I think it was the Enterprise-D that did it for me more than anything else. Coming home from yet another shitty day at school as a kid, turning on the TV, and suddenly there is this huge, incredibly powerful ship that can do anything and go anywhere. It really made an impression on me.

The Freudian design of the Enterprise (particularly the Enterprise-D) also wasn’t lost on my unconscious: a huge breast (the saucer section) with two huge dicks (the warp nacelles) plus a vagina (the sensor array). The Enterprise-E (and Voyager) both have a more phallic appearance (they look like spearheads), reflecting the series’ move away from families and getting it on and more toward fighting aliens.

Also Berman sucks but he was in charge of Star Trek during its golden age IMO. Nutrek is unwatchable. I looked at Picard getting his new enterprise and couldn’t help thinking: everything is the same but worse. The economic base is stuck which means that the ideological superstructure is also stuck.

Kirk never really did it for me, I was always a Picard guy, and now I’m also a Sisko guy. I thought DS9 was boring and confusing when I saw it as a kid, and after my kids and I watched the whole thing together they couldn’t believe that I thought that. They loved DS9 because they thought it had more pew-pew than any other series. There are good episodes of Voyager and Enterprise too (particularly the alternative universe episodes where the entire crew is fucking and murdering each other…). The Voyager episodes where Red from That Seventies Show is obsessively fucking with the timeline are also good.

My favorite bad trek movie is Generations btw. Everyone knows it’s bad so you don’t have to convince me. It was the first one I saw in the theater so it has some nostalgic value for me. What’s YOUR favorite bad trek movie?