Star Trek

[taellosse]

I mentioned this obliquely just now in a comment to my last post, and thought I'd go into a bit more detail, in case my opinion might carry some weight with the handful that read this thing when it actually updates

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[taellosse]

Heh. When I used the phrase "high art" I didn't mean it to be a synonym for "artsy," but okay. I more was trying to convey that I thought you were looking for the film to be deeply meaningful in some way.

But I get your point. I guess maybe the essential difference is you wanted this movie to be self-contained (as a movie traditionally would be, I'll grant), where I was happy to see it as a sort of series pilot.

I was pretty into DS9 for the first 3 years or so, but then lost the habit of seeing it. Saw an episode here and there after that, but nothing regularly. I understand it got a lot better after I stopped watching it reliably. I only ever saw the pilots of Voyager and Enterprise, and occasional isolated episodes. I only watched a handful of the ones from Voyager all the way through, and never saw another Enterprise episode to completion. But yeah, I saw just about every TNG episode ever made at least once (and am currently in the process of watching them in order from start to finish again, via DVD. We just started in on season 5). I've probably seen more than 2% of TOS, but it can't be more than 15%. I'd like to someday own the full set of TNG DVDs, but I doubt I'll buy any of the other ones currently available, except possibly DS9.