It was 20 years ago today...

[Cmndr J Crichton]

"Space....The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's continuuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To bodly go where no one has gone before."


It's hard to believe that Encounter at Farpoint is 20 years old today. I remember being very excited, and nervous watching it. Who new it would turn out so awesome, and last longer than the original series did. As well as spawn 3 more series. I made a tribute video for the pilot episode.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZmqV4RDag

Here are some nostalgia videos I found on You Tube. Remember to watch Ecounter at Farpoint today to celebrate 20 great years of Star Trek The Next Generation!

Announcement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt4DaOqaLgQ

Teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayLwwvn77s

E.T. Preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMCajcfyA7s

Premere Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn_aIJFZVmQ

TNG Intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjr2IzqalPo

STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION - 1987-2007. Still the best after all these years.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yeah, I remember getting all excited every time ET would do one of their reports from October of 1986 on to the Fall of 1987.

The first time they showed the cast of the show in uniform was like "wow!"

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Wow, time sure has flown by. I remember watching the premiere of this show when I was five and my mom was all excited. Naturally, I was hooked.

20 years later, I'm reading an epic story featuring none other than Q himself in Q&A by Keith R.A. DeCandido.

 

[SmoothieX]

Damn, 20 years ago already. Seems like AGT was only yesterday.

 

[The Mule]

UWC Defiance said:
Yeah, I remember getting all excited every time ET would do one of their reports from October of 1986 on to the Fall of 1987.

The first time they showed the cast of the show in uniform was like "wow!"

my responce, little kid that i was, was "Hey, the captain is Mr. Clean!"

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Did they play that teaser video at the movies? I remember seeing it at the theater for the first time, then on video with the VHS release of The Voyage Home.

 

[Ohappydagger]

*sniff* I remember that day 20 years ago... I was 8 years old. It was one of the great turning points of my life.

 

[I Grok Spock]

Beautiful 80's hair on Mary Hart - Journeyman producers take note.

Interestingly, John Tesh looks no different.

 

[WillsBabe]

I was 21 and embarking on adulthood and freedom. TNG was with me for the first years of being a grown up. Now it's 20 years later and I'm entering a new phase in my life. There's very little TNG or the friends from that time in it, but that's okay, I'll always look back fondly at those years.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I remember feeling really good about the look of the show in the first publicity shots. It was a streamlined version of TOS, apparently skipping most everything in the movies (other than TMP, maybe).

The return of the three color codes for the uniforms, the brightly-lit sets...all were very TOS.

The first actual stills I saw of the actors at work in character were some slides that Richard Arnold brought to the Baltimore "Shore Leave" convention in 1987. First shot of the Captain on the Bridge - looking very grim, natch - brought applause and cheers from the audience. Not whole-hearted, maybe, but definitely willing to be excited about the thing.

 

[Mr Awe]

Holy crap, I can't believe it's 20 years old. This was huge when I saw it in High School. I remember being blown away by the SFx. Everything seemed so advanced. I had no idea that it would spawn the franchise, good and bad, that it did.

I remember thinking, this is *so* good that we might get 5 years of it! Of course, as the first season went along, I started having doubts about that.

Mr Awe

 

[mon capitaine]

Seems like yesterday. I was a student then; now I'm all grown up with a house, a car, and a job that sucks. Hmm. Twenty years can really fly by.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Last year's anniversary didn't bother me so much... but TNG @20? Now that does disturb me.

A shame TNG doesn't have it's equivilent of The Voyage Home in cinemas right now. But then I guess that's the way the replicated cookie crumbles...

 

[TrueQ]

Wow, makes me feel like a child with nerdyish passions!

 

[SmoothieX]

Hey not to burst anyone's bubble, but I just checked TrekCore, and they list 9/28/87 as the airdate.

What gives?

 

[Turbo]

I was only 5 months old when EaF aired, so I really don't remember it. But it's weird to think that TNG is as old as I am!

 

[SmoothieX]

^ n00b

I was watching TNG save the galaxy while you were in diapers!

 

[2of1million]

SmoothieX said:
^ n00b

I was watching TNG save the galaxy while you were in diapers!

Haha me too. I was 12 when TNG started...

 

[Spider]

2of1million said:

SmoothieX said:
^ n00b

I was watching TNG save the galaxy while you were in diapers!

Haha me too. I was 12 when TNG started...

I was in my 30s when TNG started. Yall are a bunch of youngins.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

SmoothieX said:
Hey not to burst anyone's bubble, but I just checked TrekCore, and they list 9/28/87 as the airdate.

What gives?

There was no single airdate. There was a one-week window after a certain date when the show could be run, and every station running it could schedule it however they liked within that period.

That said, the window probably did begin in the last few days of September, as a lot of stations ran the show on the weekend of October 4rd-6th. So the actual satellite uplink was probably on the 27th or 28th.

I remember I first watched it with a party of folks over at Rich Kolker's house; he pulled it off the satellite about a week before it actually was broadcast in this market.