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> once Berman took over and began infusing pointless interpersonal conflict, I lost interest Berman took over basically near the end of season 2/beginning of s
by magicalist 4y ago
> once Berman took over and began infusing pointless interpersonal conflict, I lost interest
Berman took over basically near the end of season 2/beginning of season 3 when the original writers were slowly kicked out and Gene Roddenerry's health was in definite decline. This was also when the show got good.
Berman had many faults he brought to TNG (and magnified in Voyager, and you can see was Star Trek but with a looser Berman hand is like on DS9), but this wasn't one of them. If anything he stuck up too much for Gene's vision which sometimes struggled fitting into actual scripts that were compelling and made sense.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoSeason 3 is when it started getting somewhat consistently good. Although that is difficult in a 26 episode per year show.
- pencilguin 4y agoSeason 3 was when TOS started to go all to hell. All of the very worst episodes were in Season 3. It was almost a relief when it was cancelled. Season 3 started right after the Apollo 11 moon landing, when people had got a hint of how difficult and terrifying space travel really was. Aliens with bumpy heads weren't inspiring anymore.
- boxed 4y agoTOS != TNG.