I read a Doctor Who/Star Trek TNG crossover awhile back.
It involves the Cybermen forming an alliance with the Borg. There’s also a cool flashback part where the Fourth Doctor meets the TOS crew. It was actually pretty good. 
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Oh yeah, I flipped through that in a Chapters bookstore a while back. It was pretty good. Captain Kirk fighting off tin foil Cybermen is priceless.
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Star Trek: Voyager in a number of ways may be my favorite of the Star Trek shows.The Next Generation is amazing as well.
I enjoyed the Original Series too. Although of course it was from the 60s, so it was a little more cheesy than the others. One of my favorite episodes was “The Doomesday Machine”
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Me and my dad are in the middle of season two, hoping to go for a full run of the show, but so far we’ve found it lacking compared to the previous three shows. Are the first few seasons just a slouch, or do they all seem to be about the same?
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Kes leaves pretty soon and a much more in-depth character takes her place.
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I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but some things change in the later seasons. I feel like there was a bit less technobabble in the later seasons, so if you don’t care for the science jargon too much, the later seasons may be a little more interesting.
And what calvatron said.
Personally, I liked it from beginning to end just about equally.
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That’s good to know. I’m willing to keep going, just keeping my dad interested is a little hard.
Your dad is not a Trekkie, or does he just not care for Voyager in particular?
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Oh he’s totally a trekkie, but he’s more into TOS and TNG.
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For those of you who love Captain Kirk’s awesome fights.
As for myself, I actually enjoy watching the campy and cheesy original series. Something about how weird but fun it got really made it enjoyable.
Although I much prefer The Next Generation. The storylines and ideas are so good in there. The original has quite the few cookie-cutter episodes.
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To be fair, while the original does re-use a few too many ideas, TNG wasn’t always a bastion of originality either. A lot of the stories they came up with for characters like Riker, Troi, and Dr. Crusher were really cliché. I think the problem is that TNG was written mostly by professional Hollywood scriptwriters (who can be great, but are prone to rely upon unoriginal ideas), whereas TOS relied more on science fiction authors (who tend to be more imaginative, if not necessarily as “polished”). I prefer the latter approach, personally. XD
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So many “Holodeck gone wrong” eps…
Not that I’m really complaining…
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I think this video is pretty good. It elucidates some of the reasons why Kirk is my favorite Captain, in particular his stance on the Prime Directive.
UPDATE 11/2/15
I keep updating this post every few months
I feel so alone 
Copying my review of Beyond here so you’re not so alone, Jogn 
I guess it was a little better than Into Darkness… But it suffered from the same blockbuster cliches. They destroyed the Enterprise again. Dumb villain revenge plot. World destroying artifact and plan to use it on a bunch of peaceful civilians just like Guardians of the Galaxy. Finding some ingenious escapee who helps them. And I still have problems with how they wrote the characters… Well, Kirk especially. TOS Kirk takes risks because he has to. This Kirk takes risks for the hell of it and makes riskier plans than are needed.
Oh, and the whole swarm enemy ships thing is lifted from Ender’s Game. Although the Beastie Boys Ex Machina was rather entertaining.
6/10. 
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I agree with a lot of what you said, but I think I liked it a little better. The scenes with Spock and Bones were great, for instance. And they at least tried to have a more thoughtful story than the last two movies, though it came off as being condescending to people in the military (it was kinda similar to “The Wounded” from TNG, come to think of it). I don’t have a huge problem with this Kirk being reckless because he’s clearly a different person than the “real” Kirk–he had a completely different upbringing and overall set of experiences. That being said, in the end, it was mostly just a typical action movie with Star Trek elements. It did a better job at being “Star Trek” than the other two, but it’s still not quite there.
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How do you define this?
Do you mean nerdy or just stuff with a bunch of space weirdness?
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The focus was on the action scenes, not the characters or philosophical musings. However, it still did put more focus on the latter two elements than the other movies did. 09 had a decent character focus IMO, but it didn’t really give you much to ponder. STID tried to develop the characters and give you things to think about but failed at both. But Beyond did pretty well with the character stuff and did, if not well with the “philosophical” stuff, then at least better than the other two.
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Beyond was good, probably my favorite of the JJ films. It felt closer to “old” Star Trek, especially with the character of Kirk.
Anyway, my favorite series is definitely TNG with Picard. It started off kind of meh, but eventually turned into such a fascinating show. I also have more nostalgia for it than the original series
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https://twitter.com/debrabirnbaum/status/763526155525697537
Welp, the new show is officially a prequel
'Cause that worked out so well for Enterprise. 
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Weeeelp.
Is that 10 years pre-Kirk’s birth? Or pre-Kirk in Starfleet?
… Cuz if it’s the latter I could totally see them shoving in chance encounters with old characters just because.
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