TNG season one is hilariously excellent

[John Vasiliou]

I loved how they tried so hard to emulate the Original Series.

It made alot of it just fun to watch..especially Code of honor ,and Justice.

Don't get me wrong I liked what it ended up being ,but I just don't understand the hate from some people.

 

[Supernuke]

I loved how they tried so hard to emulate the Original Series.

It made alot of it just fun to watch..especially Code of honor ,and Justice.

Don't get me wrong I liked what it ended up being ,but I just don't understand the hate from some people.

I just didn't think that the show had found its niche yet. It wasn't the original series, but it pretended like it was. The characters were different and I believe it took a little while for the show to fulfill its potential. I did enjoy the little story arc at the end of season one, but that was about it for me.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

For me, Season one is so bad it is funny. The writing, acting, characters, plots...just god awful. I am constantly amazed that the show made it past that first season. JUST.SO.BAD.

 

[Starbreaker]

Angel One is an absolute classic.

 

[Shatnertage]

It's like everyone's first day at work. They're just moving around like they don't know where anything is yet. Entertaining, in its own way.

 

[PianoWizzy]

Agreed. The first season always appeared to me to be a very big ripoff from TOS. Not that I didn't love it anyway.

 

[JarodRussell]

Hm... seems I'm the only one who actually likes it. And not in a weird "it's so bad it's good" way.

 

[sonak]

While I think season 1 of TNG may well be the worst single season of TV Star Trek ever (I can't decide between it, TOS season 3 or ENT season 2 but it's definitely up there) it still has some pretty good shows in it, like "110011001," "the big goodbye," "conspiracy," etc. So don't overlook the gems just because most of the season is fairly bad.

 

[LOKAI of CHERON]

Hm... seems I'm the only one who actually likes it. And not in a weird "it's so bad it's good" way.

No, not at all Jarod. The first two sasons of TNG are easily my favourite - and certainly not in a "so bad it's good" or "hilarious" fashion (I strongly dispute those assertions). I love them very much for their aesthetic similarity to TOS, and wish the show had continued/developed in that style and format.

 

[BillJ]

Hm... seems I'm the only one who actually likes it. And not in a weird "it's so bad it's good" way.

No, not at all Jarod. The first two sasons of TNG are easily my favourite - and certainly not in a "so bad it's good" or "hilarious" fashion (I strongly dispute those assertions). I love them very much for their aesthetic similarity to TOS, and wish the show had continued/developed in that style and format.

Count me among the damned. The Next Generation season 1 and 2 rank up with Star Trek seasons 1 and 2 and Enterprise season 4 as my personal favorites.

 

[Noname Given]

There's a lot of words I could use to describe TNG season 1; but " hilariously excellent" (and especially that last word) wouldn't be a phrase that works for me.

 

[Alrik]

Hm... seems I'm the only one who actually likes it. And not in a weird "it's so bad it's good" way.

No, not at all Jarod. The first two sasons of TNG are easily my favourite - and certainly not in a "so bad it's good" or "hilarious" fashion (I strongly dispute those assertions). I love them very much for their aesthetic similarity to TOS, and wish the show had continued/developed in that style and format.

Count me among the damned. The Next Generation season 1 and 2 rank up with Star Trek seasons 1 and 2 and Enterprise season 4 as my personal favorites.

Count me in. I enjoy seasons 1 & 2 just as much as the rest of the series.

 

[milo bloom]

Having watched TNG off and on in syndication over the years, the wife and I had both fallen prey to the fallacy of the first two seasons not being good. But last summer we picked up the complete DVD set and started a full series rewatch. There was an indefinable, but very real feel to the first two seasons that truly set them apart from the remainder of TNG (and all subsequent Trek TV and movies). They were very much in the feel of TOS episodes and even when the episodes stumbled (sometimes pretty hard) there was still a feel that you were watching something a little better than the usual scifi TV.

I don't know if they could capture lightning in a bottle again, but I'd love to see any future TV series try to have at least a fraction of whatever that ambiance was.

 

[John Vasiliou]

Hm... seems I'm the only one who actually likes it. And not in a weird "it's so bad it's good" way.

Didn't say I hated it either ,just thought alot of it was humorous

I get very nostalgic when I watch it now.

 

[Commodore_Rook]

I am watching all of season one and while it seems awkward, and almost a clone of TOS (I think Gene did that on purpose to ease us TOS fans into it more easily), it did have some bad acting, and really cheap (i.e. TOS looking) sets. The most laughable moment was "The Last Outpost" with the Ferengi. While their whole motive of profit was there, they just acted like annoying monkeys on the planet and had to laugh at them. Even seeing "Quark" was funny! The challenge was silly too. I did like the energy whip and the small "phaser 1's". What ever happened to them?

 

[Andromeda]

Personally I felt the first two seasons had a much darker feel to them. The lighting, the music score... it all felt a lot more mysterious to me. There were some shockingly bad costumes/make-up designs and Special FX, but if you can see past those, they are both great series.

 

[RAMA]

I loved how they tried so hard to emulate the Original Series.

It made alot of it just fun to watch..especially Code of honor ,and Justice.

Don't get me wrong I liked what it ended up being ,but I just don't understand the hate from some people.

I think we need to define what they tried to emulate...firstly the plots were constructed much like TOS, but they also took some of David Gerrold's suggestions to heart, which forever changed they way ST scripts were written (See the World of ST). Secondly, I think Bob Justman sadly kept the production design somewhat backwards in terms of practical sets outdoors despite the newer producers trying to use the newer techniques available..eventually this improved a lot.

http://www.amazon.com/World-Star-Trek-David-Gerrold/dp/0312944632

RAMA

 

[drazzz52923849]

Ya i started season 1 as the first star trek i had ever seen and it turned TNG to my favorite show. I liked the lessons they tried to teach, Like when Tasha teaches us that drugs are bad, but they make you feel really good, in Symbiosis. The viewer irony was hilarious.

 

[Opus]

There were some clunkers in the 1st season, and some groantastic lines, especially from Wes, but overall it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. And I thought the 2nd season was pretty good - you could almost see the direction they were going with the series, and point to somewhere around the middle of the 3rd season where it took a sharp turn from it to become much more somber and cerebral. It was campy like TOS at times, with a bit of tongue in cheek.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm rewatching S1 at the moment (only just restarted, so only up to Where No One Has Gone Before). I think it's a very good season in many respects. There's a willingness to play around with ideas, roles and concepts that naturally faded by later seasons as things became more set in stone. I like the experimental nature of some of these early episodes.

Sometimes they fall flat, but even then, the ideas persist. Good season.