Since I've had a number of people reaching out to ask for an episode guide, this is the one I used. Its very handy because it gives a description, the stars of the episode, and a rating for how essential it is to watch. reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/w/algernonguide_tng? Also, here is the twitter link to the Barclay fancam twitter.com/SuperFoxcade/status/1682830331274207232?s=20
The quote from the Barclay episode that really stuck with me was when Picard refused to transfer him to another ship, saying it wasn't responsible to make another person someone else's problem. Really sold me on how it's more noble to help people than abandon them.
My favourite quote from that episode is when Picard calls him Broccoli, you can feel Barclay's mood just drop as Picard realises what he does. Aggh! My heart just sinks
Beautifully written. "The trial never ends." -Q; is not about humanity's trial. It's about your personal trial against yourself, about your personal growth, which should never cease.
Awesome review of TNG. You summarized up why it is still my favorite ST show. Though I would like to see your reflections on ST Picard, specifically season 3. Thanks for the memories 😊.
I grew up on TNG. My parents really enjoyed the series, and they even made sure to record the episode on the Sunday I was born. 😂 So this is a welcome, nostalgic trip from you, Fox! ...still waiting on that Part 2 ReBoot retrospective, unless you only made one part to drive home the fact the original series ended on a cliffhanger.
i'm another one who grew up on TNG. my first word was apparently "computer" as a result of this. 😅 needless to say, some of those episodes evoke some crazy intense nostalgia... most especially "masks" (which is also my favorite episode... love that weird aesthetic blend the sets have going on in that one). anyway. this was my first foxcade video and it made me smile from beginning to end. new subscriber acquired ⭐
I remember Tasha Yar being killed off as a HUGE deal. Killing off a character credited in the title sequence? Inconceivable! And ironic that the episode finally gave her character a modicum of legit character development (Worf saying he wagered on her winning an upcoming martial arts tournament was a small but wonderful touch and it’s a shame the two of them didn’t have any other good moments together). Her reappearance in season 3’s Yesterday’s Enterprise was a wonderful surprise and made all of us wish for her to be back. Even having Crosby play a different character later was a welcome surprise that sadly didn’t play out as well as we hoped. Still, glad they got her into the finale and her face was the last one seen during the events of the past.
Worf ultimately made for a better security chief and character overall, and his promotion in TNG set up his role in DS9 quite well. Denise Crosby ironically ended up being a better Romulan officer than a Starfleet one.
@@justfitz08 except for that one moment she monologues to Picard about her backstory. No self-respecting Romulan is just going to give away information like she does!
@@SAPProd I was like 7 y old in the mid 90's when I watched TNG and realised just recently that Denise Crosby is singlehandedly responsible for my attraction to pixie girls! 😍
I liked how Worf is portrayed when interacting with other Klingons. He acts as someone who has studied their culture intensely, but from a far, never interacting directly, being surprised by the nuances. However I occasionally dislike how he interacts with humans, as his backstory is being raised by Humans on Earth, but is routinely suprised by human customs & behavior, like he's never seen it before. I get him not exactly understanding human behavior, (his season1 line to Data "I never understood their humor") due to fact he has an alien mind, but he should be familiar with it, not constantly suprised/disgusted by it.
My favourite bit about worf is that he's not really a cultural kilingon. He's like a pantomime of a klingon, it's a shame they never really delved into it.
I agree. They just handled the “alien outsider” thing strangely with things like him not understanding how to open a door with a latch or how to interact with a house cat. That said, he’s still my favorite character and I think that his quest for identity is a very relatable thing. You don’t have to be adopted from an alien race to question whether you fit into the culture around you and to wish to be with people who understand you. One of the things that I do like about Worf is that, slowly and subtly, the Enterprise and its crew become the place where he belongs.
One of my favorite early things of TNG is Worf learning new words. The scene where he learns the word "poppycock" in one of the early Q episodes is pure comedy.
Watching this made me realise that this is probably the only tv show that I know every single characters name including the minor ones. Endearing indeed.
I got into Star Trek, the Next Generation about three or four years ago, and by that time I was already a heavy read letter media viewer, and so I was extras excited when they talk about their favourite episodes in TNG
Barkley has to be the most wholesome character in this show. And honestly, his episodes are the biggest example of what Trek, and the Starfleet are all about.
The biggest tearjerkers for me was when that Admiral told the crew Lal wasnt going to make it.. Data saying goodbye to Dr. Soong( and in STP S3,L0RE😢) and when Ke'hlar died, she grabbed Alexander's hand and joined it to Worf's hand before dying.. Sad as f*ck
The thing I love about Worf is even though he’s struggling to be this ideal Klingon he thinks he’s suppose to be he slowly learns that it’s also okay to like prune juice and both of those things can be okay
Great to see a solid recap of what it feels like to get into the franchise nowadays. The camp is as fun and endearing as you’re willing to let it be, but the character writing is always going to be one of the strongest draws for the show as it goes on. Great review, man :)
I'm so mad it took youtube so long to show me this video, it's one of my favorite star trek video essays I've ever seen. Awesome job. Love to see the perspective of someone new to the franchise. I know it's unlikely, but if you ever want to make a TOS/DS9/SNW etc essay I would be here in an instant
43:00 Barclay btw has some of the typical symptoms of a schizoid personality disorder. In VOY his character is also used in several episodes over the series. Barclay is one of the examples how classic Trek shows characters usually cast aside in a society becoming the hero of a story due to their unique perspective. But this aspect of representation in classic Trek also always came with a twist: Minorities were represented, but always as their better self, since it was one of Roddenberry's core concept for Trek characters that they should be aspirational to the viewers (again not playing to the narcissism, but showcasing a better version of their represented self).
For years after TNG ended, I had the mistaken idea that the show wrapped its timeline; that whatever Picard did to stop the anomaly sent him back to the encounter at Farpoint. It wasn't until the DVDs came out that I watched the series over again and realized that was just my delusion.
Welcome to star trek my friend. I used to watch TNG when I was a teenager in the 90's and loved it, I realised that the series was on prime over here in Australia and I went on a binge for about 3 or 4 weeks reliving all the old adventures and it was great. I then went and skipped ds9 even though I did like it 90's but I prefer vouyger to ds9 and I watched all of that as well. I love star trek and always have.
Wow. As soon as you mentioned how "Measure of a Man" was the defining episode in ST:TNG, I knew that you really understand this show. It's like a lightbulb went off in the writers' brains, that TNG had the potential to be something amazing, and it started with that one episode. And I enjoyed you giving appreciation to Barcley, and then bromancing about Worf--I've never been big into Klingon anything on the show, but as I've gone back to watch the series recently, I've come to appreciate how funny Michael Dorn is and how good he was as a Starfleet Klingon officer. And yes, Data is my favorite, but I like all the cast (including Troi--she started to develop more as a character when they stopped using her for every dang romance episode).
17:30 i think thats why Mass Effect is my favorite science fiction property. Its essentially an exploration of what it means to be human even as far as the main character’s own humanity being questioned. It’s just great!
The biggest thing that held back TNG in the early seasons was, ironically, Roddenberry himself. His mandate that there be no interpersonal drama between the crew and always be utopian really handcuffed the writers.
As a writer myself, i get it. The writer were used to writing drama so much, it can get out of control when you try something new. Even today writers still have a problem recapturing what made Star Trek different from other sci-fi shows. What made me love TNG was not the interpersonal drama but How mature or professional they dealt with it. Something I feel was lost to most modern writers of ST today. So it was a balancing act that i felt they got right naturally over time since all his mandates were only loosed and not completely disregarded.
Awesome review of TNG. You summarized up why it is still my favorite ST show. Though I would like to see your reflections on ST Picard, specifically season 3. Thanks for the memories 😊.
Worf's struggle is simply the struggle of African American men who are not thugs. And our love hate relationship with stereotypical black culture. Thanks, Michael Dorn. It's the only depiction of what we go through on film.
My dad and I where big TNG fans, watched it steady. I was just a kid, but I remember always being super interested in the episodes with borgs. Great memories:) Cool video, cheers
When you were talking about the switch to CGI in effects, you used First Contact as an example of that switch, but all the shots you showed were entirely practical or composited.
I've been a massive fan of Star Trek for years. Although I do watch Star Trek videos on RU-vid anyway, I was intrigued by your title. A great video in both content and structure. Although there were poor episodes, many episodes had something great. Action, intrigue, emotion, philosophical and moral dilemmas, as well as those episodes that were fun. The variety that you got week to week kept people invested in the show, in the days when you did have to invest your time and effort into shows that couldn't just be binge-watched. Your point about Worf having,and living an idealised view of a Klingon lifestyle was something that I hadn't heard someone say before. Though the main stories were great, some obviously better than others, it was some of the smaller moments and guest cast that added so much depth. A scene you briefly touched on was O'Brien and the Cardassian, it had great acting but also some fantastic and subtle reactions. It Humanised the Cardassians. I've really enjoyed this video.
Finally, a perspective from a new fan instead of a gushing tribute trying to hammer in what you are "missing out on" by ignoring "the fabulous Star Trek". Well done.
There's that episode in Deep Space Nine were Worf just beats up Jem Hadar after Jem Hadar in single combat, until the enemy commander is so impressed he 'gives up' without a fight, just to honor Worf (at the cost of his own life). What an episode.
My gf grew up watching the original series and I had never watched it. So she started showing me iconic episodes and I could not believe that I was getting into it. Wild.
TNG was amazing - the depth of the characters, quality of the writing, some brilliant stories, pushing the FX boundaries at the time - loved it as a kid - still go back to it from time to time. Modern Trek doesn’t come anywhere close
"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." "Q. What is it you're trying to tell me?" "You'll find out."
I discovered Star Trek a few years after Star Wars and was still pretty young. Like around 9-10. I loved how interconnected the universe seemed and how sophisticated and most of all how descent everyone was. It taught me a Lot of things and I love it to this day. I also love Star Wars quite a bit. And some others. I could also recommend a bunch of similar shows. But this video is your rant 😅 Live long and prosper
1:01:05 Oooh, please do character breakdowns of the other characters. You did an amazing job with Worf and would love to see the same for Picard, Data, La Forge, Crusher, Wesley, Troi, etc.
i too in this last year have become a huge Trekkie. My dad was a huge Trekkie and passed in a car accident last January plus my bf is also a huge Trekkie. So I felt like I would give it a shot to feel closer to both. Lucky me my bf is an excellent guide to all Trek and layed out what to watch in what order. So happy I did!
Great video dude. Love seeing genuine new Star Trek fans that find the love for it by actually understanding what it is and does. Thanks for spreading the word in a well made video. Awesome.
I find discussing Trek incredibly fulfilling; it embodies the essence of what it means to engage with the Trek universe. When conversations veer into passionately defending the rights of sentient beings, whether natural or artificial, it's as if we're actively countering the regressive voices that seek to hinder progress. My journey into the world of Trek began at the age of 14, amidst personal challenges, as I immersed myself in reruns of Voyager. Those moments spent with my closest friends, playfully reciting lines like "decks 8 through 12 breached! Shields at 22%, engineering report!", left an indelible mark on my imagination. When I finally began to watch The Next Generation it was a joy, it and the other series has a timeless appeal, well all but TNG S01. The emotional depth conveyed through Patrick Stewart's profound speeches, grappling with moral dilemmas and their resolutions, sparked a realization within me. I began to actively cultivate my ability to articulate thoughts, using them as the catalyst for initiating discussions and diffusing tensions in various situations. Through Trek, I learned to navigate challenges with reason and thoughtfulness, a skillset I might not have honed otherwise.
When Lal wasn't going to make it and Data tried so damned hard to save her, knowing he was the only person who could. I half expected him to slowly start to develop emotions after that episode, just based on that powerful experience.
lmao remember that episode of Voyager where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris rig the shuttle to go to Warp 10 and when they come back after testing it they start gradually "hyper evolving" into lizards
31:29 - From my understanding - someone once explained to me - A universal translator allows for inter-species communication. We just watch from English speaking point of view. If we were to be watching from, say a native Bajoran's point of view, Picard would be speaking Bajoran. Not sure.
**hears that mini Klingon rant at the intro** oh don't worry Strange New Worlds dropped that shit like a rock. Kingons look like Klingons again and not space orcs
Looking forward to see if you ever do a Voyager retrospective so we can see your journey into loving the CHAD Tuvok, the idiot Tom Paris, the snark-master EMG, and the GOAT Janeway
Judging by when you started, I became a Trekkie around the same time (if not a year prior to you). My friends and I LOVE Red Letter Media, but also my friends liked Star Trek and got me to begin watching it. We started at season three and (from my experience) was the best way of doing it as the show felt like it hit the ground running. I went back to watch the first two seasons and was able to appreciate the struggle and effort they put into those beginning years. To anyone reading this start on season three not the first season of The Next Generation.
Basically experienced the exact same thing. Tried to watch TNG here and there, but about a year and a half ago I decided to find an episode guide and give it a shot. Then I made my way through DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, and so on. I also had the same thought of "This is a show for fucking nerds, but let's see what all the hype is about" and as I'm watching through it I'm like "Wait, this isn't for nerds, it's actually good" and then finally I was like "No wait, I am just a fucking nerd" It also introduced me to the genre of sci-fi TV which I didn't realize I was sorely lacking in my life. I made my way to Stargate SG-1 and it has officially become my go-to comfort show. I highly recommend it and Stargate Atlantis (assuming you don't mention it in the video, I'm only halfway through). All of these shows hit me like "Why did I wait so long to get into this?"
"greatest finally ever" dont get me wrong i like it but it doesnt hold a candle to Babylon 5's Sleeping in Light, if you havent seen B5 and liked Ds9 (hope for one of these sort of vids on that) then you really should, though the 1st season is rough....like Next Gen XD
Love the ST observations. But was even more stoked when I was like, “Wait, is that the River City Girls soundtrack playing in the background?!?” Now THAT is glorious.
I think its fairly obvious that when it comes to “genocide” against the Borg then there should be no moral qualms about it. The whole point of the Borg is to assimilate the technology of as many technologically advanced species as possible. The Collective is eusocial and cannot be negotiated or reasoned with under normal circumstances. Its essentially a case of “destroy it if you can when the opportunity arises because you might not get many of them”.
I have to pause you right there… and ask how that opening didn’t include Voyager, which is better than than DS9… *puts on helmet against incoming fire*
Me too. Never liked TOS except for the concept of the Prime Directive, but by the 6th ep of TNG I was hooked in a major way. Moved on since. Now I like Stargate SG-1 quite a bit. Feed your head as Grace Slick said.
Keep in mind those effects looked better in 480i. The glowing man looked great in the late 80's. Still ok on dvd on sdtv. Once they upped the rez and fixed some stuff - some of the magic is lost, but can also be fun in a different way.
I have the same feelings, though I watched TNG & DS9 as a teenager and in my 20s and mostly I liked it. I am also fan of other SF series: SG-1 & SGA and Babylon 5. These also had worse the 1st season, but then developed their own path. They are more 'action and adventure' shows, especially SGA, but there are also many episodes in ST type, especially in SG-1.
With your introduction speech, the problem is: Many people, when they think of "Star Trek" they have that cheesy campiness of the TOS era in mind with Kirk, Spock and the likes and as iconic as they might be and as great as the 4th. and 6th Star trek movies are, coming close to the general air of the TNG era, the series of TOS IS pretty outdated and even by many modern Star Trek fans regarded as obsolete nowadays (though their might be Trekkies who think otherwise.....a FEW.....*COUGH*), most commonly agree that the late 80's to mid 90's era of Star Trek was what set the tone for the "modern" Star trek fan. These shows are just so elaborate in their writing and handle timeless topics of ethics, philosophy, moral standards and the likes in such interesting and deep and yet incredible entertaining ways that they just stand out as timeles classics, especially since THAT was the core of THAT era of Star Trek, and NOT the special effects and cgi like Alex Kurtzman thinks it would be..... Also, the stellar acting performances and many great lines of Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Andrew J. Robinson, Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Armin Shimerman and many many many more helped there too, a lot!
One of the things about TNG which is both a blessing and a curse is that it had a sense of continuity TOS didn't maintain in the same way. TOS was far more episodic and stand-alone, but that also meant it was potentially leaving some damned good material for a long-run treatment later, sometimes on a cinema screen rather than the television. TNG did exactly the same thing for some of the better ideas from TOS that Wrath of Khan did for TOS, but there are some notable exceptions which the producers and show-runners (with the ever present Rick Berman) didn't entirely leave behind. In turn, some of the nuances in what defines the Federation or Starfleet arguably needed more substance. One of the story types which was used the least of all in TOS, the time travel dilemma or paradox, became a staple in TNG, season after season. And what's more, there is a single key piece of technology which revolutionized the process of story-telling from the point of view of the writers and producers: The Holodeck Episode. I would contend that it is precisely because of the Holodeck in TNG that there is no reason at all to have TOS's "Mirror Universe" in TNG (DS9 got it later, even though it had Quark's Holosuites, because that's after 7 years of no Mirror universe).
Also, gonna be honest: do not skip Voyager, and do not skip Enterprise either. They're neither of them perfect, but both are at least consistently following narrative trajectories which have been pretty well established from as far back as TOS. I'm not so sure that anything post-2009 can say the same. Regarding "Enterprise", jeez there's a show with too many faults, but the way in which it addresses the Vulcans was too long overdue, plus it arguably has Jeffrey Combs in his best ST role of all time, an Andorian called Shran.
2:20 -- RE: Data as Sentient Life (and a Toaster); see, this is why you shouldn't skip Voyager. The Holographic Doctor in Voyager steals the proverbial show precisely because of narrative conventions established in TNG regarding powerful super-computers (being used to run Starships and Shipyards and Planets) being tied into the systems of a Holodeck. Self-aware holographic "life" is not only interesting and a little bit challenging philosophical-wise, but also potentially terrifying should those ever-important safeties be disabled, because Effectively Real. It is about artificial intelligence being presented in a way which is outside of a pessimistic normal outcome which more closely resembles Terminator's Skynet than anything else. The particular show with Data in a Court setting "Measure of a Man" is itself an inversion of a court-room drama episode in TOS, with Captain Kirk being falsely accused by a computer that has been secretly made to Lie by another human. DS9, in my opinion, has one of the best self-aware and truly "human" Holodeck characters of the entire franchise: Vic Fontaine. The curious thing about Vic as a character is that he operates as a kind of undercover psychiatric assistant to DS9's medical staff, so he doesn't only pull his own incorporeal weight (I guess his power consumption does have weight) but also earns his keep as a valuable member of a team or a crew.
5:45 -- RE: Season 1 and 2, Skipping, and Disputable Decisions; Granted, I hardly claim to know all about Star Trek, but there are some reasons to actually *Not* skip most of season 1 and 2, the most significant one being that later seasons can be even more tedious than the first two because by that time the Writers and Producers had dialed everything in to their expectations and as a result the shows became downright Lazy. Moreover, in the same way that TOS had left behind many of its best set-ups because only three seasons in total, TNG had too much good material, leading to any number of characters (and their situations) completely being left in unresolved or potentially interesting places. "Ensign Ro" showed up in the last season of Picard, I've heard.... that's as good an example as any of a story arc which actually required much, much more than a call-back in the "Picard" future universe. Disputable Decisions abound in the first two seasons, I won't argue against that. What I will argue is that Doctor Pulaski was the right call and I actually liked that character enough to want to have seen more of her in later seasons. Another Disputable Decision is one which will require many re-watchings: it seems clear to me before Season 3 that the Writers and Producers were aiming at telling grand narratives over the space of many seasons and they definitely set it up to be that way early on in the development process. One of the reasons I'm confident about it is the "Farpoint" episode, at least as it relates to the character of Q. If anything, I think that there is an obvious subtext to much of Seasons 5 and 6 wherein the plotlines of certain episodes do not make any sense at all unless Q had somehow or another (ie. *Without Appearing On the Screen* ) set up the situations in-universe to ensure that very specific things would happen to Picard; this gets lampshaded more than once in episodes where Q has a guest role, including "All Good Things". The Pinnacle of story-telling in TNG is found in Seasons 4 and 5. Season 6 and 7 must be analogous to "outriggers" or something, necessary to counter-balance Seasons 1 and 2.
9:30 -- RE: Gene Roddenberry Was Difficult, so Revolving Door; *NOT TRUE,* and you simply claiming it (because others have) doesn't prove You or Those Others correct. The Series was always an Anthology based upon Characters (and a Situation) which Roddenberry had originated but not completely developed on his own. *Consequently,* they shopped those characters and situations around to a whole mess of writers -- anyone at all who'd be interested in working, in fact -- and sometimes it was those 3rd party jobbing writers who added in the finest details that Star Trek fans came to expect about the Franchise on the whole. D.C. Fontaine is a key factor in this claim, I'd bet, which is funny considering it was partly political optics and theory which had her use a male pen name during some of TOS while also being D.C. Fontaine for the remainder, and then returning to work on TNG Season 1 due to her involvement in the 1960s. There is another point which *basically No-one* ever mentions, not even Red Letter Media: Star Trek (the Show) was recognized as being Influential in its own time and certainly by the 1970s, but this recognition meant that if there was any real-world Gubmint Agency involved with it in *ANY* way during the 1960s, it doesn't necessarily have to be Just NASA. In Other Words, there are some indications that perhaps the C.I.A. would have been another one of the reasons why Roddenberry was made a fall guy for difficulties. (Becuz LULZ yeah, Gary-7, Million Dollar Dude, and a Fall Guy...)
18:45 -- RE: Exploring the Human Condition via Morality Plays; Time for an Honorable Mention from Voyager. My favorite Berman-era "Morality play" episode of all time is "Muse" which isn't exactly mind-blowing, but *is* exceptionally tight in terms of how it gets to make drama with added layers of Subtext being played out for a double set of Audiences. Delicious, when its done right. A not so delicious comparison episode which gets into Philosophy and morality plays: TNG's "Disaster" from Season 5, 5th episode. Philosophically, it seems very clear to me that Starfleet trains its Officers to be ready to split into compartmentalized "Cells" which also means, consequently, that it is much more like an ideological revolutionary guerrilla force than a Navy. That's not mere Redundancy kicking in. The ironic "saving grace" is that 2 people on the Enterprise now recognize themselves as Number 1! Sometimes, TNG is outright called Communist in its ways, means, and thinking. This would not be the best example, but it would constitute pretty good circumstantial proof since we (the Audience) do not get fully indoctrinated into Starfleet as any of the characters presumably have. RE: Roddenberry's Humanism; without a doubt one of the most contentious-in-a-Good-way features of Star Trek, Roddenberry intentionally chose to present an Optimistic projection of the future based on the ideals within humanism, logic and reason being key. *And This Is Why Making First Contact With Vulcans Is Miraculous Good Fortune,* although not entirely by Chance since the Vulcans clearly knew where to find Humans before Humans learned to consider Vulcans "as human" (ie. as Persons) as themselves. Different, yet ideally Equal. The Problem presented by the Optimistic outcome is that it is apparently caused by Intention, and as the old saying goes, that way is no guarantee for the outcome (ie. The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions). The *Only* meaningful difference in TOS between the "regular" universe characters and their "Mirror" universe counterparts is the *Intentions* that the characters have. In the Regular universe, Starfleet has a Prime Directive, "Do no Harm." In the Mirror universe, there is an unwritten (yet universal) rule, "Do as thou wilt if ye can get away with it. Perhaps you'll end up in charge." In other words, Self Preservation is being straw manned a lot by the Mirror universe. Regular universe Vulcan altruistic Logic is only too well known with respect to the lives of the many, the few or the one. Robert Heinlein made special note in the novel "Starship Troopers" about the importance of individual rights to the future government of Earth, so clearly, that's why he never wrote a Star Trek script.
Great video! I don't think Season 1 is too bad, if you think about it being an olive branch to fans of the original series then some of the odd stuff pairs well. TNG, absolutely wouldn't be what it is without Patrick Stewards Picard. I've always hated Barkley, not sure what that says about me...but I'll watch a little closer next time I see a Barkley episode.
What a lovely video! Weirdly I am in such a similar position (minus the e-celebrity status mind you.) I started my Star Trek journey during the pandemic because of RedLetterMedia. I had the interest for years but with their enthusiasm I had to go for it. Started with TNG season 1 (yeah I know), then DS9 and now I'm finishing ToS which has taken longer than expected if I'm being totally honest. Now I too have knowledge and passion for a show that pretty much no one else in my life has interest in ^^' in that way this video was quite cathartic. Even tho Star Trek is such a new thing in my life, it feels quite important and special as I haven't found really anything like it. Even after all those episodes rangeing from embarassing to excellent, just hearing you talk about All good things got me misty eyed. Thanks for the great video! Any plans to do more videos on the franchise like DS9? Now I just gotta hope for Mike and Rich to talk about more Star Trek and try to rope some friends to watching the series so I have more people to talk to about it ^^
The more times u watch it the more u get from it. Been watching tng for 30 years. We believe in freedom and self determination!! We will fight you to our dying breath, with every ounce of strength. Borg: Strength is irrelevant Freedom is irrelevant Self determination is irrelevant. Death is irrelevant. You will comply. Your culture will adapt To service us
Glad to hear from a new convert that the material has appeal. Glad you went there! ... but it's weird hearing TNG referred to as "classic" Trek :D If it wasn't direct-to-syndication, TNG wouldn't ever happened, and it wouldn't have been renewed. Your other timeline would be our timeline. And we'd likely still be Trekless. Lastly ... I love hearing Q say "... goo ..."
One thing that is annoying is in the later seasons the actors get more input on the show even directing episodes. And as it turns out their characters now love acting. Acting on the holodeck, acting in 10 forward, acting classes! What a coincidence!!!
