20 Years ago at a videostore near you...

[ChristopherPike]

With it being the 20th Anniversary year and all, I just thought a few here would like to see this blast from the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4GrdKSQyiM

It's a promo trailer which appeared on videocassette. It cropped up on a number of CIC tapes during '87 including top rentals like Top Gun and The Voyage Home.

It's short but enjoy. :thumbsup:

 

[sttngfan1701d]

It's neat. Reminds me of the old episode promos. Is that Stacey Keach doing the narration?

 

[Noname On A Naughty List]

I still have a copy of that on the VHS copy of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which I purchashed back in 1987.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

^That promo is on youtube:

TNG Promo

 

[ChristopherPike]

Ah, so it is.

Serves me right for being so pleased with myself about finding it on an old tape.

It'll probably get pulled soon anyhow...

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

^Still be proud; I have the old VHS copy as well.

 

[SmoothieX]

Noname Given said:
I still have a copy of that on the VHS copy of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which I purchashed back in 1987.

me too. Did they play the trailer when TVH was in the theater or just on the VHS?

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Just on VHS. TNG was the result of the box office draw of TVH, and put together shortly after it's release.

 

[Jamee999]

I'd forgotten how dire Worf's forehead was in Season 1.

 

[Sec31Mike]

I remember that commercial playing on TV as well. It had me jazzed up and glued to every new episode of TNG.

 

[Atariboy]

My local station played that promo right before the premiere of Encounter at Farpoint... and I never saw it again until today.

Awesome find for me! :P

 

[Spider]

Jamee999 said:
I'd forgotten how dire Worf's forehead was in Season 1.

You got that right.

Thanks for posting that ChristopherPike , brings back old memories.

 

[Shatmandu]

The way he says "Yar" makes me giggle, like he's thinking, "Man, this is fucking stupid, but the water bill isn't going to pay itself."

Joe, voicey

 

[od0_ital]

Noname Given said:
I still have a copy of that on the VHS copy of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which I purchashed back in 1987.

Same here, only it was my mom who bought Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, not me.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Thanks everyone.

It got me thinking about seeing TNG for the first time. For some weird reason, I recall the episodes being stitched together in movie format on video. Strange since they weren't any two-parters to begin with. But presumably that means prints exist with no credits running over the first few scenes of episodes.

 

[Salinga]

LOL - they hadn't already figured out all the soundeffects yet. The door and beaming sounds in this promo are different from the one used in the actual series.

 

[Kytee]

They also mention 'Telepathic' Troy. if only...

 

[J47]

I love the intro of the characters. Medical Officer Crusher and her brilliant son...Data, an android...Security Officer Yar...Geordi, a man with unusual vision.

 

[RAMA]

I remember this well. When I saw it before i watched the tape for the first time, I nearly fell out of my chair! Ah happy times!

RAMA

 

[sbk1234]

This must have been made before they finished a lot of the effects, seeing as how they used a lot of shots from the movies.

btw, RAMA, how did you get that picture of my torso, and whose head did you attach to it? Gotta love that photoshop.