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Poll Question: Which is your favorite Star Trek movie series?
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    Posted: August 19 2009 at 11:00
This poll is for the full length movies and not the TV show (you're welcome to comment on the TV series if you were a fan).
I enjoyed the original movies with Kirk and Spock because of the TV series. Cinematography and special effects had advanced considerably and it was good to see the original story remade for the big screen.
I was slow to catch on to TNG like I was slow to catch on to the TV show Mash after likng the movie so much. But Picard, Data and the rest of the crew started to grow on me. Add the good scripts and story lines and before you know it, I was a fan.
So my vote goes to The Next Generation.
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Patrick Stewart. Great actor.
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I liked him in all the X-Men movies as well.
I can vaguely remember seeing him in a movie where his character was a retired spy (I think) and he was starting to lose his memory. By the middle of the movie he had dozens of Post-It notes all over the wall with things he didn't want to forget. I saw it once years ago but I recall that I liked it.
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Patrick Stewart  as Jean-Luc Picard - a man for all seasons and my favourite captain in Star Trek!

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Originally posted by GaryB GaryB wrote:

This poll is for the full length movies and not the TV show (you're welcome to comment on the TV series if you were a fan).


Then you should have it deleted, start over and re-write those choices, because that's not how people will see it.
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I've only watched the original series (and the related movies). But I don't see how this Picard guy could be more awesome than Kirk.
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I agree with Vompatti. I'm a total trek geek, granted, and I like all involved...but Picard never brought tears to my eyes the way the dialog between Kirk and Spock did in Wrath Of Kahn.
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I liked the original movies with Kirk because I liked the TV series and it was good to see the original cast back together for the big screen. I was skeptical about TNG at first but like I mentioned, it did grow on you. So much so that I voted for it in this poll.
The Patrick Stewart movie about the retired agent with early alzheimers is called "Safe House" released in 1997. If you can find it at your video store you should check it out.
I don't know why this slipped my mind yesterday but I really liked Stewart's role in "Conspiracy Theory".
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This is tough. But pitting the best of TNK against the best of OS (and the worse against the worse) I'd have to give it to TNK.
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I can neither vote in this poll, nor even write in it. It would not be fair.
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I've really got to collect more Star Trek, I only have the original series. I like watching it whenever it's on on the "Syfy" channel.
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If I wore a red shirt I really would not have liked Kirk.  Seemed like a lot less security personnel got killed off under Picard. LOL
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

If I wore a red shirt I really would not have liked Kirk.  Seemed like a lot less security personnel got killed off under Picard. LOL
if only they'd given Wesley Crusher a red shirt in Series 1, or got him to stand in front of Natasha Yar at least.... LOL
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

If I wore a red shirt I really would not have liked Kirk.  Seemed like a lot less security personnel got killed off under Picard. LOL
if only they'd given Wesley Crusher a red shirt in Series 1, or got him to stand in front of Natasha Yar at least.... LOL


Ah, but Dean, didn't you just LURVE the way we all watched him develop into a man and, latterly, a super human entity?LOL
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

If I wore a red shirt I really would not have liked Kirk.  Seemed like a lot less security personnel got killed off under Picard. LOL
if only they'd given Wesley Crusher a red shirt in Series 1, or got him to stand in front of Natasha Yar at least.... LOL

Now there's a character I loved to hate.  Will Wheaton is actually quite a liberal and is currently running a blog and has a family, which just seems so weird to me.  LOL
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Wesley Crusher, all grown up with a family, whaaa? Tongue
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Shatner vs. Stewart
My pick goes to Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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When I was young I used to watch the Kirk/Spck gang quite a lot and it was good at the time.
 
Lately though I saw a few episodes again and was horrified at the cheesy ham acting. I can live with the cheap effects of the time and a lot of stuff that goes together with those episodes being so old, but the acting is just plain awful. Just can't excuse that.
 
Picard and crew are quite good though.
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when TOS was good it was the best thing on TV, Next Gen was a first rate show but it was too polished, I love the character of the old series  ..as for the films they're about even I guess, they always seemed to hit-and-miss, every other one a winner

anyway, Kirk








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