heavy lids wrote:

BillJ wrote:

I'm not sure moving to the big screen was a mistake. But going straight to the big screen was. There was no time for general audiences to 'miss' the characters
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Very true. With many things, not just Trek, you need a break from time to time to then rediscover why you love it.
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Add to the fact that TNG was also in syndicated reruns by this point. I vividly remember it being on weeknights at 7PM in my area while it was still in first run every Saturday at 7PM.