From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: tednolan   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   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.  Seemed 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.  One 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.  Somehow 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...   
      
   ...Ted   
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