What’s odd about wanting this is that I didn’t particularly care for Voyager, and was turned off immediately by the gratuitous “porn” scene in the pilot episode of Enterprise. And yet there’s something about the words “Star Trek” that make me want to give it a second chance, never mind the travesty that Paramount has made of the franchise.
Here are a couple of questions for discussion, most of which I’m not going to answer:
- Though there will always be debates on whether The Original Series or The Next Generation was better (which often are just debates on Kirk vs. Picard), every Trek fan that I can think of has at least enjoyed The Next Generation. However, these same people differ wildly on whether Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise were any good. So what gave The Next Generation a near universal appeal?
- Corollary: Even though The Next Generation held wide appeal among sci fi fans, I can’t think of any non-sci fi fans who liked the show. Will there ever be a show that will successfully bridge that gap?
- Just what is it that makes me want to always give Star Trek another chance? It’s not just me… I have another friend who is even more willing to look past the “blemishes” in the hope that someday the franchise will be redeemed. But yeah… I’m actually less willing to give arguably better series like Babylon 5 or Firefly a chance because somehow I’m stuck in the Star Trek universe. Is it the same phenomenon that causes people to want to see movie sequels even though they’re often worse than the originals?
I’ll stop there to say that I think that a large part of the appeal of Star Trek for me is the bonding time between me and my dad. No matter what we were doing, we’d always stop when Star Trek came on. And when it was over, we’d continue on with what we were doing. But for that one hour we bonded. I think that’ll always be special to me. And whenever I watch Star Trek, I will think of him.
Anyway, I doubt this set is going to sell very well, but I do hope that it goes on deep discount someday. 
