I thought you were agreeing with the 3 and 4 were best part!!!! Very brave of you and Anders to agree that 57% of all the seasons were the best!

5 is my favorite, but it still has a handful of absolute dogshit episodes. It was a different time.

Finally gotten back to watching Discovery. I’m on the second season. Still think it’s the worst Star Trek series along with Picard.

Chris Pine Says Star Trek Shouldn't Compete With Marvel's 'Billion-Dollar' Movies

Actor Chris Pine, who played Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek Beyond and Star Trek Into Darkness, recently discussed the popular franchise and said they should not compete with the billion-dollar Marvel film franchise. He suggested that Star Trek should place focus on something different.

"We always tried to get the huge international market," Pine told Deadline. "It was always about making the billion dollars. It was always this billion-dollar mark because Marvel was making a billion. Billion, billion, billion. We struggled with it because Star Trek, for whatever reason, its core audience is rabid. Like rabid, as you know. To get these people that are interested that maybe are Star Wars fans or think Star Trek is not cool or whatever, proven to be … we’ve definitely done a good job of it but not the billion-dollar kind of job that they want."

Pine's next thoughts were on how the franchise would do well to put their effort into creating content for those viewers who already love Star Trek. He specifies that making less in this case is a good thing. "I've always thought that Star Trek should operate in the zone that is smaller," he stated. "You know, it's not a Marvel appeal. It's like, let's make the movie for the people that love this group of people, that love this story, that love Star Trek. Let's make it for them and then, if people want to come to the party, great. But make it for a price and make it, so that if it makes a half-billion dollars, that's really good."

Pine went on to express his enthusiasm for Star Trek, saying that he loves the message of it and the character. He shared that he loves the gig and is honored to be a part of the franchise, saying that he thinks there are plenty of stories to tell in it.

The actor recently settled speculation regarding the next instalment in the franchise, which many assumed essentially borrowed elements from director Quentin Tarantino's script for the unrealized Star Trek project he was reportedly developing, though he admitted that he had not yet read a script for the upcoming project. In February, Paramount announced Star Trek 4 would start production later this year, with Chris Pine and co-stars Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg in talks to reprise their roles.

Oh no sorry if I put a smiley face at the extra credit bit maybe it would have read different was going for goofiness. I don’t seem to be very good at making my points clear today or ever lol.

TNG turns 35 today.