I don't know if he was that shitty his entire life. I'm willing to take into account the 'erratic behaviour' that supposedly is part of Darnay's disease, and his desperation of facing impending death. But he did seem to have a rather grandiose sense of self-importance.
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I don't know if he was that shitty his entire life. I'm willing to take into account the 'erratic behaviour' that supposedly is part of Darnay's disease, and his desperation of facing impending death. But he did seem to have a rather grandiose sense of self-importance.
I have been wondering this for 35 years.
In "We'll Always Have Paris", Data was going to compare the time loop 'hiccup' to another bodily function. Picard interrupted him.
What was Data going to say?
In "We'll Always Have Paris", Data was going to compare the time loop 'hiccup' to another bodily function. Picard interrupted him.
What was Data going to say?
A hiccup? 
And itch?
Like a feedback loop?
Like a feedback loop?
A hiccup?
Can't be. Riker told them that the message from the Lalo said their captain referred to it as a hiccup. Data being Data, of course, was about to correct them and say that the time loop incident, if compared to another bodily function, was more like a...
Then Picard interrupts him. Aargh! I always wanted to know.
Fart.
Perhaps, but I'm still sticking with my suspicion that until Soong actually appeared onscreen (in "Brothers") the writers had no idea how old he was going to appear.
Thus, Graves' assertion that he taught Soong everything he knows, might have been largely accurate. For all we know, when "The Schizoid Man" was written, they really were considering having Soong be a much younger man.
And as I also said, just because Soong looked ancient in "Brothers" doesn't mean he actually was. He said he was dying, after all. It is entirely possible that whatever Soong was dying OF, rapid aging was a symptom...so Soong could have been much younger than he looked, even then.
Why did they name it "The Next Generation", anyway? It seems like a meta choice - the fans are "next generation" (80s instead of 60s), not the crew (100 years in the future - well, except for the odd long-lived species, that is.) It isn't even the next generation of Enterprise - it's two after the next.
It would have been set in time about 80 years after the original, but calling it 'Star Trek: the next's next's next generation' (or: Star Trek, the great grandchildren's generation) wouldn't have sounded as powerful, right?
Also perhaps it also was influenced a bit by a slogan such as 'Pepsi, the choice of a new generation' that was popular at the time? (No idea whether that could actually be true or not.)
Hmm. None of the characters are even descendants of TOS characters (that we know of, anyway).
^doesn't the word generation generalise it, though?
If I were to talk about my children, I would mean just them. If I were talking about my children's generation, I might refer to everyone (or at least a significant group) within a certain age range.
If I were to talk about my children, I would mean just them. If I were talking about my children's generation, I might refer to everyone (or at least a significant group) within a certain age range.
Well, assuming that it was a fart, as suggested, and that this was still the first season, I wouldn't have surprised if the exchange had continued like this:
DATA: <....> if compared to another bodily function, was more like a fart.
PICARD: A 'fart'? What's that? Records search, Data.
DATA: A 'fart' was the twentieth-century vernacular for the expulsion of gas from the intestines by the anus, sir, as a by-product of natural digestion. It was considered a less savoury aspect of human existence, sir, but also in some cases a source of jocularity, sir.
PICARD: I've never even heard of such a thing, Data.
DATA: That might be because it was before the great medical advances of the late 21st and early 22nd century sir, when humanity learned how to make digestion completely by-product free sir, making the anus, in fact, vestigial, sir.
PICARD: I'll never comprehend the depths of barbarity of those earlier times <looking straight in the camera> and of the late 20th century in particular! <looking at Data again>, before we evolved. How horrible it must have been to actually live in those times.
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It's the late-80s. A lot of shows were being dug up from the tv grave and given the suffix "The Next Generation" or "Today", or the prefix "The New" to differentiate themselves from the original and because it's clever.
Including, but not limited to:
- Roots - The Next Generations (okay, that's 1979 but that's close enough to the 80s)
- Bonanza: The Next Generation (1988, woohoo!)
- The New Monkees (good musicians, but what were they thinking for this show at the time...)
- The New Dating Game (no worries kids, when this show failed, someone else came up with "Studs"...)
- The Munsters Today (it's worse than the original, especially once they became trendy, but it lasted more years because they found a target audience that loved seeing the mockery!)
- The New Hollywood Squares (that word "New" is only starting to get slightly trite and all this was in the late-80s alone!)
- The New Battlestars (1983, based on the show Battlestars from 1981, so this trend started fairly early too!)
- The New Addams Family (okay, that's the late-90s, and I'll also include the 1977's "Halloween with the New Addams Family" for the sake of how quickly slapping on "The New" everywhere can quickly get. )
- ad nauseum
Now considering some of the other shows of the time, some of which I liked as a kid but am embarrassed to mention as I tried a few recently*, I'm not too surprised that these revivals and sequels were considered...
* and considering I adored "ElectraWoman and DynaGirl" as a kid and I just mentioned it, that's probably saying something about how uneven the 80s could be 
I might be wrong but I think "The Next Generation" was originally the name of the proposed TV series about the Odyssey and might actually have been the literal next generation in the premise, or it was just a generalisation there too. I think they might have just reused that title. https://trekmovie.com/2018/02/13/un...-generation-pith-was-a-wildly-different-show/
The simple answer could be that....?
Gene Roddenberry's second Star Trek creation, The Next GENE ration ?
Gene Roddenberry's second Star Trek creation, The Next GENE ration ?
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