It was 20 years ago today...

[Mr Awe]

SmoothieX said:

tomalak301 said:
I'm not going to celebrate until the 27th. I had a feeing we were jumping the gun a bit.

The 28th works even better as it's a Friday. I'm gonna break out some of that green shit Data served Scotty drank in Relics and have at it.

I don't know that the exact day it was first aired in Denver, but I know that it was on a school night in September. I remember going to school the next day psyched up! So, it would've been before the 28th.

Mr Awe

 

[ChristopherPike]

If Star Trek.com lists it as the 09/28/87, then that's good enough for me.

A marathon of Encounter & All Good Things.. sounds like a good way to celebrate this evening.

 

[Keith1701]

ChristopherPike said:
If Star Trek.com lists it as the 09/28/87, then that's good enough for me.

A marathon of Encounter & All Good Things.. sounds like a good way to celebrate this evening.

TNG was and is the best of the best!!! It's hard to beleieve it's been 20 years since TNG appeared on the network. :thumbsup:

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

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!"

I remember this as well, and that I thought the look was sharp especially the uniforms, which were streamlined, sophisticated and went back to the simplistic design ethic of the original series and TMP (too bad you have to be very, very fit to wear one).

When I was a kid and teenager, this was the only game in town and rather enjoyed it. In hindsight, I wish things were handled a little differently but you know what they say about hindsight.

 

[Keith1701]

Cmndr J Crichton said:

Here's proof! From my own collection.

Yeah!!! I'm using the same 2007 Star Trek Desk calendar!!! Still, looking for the 2008 edition Star Trek Desk Calendar on Amazon.com but they have not as of yet posted it to the web site.

 

[Nardpuncher]

euphorik said:

Cmndr J Crichton said:
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!

does anybody else remember those "clip" ads that ran in the final 10 days before your local premiere? these were the things that said, in onscreen text, "in 10 [or - as applicable - 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1] days, the 24th century begins..." interspersed with clips from early 1st season shows. i still have quite a few of these - my first glimpses at stuff like "the naked now," "code of honor" and "farpoint." i haven't seen any of these posted on youtube -

in indianapolis, the premiere was 8PM on WXIN-59, wednesday 9/30/87. i was a senior in high school, and was totally blown away by the pilot.

what's hard to get across to younger people who grew up with new star trek on every week was the utter WEIRDNESS of the show, the strangeness of new, unfamiliar faces amidst the familiar trek universe - which itself was weirdly different. until that night, star trek was about the 23rd century...this is a little off-topic, but i always felt that one of the failures of ENT was the producers' failure to make (after the early episodes, anyway) the 22nd century as different and exotic from the 24th century of TNG, DS(, and VOY as TNG's 24th was from the original 23rd. holodeck? families on the enterprise? and a KLINGON?!? from the first episode on, the 24th century was convincing and engagingly different from any trek seen before. i don't ENT was like that. "farpoint" gets pretty savaged in "best pilot" polls these days, but i think it holds up just fine.

i don't think many people remember these days how much pressure was on the cast and crew in season one to make the new show both the same and very different from TOS, and i think season 1 did that very well.

i was a picard fan from the moment he yelled "SHUT OFF THAT DAMN NOISE!!! GO TO YELLOW ALERT!!"

20 years. it's really hard for me to believe!!!

About those commercials where they said "In X number of days the Next Generation begins!" I asked about this twicw before and I guess it's only you and me that remember those. I saw them in Winnipeg by the way.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

^Oh, I remember those commercials. The announcer would always say in (blank) days and then the number would show on screen followed by a clip of Riker walking into the holodeck, then a rapid fire of clips from EaF.