I’ve only seen the original movie, but I don’t see how anyone can top Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.
Star Trek The Beginning is 15 fucking years old now!
I’m going to bed…
I know you’re joking but I have a friend who’s like that; their introduction to Star Trek were the 2009 movies and afterwards they started watching a bit of the previous series but never really got into it. So they keep telling me how amazing the 2009 movies are (I’ve seen them all once around the time the released, I don’t recall a lot of the plot, just that I found them to be very un-star trek, they watched them religiously) and how hot all the actors are and I just roll my eyes and say “yeah yeah, suuure”. Still love them, despite their weird Star Trek opinions.
Sounds like me. The Kelvin timeline movies were my first introduction to Star Trek, and everybody in them is hot. Now I’m on the second season of DS9 (sorry, couldn’t get through the first season of TNG, even though I wanted to).
I hate you with every fiber of my being, and with the intensity of a thousand supernovae!
Good work!
Uh, Voyager aired in 1995 so if you’re 30 now, you would be 1 year old when it aired. Would have been 2 years old when Janeway and Paris had lizard sex. Timothée “Paul Wonka” Chalamet wasn’t even born when Voyager premiered.
When Seska was betraying the crew, Square released Final Fantasy 7.
Voyager encountered the Borg and met Seven about when Baby Hit Me One More Time was released.
When Janeway finally got Voyager home, Drake was starting his career on DeGrassi.
Squaresoft*
Fuck square and square-enix.
Yeah but not everyone lives in the US, other places got it later, and reruns exist, yet usually stop after a few years.
Slightly off topic.
I was watching a Tom Baker / 4th Doctor episode where someone refers to the Prime Minister as “she.” Naturally I assumed that they were referring to Thatcher. Turns out that the episode was made before Thatcher took office, and the writers were being wild and futuristic by making the leader a woman.
But if you are 39 now, you were 10 when it aired.
Was Ensign Kim over 30 at the start of Voyager? Which series has a cast under 30?
Kim (Garret Wang) was 26. Kes (Jennifer Lien) was 20. Paris (Robert Duncan McNeil) was 30, rounding out the youngest 3 main cast members. The Doctor and Chakotay were the oldest, both at 41.
TNG had Will Wheaton at 15, Denise Crosby (Tasha) at 29, and LeVar Burton at 30. And Stewart (49), Spinner (38), and McFadden (38) as the oldest.
George Takei was the baby of TOS at 29, followed by Koenig (Chekov) at 30 (when he joined a year later, so same age as Takei), and Nichols (Uhura) at 33. Doohan (Scotty) and Kelley (Bones) were both 46 and Shatner and Nimoy both 35. They all lived through WWII (and both Scotty and Bones served, Scotty took some friendly fire on D-day while Bones did training movies for the air force).
DS9 set some new extremes, with Lofton (little Sisko) at 14, Siddig (Bashir) 27, and Farrel (Jadzia) 29. On the other end, Auberjonois (Odo) was 52, followed by Brooks (big Sisko) 44, and Shimerman (Quark) 43.
Enterprise had Park (Hoshi) at 23, Blalock 26, and Montgomery (Travis) 30. Bakula (Archer) was 46, Billingsley (Phlox) 41, and Keating (Reed) 39.
Those are all main cast members, there have been other supporting actors both older and younger than those listed.
NOW I feel old!
😩
Thank you. That is wildly more informative than I had expected.
I was also curious and it was interesting getting a better idea of how old they all were, considering when I first watched them all, they were pretty much all “adults” to me because anything from like 20 to 65 was just one category lol.
🎶 It’s been a long time…
jesus christ, what’s that terrible noise?
Getting from there to here
Is it just me or does anyone else see a falling person holding a newspaper in one hand
The only Star Trek I’ve seen is TOS
If so, do yourself a favor and watch “Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan.”
imho as a TOS fan, it’s the pinnacle.
I’ve heard so much about it, it’s on my list for sure!
I love Voyager, DS9 and TNG. 90s were the best time for trek.
Enterprise not so much, but it was getting pretty good by the end.
In the 90s it felt like we may be working towards that idealism, aftwards…not so much. Plus after mid 2000s/2010 everything wanted to be gritty which doesn’t work for Star Trek. That said I haven’t watched any series since Enterprise(on my list just not up there), but the recent movies felt less like Star Trek than the TNG ones.
You know, I think you’ve got it. The pitch for Enterprise was “What if we went back in time before even TOS when everyone was significantly shittier?”
Watch Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds! Lower Decks is a little Rick and Morty-ish in the first season but it’s still good. This is coming from someone who really doesn’t like DISCO or Picard.
I feel like the only way gritty can work for Star Trek is if they set it entirely in the mirror universe where everyone is a dick.
Check out Strange New Worlds. It’s the trekkiest of all the new new treks.
Star Trek peaked in 1973, never to be matched again. Only two seasons of The Animated Series, but damn, they only needed two.
I prefer ancient, like TNG.
Don’t mind me - just going to browse the AARP sign up page now.
I have a friend who doesn’t like the (quote) “new Star Trek shows”. That’s anything produced after 1969. He grew up with TOS.
He’s enjoying SNW though, so there may be hope for him. 😄
That tells me he likes Star Trek when it was the “wild west” in space.
Understandable.
Danson had a similar exchange with Woody Harrelson on “Cheers.”
Ted = Sometimes I like to get out the really old rock and roll, The Drifters, The Marvellettes, bands like that. You ever listen to the old stuff.
Woody = Not me, but my Mom really likes Devo.
I haven’t even hit 30 yet and it’s weird to hear Voyager called old. I grew up watching TNG and sometimes TOS with my mom. It was one of the few good parts of my childhood. It took me forever just to stop referring to Voyager and Enterprise as “the new stuff.”
33 here, but honestly, TNG, VOY, and DS9 are definitely older Trek. They were the second gen, but still all felt like a close iteration from TOS. It was when I saw Enterprise that I went all…
I am getting towards the end of a ds9 rewatch (one episode before bed most nights) and I’m getting so happy to get to a voyager rewatch! It’s months away but still. (Not that I don’t like ds9, particularly the latter half.)
Enterprise was fantastic if you cut out the time travel episodes.
Voyager took a long time to find itself and it was disappointing the direction they took with it.
DS9 was a lame story with fantastic characters.
It seems like quite often, for myself included, “the best Star Trek show” is the one you first grew up with.
So it will always be TOS for me.
I don’t dislike any Star Trek show, but TOS was my first love.
TOS is Star Trek in my mind, even though TNG competes with it for my favorite. The adventures of Kirk/Spock & crew are the core of Star Trek, and it feels like everything since is an encore because of how incredibly beloved it was.
I had a conversation with my dad about newtrek and for him “the new series” was Enterprise. I mean it was for me too until discovery aired a few years ago
