I Love TNG

[Trekker4747]

I love all of Trek.... Well, mostly. I love TNG, I love TOS, DS9 is pretty good, Enterprise had (some) moments, and even Voyager did too.

But TNG is "mine" it's the one I "grew up with" it's the one that introduced me to this universe.

So once a year or so I end up watching through the series. This year Trek XI sparked a "Trek Marathon" that started with TOS and has now led into TNG (to be followed by DS9, Voyager and Enterprise.)

And I'm always just marveled at how good TNG is. I've seen these episodes countless times and they still fill me with wonder and awe that gets me to sit down and just watch them and fill my imagination. Earlier I watched "The Survivors" an episode I think gets overlooked a lot and this is just one of TNG's finer moments. And nothing really "big" happens. Contrast this with later series where nearly every episode had to be an "event" with a big battle. Shit, "The Survivors" has scenes just watching two old people do a waltz to a musicbox!

I also think the much maligned Season 2 has a LOT of great episodes in it. I think S2 is much better than S1, infact.

TNG, I love you and I always will. You're a wonderful, fantastic, series.

 

[Amaris]

Oh God yes. I have Seasons One & Two on DVD and Season Two is vastly superior to Season One. It has some great and defining episodes, too.

J.

 

[flemm]

yeah

 

[Alex1939]

A matter of honor
The measure of a man
Q who
Peak Performance

are all among my favorite episodes of all Star Trek

 

[Jeri]

I, too, am watching my way through TNG at the moment and having a nice time. Today's episode: Captain's Holiday. A fun episode. I realized I hadn't watched TNG in about five years, so I dug out the season sets and got to work. The first two seasons had more to recommend them than I remembered, btw. Even the challenging episodes have something worthwhile in them.

 

[Amaris]

I'm hoping to find an inexpensive 3rd Season set.


J.

 

[RandyS]

I'm hoping to find an inexpensive 3rd Season set.

J.

Keep checking Amazon. You should be able to find one there for around $45.00-$50.00.

 

[Daneel]

I hear you Trekker; I appreciate and admire the original series, I love DS9, and, for the most part, I can enjoy Voyager and Enterprise, even if they weren't great. But TNG was what got me hooked on Trek, and probably sci-fi in general. I spent my formative years watching the series, and honestly can't really remember a time I wasn't a TNG fan. So I definitely know what you mean -- I too consider this show "mine". Even though I look at some episodes (and seasons) with a more critical eye now, I will always love the show and its characters.

 

[startrekwatcher]

Earlier I watched "The Survivors" an episode I think gets overlooked a lot and this is just one of TNG's finer moments.

I love "The Survivors". It is a quieter more intimate show. You are right DS9/VOY/ENT tended to hang their hats on epic storylines, which is fine, and shows these days go out of their way to throw as much as they can at you in whirlwind speeds and create such complex storylines with elaborate labyrithine mythologies you have to keep journals just to keep track of it, which is again fine, but sometimes I enjoy a nice leisurely paced isolated episode that isn't quite on a grand scale. And while TNG might have been episodic it was far from formulaic. It had a variety of story types and a nice dynamism within episodes that made them interesting.

"The Survivors" is a perfect example of one of the reasons I enjoyed TNG so much. It has an interesting mystery with a sci-fi bent that is cleverly done and is used to explore characters and real emotions. I thought the Uxbridges were perfectly cast and created a lovely couple that managed to make the audience care in under 50 minutes in a way that some shows can't in several seasons. That was another thing about TNG it didn't play to demographics. We had some wonderful actors/actresses(Fionnula Flanagan, Ellen Geer, Ann Haney, John Anderson) over the years on the show that were mature and not young teeny boppers as tends to be the case. Nowadays shows run away from an actor if they have the slightest bit of gray around their temples.

It also had that wonderful bizarre image right out of the Twilight Zone in the teaser when the viewscreen reveals the shot of the lone tract of untouched land with a quaint home.

And nothing really "big" happens. Contrast this with later series where nearly every episode had to be an "event" with a big battle.

Yes, TNG's attitude towards action was much appreciated. It made those rare moments when we were treated to some that much more special and exciting such as in "The Best of Both Worlds" or in "The Survivors" which featured a nicely intmidating marauder design in some tense and well executed engagements. VOY/ENT made a weekly battle so ordinary and uneventful except on a few rare occasions.

TNG also managed to make everything feel grounded and realistic even while dealing with fantastic ideas.

I've pretty much accepted that my Trek era is over and despite the hope I had for XI it just isn't what I look for with Trek and I doubt any new series will recapture what made the TNG era so great.

 

[tomalak301]

I was watching Cause and Effect tonight, an episode I've seen countless times, and an episode where it's pretty much 10 minutes of episode in about 4 acts with extra stuff sprinkled in here and there. I still had an impact when Data sent the message and everything had the number 3 whenever Data was around. In fact, it gave me goosebumps and I'm not sure why. Then we saw Dr. Frasier Crane (Another fantastic character) in the final 3 minutes of the show and it was just really really cool. I thought shows like BSG would get me tired of TNG, but it's probably just grown my appreciation of it over the years. I grew up with TNG, I'm one of those newbie fans who got into Star Trek and respected the original because of TNG. You're right Trekker when you say it's ours. It's so true.

 

[Tachyon]

I grew up with TNG as well so I love it. I thought it would be my personal "true Trek" forever, and in a way it still is, but a bigger part of my Trekker heart belongs to Voyager now.

 

[USS Intrepid]

Earlier I watched "The Survivors" an episode I think gets overlooked a lot and this is just one of TNG's finer moments.

Couldn't agree more. The Survivors is a fantastic episode.

 

[john titor]

I was watching the episode with the two Rikers and was reminded about why I like TNG. Its just a great character study, it doesn't get bogged down in an extraneous b plot or technobabble, its an assured effort which doesn't need to blast away at the viewers senses but instead is somewhat meditative. Plus its brilliant for unintentional hilarity, two Rikers=double the smugness

 

[TheLonelySquire]

I'm hoping to find an inexpensive 3rd Season set.

J.

Keep checking Amazon. You should be able to find one there for around $45.00-$50.00.

Check Target too. And Borders does a 40% off coupon from time to time. I got Voyager for 34.99 per season and TNG for $249.00 complete series.

 

[Praetor]

I grew up with TNG seven days a week as a kid, so I quite love it too. It's taken a long time for me to look at the characters objectively. Before, they simply were.

 

[TedShatner10]

I'm another child of TNG and "Family" affected me more than "The Inner Light". I'm really enjoying the Virgin 1 repeats and Season Six really was the height of this series IMHO.

 

[RAMA]

My 9 year old nephew has been watching STNG SINCE the new movie has come out!!! Now this kid is a Star Wars fanatic and loves things blowing up...yet I watched him view :Tin Man" with rapt attention. The power of STNG is amazing.

RAMA

 

[Trekker4747]

My 9 year old nephew has been watching STNG SINCE the new movie has come out!!! Now this kid is a Star Wars fanatic and loves things blowing up...yet I watched him view :Tin Man" with rapt attention. The power of STNG is amazing.

RAMA

Now that's amazing. Usually watching "Tin Man" makes me want to break things.

 

[tomalak301]

My 9 year old nephew has been watching STNG SINCE the new movie has come out!!! Now this kid is a Star Wars fanatic and loves things blowing up...yet I watched him view :Tin Man" with rapt attention. The power of STNG is amazing.

RAMA

Now that's amazing. Usually watching "Tin Man" makes me want to break things.

I almost feel the same way, but it's only reaching through the screen and break Elbrun. The rest of the episode isn't that bad, especially the ending.

 

[Praetor]

But Harry Groener (Elbrun) was also the Mayor on "Buffy!" Surely that must count for something!