel to TOS at all. TOS of course is dated, but highly enjoyable, and fun to watch. I find Voyager to be dull, uninspired, and lacking any charm in the cast, setting, or story departments, just as I remembered it on it's original broadcast.

The problems with Trek definitely came from having the same people doing the same things over and over for far too long. It hit a low point with Voyager because the cast was so boring, and the writting so phoned in and lazy. Enterprise picked it up a bit, but too little too late, as they had already driven big Trek fans like myself away with years of Voyager stinking up the joint, and weren't doing anything interesting enough to draw new viewers, or good enough to keep the ones they did. It's a shame because Enterprise is a good show, at least for the first two seasons that I've seen via Netflix, and from what I've heard it gets much better in the last two seasons as well.

I say put Star Trek on hiatus for at least a decade. Give time to let the "Death of Star Trek" ideas time to die down. Then in about 10 years come back with a completely new concept, maybe 1000 years from the 24th Century.

I think the problem was the Star Trek kept repeating itself in an arena that now includes Stargate and Battlestar Galactica which are in step with the times.

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