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I just finished watching all of STTNG a few days ago. I must say I have a new respect for it. They did a lot of great episodes and brought the characters to life much more than was done on the original series.
I never liked TNG. I found it extremely boring.



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I did a Google search for Star Trek Continues and I found that one of the actor's was Christopher Doohan, one of James Doohan's sons. Incidentally, one of James Doohan's sons is named Montgomery, which was Scotty's first name.



I never liked TNG. I found it extremely boring.
I've always been mixed on TNG. It took me a while to like it. When you think of the overall concept it's a bit weird: we had a series that takes place in the future, then this new series takes place in the future of that previous future. When you think about it, TNG would have been a science fiction to the crew of the original Enterprise.

But it did have some good stories along the way - I think I particularly enjoyed the shows development of the Klingons. To this day I still hate the TNG Enterprise - one of the worst looking ships ever designed (although I liked its replacement in the later TNG movies). "Enterprise-D" is on par with the awfulness that is the "U.S.S. Discovery"!



To this day I still hate the TNG Enterprise - one of the worst looking ships ever designed (although I liked its replacement in the later TNG movies). That ship is on par with the awfulness that is the U.S.S. Discovery!
I liked the Enterprise D but my favourite is the E – it was good how they went back to the original shape but modernized it.



All good people are asleep and dreaming.
In memory of DeForest Kelley who passed away on June 11, 1999




Hey DeForest Kelley fans. You should check out, Fear in the Night.



It's bizarre film noir.



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TNG always came across to me as something like a soap opera. It lacked the action of the original.

When Gene Roddenberry instructed Matt Jefferies to design the Enterprise, he told him he wanted something completely different from any ship used before in movies. That would mean no rocket ships or flying saucers. Matt Jefferies eventually designed a ship that pleased Gene; but there was one big problem: how to land the ship in each episode. Gene solved this problem by inventing the transporter.





Hey DeForest Kelley fans. You should check out, Fear in the Night. It's bizarre film noir.
Thanks for posting that, I hadn't heard of that one. I love noir.

TNG always came across to me as something like a soap opera. It lacked the action of the original.
I agree, and that's why I ultimately prefer TNG with more character development and more character interaction and more world building...and less action, but more idealism, that's exactly what I like. Where as ST original (which I do like) seems more two dimensional and comic book, with emphasis on action and not as much character development. ButI get bored with any of the Star Trek series when they have long action sequences. Same goes for movies that have long car chase or gun battle scenes, that's a snooze fest for me.



No holodeck privileges for you
On that note - I always had a problem with the holodeck concept - at least at the TNG level where matter is being converted (somehow based on the same technology behind the transporter) and rearranged. I also didn't like that idea behind the food synthesizer.

I didn't like that the series often relied on holodeck-centered stories. Now there were some good ones, especially ones that focused on the very danger of the holodeck itself (I liked the one where Geordi fell in love with a holo version of a real scientist he admired - then she came aboard and found out about Geordi's little holo-fantasy of her.)

The thing is, if holodecks even existed, there'd be little motivation for space travel or much of anything else as people would just live out their lives in a virtual reality. It would be a holo-addiction with people killing each other for access to the technology. (Holo porn addiction was touched upon in an episode of the Orville.)



The holodeck episodes were some of the funnest IMO. I particularly like A Fistful of Datas and the couple of Dixon Hill detective ones...oh and the Sherlock Holmes Doctor Moriarty episodes, oh and the one with Reginald Barclay who's addicted to holodecks, Dwight Schultz as Lt. Barclay was one of the best characters on TNG, him and John De Lancie as Q.



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Hey DeForest Kelley fans. You should check out, Fear in the Night.



It's bizarre film noir.
He looks out of place in this movie. When he woke up and started looking around, I could imagine him saying, "It looks like old earth around 1920, 25."



Bridge comparisons:
TOS gave us the classic layout that was for the most part followed in later series & movies, but it was a tad colorful, thus giving it a slightly campy 60's feel.

The bridge on TNG was another thing about Enterprise-D I didn't like - I always said it looked like a doctor's waiting room (what with the carpeting & three center seats in a row).

I didn't mind the bridge in TMP (1979) - basically a less colorful update of the original.

I prefer a dark bridge as presented in Wrath of Khan & most of the original crew movies afterward along with Voyager.

For Enterprise - I kind of liked the idea that they were trying to present an earlier industrial look - reminiscent of today's naval vessels - basically grey steel - so it worked for the idea I assume they were striving for.


Another bridge I absolutely hate (probably the most) is the "Kelvin Timeline" J.J. Abrams' bridge with its bright lights & lens flares everywhere - who could stand such an environment? (I'd have a constant head-ache - kind of like the film made me have during all the bridge scenes!)
I cracked up when one article compared it to a "Clinique counter" in a mall with all its glass and spotlights!



All good people are asleep and dreaming.
Fear in the Night is on the BFI Screen Guides' 100 Film Noirs for everyone interested.



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Who are they?

Once in awhile, I'm going to post an image or two of an actor or actress who once appeared in Star Trek who also appeared in other TV shows or movies.

Below are two screenshots of an actor and actress appearing in the same episode of Wagon Train. Both have appeared in two separate episodes of Star Trek. What are their names and which episodes of Star Trek did they appear in and what were the names of their character?





One thing I always hoped to see in any Star Trek movie was a return to Talos IV .
That would've been a pretty cool movie idea. The Cage is my favorite ST episode. Another cool movie idea would be a revisit to the unnamed planet that the Guardian was on, in the City on the Edge of Forever. I once starting writing a Star Trek novel that had the crew of Voyager encountering different story lines form the original Star Trek. I didn't really write much, just an outline.



Who are they?

Once in awhile, I'm going to post an image or two of an actor or actress who once appeared in Star Trek who also appeared in other TV shows or movies.

Below are two screenshots of an actor and actress appearing in the same episode of Wagon Train. Both have appeared in two separate episodes of Star Trek. What are their names and which episodes of Star Trek did they appear in and what were the names of their character?


Cool idea I suck at remembering actor's names. But I know what episodes they were in. Top is Gary Seven from Assignment Earth and the beautiful lady was the android from What Are Little Girls Made Of



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Cool idea I suck at remembering actor's names. But I know what episodes they were in. Top is Gary Seven from Assignment Earth and the beautiful lady was the android from What Are Little Girls Made Of
Very good!



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I just did a Google search and I found that Star Trek: Discovery came out with a return to Talos IV. I need to watch that. There heads look like heads of cabbage.