Anytime someone says that all fans loved TNG, show them this:
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I went to almost every Trek con from '75 to 2002. I talked to a lot of people. I still have their letters. TNG did NOT get universal support, but we know how well the show was received by year 4.
Yep - there was also someone who posted a readable picture of a news article clipping from the L.A. Times that shows a numbers of Star Trek fan's feeling RE: ST:TNG. (It's in one of the thread of this sub forum and I wish I'd saved a link to it because it was golden in that they showed fans had similar (almost word for word) complaints about TNG prior to it's premiere. (And as I can say I was 24 in 1987 when TNG premiered - believe me when I say the first few episodes shown more showed how right than wrong we were.
The 2 Hour
"Encounter At Farpoint"
- "The Naked Now"
And I laughed HARD at this exchange:
WESLEY: See how I reversed the fields on this, Commander? I made it into a repulser beam.
DATA: If we just had one minute more, sir,
WESLEY: If this were a hundred times more powerful than it is. Why not try it with the real thing? Why not reverse fields on this, Ma'am? If we just need an extra minute,
MACDOUGAL: It would take weeks of laying out new circuits. 
WESLEY: Why not just see it in your head? Come off the main lead, split off at the force activator, then, then. If I could just think straight about this...
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Yep, in the 24th century - setting a Tractor Beam to repel (which Scotty did a number of times in TOS) would take
WEEKS of laying out new circuts...(and of course wizlid wesly DOES what ANY Starfleet Engineer should ahve done, or FURTHER - you'd think there WOULD be a 'Repel' setting already set up...but NOT in the 24th century.
Then there was the universally loved and forward thinking episode:
- Code of Honor
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And if you don't recall it - even the TNG staff later wondered what they were thinking when they approved and produced it as it's ACTUALLY quite racist and misogynistic.
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Yep this was the first four hours of TNG as broadcast. It's a wonder they made it past the first 13 episodes.
