This series after first seeing a random episode here and there offered a comfort and safety zone during a crap period of life. People actually being nice to each other and have a serious interest in the world around them and love to solve problems. Unlike, you know, school. Which damaged me for life in a 1.5 year time frame. Great job society.
they all seemed so competent and intelligent and ready to help. Serious but still human. They still had their faults of course but the overall feeling was that the future was being handled by good people who still knew what they were doing for the most part. An optimistic outlook for sure.
I was heavily involved with a Star Trek club here in Melbourne in the early 90s, helping to put on weekend viewing sessions. These regularly attracted a committed and diverse audience (nearly everyone I knew had come out by the end of the series). On a visit to Sydney for Whovention I remember writer Kate Orman showing me the Lal kisses Riker scene from The Offspring. It was noticeably more relaxed in tone to the eps I’d seen on video rental VHS. To this day, I can see the clear influences of both Patrick Stewart and Picard on my ethics and principles. TNG gave me a social outlet, helped me tap into my potential as a person, and very much shaped my philosophy on management: lead from the front and bring solutions to table for any problems.
@@hamyncheese Eh. I think Voyager is better overall. While DS9 was great, it took itself way too seriously at times, while Voyager was never really afraid of the absurd, much like TOS.
Still remember the excitement of going into my local video store here in Australia in the late 80s/early 90s and finding a new release VHS of two episodes of The Next Generation on the shelf..good days.
Omg me too! From Aus, used to rent episodes from the video store, two episodes at a time. In retrospect it was a total racket, but it did make each episode feel absolutely magical. Do you also remember the Star Trek magazine? Because I'd only seen maybe 30 episodes total, there was this whole world of episodes I saw until I was an adult
I worked at a VHS store as a teen here in the States. I didn't know it then but that would be peak employment for me, even though I make way more money now. In terms of pure enjoyment, that was it. I still remember the rows of new releases and even some of the box covers to this day. And so many hijinks. Great times!
At the same convention in 1994. when it was my turn in line to get Michael Dorn's autograph, with me dressed as an STtOS Klingon, I told him that my mother loved him on "CHiPs". And at a later con (1996), I think, I met Armin Shimerman - my "ship" presented him with a giant cotton swab - and he was so gracious and sincere, asking how I was, complimenting on my outfit. I will never forget that.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx yep! I also got to stand about 50 feet away from William Shatner, who appeared accompanied by the video "Forever Young", by Rod Stewart.
My absolute favourite episode is the under-rated, and "not often mentioned in top ten episode lists" is: The defector Just a masterclass in revealing the inner machinations of the Romulan Empire, there callous disregard for life, the oh so subtle, yet pivotal Klingon name drop, Writing like this is rare.
lots of good ones. They took time to give each character at least a few episodes of their own. With a few exceptions most of them worked out pretty well. Some stand outs to me are The Game where the crew succumbs to basically a mobile game app, and the ones with Data/Lore. Brent Spiner is a phenomenal actor. I also like the ones where they get caught in time loops and stuff. Lots of great performances and writing on that show. Plenty of good episodes to choose from.
I saw this episodes run time and thought thus will be great, then I saw it was part 1. Punched the air and hit play. Never has 90mins gone so fast (even if I did have to pause it to attend a teams meeting). Fantastic 10 out of 10!
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s and our local video store had an entire section that was just full of Star Trek next generation VHS. It took me many years to get round to watching it eventually on Netflix with most of the other series. Good times, I think I’m due for full show rewatch.
Literally, didn't think she was attractive until I got into my late 20s-onwards. Felt really weird one day watching TNG and being like "WTF, when did Dr. Crusher get hot?"
not to mention Beverly is still haunted by ghost herpes, which never dies... And don't get me started about how Tasha's premature death actually saved her from the effects of the STD Data gave her: electro-gonorrhea, the noisy killer! :)
NOT A JOKE - last year while watching movies outside in our backyard, my wife and I would inevitably start watching a ST: TNG episode on Netflix, only to witness a local neighbourhood POSSUM crawl into our yard, sit and watch the episode for a few minutes and then just crawl away - this happened *several* weeks in a row. Even marsupials love a little Data!!
Now I have been waiting a long time for this Stam. Now it’s here I feel like I have been handed a bottle of Dom Perignon. This is for a special occasion when I can savour it. I have watched 2 seconds and will save the rest for an evening when I can enjoy it with a fine cigar. In other words, having inspected the wrapping around the top of the bottle, this luxury item is going back into the fridge until my mother-in-law temporarily looses her voice.
It has as many highs as lows, but Next Gen was the intro to trek for many people my age, and its best episodes are just unbelievably good. And if nothing else, its being led to DS9, and for that we should be forever grateful
I remember watching TNG in the late 80s as a child without any knowledge of the original series. I caught it here and there during the first run but really really got into it in the early 90s as a teenager when I could understand it better. Mostly I caught it during the reruns at first and then quickly watched the first runs when they would air. For the life of me I don’t remember when they ran first there but remembered watching it nightly at 10:00 PM channel 21 here in DFW.
Great video Stam Fine. i remember when they first started showing TNG it was on Sunday nights at 7:30 before a movie. and then channel 9 moved it to Tuesday at 10:30 or 11:00 pm after the late night news. Always a good time staying up late on a school night watching some Star Trek.
One of the most curious things about Tasha Yar is that she's ostensibly the security chief, and was conceptualized long before Worf was thought up, but it's like even in Season 1 the writers had already decided she was redundant. If you watch it with this in mind, its astonishing how many times Worf does some security related thing while Tasha just stands there being sidelined in her own role. In the pilot, Worf gets to command the ship and offer tactical advice, and Tasha's contribution is "Worf is right". In the episode Hide & Q, Worf gets to stay on the planet fighting the vicious animal things, while Tasha is relegated to Q's penalty box without even getting to throw a punch. I could go on. It really is no wonder Crosby saw this happening and decided to walk rather than stick around, but I really think if she hadn't they probably would have jettisoned her between seasons anyway like they did with Dr Crusher.
Worf in S1 does Tactical as well as piloting, so he would be responsible for giving combat advice, and he's an obvious candidate for dangerous away missions. Yar is Security Chief, which means she's responsible for the security of the ship and its personnel. That's a different role. After she dies, Worf takes over the role and combines the job with becoming a full-time Tactical Officer too.
Yar's security is about searches and confiscations. Also her redundant role to warn of threats, with Troy's spidey-sense, Riker's zeal to defend his captain, and La Forge's perception of all hazards structural, thermal, or chemical. I'm sure the writers quickly discovered this ensemble resistant to peril.
@pong9000 Yeah, there's a real sense that the cast are... maybe just a bit *too* broad. One can't help feeling that things settled best after both Yar and Wesley were jettisoned. Not enough good material going around in the scripts to service every character that was there at the beginning.
@@lancebaylis3169 Master Crusher was already excluded from major portions of the show: ready room conferences and away missions. It seems Worf was meant to be a bridge fixture glued to the controls like Uhura from TOS. The whole setup was just so broadly defensive against any threat excluding godlike entities.
A note about the toupee, I guess Roddenberry's argument was that in the future hair loss wouldn't be a thing, to which the counter was that in the future, no one would care.
An embarrassment of riches! And a life preserver tossed in the ocean of "the middle of a sleepless night with a new baby who hasn't quite figured out the concept of rest." Thank you! Edited to add because this is the only safe space where I can gripe about something that's bugged me since being a middle schooler in 1987: In the intro, the stars seen between Saturn and its rings don't match the rest of the stars!! Aaaaaaaa!
Are you accusing a science fiction show of scientific inaccuracy? That would _never_ happen. Reality must be wrong. Let's transport over to Saturn and check.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx It's caused by time dilation through a shift in subspace when getting past warpspeed. An effect that can be mitigated when seen through a tachyon field or through Geordie's visor. Rest assured they are in fact, all in their right place.
I've been subscribed to Stam Fine just over a year. I love your reviews, between the humour & the respect given to each IP (even if in general it had very little respect during it's time) is great. Thanks again!!👏🏼👏🏼
Re-watching after 30 odd years since the last time. It's perfectly fine in most places :) One more season to go then maybe I'll the spin offs a rewatch. Thanks for putting this together. Well written and edited.
I'll make you a deal... You do a review of every single episode of TNG and I will absolutely watch every review!! Especially the one where Beverly fuchs a ghost.
As a TOS fan who gobbled up anything new with Star Trek, I archived every TNG episode on VHS, basically because if it flopped, it probably wouldn't be seen again. Yes, it was a rough couple years starting out with a diamond here and there, but it was STAR TREK! Season 3 was like an entirely different show and blew me away with nearly every episode. Yes, I probably was one of the ones that blamed Berman for the decline in quality as the franchise went on, but maybe we were all getting a bit of "Star Trek fatigue" when Enterprise came around (only could stand to watch the first season). Watching Voyager now is comfy, and I appreciate it as Trek-lite with many enjoyable episodes. I read on a forum post one time that if TOS is a Wagon Train To The Stars, TNG is Office Management In Spaaaace (in a good way)!
Science Fiction was derided on Australian TV (especially Channel 9). If they had contracts it was on late at night and moved about regularly and an old work colleague used to complain that if there was a re-run of International Snail Wrestling they would put that on in preference to Trek or other SciFi.
This series surpassed TOS in popularity…IMO. I can turn on TNG and watch any season and episode and be happy as a clam. For me…TNG, VOY, TOS, DS9, ENT in that order. I even have a couple Star Trek themed tattoos 🤣
Thanks for this video. It's marvelous and I cannot wait for the next ones. TNG and DS9 are my all time favourite ST shows. I was kinda raised on them and still rewatch them every year.
Data pulling Wesley out of the water reminds me of the sentient robot Adam Link pulling the girl out of the pond in the original Outer Limits episode "I, Robot". I love that episode, because it's a lot like a cross between TOS's Court Martial and TNG's The Measure of a Man. Not to mention that it features Leonard Nimoy as a gung-ho newspaper reporter, and John Hoyt (the doctor in The Cage) as a scientist.
This is one of your crowning achievments, Stam! Very much looking forward to the rest of the series. You have possibly the most criminally undersubscribed channel on UA-cam. I recommend your channel to all my friends. And when I say 'all', I suppose 'both' would probably be more accurate. Good luck nonetheless.
like the character breakdowns. Lots of interesting info. Such a great show. One of my all time favs. Very influential for me and so many other young lads and ladies. Well done.
Thanks for this! I was already a lifelong Star Trek fan when TNG premiered during my junior (3rd) year in college. Happily, I went abroad for the second semester, and missed much of the poor first season in its original showing.
"Unknown Shakespearean actor"? Hey, he'd had critical roles in two excellent sci-fi movies by then, the perfect 1984 Dune and the consummate Lifeforce. They didn't do their homework very well in the 80s, did they? :D
This channel, alongside VHS Revue, are like my two most familiar seats on the couch. Yay Aussies who suffered through mediocre 1990s TV hahaha. TBF I remember this show fondly, but unlike some shows, I did not do a full binge rewatch. I had to filter out plots like Klingon melodrama and Troi's mother.
i did not think i'd have the time / stamina / will to sit through 90 more minutes of TNG babble ... but here we are and now I want the subsequent parts asap ! Well done MR. Fine!
I was in college when TNG hit the small screen. I wasn't overly impressed with the uneven 1st season. Still, there was something there that made it worth sticking with the series. Then they had the Season 2 episode "Measure of a Man." That's when I knew that TNG was going to be a successful Star Trek series. I was hooked from that point forward. I admit I am still a bit peeved that TNG ruined my summer in 1990 with the "Best of Both Worlds" cliffhanger. This was a time before the Internet and social media. I had no idea what was going to happen when Part II finished the story that September. Ah, to be young and so innocent during the first run of TNG.
I just have to stop and applaud the choice of sound bites used to emphasise points, guys, the editing required to do this cannot be underestimated! (well, it can, but you get my point...) Stam deserves a million subscribers, but, heck, 100 thousand would help...
I KNEW "pop a Spock on it" would return for this ep. I was just waiting for it. Now I can clean my underwear off and go to sleep. All joking aside, great ep Stam, can't wait for the others!
1:00:21 let's have a shout-out to Ron Jones, whose background music stood out from the others. His Borg episodes delivered more punch thanks to his use of choral parts or vocals. His reputation should be compared to Hans Zimmer.
Only watched few episodes. Didn't fix the Picard series at all (obviously). Fan fanfare to collect some desperate coins. Even its sfx were just so so and they copied Star Wars way too often in a bad way. Luckily still have the by now old stuff.
I was a huge fan of TNG as a kid, but what confuses me till this day is, that they had no toilets. Not a single potty in the whole francise. Data didn't need one of course, but at least Riker or Worff should have taken manly dumps from time to time? At least Q should have had problems with that, when imprisioned in a human body? "Piccard! What is coming out of me! It stinks awful!" - "Well, we call that crap, Mr. Q. It is a normal process of the human metabolism."... and so on. South Park on the other hand has a very, almost too much toilet and feces focused plot. I'm also a fan of South Park, nevertheless. To solve this problem they should do a crossover of both series.
There’s something soothing about TNG, the mix of good stories, great cast, and subdued colors and sounds on the Enterprise (it feel like a mix between a health spa and a cruise) it is one of the textbook examples of a “comfort show”
I was one of those viewers who lost patience early in the first season and stopped watching for years. What brought me back was the late season 4 bottle episode "The Drumhead," which I happened to see playing on the lounge TV in my grad-school dorm and realized the show had acquired good writing. Fortunately, the local station that played Star Trek: TNG was by that time also playing easy-to-find daily reruns, so it was not hard to catch up with what I'd missed. A couple years ago we showed our daughter "The Best of Both Worlds" as something of an introduction to the show (she'd seen a few episodes earlier but only remembered them dimly). She was stunned when I explained that the cliffhanger in the middle of the story was a season break and audiences would have had to wait months to find out what happened. But since I'd missed that on original broadcast, I never directly experienced the suspense either. When I saw "The Drumhead" and Satie started making insinuations about Picard's experience with the Borg, I remember wondering what the Borg was.
I remember when TNG first started showing on tv in Australia it was the same as you mentioned with the VHS releases. We got one 26 episode season made up of a mix of first and second season episodes - played out of order - so the tv channel could 'catch up' to being only one season behind the U.S. The first time we got to see all the first and second season was when it played on Foxtel in the late 90's
Paramount executive John Pike sent a pitch for Star Trek: The Next Generation to Gene Roddenberry, and Fox was one of the networks that offered partial commitments to the show. Other networks, such as NBC and ABC, only offered to order a pilot, while CBS also offered a partial commitment.
Man thank you for this, it's hilarious and informative. I thought I knew everything about TNG, but I'm learning new stuff from this video. Your script is amazing.
Seriously, for someone who grew up watching Generations I really didn't know Rykker swings his legs onto chairs :D Maybe, i'm misremembering but, surely, It was funny to me to know this fact after all this time :D
LCARS was modestly ahead of its time in some ways--configurable touchscreens were already a well-established idea in real life, and most computers used graphical user interfaces with some kind of pointing device, but that kind of touch interface was nowhere near as ubiquitous at the time as it is today, and tablet computers existed only in embryonic form. LCARS itself was designed more to be legible on screen as a story device than to make sense as a user interface, but the principle was sound.
they replaced a bunch of navy ships' navigational with touchscreens and switched back to using physical controllers including a modified type of xbox controller for navigation because it was more intuitive and several crashes were blamed on the confusing and sometimes unresponsive touchscreen controls. Just because touchscreens are ubiquitous on consumer devices meant for browsing facebook does not mean they're the best choice for input for controlling hundred ton machines, it's just cost effective at this point.
Those were the episodes were honour, thrive for a betterment the way now people speak to each other mattared, when hero was a good person "not confused" with good intentions and were evil was evil not just lost
This series after first seeing a random episode here and there offered a comfort and safety zone during a crap period of life. People actually being nice to each other and have a serious interest in the world around them and love to solve problems. Unlike, you know, school. Which damaged me for life in a 1.5 year time frame. Great job society.
I feel this ❤
they all seemed so competent and intelligent and ready to help. Serious but still human. They still had their faults of course but the overall feeling was that the future was being handled by good people who still knew what they were doing for the most part. An optimistic outlook for sure.
The only place without a bullshit restocking fee.
I couldn't count all the times I have watched every episode. It has been a lot of times over the last 35 years. A truly timeless series.
I was heavily involved with a Star Trek club here in Melbourne in the early 90s, helping to put on weekend viewing sessions. These regularly attracted a committed and diverse audience (nearly everyone I knew had come out by the end of the series). On a visit to Sydney for Whovention I remember writer Kate Orman showing me the Lal kisses Riker scene from The Offspring. It was noticeably more relaxed in tone to the eps I’d seen on video rental VHS. To this day, I can see the clear influences of both Patrick Stewart and Picard on my ethics and principles. TNG gave me a social outlet, helped me tap into my potential as a person, and very much shaped my philosophy on management: lead from the front and bring solutions to table for any problems.
Captain, I protest! I am NOT a merry man!
My fave line of the whole series.
“Die.”
That one is better. 🙂
TNG is one of the few shows i can watch every episode of and want more. It's not just nostalgia, the show holds up
Even "Shades of Grey", "The Outrageous Okona", "Sub Rosa" or "Angel One"?
Well, some of it. Even on first broadcast when I was more of a fan, I couldn't watch some of them, they were so inept or silly.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx There were 26 episodes per season, of course every episode cant be good.
Star Trek DS9, imo, is the finest TV show EVER. Eminently rewatchable, with Characters & THEMES that are always instructive to HUMANITY
@@hamyncheese Eh. I think Voyager is better overall. While DS9 was great, it took itself way too seriously at times, while Voyager was never really afraid of the absurd, much like TOS.
That clip of Worf complimenting the house made me laugh. Fair play
Still remember the excitement of going into my local video store here in Australia in the late 80s/early 90s and finding a new release VHS of two episodes of The Next Generation on the shelf..good days.
I did the same here in the uk
@@MrRaffles1234 same here matey😉
And of those 2 episodes per tape, 1 tended to be good and the other bad.
Omg me too! From Aus, used to rent episodes from the video store, two episodes at a time. In retrospect it was a total racket, but it did make each episode feel absolutely magical. Do you also remember the Star Trek magazine? Because I'd only seen maybe 30 episodes total, there was this whole world of episodes I saw until I was an adult
I worked at a VHS store as a teen here in the States. I didn't know it then but that would be peak employment for me, even though I make way more money now. In terms of pure enjoyment, that was it. I still remember the rows of new releases and even some of the box covers to this day. And so many hijinks. Great times!
At the same convention in 1994. when it was my turn in line to get Michael Dorn's autograph, with me dressed as an STtOS Klingon, I told him that my mother loved him on "CHiPs". And at a later con (1996), I think, I met Armin Shimerman - my "ship" presented him with a giant cotton swab - and he was so gracious and sincere, asking how I was, complimenting on my outfit. I will never forget that.
Much friendlier than 'Jason Nesmith' was to Galaxy Quest fans!
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx yep! I also got to stand about 50 feet away from William Shatner, who appeared accompanied by the video "Forever Young", by Rod Stewart.
My absolute favourite episode is the under-rated, and "not often mentioned in top ten episode lists" is:
The defector
Just a masterclass in revealing the inner machinations of the Romulan Empire, there callous disregard for life, the oh so subtle, yet pivotal Klingon name drop,
Writing like this is rare.
3 klingon birds of prey decloaked.
The Defector - The Standoff theme is one of my favourite TNG theme.
lots of good ones. They took time to give each character at least a few episodes of their own. With a few exceptions most of them worked out pretty well. Some stand outs to me are The Game where the crew succumbs to basically a mobile game app, and the ones with Data/Lore. Brent Spiner is a phenomenal actor. I also like the ones where they get caught in time loops and stuff. Lots of great performances and writing on that show. Plenty of good episodes to choose from.
You just have to admire a comment with so many fancy words, but still not getting there / their right.
Their*
I saw this episodes run time and thought thus will be great, then I saw it was part 1. Punched the air and hit play. Never has 90mins gone so fast (even if I did have to pause it to attend a teams meeting). Fantastic 10 out of 10!
You're covering the whole run! Season by season! Every episode! I salute you!!!
Holy crap. 1.5hours. That's a long Friday shower
A nice warm one?
@@ShamrockParticle and very relaxing
Hope it wasn't golden!
Super excited for this series. Thank you!
You finally arrived at the Great Bird of All Television Shows. Thank you for giving it the lengthy treatment it deserves! ❤️🖖
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s and our local video store had an entire section that was just full of Star Trek next generation VHS. It took me many years to get round to watching it eventually on Netflix with most of the other series. Good times, I think I’m due for full show rewatch.
Just downloading first series. been awhile.
@@nealgrimes4382 Picards most repeated lines in Season one is “shut up Wesley!” I dont have a counter but i remember it was alot.
the best Star Trek Next Gen video essay I’ve seen 😄
I'm currently re-watching TNG for the...I dunno, one hundredth time.
it's great. so easy to just jump into different seasons but with still an overarching background story (the borg, romulans, etc. etc.)
I'm still crushing on Dr Crusher.
Don't be coy with troy!
Literally, didn't think she was attractive until I got into my late 20s-onwards. Felt really weird one day watching TNG and being like "WTF, when did Dr. Crusher get hot?"
Same, and Troy😍
I’ve never met a TNG fan that didn’t. She’s aged amazingly as well.
Missing Dr. Pulaski
Poor Beverly. You schtup one ghost! One! And no one ever lets you forget it.
I wonder what Ms McFadden thought when she read that script?
not to mention Beverly is still haunted by ghost herpes, which never dies...
And don't get me started about how Tasha's premature death actually saved her from the effects of the STD Data gave her: electro-gonorrhea, the noisy killer! :)
Old Ghosty Crusher.
NOT A JOKE - last year while watching movies outside in our backyard, my wife and I would inevitably start watching a ST: TNG episode on Netflix, only to witness a local neighbourhood POSSUM crawl into our yard, sit and watch the episode for a few minutes and then just crawl away - this happened *several* weeks in a row. Even marsupials love a little Data!!
I still have a tribble that was sold in the 1970s through a printed fanzine.
Do you ever have any trouble with it?
Now I have been waiting a long time for this Stam. Now it’s here I feel like I have been handed a bottle of Dom Perignon. This is for a special occasion when I can savour it. I have watched 2 seconds and will save the rest for an evening when I can enjoy it with a fine cigar. In other words, having inspected the wrapping around the top of the bottle, this luxury item is going back into the fridge until my mother-in-law temporarily looses her voice.
Sweet! A new Stam Fine video and it's a Star Trek!!🖖
It has as many highs as lows, but Next Gen was the intro to trek for many people my age, and its best episodes are just unbelievably good. And if nothing else, its being led to DS9, and for that we should be forever grateful
I remember watching TNG in the late 80s as a child without any knowledge of the original series. I caught it here and there during the first run but really really got into it in the early 90s as a teenager when I could understand it better. Mostly I caught it during the reruns at first and then quickly watched the first runs when they would air. For the life of me I don’t remember when they ran first there but remembered watching it nightly at 10:00 PM channel 21 here in DFW.
Great video Stam Fine. i remember when they first started showing TNG it was on Sunday nights at 7:30 before a movie. and then channel 9 moved it to Tuesday at 10:30 or 11:00 pm after the late night news. Always a good time staying up late on a school night watching some Star Trek.
Stam Fine: "hmm, got some bills due, time for some sweet sweet Star Trek revenue!"
One of the most curious things about Tasha Yar is that she's ostensibly the security chief, and was conceptualized long before Worf was thought up, but it's like even in Season 1 the writers had already decided she was redundant. If you watch it with this in mind, its astonishing how many times Worf does some security related thing while Tasha just stands there being sidelined in her own role. In the pilot, Worf gets to command the ship and offer tactical advice, and Tasha's contribution is "Worf is right". In the episode Hide & Q, Worf gets to stay on the planet fighting the vicious animal things, while Tasha is relegated to Q's penalty box without even getting to throw a punch. I could go on. It really is no wonder Crosby saw this happening and decided to walk rather than stick around, but I really think if she hadn't they probably would have jettisoned her between seasons anyway like they did with Dr Crusher.
Worf in S1 does Tactical as well as piloting, so he would be responsible for giving combat advice, and he's an obvious candidate for dangerous away missions. Yar is Security Chief, which means she's responsible for the security of the ship and its personnel. That's a different role. After she dies, Worf takes over the role and combines the job with becoming a full-time Tactical Officer too.
Yar's security is about searches and confiscations. Also her redundant role to warn of threats, with Troy's spidey-sense, Riker's zeal to defend his captain, and La Forge's perception of all hazards structural, thermal, or chemical. I'm sure the writers quickly discovered this ensemble resistant to peril.
@pong9000 Yeah, there's a real sense that the cast are... maybe just a bit *too* broad. One can't help feeling that things settled best after both Yar and Wesley were jettisoned. Not enough good material going around in the scripts to service every character that was there at the beginning.
@@lancebaylis3169 I don't know. S1 was really sketchy for everyone. I think Tasha would have developed well if she'd stayed on board.
@@lancebaylis3169 Master Crusher was already excluded from major portions of the show: ready room conferences and away missions. It seems Worf was meant to be a bridge fixture glued to the controls like Uhura from TOS. The whole setup was just so broadly defensive against any threat excluding godlike entities.
Perfect video for a day off of work. Thank you
A note about the toupee, I guess Roddenberry's argument was that in the future hair loss wouldn't be a thing, to which the counter was that in the future, no one would care.
😂😂😂
'D Day' killed me matey, nice one🤣
Incredible. I can't wait for the next one to watch.
A brilliant series, top UA-cam content!!! Thanks!!!
An embarrassment of riches! And a life preserver tossed in the ocean of "the middle of a sleepless night with a new baby who hasn't quite figured out the concept of rest." Thank you!
Edited to add because this is the only safe space where I can gripe about something that's bugged me since being a middle schooler in 1987: In the intro, the stars seen between Saturn and its rings don't match the rest of the stars!! Aaaaaaaa!
Are you accusing a science fiction show of scientific inaccuracy? That would _never_ happen. Reality must be wrong. Let's transport over to Saturn and check.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx It's caused by time dilation through a shift in subspace when getting past warpspeed. An effect that can be mitigated when seen through a tachyon field or through Geordie's visor. Rest assured they are in fact, all in their right place.
@@connycontainer9459 Geordie's visor. lol. The swiss army knife of futuristic eye wear..
I've been subscribed to Stam Fine just over a year. I love your reviews, between the humour & the respect given to each IP (even if in general it had very little respect during it's time) is great. Thanks again!!👏🏼👏🏼
Great work, looking forward to the rest
Re-watching after 30 odd years since the last time. It's perfectly fine in most places :) One more season to go then maybe I'll the spin offs a rewatch.
Thanks for putting this together. Well written and edited.
Yay!! Stam doing startrek the next generation!!
Excellent upload, thank you! And that closing scene 😂
Tng is like a warm hug.
I want to open a tng theme bar called 10 forward.
I'll make you a deal... You do a review of every single episode of TNG and I will absolutely watch every review!!
Especially the one where Beverly fuchs a ghost.
Sha'ka when the walls fell
As a TOS fan who gobbled up anything new with Star Trek, I archived every TNG episode on VHS, basically because if it flopped, it probably wouldn't be seen again. Yes, it was a rough couple years starting out with a diamond here and there, but it was STAR TREK! Season 3 was like an entirely different show and blew me away with nearly every episode.
Yes, I probably was one of the ones that blamed Berman for the decline in quality as the franchise went on, but maybe we were all getting a bit of "Star Trek fatigue" when Enterprise came around (only could stand to watch the first season). Watching Voyager now is comfy, and I appreciate it as Trek-lite with many enjoyable episodes.
I read on a forum post one time that if TOS is a Wagon Train To The Stars, TNG is Office Management In Spaaaace (in a good way)!
Science Fiction was derided on Australian TV (especially Channel 9). If they had contracts it was on late at night and moved about regularly and an old work colleague used to complain that if there was a re-run of International Snail Wrestling they would put that on in preference to Trek or other SciFi.
This series surpassed TOS in popularity…IMO. I can turn on TNG and watch any season and episode and be happy as a clam. For me…TNG, VOY, TOS, DS9, ENT in that order. I even have a couple Star Trek themed tattoos 🤣
1.5 hrs - our cup overfloweth.
Thanks for this video. It's marvelous and I cannot wait for the next ones. TNG and DS9 are my all time favourite ST shows. I was kinda raised on them and still rewatch them every year.
Data pulling Wesley out of the water reminds me of the sentient robot Adam Link pulling the girl out of the pond in the original Outer Limits episode "I, Robot". I love that episode, because it's a lot like a cross between TOS's Court Martial and TNG's The Measure of a Man. Not to mention that it features Leonard Nimoy as a gung-ho newspaper reporter, and John Hoyt (the doctor in The Cage) as a scientist.
This is one of your crowning achievments, Stam! Very much looking forward to the rest of the series. You have possibly the most criminally undersubscribed channel on UA-cam. I recommend your channel to all my friends. And when I say 'all', I suppose 'both' would probably be more accurate. Good luck nonetheless.
I watched TNG all the way through and thought I missed what Wesley did. Turned out everyone was mad for no reason, go figure🤔
like the character breakdowns. Lots of interesting info. Such a great show. One of my all time favs. Very influential for me and so many other young lads and ladies. Well done.
Thanks for this! I was already a lifelong Star Trek fan when TNG premiered during my junior (3rd) year in college. Happily, I went abroad for the second semester, and missed much of the poor first season in its original showing.
This was a great episode. Keep up the good work Aunty Beryl.
Amazing retrospective, thanks Stam
"Unknown Shakespearean actor"? Hey, he'd had critical roles in two excellent sci-fi movies by then, the perfect 1984 Dune and the consummate Lifeforce. They didn't do their homework very well in the 80s, did they? :D
This channel, alongside VHS Revue, are like my two most familiar seats on the couch. Yay Aussies who suffered through mediocre 1990s TV hahaha. TBF I remember this show fondly, but unlike some shows, I did not do a full binge rewatch. I had to filter out plots like Klingon melodrama and Troi's mother.
This is why the series is beloved, please do Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Please.
thank you very much
I love the early Ron Jones synth tracks, Especially from "DataLore". But I also love "Back In Order" from 0101101 (?)
What an in-depth review, Stan. Great work
A most Excellent 87 minutes - A Prime Directive!
Is this supposed to be a joke on 87 being a prime number? Because it isn't..
@@JonathanPetzold-u4r 29x3 fludge! - Too much Romulan Ale!
i did not think i'd have the time / stamina / will to sit through 90 more minutes of TNG babble ... but here we are and now I want the subsequent parts asap ! Well done MR. Fine!
I enjoyed this, it's funny and well edited
Yes, please.
Q and Trelane were eventually linked in the Peter David novel, Q Squared
That was an EXCELLENT book!
I was in college when TNG hit the small screen. I wasn't overly impressed with the uneven 1st season. Still, there was something there that made it worth sticking with the series. Then they had the Season 2 episode "Measure of a Man." That's when I knew that TNG was going to be a successful Star Trek series. I was hooked from that point forward. I admit I am still a bit peeved that TNG ruined my summer in 1990 with the "Best of Both Worlds" cliffhanger. This was a time before the Internet and social media. I had no idea what was going to happen when Part II finished the story that September. Ah, to be young and so innocent during the first run of TNG.
Legend
I just have to stop and applaud the choice of sound bites used to emphasise points, guys, the editing required to do this cannot be underestimated! (well, it can, but you get my point...)
Stam deserves a million subscribers, but, heck, 100 thousand would help...
I KNEW "pop a Spock on it" would return for this ep. I was just waiting for it. Now I can clean my underwear off and go to sleep. All joking aside, great ep Stam, can't wait for the others!
1:00:21 let's have a shout-out to Ron Jones, whose background music stood out from the others. His Borg episodes delivered more punch thanks to his use of choral parts or vocals. His reputation should be compared to Hans Zimmer.
I enjoyed this. Thank you!
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Speaking of, I hope you cover Excalibur one day🗡💯
When the D made its reappearance in Picard, there wasn't a dry eye in my head. She is wonderful
I thought no spoilers were allowed until 20 years after original broadcast! 😂 (but the reveal and explanation were very wondeful!)
Only watched few episodes. Didn't fix the Picard series at all (obviously). Fan fanfare to collect some desperate coins. Even its sfx were just so so and they copied Star Wars way too often in a bad way. Luckily still have the by now old stuff.
The beard would have deserved a mention in the credits.
21:34 Hairpiece and Tribbles. 😂 That was gold.
Woooo, I loved it!!!! Gonna watch over and over 😍😍😍🤭🤭🤭🤭
Locked in for this one. Family Dinner? No I don't think I will...
Patrick Stewart was also Gurney Allec in Dune, but details.
I was a huge fan of TNG as a kid, but what confuses me till this day is, that they had no toilets. Not a single potty in the whole francise. Data didn't need one of course, but at least Riker or Worff should have taken manly dumps from time to time? At least Q should have had problems with that, when imprisioned in a human body? "Piccard! What is coming out of me! It stinks awful!" - "Well, we call that crap, Mr. Q. It is a normal process of the human metabolism."... and so on.
South Park on the other hand has a very, almost too much toilet and feces focused plot. I'm also a fan of South Park, nevertheless. To solve this problem they should do a crossover of both series.
Holy crap! Some funny s#*t, there!
Very well done, thanks! I can only imagine how many hours of editing this took.
There’s something soothing about TNG, the mix of good stories, great cast, and subdued colors and sounds on the Enterprise (it feel like a mix between a health spa and a cruise) it is one of the textbook examples of a “comfort show”
"the mix of good stories, mediocre stories and unwatchably terrible stories."
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxWell, luckily the bad only lasted one episode max. Unlike current Trek.
I was one of those viewers who lost patience early in the first season and stopped watching for years. What brought me back was the late season 4 bottle episode "The Drumhead," which I happened to see playing on the lounge TV in my grad-school dorm and realized the show had acquired good writing. Fortunately, the local station that played Star Trek: TNG was by that time also playing easy-to-find daily reruns, so it was not hard to catch up with what I'd missed.
A couple years ago we showed our daughter "The Best of Both Worlds" as something of an introduction to the show (she'd seen a few episodes earlier but only remembered them dimly). She was stunned when I explained that the cliffhanger in the middle of the story was a season break and audiences would have had to wait months to find out what happened. But since I'd missed that on original broadcast, I never directly experienced the suspense either. When I saw "The Drumhead" and Satie started making insinuations about Picard's experience with the Borg, I remember wondering what the Borg was.
I remember when TNG first started showing on tv in Australia it was the same as you mentioned with the VHS releases. We got one 26 episode season made up of a mix of first and second season episodes - played out of order - so the tv channel could 'catch up' to being only one season behind the U.S. The first time we got to see all the first and second season was when it played on Foxtel in the late 90's
You're right, Uncle Stam, Picard is no surfer, but he'd make a decent docent.
Paramount executive John Pike sent a pitch for Star Trek: The Next Generation to Gene Roddenberry, and Fox was one of the networks that offered partial commitments to the show. Other networks, such as NBC and ABC, only offered to order a pilot, while CBS also offered a partial commitment.
1:16:08 Jean Grey/Xenia Onatopp 😋 The lovely Famke Janssen...who will be 60 years old this year!!!
Live long and prosper! 🖖
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Thank you very much, I mean "peace and long life."
Man thank you for this, it's hilarious and informative. I thought I knew everything about TNG, but I'm learning new stuff from this video. Your script is amazing.
Seriously, for someone who grew up watching Generations I really didn't know Rykker swings his legs onto chairs :D Maybe, i'm misremembering but, surely, It was funny to me to know this fact after all this time :D
I came here for the Star Trek, stayed for the Twister and Cheers episodes..I am hooked. 40F nerds are your demographic lol
I really liked this video.
LCARS was modestly ahead of its time in some ways--configurable touchscreens were already a well-established idea in real life, and most computers used graphical user interfaces with some kind of pointing device, but that kind of touch interface was nowhere near as ubiquitous at the time as it is today, and tablet computers existed only in embryonic form. LCARS itself was designed more to be legible on screen as a story device than to make sense as a user interface, but the principle was sound.
I think the LCARS as a convincing computer system are aging a lot better than the TOS stuff is.
they replaced a bunch of navy ships' navigational with touchscreens and switched back to using physical controllers including a modified type of xbox controller for navigation because it was more intuitive and several crashes were blamed on the confusing and sometimes unresponsive touchscreen controls. Just because touchscreens are ubiquitous on consumer devices meant for browsing facebook does not mean they're the best choice for input for controlling hundred ton machines, it's just cost effective at this point.
clean shaven riker is cursed
also, i once named a trio of my beloved gerbils pike, kirk, and picard (guess which was the fat one lol)
1:22:57 🤣
Great way of putting it.
Awesome! Thanks 🤩
Great in-depth analysis. I'm looking forward to your episode-by-episode reviews. That's quite a commitment.
Those were the episodes were honour, thrive for a betterment the way now people speak to each other mattared, when hero was a good person "not confused" with good intentions and were evil was evil not just lost
Regarding 'technobabble', at least the Enterprise never did the "Kessel run in 12 parsecs"...so there is that.
Had a big crush on Tasha Yar. Was gutted when she got killed off
Great video. Did you mention that Beverly f***ed a ghost?😊
Love the feature length content