16+ Years Since "Future Imperfect"

[JonnyQuest037]

I was reading a blog about Trek and when I got to the TNG episode "Future Imperfect" (Where Riker wakes up 16 years into the future to find himself Captain of the Enterprise with a son he's never met), it struck me that we're now just over 16 years into future from when this episode first aired (The episode debuted on November 12, 1990).

Overall, I'd say that the actors have aged more gracefully in real life than they were made up to look in this episode, but it was certainly closer to the mark than TOS's "The Deadly Years" with the original cast. It might be interesting to Photoshop Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, and the other cast members as they look today into stills of the episode.

Memory Alpha also makes the interesting point that this episode ended up predicting many things that came to pass in the history of the Prime Trek Universe: Geordi's lack of a visor, Troi in a traditional uniform, a Ferengi joining Starfleet, peace overtures with the Romulans...

(Please forgive me if there's been a thread along these lines already. I'm not a regular on the TNG Forum and I didn't find anything like this topic when I put the episode's title into a search.)

 

[at Quark's]

Not to spoil your fun in commemorating this episode, but I think it's closer to 26 years ago now since it first aired

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ He means the episode from Star Trek: The Next Next Generation.

Did you miss that series?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Not to spoil your fun in commemorating this episode, but I think it's closer to 26 years ago now since it first aired

Oh, DUH! This is why I should not do math and post late at night.

Any way we can backdate this thread to 2006?

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Do you want the title changed to reflect the actual 26 year gap?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

You can make actors up to look believably old but much harder to make them up to how they might actually look. You'd have to totally change proportions of their most prominent features.

Much easier to add a little gray here, saggy skin there and done.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Do you want the title changed to reflect the actual 26 year gap?

Eh, whichever you want. Change it, don't change it, chalk this thread up as an error and lock it down. 26 years isn't really significant. I only thought it was neat when I was thinking it had been the same amount of time that it was in the episode. If I'd realized my mistake sooner, I probably wouldn't have even started the thread.

I'm going to slink back to the TOS Forum, where I'm positive it's only been 30 years since the show aired!

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

I'll go ahead and close it then. Its a brain fart I can relate to.