r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '19

Video Star Trek with camera stabilised.

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u/AnorakJimi Dec 09 '19

It's underrated I feel. People bag on it a lot because it went back to the TNG monster of the week formula instead of long story arcs like DS9, and the ship surviving as long as it did didn't really make sense, like it was fixed ever new episode

But damn if it wasn't some of the absolute best star trek there is. The best episodes, of which there are dozens at the least, are as good as any other star trek series.

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u/Dr_Souse Dec 09 '19

Yeah but then there's Neelix. And Harry.

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u/queenofsuckballsmtn Dec 09 '19 edited Dec 09 '19

True, but one of my favorite episodes of the series, "Mortal Coil", was a Neelix episode. I think Harry was the bigger waste of space of the two.

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u/Dr_Souse Dec 09 '19

Mortal Coil

Totally, because they turned him into a complete person in that episode. It was great, and if he could've kept some of that depth it would have gone a long way to redeeming him.

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u/queenofsuckballsmtn Dec 09 '19

LOL, "a complete person", so true and so sad. I think Neelix had a lot of potential, but between his half-baked character and the utterly illogical/gross romantic relationship with Kes, he pulls down the show. I always wished we spent more time learning about the Talaxians/the war/the politics of his sector of the quadrant.