"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) [TV-Series 1987-1994]
Genre:
Adventure / Sci-Fi (more)
Tagline: New Stars. New Stories. New Worlds To Explore.
Plot Outline: Set 95 years after Capt. Kirk's 5 year mission, a new generation in a new Enterprise set on their own mission to go where no one has gone before. (more)
Seasons:
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User Rating:
 
8.9/10 (313 votes)
Also Known As:
Star Trek: TNG (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
Runtime:
45 min / USA:45 min (178 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English / Klingon / French
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Australia:M (some episodes) / Australia:PG (some episodes) / Canada:PG / Singapore:PG
Trivia:
Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski) also was in two episodes of the original Star Trek series, playing "Dr. Miranda Jones" in the episode "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" and "Lt.Cmdr.Ann Mulhall, Ph.D and Thalassa" in "Return to Tomorrow".
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Goofs:
Factual errors: Any time Data plays the part of Sherlock Holmes he's shown as wearing a deerstalker cap and smoking a goose necked pipe. Holmes only wore a soft cloth cap (drawn as a deerstalker though never said to be one by Doyle) when in the country, not in the city. Also Holmes never once smoked a goose necked pipe. That was an alteration made by an actor who found that it was the only pipe he could hold between his teeth and still be able to say his lines clearly. Finally, Sherlock Holmes never once spoke the words "It's elementary, my dear Watson." That was something else added in a script but never once written by Doyle. An android would get these details right.
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Quotes:
[repeated line]
Capt. Picard:
Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
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Awards:
Won 18 Emmys.
Another 11 wins
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51 nominations
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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Trek in the 24th Century..., 10 September 2005
Author:
Bogmeister from United States
When the TNG series premiered in 1987, it wasn't greeted well by many
of the old-time Trek fans, including myself. It didn't help matters
that one of the earliest episodes, "The Naked Now" was a superficial
retread of the classic "The Naked Time" from '66. The new episode
should have served as a way of spotlighting several of the new crew,
but all it did was show them all in heat. I wasn't too impressed. What
did work was keeping the central theme of exploration (something lost
in the offshoots, DS9 & Voyager). The new Enterprise was twice as large
as the original, with about a thousand personnel aboard. Capt. Picard
(Stewart) was a more cerebral, diplomatic version of the ultimate
explorer we had known as Capt. Kirk. Again, Picard wasn't too
impressive in the first two awkward seasons, as some may mistake his
caution for weakness. The Kirk-like first officer Riker (Frakes) was
controlled by Picard, so the entire crew of Enterprise-D came across as
a bit too civilized, too complacent for their own good. It's
interesting that this complacency was fractured by the most memorable
episode of the first two years, "Q Who?" which introduced The Borg. All
of a sudden, exploration was not a routine venture.
Other memorable episodes of the first 2 years: the double-length pilot,
introducing Q; "Conspiracy"-an early invasion thriller; "Where No One
Has Gone Before"-an ultimate attempt to define the exploring theme;
"The Big Goodbye"-the first lengthy exploration of the new holodeck
concept; "Datalore"-intro of Data's evil twin; "Skin of Evil"-death of
Tasha Yar; "11001001"-perhaps the best holodeck story; and "The Measure
of a Man"-placing an android on trial. Except for "Q Who" the 2nd year
was even more of a letdown from the first. Space started to percolate
in the 3rd season. I liked "The Survivors"-introducing an entity
resembling Q in a depressed mood, and "Deja Q" with both Q & Guinan
squaring off, as well as other alien beings.
In the 3rd year, truly innovative concepts such as the far-out
parallel-universe adventure "Yesterday's Enterprise" began to take
hold, topped by the season-ender "The Best of Both Worlds,part 1" in
which The Borg returned in their first try at assimilating Earth. After
this and the 2nd part, the TNG show was off and running, at full warp
speed. There are too many great episodes from the next 4 seasons to
list here, but I tended to appreciate the wild, cosmic concept stories
best: "Parallels"(s7); "Cause and Effect"(s5); "Timescape"(s6);
"Tapestry"(s6); and the scary "Frame of Mind", "Schisms" and "Genesis."
There's also the mind-blowing "Inner Light"(s5), "Conundrum" and "Ship
in a Bottle"(s6), "Second Chances." The intense 2-parter "Chain of
Command" was almost like a film, and the great return of Scotty in
"Relics" was very entertaining, though it showed you can't go home
again. The show also continued to tackle uneasy social issues, as in
"The Host", "The Outcast", and "The Drumhead" as well as
political:"Darmok", "Rightful Heir", "Face of the Enemy" and "The
Pegasus." The series ended on a strong note, "All Good Things..." a
double-length spectacular with nearly the budget of a feature film. But
it wasn't really the end. A few months later, an actual feature film
was released "Star Trek Generations"(94). It's rather ironic that the
TNG films couldn't match the innovation and creativity of the last 4
seasons of the series. "Star Trek Insurrection"(98) for example, is a
lesser effort than any of the episodes mentioned above.
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