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[quote name="Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post"]Star Trek the original series was good? Are you fucking kidding me? The horrible acting, the terrible plots, the campy <i>everything</i>. DS9 at least had some good characters, and the nice arc of the last four seasons, but the individual episodes were pretty boring. The only really good Star Trek was The Next Generation - great characters, the best plots of any sci-fi series in that they constantly called into question common perceptions of causality/machine intelligence/ontology/epistemology/etc., and honest-to-God *good* acting. The only great actor DS9 had was Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien) - check out "Hard Time" and the technology/babble-free "Honor Among Thieves" to see a Star Trek actor <i>actually act</i>. The Next Generation had Brent Spiner (no matter how much Data got annoying) and Patrick Stewart, both of whom did amazing jobs throughout the series that put any actor from the original series to shame. I'm sorry, but the original Star Trek . . . good? What fantasy world do you live in? posted by Ryvar at 9:14 AM PST on April 23 [/quote]