Under which Captain would you rather serve?

[Captain Picard's Hair]

And therein lies my point: poor SFX can be compensated with by good and original plots and characters.

Didn't TOS have an episode where they were attacked by a giant space amoeba?

...as did pretty much all of the series in one form or another

[Sionnach Glic]

And attacked by the Greek God Apollo?

Yup.
And Kirk kicked his ass. 8)

[Blackstar the Chakat]

And therein lies my point: poor SFX can be compensated with by good and original plots and characters.

Didn't TOS have an episode where they were attacked by a giant space amoeba?

And attacked by the Greek God Apollo?

And the half a dozen times they travelled through time?

[Mark]

And had a guest apperance by President Abraham Lincoln

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Don't forget the time a few aliens from outside the galaxy turned the crew into carbon boxes and stole the ship

[Mark]

Oh yeah, and when the crew got turned into gunfighters at the OK corrall.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

And the old Psi 2000 virus which made the crew go nuts and almost crashed the E-nil into the planet it was orbiting only to be saved by quickly coming up with a formula to start the 'cold' antimatter at the last minute and make the clock go backwards.

[Mark]

And the old Psi 2000 virus which made the crew go nuts and almost crashed the E-nil into the planet it was orbiting only to be saved by quickly coming up with a formula to start the 'cold' antimatter at the last minute and make the clock go backwards.

While "drunk".

[Blackstar the Chakat]

And the ever so common cliche of travelling to a mirror universe

[Mark]

And ended up in a "haunted" castle, for Halloween. Ruled by a couple of spiders.

[Mikey]

And the ever so common cliche of travelling to a mirror universe

It wasn't a cliche when TOS did it.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

And don't forget the two or three times they meet a civilization identical to one of earth's cultures, or a what-if of what would have happened had the Cold War happened, with a group having a flag and a constitution identical to the USA's.

[Mark]

And the gangsters. Oh God, did I love those friggin gansters. Of all the races that should have been re-visited, it should have been them.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

And the gangsters. Oh God, did I love those friggin gansters. Of all the races that should have been re-visited, it should have been them.

They were going to do it for one of the aniversery episodes, but the went with Trials and Tribble-ations instead.

[Mark]

And let's never forget the deadly giant ice cream cone in space.