The Next Generation (Full Panel) at the 2017 Star Trek Convention 

I wanted to hear more from him and LeVar, but SOMEONE kept talking

Oh yeah... finding out that the majority of the Next Generation cast and STNG Con-fandom are proud politically-intolerant hypocrites was worth its weight in gold.

I'm the last 10 minutes or so, we finally heard from John! I wish we heard more from him and LeVar too, what Patrick said in the last 2 minutes was a bloody great point!

The Q episodes were some of the most interesting!

She even admitted it. Right around 21:00

I used to think she was hot, now I see she's insufferable

Hahaha

Marina does have some interesting things to say BUT she needs to let others have their time too!! A really good example is the last 10-15 minutes, After John de Lancie was able to share his thoughts. Marina went on for waay to long and was talking over Gates! I like all of them, but Marina you need to take a step back sometimes!!

Awwwww

Brent wrote this ☝🏻

You know...

An obscure language called "French" - how could that be his main accent...

Daniel Cox hahahaha

He would make a great President for you Americans! You need someone like him!

He said in a recent TV interview that he would only bring Picard back if it was for a really good reason, otherwise he wouldn't do it. Patrick loves talking about his character and he loved playing Picard for all those years, despite the punishing 16 hour days. I have a renewed respect for him.

I think he is being very selfish. People have been asking for 15 years for a film and he refuses. Yet, he just did the X-Men Logan which was a great homage to Dr. Xavier! I think there could be a good script written and they could make a film before the TNG cast begins to transcend! Or simply make a film with all the cast! That would also please the fans.

@fredrika27 which he probably did due to his friend hugh jackman appearing in that as a bow out for his much loved character.

Also, "The problem with America is that they get into acting because they want to be famous, not because they love acting like we do in Britain" (Paraphrased obviously). And she said that while 6 out of the 7 other people on the stage are American. Lots of love for your coworkers I see.

That moderator is there every year and hosts every panel, so someone in corporate likes him.

Thank you

The fuck happened? They started getting into the wage gap myth

Feminism is Cancer. That is all.

I wish he'd have gotten more questions. Q was one of my favorite characters. Loved his whole talk about "his" judge's robe lol

VideogameGuitarist They've been making "old" jokes towards Stewart for years, same with bald jokes, it's just teasing that he doesn't mind. I think like the others, he just looks irritated by her hyperactivity in the context of a large panel where one person shouldn't be doing half of all the talking, lol, but it'd be strange for him to all of a sudden be offended by "old" jokes now.

It's typical English humor.

Pfft okay guy.

She is a bit of an attention freak but who are you to tell someone how they should act because of their age. I've come to understand that those that do this are pretty judgemental pricks. Not satsified with their own lives. It's one thing to be angry because someone hurts others (cheater, liar, thief, murderer, racist, etc) but because they don't act as mature? Get the F out of here guy. No one likes ppl like you.

I agree. It's high-falootin audience members trying to impress them with their question rather than ask 'dumb' fun questions. I much preferred hearing what they stole when the show wrapped, and they clearly much preferred telling us about that (including rent-a-gob!)

frakes is with orville now ,where all the trek people left went

I enjoyed it immensely, up until Gates and Marina locked horns. (for me) That really ruined the atmosphere and as it ended not long afterwards overshadowed the earlier parts of the panel in how I remember the event as a whole. When they were talking about how women were paid less than men and difficult men are considered just having artistic temperament but difficult women are considered bitches it did make me wonder if the problems Marina had with her contracts and almost getting fired were because she was actually a bitch. She certainly seems the kind of person that you cant discuss anything with calmly if her existing view differs to yours. The rest of the panel seemed to know not to even dare try to disagree with her and only Gates gave it a go and look how that turned out. I would probably want to fire her as well if that is what she is like to deal with.

Sirtis did not up the tension over a disagreement. McFadden did. Sirtis even admitted to overgeneralizing, and her original comment was an expansion of de Lancie's, but with her own personal experience thrown in to expand on it. Friends give an inch in a disagreement, especially in front of people like this. McFadden did not, made no attempt to lighten the air of her disagreement, and went right for the take-offense air. In a conversation among supposed friends, you don't need to go after someone in such a way if you disagree with them. This was McFadden's fault for spoiling the mood. This was not academic, but supposed to be among close friends, public, and for entertainment purposes. It makes me think the whole family spiel from this cast is actually more a marketing line for these conventions than the reality.

Man The Orville sucked.

I read that he was in Canada directing Discovery and his flights were cancelled due to really bad weather and they couldn't get him in another way.

He was supposed to be at the convention, but in the very last moment his appearance was cancelled, because some flight was cancelled.

Legend says someone tipped him off that Marina would be drunk so he up and split

yeah very awkwad

Yeah something definitely something happened backstage! Marina has pissed everyone off by calling the shots and saying NO to the moderator.

The disagreement between gates and marina starts on 1:18:10

Marina really does over-generalize. Then she also puts England vs the US making it appear as if there's a vast difference between the two - where there's no doubt that there are actor students in the UK who are just as fascinated and focused on gaining fame and fortune, and there are plenty of actors in the US who do have a message to say, and who are there for the craft of acting. In that sense, Gates seems to be the wiser person by taking all of these things into consideration before making any sort of statements. Marina is not ignorant - she speaks from her own experiences and her own thoughts/opinions - but she's not quite as observant as Gates is (not to mention that Gates knows a lot more actor students via her teaching career).

Wow, the *whole panel* looks squeamish while she's talking. 1:20:27 watch Brent: "She's still talking?" XD

dangerous times?! What the hell are you talking about?!

Flights to Vegas cancelled so he could not make it.

David Jackino , I see,

David Jackino Ah thanks 🙂

The focus isn't ON TNG nowadays... It's on the new TV show and the reboot films starring the new incarnations of the TOS characters. Everybody realizes by this point they'll NEVER make another TNG film with this cast. At best, these actors will play cameos in movies. It's a sad reality but that's how it is. There's that and one has to admit TNG may have made has much money as TOS did in its first 20 years BUT TNG burned through itself a lot faster. It had 7 years on TV, 4 films, half of which were lackluster and really didn't advance the storyline that much and reinforced the notion that there were 2 important characters (the TV series had 3 -- Picard, Data, and Worf; the films focused on Picard and Data to the detriment of the other characters). For all its success, I never felt TNG had quite the chemistry and sense of family that TOS did... That might have been reinforced more in TOS by the death of Spock early in the film cycle and the time it took for the Spock character to fully rehabilitate (over 2 films). There was a genuine sense of family with that group of characters, they went through hell together and back. By comparison, the TNG storylines were almost glib and the eventual destruction of Data didn't have the impact of Spock's death because he already had a spare body ready with his memories in it! Half the TNG films were good, 1 was decent, and 1 was generally awful. But in a sense, with 7 years of TV episodes, there had to have been at least 2 years of TV episodes with better stories than ANY of the TNG movies... Oh, and for a lot of people, they RUINED the Borg pretty much for good in First Contact. The idea of the Borg Queen came out of nowhere and they already had weakened the Borg in the last 2-3 years of TNG. The Queen put the nail in the Borg as the most menacing villains and they were the best to come along since the Klingons! Eventually, Paramount will run through the cycle with TOS in pictures and I guarantee you they WILL reboot TNG like they did TOS because the last thing Hollywood studios are is creative and original! Seriously, it'll happen after Pine and Quinto get tired and move on after 1, 2, 3 more films tops OR a Nu-Trek film finally flops and they (Paramount) decide on a new direction (re: new cast, reboot of a later series most likely candidate being TNG).

@avenger - your opinion.

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@Christopher "as friendly as a gunshot through the leg" Barredo And it is MY opinion... Informed opinion. Older than you by at least 10-15 years. I've watched Star Trek probably at least twice as long as you've been ALIVE...! They HAVEN'T made a TNG film in 15 years. What does that tell you about Paramount doing projects with the TNG cast? It's not happening... They'll recast the characters. Enough people went to see TOS with recast parts, I bet someone in the company is already looking beyond TOS when that reboot film series runs it course. It's not what I would want to see happen but they have a certain pattern established here. They'll recast TNG because they have a mentality about the audience and audience familiarity. That's why they lied about Star Trek: Discovery and tweaked it the way they have...

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Why would someone assume otherwise?

He missed his flight due to weather

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