SFDebris: The Outrageous Okana

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Man, it sure is fun to look back at TNG with 20 years of hindsight. Those first two seasons were crap but everyone thought they were awesome when they aired.
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It was the first new Trek in almost two decades. To describe everyone as wearing rose colored glasses would be an understatement.
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It's still rather strange though. It was so different from TOS. Surely Trek fans at the time were expecting the show to follow a TOS style? I'd expect them to be rather dissapointed.
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I expect there were a few categories when it first came out:

1) This is shit. *click*
2) This is shit, but it's early yet, let's see if it'll improve.
3) It's Trek therefore I'll watch it regardless of quality.
4) It's Trek therefore it's brilliant! *fapfapfap*
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Tyyr wrote:I didn't hate it to his degree but yeah, that was a wasted hour of my life.

The fact that they had to tell you he was outrageous in the episode title tells you everything you need to know.
But he had a 5 o'clock shadow - all the time! He must be outrageous!
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Captain Seafort wrote:I expect there were a few categories when it first came out:

1) This is s**t. *click*
2) This is s**t, but it's early yet, let's see if it'll improve.
3) It's Trek therefore I'll watch it regardless of quality.
4) It's Trek therefore it's brilliant! *fapfapfap*
With most falling at 2 and 3.

I was 3.
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Captain Seafort wrote:*fapfapfap*
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Cpl Kendall wrote:Man, it sure is fun to look back at TNG with 20 years of hindsight. Those first two seasons were crap but everyone thought they were awesome when they aired.
Meh, I still liked a lot of them. *Shrug*
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Tsukiyumi wrote:
Captain Seafort wrote:*fapfapfap*
I'm not even going to ask.
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Fucking Tau sympathiser! Get him!
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I completely agree about the writing in this show. NONE of the jokes in the damned thing were funny. And who'd have thought, that single bit about lasers not penetrating the nav shields would start a war between Trek and Wars.
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Cpl Kendall wrote:f***ing Tau sympathiser! Get him!
Purge the heretic!
Mark wrote:I completely agree about the writing in this show. NONE of the jokes in the damned thing were funny. And who'd have thought, that single bit about lasers not penetrating the nav shields would start a war between Trek and Wars.
One line.....years of flaming arguments.
Pretty much sums up the VS debates nicely, I think. :lol:
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