I haven't seen this in over a decade what are the top 5 episodes?
Trials and Tribble-ations is great and hard to describe as it is more. far more than fan service, it is actual dedication and commitment to the whole thing. It is still impressive even today and is one of the main reasons I hate Kurtzman Trek.
The cast seemed to enjoy it a lot and it is incredibly fun and I am not into TOS at all beyond appreciating that it exists. There are some memorable moments too, like the Odo/Worf talk about tribbles, fucking "mortal enemies of the Empire" is just pure nonsense but Worf makes it entirely believable imo.
The thing I like about T&T versus the new TOS-era Trek stuff is that T&T knows that TOS looks like crap, but it plays around with it and it feels very humble when showing its roots. It appreciates the old show while also poking fun at it.
Kurtzman Trek feels like it's embarrassed by the fact that Star Trek was once a show that had buttons glued to cardboard sets and blinky lights, and the ship was a cute little model that flew past the camera. It's just like "actually TOS never happened, everything was always cold blue-tinged steel and all displays and consoles were all floating holograms (don't get me started on how much I hate transparent holograms as a display and touchscreen), and everyone was zipping around at infinite speed and all ships had a shuttle contingent of 10,000 (if that shitty Season 2 finale of DIS is to be taken seriously)". Oh, and we also just have all this technology that people in the older shows said was brand new but now it's been around for a century. Riker walking into the holodeck with wonder and awe was because he was an idiot who never saw this 100-year-old technology. What a dipshit.
Even the edgiest the show got in Berman-era with ENT still had a fair amount of care put into it to show that it was still a TOS-prequel. A great deal of attention was paid to the set to make it look both futuristic for the 00s but also like a precursor to sci-fi from the 60s. DIS and PIC just look like every other shitty sci-fi property out there.
There's no love. They just treat old-Trek like something that you can harvest images, references, and iconography from.
In no particular order:
In the Pale Moonlight
Bar Association
It's Only a Paper Moon
Far Beyond the Stars
The Wire
The Wire
Is this the one where Garak asked Sisko "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
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