{"id":187151,"date":"2013-06-03T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/03\/well-duh-8\/"},"modified":"2013-06-03T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T13:48:00","slug":"well-duh-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/03\/well-duh-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Duh\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 250px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8lki2FM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8lki2FM.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Better than ST:TNG<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The Writers Guild of America has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2013\/06\/wga-officially-declares-star-trek-better-written-tng\">the original <i>Star Trek<\/i> series higher than they did <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Writers Guild of America has announced the 101 best written TV shows of all time, and I would like to draw your attention to a small excerpt from the list:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">33. Star Trek<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">79. Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not surprised.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, the best written SF show around the time of <i>ST:TNG<\/i> was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ALF_(TV_series)\"><i>ALF<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the fact that Jean Luc Picard might have been a better captain than James T. Kirk, particularly if I were Ensign Liebowitz of Starship Security, the characters never worked as well.<\/p>\n<p>You could see Kirk being adored by the crew, while Picard was distance, intellectual, and sarcastic; the sort of commander who you would call &#8220;The Old Man&#8221;, when he wasn&#8217;t around.<\/p>\n<p>Spock not wanting to move onto command worked, it was completely absurd for Riker. <\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s not go with the &#8220;Ships Counselor&#8221;, or Wil Wheaton&#8217;s first turn in the series as the boy genius.<\/p>\n<p>Geebus, it sucked.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I am heartened that <i>The Prisoner<\/i> was on the list as well, though I would have put <b>that<\/b> at number 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better than ST:TNG The Writers Guild of America has the original Star Trek series higher than they did Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Writers Guild of America has announced the 101 best written TV shows of all time, and I would like to draw your attention to a small excerpt from the list: 33. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,1171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}