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> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

When I saw this article on the front page of Slashdot, there were 47 comments on it.

Star Trek, of course. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...

As Spock would say regarding Italian food, "No."

instead their job is to write down what the big vendors are already doing, so that everyone else can interoperate

We call people who work with the enemy collaborators, which is one of the faster ways to get your former allies to see you as a traitor.

There is a fight for freedom going on here, and many of you are talking about movies. Anybody that things this is hyperbole or "crazy" hasn't been paying attention.

(actually, given that the target audience of this post is nerds that like netflix, I suppose these links would be more appropriate)

instead their job is to write down what the big vendors are already doing, so that everyone else can interoperate

We call people who work with the enemy collaborators, which is one of the faster ways to get your former allies to see you as a traitor.

There is a fight for freedom going on here, and many of you are talking about movies. Anybody that things this is hyperbole or "crazy" hasn't been paying attention.

(actually, given that the target audience of this post is nerds that like netflix, I suppose these links would be more appropriate)

But it's with a 3-D printer! That makes it novel and non-obvious, right?

Wait until I incorporate a drone in the 3D printing process .. that'll really shake up the drug delivery industry!

Prior art autonamous replicating drones on Star Trek TNG season 1 "arsenal of freedom" and it didn't turn out well for the people that made them either.

Impluse drives use plasma as a reaction mass. They are more akin to a nuclear rocket.

An EM drive doesn't need a reaction mass which is more like hover conversion.

Well I might be a little hopeful there. It's 2015 I want my flying car dammit!

Close. The Nagus and Quark's mom were dating, and the Nagus wanted to put through reforms for fe-males, but some other bureaucrat was trying to get the Nagus tossed out on senility or something. So they invited the bureaucrat to DS9 so that Quark's mom could talk to him, but something happened, and Quark himself had to go through a temporary sex change and do the speaking instead. And yes, pointing out the potential profit from a whole other half of the population suddenly wanting to go shopping was one of the things Quark brought up.

At least that's how I remember it. The episode was Profit and Lace if you want a more detailed (and probably more correct) explanation.

... that more people care about the unreality show crap such as Kartrashians[sic] then the spiritually minded Oprah ...

[Kim Kartrashian] has 25 million Twitter followers, about a million less than Oprah Winfrey and nearly 5 million more than CNN Breaking News.

NSFW reference

I remember back when I had no clue who she was. I thought people had started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 because I kept hearing them talk about the Cardassians. Sadly I had misheard. I do have to say I would watch a show about the Cardassians, especially if it featured Garak he was the best of the characters to come out of that show.

... that more people care about the unreality show crap such as Kartrashians[sic] then the spiritually minded Oprah ...

[Kim Kartrashian] has 25 million Twitter followers, about a million less than Oprah Winfrey and nearly 5 million more than CNN Breaking News.

NSFW reference

I remember back when I had no clue who she was. I thought people had started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 because I kept hearing them talk about the Cardassians. Sadly I had misheard. I do have to say I would watch a show about the Cardassians, especially if it featured Garak he was the best of the characters to come out of that show.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik... "I've been told that I've already been charged, indicted, convicted, and sentenced. What would I need with a lawyer?" "Well, Mr. O'Brien, if it sounds immodest of me I apologize, but the role of public conservator is key to the productive functioning of our courts. I'm here to help you concede the wisdom of the state."

Suck it ugly bags of mostly water!

FTFY

It's not red, you fool. It's burgundy!

Yes, yes, I do realize that some people will take this opportunity to imply that I am of a particular sexual orientation.

I like to go to Slashdot and say NIGGER. It upsets the dumbass liberal bedwetters who for some strange reason decided that their emotional happiness should depend on never reading any "bad words".

I tell you how I really feel about it. On Star Trek TOS they met a creature that appeared as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln likes Uhura and says "what a charming Nigress" and sees how the others look at him when he says that. Then Uhura shows her strength and wisdom by saying "my people long ago learned not to fear words". Truly this is an advanced civilization! No Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, or Democrat politicians who don't want racial harmony because it would hurt their careers. Truly advanced indeed.

So anyway I hate niggers. There, I said it. But I am not racist. WHAT?! you ask? You see, black people are wonderfu. They are cool in a way I will probably never be and I admire that. Many black people are not niggers at all. But the ghetto blacks that are nothing but inflamed egos that will hurt somebody or steal from them or whatever, the aggressive criminal types whose males think "thug life" is the highest human aspiration and whose females crank out babies factory-style from a bunch of different fathers who she knows have no intention of being fathers, and don't care because welfare, yes those are niggers. Uneducated, unsophisticated, belligerent, low-class, ghetto, parasitic neighborhood-destroying niggers, yes I hate those, so does anybody who has ever met one even if they cannot admit (after all it's not PC) that the ones they met were merely type-case clones of a general cultural idea.

By the way lots of intelligent black people also hate niggers. Niggers give them a bad name. I also hate uneducated redneck hicks but I don't hate all white people. This again is not racism. Racism is the belief that someone is superior or inferior because of their genetics and only because of their genetics. Drawing a distinction between desirable people of a particular genotype and undesirable people of that same genotype is patently not racist, that is simply not possible, see if you libs can wrap your feeble minds around that basic idea. If you can't, well then, may you have your own property value lowered and your family menaced by an invasion of ghetto niggers into a neighborhood near you, who by the way won't care at all about how "open minded" you are, not one damned bit, in fact your inability to identify them for what they are will simply make you easier to victimize by them. You go and have fun with that now. If political correctness is a religion, maybe it demands martyrs like the other religions do.

If the underlying story is a good one (we both seem to agree it is in this case) it's best to just turn your brain off and not think about such contradictions.

The notion that a civilization at 1950s levels of technology (as I recall they were just starting to experiment with artificial satellites, so think Sputnik) could build a probe capable of seizing control of an alien brain is out there, to say the least. Here we sit in 2015 and we don't have the technology to do that with our own brains, never mind an alien one.

I don't really care about that though, or the implausibility of a civilization that communicates entirely through metaphor. As long as the story obeys its own rules and takes us for a good ride who cares how plausible it is? There's a reason why it's called fiction. :)

I do think one of our last acts as a species should be to build a giant monument on the Moon (where it won't be eroded by the weather) to explain what happened to us, in case any aliens come by

There's a better way. ;)

(Sorry for the duplicate reply; that'll teach me to post from my phone.....)

Aren't the Vulcans and Klingons working together by TNG anyway? The peace talks that led to a peace treaty between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire were in fact started by a half-Vulcan (Capt. Spock) and a Klingon (Chancellor Gorkon).

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...

Stella!!??? is that you?

Praxis

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

Don't skip The Emissary, Elementary, Dear Data, The Measure of a Man, Q Who, Contagion, or A Matter of Honor.

Even the much maligned first season had "don't miss" episodes. Some you have to watch for continuity (Encounter at Farpoint, The Neutral Zone, Datalore, and Skin of Evil), but a handful were actually decent standalone episodes (The Battle and 11001001).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a lot of hokey moments but they also have hidden gems. Seasons 3 and 4 contain the crown jewels of TNG, after that it was kind of a gradual decline as the writers ran out of ideas, albeit with some really amazing episodes (Chain of Command was Season 6 and is among the best of TNG) along the way. Even most of the mediocre episodes aren't unwatchable, of course there are exceptions to the rule (Sub Rosa, Genesis, and Masks come to mind).

And speaking of flat, ST:TNG doesn't hold up. I remember back in 1987 when it first came on and how excited I was to have a new Star Trek. Watching on Netflix now, I can't help thinking what a piece of shit it was

WTF are you talking about? ST:TNG is the only Sci-Fi show from my childhood that stands the test of time. There were some hokey episodes to be sure but the underlying theme of humanity exploring the cosmos, under a semi-abundance economy where we've moved past the need for greed and work instead towards self-improvement and discovery? How can you not like that?

TNG explored themes as diverse as brinkmanship (The Defector and The Enemy), individual liberties (The Measure of a Man), paranoia driven by external fears (The Pegasus and The Drumhead, a massively underrated episode that seems downright prescient when one contemplates current events in the post 9/11 world), terrorism (The High Ground), eugenics (The Masterpiece Society), the morality of deadly force (The Most Toys), veterans/PTSD (The Wounded, Family, and The Hunted), old age (Half a Life and Sarek), torture (Chain of Command), revenge (Reunion), and betrayal (Preemptive Strike).

Those are just the issue episodes that come to mind. TNG could also do action (several of the aforementioned, plus Power Play, Conundrum and Starship Mine), first contact (First Contact, Darmok), and even comedy (Deja Q).

Some of those episodes were better than others but I dare say that they're as good as anything that's on television today and were light-years ahead of their peers in the 1980s and 1990s. TNG was at its best when approached as a character and issues driven drama; in that respect I think it set a standard that is never going to be equaled in television Sci-Fi. It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.

It was also uplifting escapism entertainment that could still do serious drama, something I think we've lost with the current emphasis on dark violent dramas. Even the genuinely scary episodes of TNG (The Best of Both Worlds can still send shivers down my spine) never left you feeling depressed and melancholy. The only other show from the 1980s that I can still re-watch is Magnum PI, for a lot of the same reasons when I thi

And speaking of flat, ST:TNG doesn't hold up. I remember back in 1987 when it first came on and how excited I was to have a new Star Trek. Watching on Netflix now, I can't help thinking what a piece of shit it was

WTF are you talking about? ST:TNG is the only Sci-Fi show from my childhood that stands the test of time. There were some hokey episodes to be sure but the underlying theme of humanity exploring the cosmos, under a semi-abundance economy where we've moved past the need for greed and work instead towards self-improvement and discovery? How can you not like that?

TNG explored themes as diverse as brinkmanship (The Defector and The Enemy), individual liberties (The Measure of a Man), paranoia driven by external fears (The Pegasus and The Drumhead, a massively underrated episode that seems downright prescient when one contemplates current events in the post 9/11 world), terrorism (The High Ground), eugenics (The Masterpiece Society), the morality of deadly force (The Most Toys), veterans/PTSD (The Wounded, Family, and The Hunted), old age (Half a Life and Sarek), torture (Chain of Command), revenge (Reunion), and betrayal (Preemptive Strike).

Those are just the issue episodes that come to mind. TNG could also do action (several of the aforementioned, plus Power Play, Conundrum and Starship Mine), first contact (First Contact, Darmok), and even comedy (Deja Q).

Some of those episodes were better than others but I dare say that they're as good as anything that's on television today and were light-years ahead of their peers in the 1980s and 1990s. TNG was at its best when approached as a character and issues driven drama; in that respect I think it set a standard that is never going to be equaled in television Sci-Fi. It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.

It was also uplifting escapism entertainment that could still do serious drama, something I think we've lost with the current emphasis on dark violent dramas. Even the genuinely scary episodes of TNG (The Best of Both Worlds can still send shivers down my spine) never left you feeling depressed and melancholy. The only other show from the 1980s that I can still re-watch is Magnum PI, for a lot of the same reasons when I thi

And speaking of flat, ST:TNG doesn't hold up. I remember back in 1987 when it first came on and how excited I was to have a new Star Trek. Watching on Netflix now, I can't help thinking what a piece of shit it was

WTF are you talking about? ST:TNG is the only Sci-Fi show from my childhood that stands the test of time. There were some hokey episodes to be sure but the underlying theme of humanity exploring the cosmos, under a semi-abundance economy where we've moved past the need for greed and work instead towards self-improvement and discovery? How can you not like that?

TNG explored themes as diverse as brinkmanship (The Defector and The Enemy), individual liberties (The Measure of a Man), paranoia driven by external fears (The Pegasus and The Drumhead, a massively underrated episode that seems downright prescient when one contemplates current events in the post 9/11 world), terrorism (The High Ground), eugenics (The Masterpiece Society), the morality of deadly force (The Most Toys), veterans/PTSD (The Wounded, Family, and The Hunted), old age (Half a Life and Sarek), torture (Chain of Command), revenge (Reunion), and betrayal (Preemptive Strike).

Those are just the issue episodes that come to mind. TNG could also do action (several of the aforementioned, plus Power Play, Conundrum and Starship Mine), first contact (First Contact, Darmok), and even comedy (Deja Q).

Some of those episodes were better than others but I dare say that they're as good as anything that's on television today and were light-years ahead of their peers in the 1980s and 1990s. TNG was at its best when approached as a character and issues driven drama; in that respect I think it set a standard that is never going to be equaled in television Sci-Fi. It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.

It was also uplifting escapism entertainment that could still do serious drama, something I think we've lost with the current emphasis on dark violent dramas. Even the genuinely scary episodes of TNG (The Best of Both Worlds can still send shivers down my spine) never left you feeling depressed and melancholy. The only other show from the 1980s that I can still re-watch is Magnum PI, for a lot of the same reasons when I thi

And speaking of flat, ST:TNG doesn't hold up. I remember back in 1987 when it first came on and how excited I was to have a new Star Trek. Watching on Netflix now, I can't help thinking what a piece of shit it was

WTF are you talking about? ST:TNG is the only Sci-Fi show from my childhood that stands the test of time. There were some hokey episodes to be sure but the underlying theme of humanity exploring the cosmos, under a semi-abundance economy where we've moved past the need for greed and work instead towards self-improvement and discovery? How can you not like that?

TNG explored themes as diverse as brinkmanship (The Defector and The Enemy), individual liberties (The Measure of a Man), paranoia driven by external fears (The Pegasus and The Drumhead, a massively underrated episode that seems downright prescient when one contemplates current events in the post 9/11 world), terrorism (The High Ground), eugenics (The Masterpiece Society), the morality of deadly force (The Most Toys), veterans/PTSD (The Wounded, Family, and The Hunted), old age (Half a Life and Sarek), torture (Chain of Command), revenge (Reunion), and betrayal (Preemptive Strike).

Those are just the issue episodes that come to mind. TNG could also do action (several of the aforementioned, plus Power Play, Conundrum and Starship Mine), first contact (First Contact, Darmok), and even comedy (Deja Q).

Some of those episodes were better than others but I dare say that they're as good as anything that's on television today and were light-years ahead of their peers in the 1980s and 1990s. TNG was at its best when approached as a character and issues driven drama; in that respect I think it set a standard that is never going to be equaled in television Sci-Fi. It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.

It was also uplifting escapism entertainment that could still do serious drama, something I think we've lost with the current emphasis on dark violent dramas. Even the genuinely scary episodes of TNG (The Best of Both Worlds can still send shivers down my spine) never left you feeling depressed and melancholy. The only other show from the 1980s that I can still re-watch is Magnum PI, for a lot of the same reasons when I thi

And speaking of flat, ST:TNG doesn't hold up. I remember back in 1987 when it first came on and how excited I was to have a new Star Trek. Watching on Netflix now, I can't help thinking what a piece of shit it was

WTF are you talking about? ST:TNG is the only Sci-Fi show from my childhood that stands the test of time. There were some hokey episodes to be sure but the underlying theme of humanity exploring the cosmos, under a semi-abundance economy where we've moved past the need for greed and work instead towards self-improvement and discovery? How can you not like that?

TNG explored themes as diverse as brinkmanship (The Defector and The Enemy), individual liberties (The Measure of a Man), paranoia driven by external fears (The Pegasus and The Drumhead, a massively underrated episode that seems downright prescient when one contemplates current events in the post 9/11 world), terrorism (The High Ground), eugenics (The Masterpiece Society), the morality of deadly force (The Most Toys), veterans/PTSD (The Wounded, Family, and The Hunted), old age (Half a Life and Sarek), torture (Chain of Command), revenge (Reunion), and betrayal (Preemptive Strike).

Those are just the issue episodes that come to mind. TNG could also do action (several of the aforementioned, plus Power Play, Conundrum and Starship Mine), first contact (First Contact, Darmok), and even comedy (Deja Q).

Some of those episodes were better than others but I dare say that they're as good as anything that's on television today and were light-years ahead of their peers in the 1980s and 1990s. TNG was at its best when approached as a character and issues driven drama; in that respect I think it set a standard that is never going to be equaled in television Sci-Fi. It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.

It was also uplifting escapism entertainment that could still do serious drama, something I think we've lost with the current emphasis on dark violent dramas. Even the genuinely scary episodes of TNG (The Best of Both Worlds can still send shivers down my spine) never left you feeling depressed and melancholy. The only other show from the 1980s that I can still re-watch is Magnum PI, for a lot of the same reasons when I thi

And speaking of flat, ST:TNG doesn't hold up. I remember back in 1987 when it first came on and how excited I was to have a new Star Trek. Watching on Netflix now, I can't help thinking what a piece of shit it was

WTF are you talking about? ST:TNG is the only Sci-Fi show from my childhood that stands the test of time. There were some hokey episodes to be sure but the underlying theme of humanity exploring the cosmos, under a semi-abundance economy where we've moved past the need for greed and work instead towards self-improvement and discovery? How can you not like that?

TNG explored themes as diverse as brinkmanship (The Defector and The Enemy), individual liberties (The Measure of a Man), paranoia driven by external fears (The Pegasus and The Drumhead, a massively underrated episode that seems downright prescient when one contemplates current events in the post 9/11 world), terrorism (The High Ground), eugenics (The Masterpiece Society), the morality of deadly force (The Most Toys), veterans/PTSD (The Wounded, Family, and The Hunted), old age (Half a Life and Sarek), torture (Chain of Command), revenge (Reunion), and betrayal (Preemptive Strike).

Those are just the issue episodes that come to mind. TNG could also do action (several of the aforementioned, plus Power Play, Conundrum and Starship Mine), first contact (First Contact, Darmok), and even comedy (Deja Q).

Some of those episodes were better than others but I dare say that they're as good as anything that's on television today and were light-years ahead of their peers in the 1980s and 1990s. TNG was at its best when approached as a character and issues driven drama; in that respect I think it set a standard that is never going to be equaled in television Sci-Fi. It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.

It was also uplifting escapism entertainment that could still do serious drama, something I think we've lost with the current emphasis on dark violent dramas. Even the genuinely scary episodes of TNG (The Best of Both Worlds can still send shivers down my spine) never left you feeling depressed and melancholy. The only other show from the 1980s that I can still re-watch is Magnum PI, for a lot of the same reasons when I thi