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Well i've been thinking about recent arguments and conversations and wondering....what do you actually watch trek for? Enjoyment? Stimulation (I mean mental)?

Personally i watch it for enjoyment. I dont care if i dont have to think about it. If i want to think about something, i watch a murder mystery.

Thinking about things is part of the reason I watch it. If I want mind numbing entertainment I turn on Star Wars.

Ha your probably pissing off some SW fans by calling it shallow.

I watch it for entertainment, the rest of the stuff does add a nice dimension but its not hugely important to me.

Entertainment.

Escapism and entertainment I guess It's nice to watch and imagine a positive future of mankind where we know for sure that we're not alone in the universe with all-sorts of wierd and wonderful technology that, although we can conceive of it, is still and probably always will be a pipe dream

I also really love the concept of no money. Money is the route to all evil How it would ever really be practical, I don't know but the idea of the point of existence to be to better oneself seems far nobler than the accumulation of wealth and possesions.

I liekd TNG because it was a better future for humans unlike much of scifi, just cruising around looking at interesting stuff.

I liked DS9 because it showed a new angle on trek, a more realistic future with politics and real characters.

I just enjoyed Voyager, appart from Janeway being a retard and a bitch I imagin thats what would really happen if people got thrown across the universe...

Entertainment.

Really, what other reason is there to watch a movie or TV program? It may be escapist entertainment, or thoughtful entertainment, or whatever, but it's still entertainment.

Teaos wrote:Ha your probably pissing off some SW fans by calling it shallow.

Lucas himself referred to his films as an old-style "space opera," a la Burroughs.

Mikey wrote: Lucas himself referred to his films as an old-style "space opera," a la Burroughs.

SW doesn't make any excuses for what it is: mindless escapism. The fans assigned it a different meaning. Various series of ST have alternated between taking itself way to seriously to mindless escapism as well.

Of course there's the ultimate example of a movie series taking itself way to seriously: The Matrix.

If I weren't entertained by Trek, I wouldn't watch it. As far as "other stuff," I was young when I had my first exposure to Trek via my father, and aside from having been "socialized to it," I suppose I may have had the sense that anything was possible in Trek.

Pure entertainment.

Seven of Nine and T'pol

Shame that there aren't really attractive trek dudes.

Don't like Robert Beltran?

My mother used to think that Patrick Stewart was hot sh*t.