#its just that the dynamics on TOS are WAYYY different than TNG

[thatstartrekguy]

honestly y'all I love TNG for the opposite reasons I love TOS

watching TNG is like:

bUt tHe pRiMe dIrEcTiVe

Picard making the tough calls of putting the ship in front of one or a few people

they all take orders and ask permission to speak freely cause *professionalism*

Riker constantly telling Picard to stay safe on the ship because protocol in a regular, non-homoerotic manner (no hate to shippers)

they can get into more complex moral and philosophical quandaries because Picard thinks before every decision

Q

then TOS is the least professional group of people Starfleet has ever met

Jim's got two modes: fight and flirt and he will use both if given the chance

scotty is ready to disobey orders at any and every second, like who put the chief engineer who never wants to leave engineering third in command

Jim and Spock. Just, Spock and Jim and their lil touches, just the obvious intimacy between them

Bones is just, on the bridge and every other mission cause he's Jim's lil grouchy buddy, and he's always shouting and picking fights with Spock

Jim goes on almost every away mission and Spock doesn't fight it, I like to think because he's realized arguing is useless and Jim's even more likely to get hurt if Spock's not there

"You gave them to the Klingons??!?"

Uhura taking over the ship in that one TAS episode, beaming down and immediately phasering everyone and everything on sight

prime directive? prime directive who???

Plato's Stepchildren, need I say more

yes, there are similarities, but it's the directly opposite vibes that make me love both

#like you've got mega camp #then way more realism #and somehow theyre both great and both star trek #i love TOS for its shippiness and i love TNG cause its like the least shippy thing ive ever watched #which is NOT hate for shippers #its just that the dynamics on TOS are WAYYY different than TNG #anyways i just love star trek #thanks for coming to my ted talk #star trek #star trek tos #the original series #star trek the original series #star trek tng #tng #star trek the next generation