From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: David_Powell3006@msn.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   On Dec 20, 8:42apm, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) wrote:   
   > 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. aSeemed 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. aOne 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. aSomehow 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...   
   They did OK some of the times they met the Romulans. For out and out   
   fighting they held their own most times they weren't up against   
   omnipotent beings. The Borg were scary.   
   Also Ben Maxwell shot the heck out of the Cardassians, though he   
   wasn't under orders to do so.   
   > a a a a a a a a a a a a Ted   
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