Let me show you something that will make you feel young as when the world was new
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Looks like Gates (or rather Cheryl) and Marina went to the mall for some glamour shots.
The quotes from the original cast is fantastic!! I like Nichols' optimism.
What an incredible find! Thanks for posting this, it's made my day.
LOL, I forgot about George trumpeting Captain Sulu back then. Before there was a one0man trumpeting of Captain Worf, there was Captain Sulu.
Good stuff. I feel real nostalgia for when Next Gen first kicked off and the first few years.
The original cast comments are interesting. I didn't realise Nichols' was seemingly the most optimistic; Nimoy was typically tactful, but Doohan and Kelley's comments rather surprised me.
Koenig wrote the introduction to the first TPB of the 'Modala Imperative' comic story, and admitted in there that he had some pretty mean-spirited thoughts about Next Gen, but was glad to be proven wrong.
The original cast comments are interesting. I didn't realise Nichols' was seemingly the most optimistic; Nimoy was typically tactful, but Doohan and Kelley's comments rather surprised me.
Koenig wrote the introduction to the first TPB of the 'Modala Imperative' comic story, and admitted in there that he had some pretty mean-spirited thoughts about Next Gen, but was glad to be proven wrong.
Likewise, especially since Kelley was on the first show. Doohan was on TNG too, of course, but much later, maybe by then he also had changed his mind.
Great stuff though, thanks for posting!Also holy 80's hair, Marina!
Boy, was the old guard wrong about Star Trek The Next Generation; the series itself was a phenomenon and it generated a new form of fandom and opened the doors to more SF tv shows on syndication. The movies were the only blemish from the series but I still appreciated the work done that show, it was better than any of it's spinoffs and 1 of them desperately wanted to be like it. It just shows how good that series was, and I hope the streaming series will create the magic conjured so long ago.
The comments from the original cast sound like the comments from some of the fans about the upcoming new series
The change from TOS to TNG then to the change from Trek as we've known it (sans JJverse) to the new Trek, is not the same.
The original and TNG were the sam unvierse, just set in a different time. The complaints back then from TOS cast was kind of odd Why couldn't an Enterprise almost a hundred years later have a new crew? Why couldn't it capture it's own magic? Same 'verse, same chance to succeed.
The last thing I saw about the new Trek was:
So, they're jettisoning what made Trek Trek for multiple series and movies and doing what they want under the banner of Star Trek. At this point, if they really had any good ideas, they'd run them under their own science fiction universe and not use STar Trek as a crutch to peddle their new ideas.
If this had been set in the same Trek 'verse, maybe in a different time, maybe in a different part of the galaxy, people complaining now would have been equivilant of the TOS cast in that old article.
I'm reminded of that failed attempt at a Tim Burton Superman movie where a producer came on board and gave three demands:
1: He can't fly.
2: He can't where his Superman costume.
3: He has to fight a giant spider.
Yes, so Superman can't fly and can't where the oconic Superman suit with the iconic Superman symbol on it, but we'd still have viewed the movie under the guise of it beign a Superman film.
(Noted from a documentary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2753778/)
You're preaching to the converted here. I can't stand the JJVerse and I don't want a reboot. I just thought the comments from the original cast reminded me of some of the comments from fans about the new series not being set in the Prime universe.
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