Embarrassingly Bad Article on Reason behind TNG families

[Armored Saint]

Having Geordi get married, are you....wait in fact, It would have worked and he would have passed over his dating problem. He already became Chief Engineer and Lieutenant Commander, so he was no more running after a promotion or a new position. Riker and Troi were Riker and Troi. Worf was already replacing Beverly as the single parent.

 

[BriGuy]

It's easy to dismiss and disregard the entire piece when you get to the insightful and eloquently written statement, "Roddenberry's idea sucked."

Just because someone can string some words together and put them online somewhere doesn't give them any value or merit. (And yes, the same could be said for my very own post, but I think my point is made, for whatever it's worth.)

Don't worry about what people say, worry about what they do.

 

[Salinga]

His argument failed, when he claimed, making money was the reason to drop the idea of Roddenberry. Since TNG is the most successfull moneymaking Trek series, which just features his ideas most prominently. The further the producers went away from Roddenberrys concept, the less successfull the series became.

 

[Christopher]

^Well, no; Roddenberry was never a very successful TV producer, with Trek being something of a fluke, and the main reason Paramount felt obligated to attach his name to TNG at all was because of his success in promoting himself as the genius auteur behind Trek, winning the loyalty of the fanbase so that they'd only accept a new Trek project if it had his imprimatur. But by that point in his life, Roddenberry was a sick, drug-addicted, deteriorating man being sheltered and supported by the loyal cadre he'd built around himself, and was barely competent to make a viable television series, which is why season 1, the only season of TNG that he really did have creative control over, is such an awkward mess, and why he systematically drove away everyone else who co-created the show with him (David Gerrold, D.C. Fontana, and Bob Justman). TNG didn't become successful until after Roddenberry was creatively marginalized.