Writing in 2021, it is great to see that I am not the only person taking a retrospective look at Star Trek, the Next Generation. When this series was first released in 1987, a little less than twenty years after the end of the Original Series, many people thought that, without Captain Kirk and his crew, it couldn't really be Star Trek. However, original creator Gene Roddenberry, was fully invested in the casting, writing and overall look of the new series, so let's see how it shaped up:
This is the episode where Captain Picard is targeted with a mind control device by a renegade Ferengi out for revenge for the death of his son many years earlier. Its not bad.
This series first arrived in the UK via Blockbusters, the VCR hire company. This was BEFORE it was shown on television in 1990 and I can remember the sense of anticipation, the heavy plastic boxes and the aficionados leaving their telephone numbers so they could be notified when the latest instalment was in.
A Star Trek film, The Voyage Home, had been released the year before to great acclaim, reawakening an interest in all things "Trek" in a way that the previous films had not.
Many of us cherished these early Next Generation episodes; all the more so because we had almost forgotten about the original Kirk-era Star Trek. If indeed we were old enough to remember it at all.
In fact, Next Gen and the VCR watch-as-you-please phenomenon was probably responsible for making the original series cool again.
Thank you, Sir Patrick and the rest of the cast.
(Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5)
This is the episode where Captain Picard is targeted with a mind control device by a renegade Ferengi out for revenge for the death of his son many years earlier. Its not bad.
This series first arrived in the UK via Blockbusters, the VCR hire company. This was BEFORE it was shown on television in 1990 and I can remember the sense of anticipation, the heavy plastic boxes and the aficionados leaving their telephone numbers so they could be notified when the latest instalment was in.
A Star Trek film, The Voyage Home, had been released the year before to great acclaim, reawakening an interest in all things "Trek" in a way that the previous films had not.
Many of us cherished these early Next Generation episodes; all the more so because we had almost forgotten about the original Kirk-era Star Trek. If indeed we were old enough to remember it at all.
In fact, Next Gen and the VCR watch-as-you-please phenomenon was probably responsible for making the original series cool again.
Thank you, Sir Patrick and the rest of the cast.
(Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5)