From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: tednolan
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

In article ,
Mac Breck  wrote:
>Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>
>> Let's face it, the TNG cast was hardly the best or brightest.
>
>I thought Picard (Patrick Stewart) was fine, although he was often
>written badly.  Seemed like they were always on the defense, and were
>running and/or trying to talk their way out of a fight, and getting
>their butts kicked.  One of the (briefly) refreshing things about
>"Conundrum" (S5E14) was seeing them have a really decisive victory over
>anybody.
>

Yeah, that was always the subtext with TNG.  Somehow they went in 75 years
from James T. Kirk who could bring down an empire with a paper-clip and
knew *when* to violate the Prime Directive and *how* to justify it to
a mamby-pamby "therapy state" that keeps a political officer (Troi)
on the bridge and can't seem to muster the gumption to do much of anything...

...Ted
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