He is the reason I watched all of Star Trek for the first time last year. I heard Q was in Picard and decided I had better get some backstory to catch up. Decided to watch every series and every episode. When I got to Q in picard it was amazing. Worth every second. I live an entire IP now thanks to John DeLancie.
The intersection of classical music fans and NextGen fans may be small, but it’s worth noting that John DeLancie’s father (same name) commissioned Richard Strauss’s oboe concerto, when he ran across the composer as a G.I. stationed in post-war Germany in 1945. That’s an even bigger claim to fame than his son’s really excellent portrayal of Q.
we star trek fans in 1987-88 knew it was bad. but it was all we had. but after a couple of years of loyally sticking it out, it started to pay off in season 3 and beyond.
AGREED and well said.I hung around for the-NICE-new sets,a well designed new starship,new fancy uniforms,etc,etc,.I hoped the stories would eventually get better,which it did.
From season 3 moving forward become some of the best writing in all of television sci fi. So glad networks back then were willing to give shows like this a chance to grow
Ive started a rewatch of this with me 11yo son. Had to push a bit to get past some of the requisite season 1 & 2 episodes, but now that we're in season 3, he asks for it. Find him humming the theme while doing his home work. And he put TNG as his favorite tv show on his "about me" first-day-of-school project a couple of weeks ago. 😊
Star Trek has a pattern of becoming amazing in season 3, because the writers actors and audience know who these characters are and can put them into specific situations
I was lucky to have Sky One as a kid via early analogue cable television. I remember the 3 month wait between "Mr Worf, fire!" and the conclusion of BOBW. That was a tortuous summer. I used to record every episode, in order in standard play on VHS. It took 40 VHS tapes for all 7 seasons. And I made my own LCARS style labels with the stardates on (where known). How I ever managed to make friends and lose my virginity is, quite frankly, a mystery! 😂
Good luck out there, we had no idea what was coming and are stunned by both the destruction without warning and the further let down of getting aid in time. Who knew the interior would ever be so effected? Awful and sad.
@TheRadioAteMyTV Those of us who viewed various weather models 24 years ago. The droughts in the midwest, the escalation in number and severity of hurricanes, these were forcast. A hurricane is just an energy transfer system. It's transfer medium is water. As to the aid, I've survived two hurricanes in the past 10 years. We never lost interstates and highways and it still took a month to get back up to somewhat normal function. FEMA helped immensely. It's the private insurance companies that stiffed, and are still stiffing people I know.
@@markwilliams2620 There is no evidence of an increase or number or severity of hurricanes. There is an increase in population in their path. Before 1979 people gave to charities to help out, and most all held accountable those who got the money. FEMA is in no way careful with spending. We didn't get to 36 trillion in debt by government making wise choices.
12:50 'hey, what did you think of the Planet of the Nymphomaniacs?' Planet of the what?! 'oh , you missed that! That's a riot that is, some folk spend years on that.'
32:33 Brent tells a great story when they were shooting Tasha's funeral. After weeks of telling everyone to be serious, Patrick stands on the top of the hill and starts singing "The hills are aliiive..."
I was just happy it was on free TV. & could watch it on rabbit ears. 😅 I knew it wasn't very good but good enough. It got better. 😮. Maybe better than the original, story wise . Big fan . I love this.
@@mikavirtanen7029 PIller died WAY, WAY, WAY too early. He was just getting started. What a loss to his friends, family and the watching world of his great story telling.
I can not say there were any bad episodes during Season One. Yes, there were some cheesy moments and some episodes could have been written better, but I was excited to see a new crew.
Wonderful - thank you. As someone who watched all of NextGen back in the day and purchased the amazing blu rays (still waiting for any of my progeny to be remotely interested in them however), this wrap-up should be an official blu ray extra, it’s that good 👍
When Riker-Q ages up Westley, I like to imagine what that scene would look like with an IRL older Wil Wheaton. Like his mother and everyone is just staring at him awkwardly trying to hide their disappointment. "Oh... so... I guess you never fill out at all then. You're just... always gonna look like... an oddly aged child." 🙁
Michael Dorn's main dramatic contribution in series one was to say "Wesley, the boy?" In disbelief whenever said child genius saved the ship every week.
i remember standing in my room, and the premiere of ST:TNG started...i heard the music and i started to cry. Why? Because ther was so little in the world i could just sit and enjoy...and this was it, for quite a while
My brother also was choked up. I was not but I watched the episodes because you nailed it. There was nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing worth watching. Original programming? No way. Before ST;TNG zip. After ST:TNG? All kinds of stuff, Fox even made a new channel.
I was at college and these showed up on tape at our local corner shop. Clearly didn't have Sky back then, but the halls did have an ancient video player, and we were so excited to see Star Trek back on telly. Even at the time I think it we recognised it was a bit clunky to start with, but we just loved having it
Oh my, I eagerly await the 1-2 seasons a year we're going to get :D (I'm very glad this is more in the vein of your Doctor Who videos, rather than the TOS episode roundup. Although I enjoyed the latter, I think this format works best.)
@@kirk1701 It got me into Star Trek. It was the first live action series I would watch all the way through. I was seeing MacGyver and Knight Rider at the time but never saw full episodes.
Just gonna say I was 11 when TNG premiered, and my favorite stories were Wesley stories. I didn't learn until years later how much older viewers hated him, but as a character meant to rope in younger viewers, well, it worked on me. At least enough to get me to stop and enjoy a UA-cam deep dive a couple decades later.
Stam has bills to pay, time for a Star Trek episode! I kid, because I love, or as Aussies will put it, what a waaankeeeer! Again, the music and chosen clips to underscore points: *chef's kiss! Roll on 100,000 subs!
When Conspiracy was first shown in the UK, it was heavily cut down. I remember seeing it and thinking 'what just happened?' Mum got the episode on video and I was pretty creeped out. The first really good episode of the series.
I almost gave up on The Next Generation because of the pilot episodes but I gave the show a chance to get going, and it was one of the few TV series that I thought got better from season to season. Especially when the producers made Troy an officer instead of a cheerleader or a carnival fortune teller.
Making her a telepath was a mistake. When filming a telepath either their arms are sticking out like they're doing magic or the actor looks like they're constipated because they're concentrating so hard. The writers are eventually forced to nerf those abilities because they're too OP, or it becomes a save the day trope like Weasley.
I was about 9 or 10 when this first aired in the UK as for some reason the BBC didn't pick it up until a few years after it aired in the States. I remember really enjoying Encounter at Farpoint but the only other episode I remember from season 1 was Skin of Evil. The idea that this show could just casually kill off a regular character blew my mind, I'd never seen it done before (I got into Doctor Who a few years too late to have seen Adric) and it stayed with me for years.
I wonder if it has to do with dropping at midnight in Pacific Time and later in the other N American time zones. Some say the algorithm feeds off the first hour's success, and if the audience is asleep, they ain't clicking in that first hour.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV that’s a very astute point if that’s how it works. I wonder if stam is aware of the intricacies of the all-enveloping algo- :as a longtime YT star he’s prob tried all sorts. I wish him well.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV the first hour? I knew the first 1-2 days were important, but the first hour... yk, Dankpods uploads at a time that's evening in Europe and afternoon in America, and he's clearly told his pal James to do the same. Maybe there's something to that. Easy enough to change if you schedule your uploads.
@@kaitlyn__L It's all secrets how that darned thing works but I hear it from plenty of people that the first hour is make or break, and I see it on my channels too. If it gets shared, liked or comments it keeps getting more hits, if not, then buried forever. You are at the mercy of early viewers and their moods.
That first season was a bit bumpy but once TNG found it's groove it was a wild ride. Many a late tuesday night watching Sar trek on channel 9. good times
As a Tasha Yarr fan, I’ll always have a weird soft spot for season 1… it was fun having her around, bummer to see her go, but at least she had some of the best episodes in later returns
Watching the first season of TNG is like watching the first season of The Simpsons. Very rough and janky but it’s also kinda fascinating to go back to from time to time.
@@pferreira1983 Season 7 felt more like Season 2 for me in that they both have some janky episodes but on the flip side you have some stand outs (Season 2 had measure of a man and Season 7 had All Good Things).
@@theycallmejojo6090 Season 2 was quite aimless, especially at the beginning (even though it had good episodes at that beginning like the Sherlock Holmes one) but they had a grapple on things by the mid point. Season 7 feels tired and most of the episodes are watchable but nothing special.
Stephen King's short story, "The Raft" from his anthology "Skeleton Crew" (1985) has a being in it that does the same thing as one is this does. Only King's has colors on it like an oil slick and is on water; the colors mesmerize people till it can reach up and grab its prey.
Everybody loves "Conspiracy" and I will never, ever understand it. The entire plot is absurd, the villains are cartoonish, and the resolution is just _oh-look-we-can-do-gore!_
Channel 9 here in Australia wisely looked at the episodes, screened S01E01, the skipped straight through to S02E01, but the trekkies cried out, Season 1 came back, and the show tanked... This is what 'fandom' does.
Pretty harsh on 'Encounter at Farpoint'. It is actually my favourite two parter of the whole series. And yes, I started watching from Season 1, not from The Best of Both Worlds.
I guess a lot of fans don't like Conspiracy? I thought it uncommonly interesting and vindicated you liked it, I guess it's not a surprise I liked DS9 a lot. I was hoping these guys would make a return some day, if at least to address the way the episode ended. First season's entirety is handwaved often now but the Crystalline Entity / Lore ep and a few others feel indispensable to me. Really wish Crosby had stuck around but I don't blame her for leaving... I'm sometimes surprised how far TNG had surpassed TOS in the collective memory but it feels like it's more honed in its philosophy. Still wish they'd gone easy on the technobabble, though
I never got the sense that a lot of fans hated that episode. That's new to me. As for collective memory: I see more women cosplaying the skirt and boots unifrom TOS or, from a lesser extent the Kelvin universe uniform.
@@rickbase833 A lot of sitting around and talking. I’m a big fan of TOS and liked how there was more action in DS9 and even ENT brought action and the sexy back. Not to mention, both crews visited my favorite era and wore the uniforms. Also, I didn't care for how Geordi was written.
@@rickbase833 I also hated the new (at the time) look they gave to the Romulans. They looked similar to TOS in ‘The Neutral Zone.’ I also hated the unisex look they gave to the Vulcans. And some of these issues were in the Berman era overall.
@kirk1701 True that there were more action driven arcs during DS9's 7-year run. The tension that the station experienced from the Cardsssians through the Dominion war. I liked that TNG and DS9 overlapped with Worf and O'Brien moving over after TNG ended. DS9 was a very different show on many ways.
I love TNG. The sets were always well lit and easy on the eye, the characters were likeable and the actors always had time to speak without being rushed. Over the 7 years of watching the show could see the characters becoming more of a family as time went on. I have great affection for series 1 and 2 as it was new and mysterious. It's a new ship but it's got the right name. 🖖🙂
Like Farpoint a lot given its the first and everyone is unsure of their roles BUT that "wheeling" in of Q on a rickety camera dolly??? They make those smooth you know for cameras!! OR was he meant to be bouncing as the peasants rolled him in?? We will never know but the effect of a all powerful floating entity would have been amazing, but makes him look silly and non powerful.
Well my brother is that is known as a "Trekkie". So the first episode is my favorite except for the Q part. Didn't expect that. I've probably seen 90+% of the episodes. Seen most of the movies you. Missed out on the Shatner directed one & the one with Tom Hardy. Sorry, just not a big fan. I am a big fan of Stam though. I would watch him review that L.Ron Hubbard/Travolta movie. My favorite characters on the Next Generation? Yar, Wesley, Lore, & Troi in the skirt.
I fell off my chair laughing at the pure genius of the pixelated crotch shot.
Whoever thought that one up deserves a bonus.
Still love Patrick Stewart agreed to this as his agent told him it would last one year and he'd be able to use the money for better parts.
30:28 I'd never noticed that Tasha Yar's funeral takes place on the Windows XP desktop.
lol
Star Trek inspiring the future, again....
That's pretty cruel you'd think they would give her a nice Vista :)
@@JackIsMe1993 😂
This is how they rebooted her
This is one of your best, but you had me at “Make it so-so”.
John De Lancie got TNG off to a flying start. He's fabulous
And it's a crime he was never included in any of the movies. And a lot of the movies are crimes, themselve.
He is the reason I watched all of Star Trek for the first time last year. I heard Q was in Picard and decided I had better get some backstory to catch up. Decided to watch every series and every episode. When I got to Q in picard it was amazing. Worth every second. I live an entire IP now thanks to John DeLancie.
The intersection of classical music fans and NextGen fans may be small, but it’s worth noting that John DeLancie’s father (same name) commissioned Richard Strauss’s oboe concerto, when he ran across the composer as a G.I. stationed in post-war Germany in 1945. That’s an even bigger claim to fame than his son’s really excellent portrayal of Q.
I still think of humans as 'ugly bags of mostly water" to this day.
Speak for yourself. I'm a beautiful bag of mostly water. Thanks 😜
I wasn't a fan of that episode.
I fact humans are only about 50-60% water.......so only half water but still ugly.:)
Wasn't that the name of a music group?
6:16 the sound of squeeky cart wheels! I just can't! 😆
we star trek fans in 1987-88 knew it was bad. but it was all we had. but after a couple of years of loyally sticking it out, it started to pay off in season 3 and beyond.
No ‘we’ didn't.
Please don't speak for me.
I’m a big TOS fan and enjoyed Season One of TNG.
It was great right from the start, especially with Ron Jones' music.
@@kirk1701 You did ???
AGREED and well said.I hung around for the-NICE-new sets,a well designed new starship,new fancy uniforms,etc,etc,.I hoped the stories would eventually get better,which it did.
@@kerry-j4m Yep.
Before social media/the internet gatekeepers told me I shouldn’t.
(I still do, btw).
From season 3 moving forward become some of the best writing in all of television sci fi. So glad networks back then were willing to give shows like this a chance to grow
Nobody would surrender to the Dread Pirate Wesley
"Seagate's been out of business for 250 years" Finally, some justice
Ive started a rewatch of this with me 11yo son. Had to push a bit to get past some of the requisite season 1 & 2 episodes, but now that we're in season 3, he asks for it. Find him humming the theme while doing his home work. And he put TNG as his favorite tv show on his "about me" first-day-of-school project a couple of weeks ago. 😊
Star Trek has a pattern of becoming amazing in season 3, because the writers actors and audience know who these characters are and can put them into specific situations
Seasons 3-5 were the Pinnacle imho.
Ohh what we had. 👽🖖
Season 2 wasn't that bad.
Nobody ever talks about the hilarious way that Crusher falls into that hole, on the arms dealer planet. It's one of my favourite TNG clips.
I was lucky to have Sky One as a kid via early analogue cable television. I remember the 3 month wait between "Mr Worf, fire!" and the conclusion of BOBW. That was a tortuous summer. I used to record every episode, in order in standard play on VHS. It took 40 VHS tapes for all 7 seasons. And I made my own LCARS style labels with the stardates on (where known). How I ever managed to make friends and lose my virginity is, quite frankly, a mystery! 😂
I feel seen 😂
I would be extremely happy with a breakdown of every season of this, ds9, and voyager. Love this channel.
East Tennessee here, needed this!
East Devon here, needed this!
Good luck out there, we had no idea what was coming and are stunned by both the destruction without warning and the further let down of getting aid in time. Who knew the interior would ever be so effected? Awful and sad.
@TheRadioAteMyTV
Those of us who viewed various weather models 24 years ago. The droughts in the midwest, the escalation in number and severity of hurricanes, these were forcast. A hurricane is just an energy transfer system. It's transfer medium is water. As to the aid, I've survived two hurricanes in the past 10 years. We never lost interstates and highways and it still took a month to get back up to somewhat normal function. FEMA helped immensely. It's the private insurance companies that stiffed, and are still stiffing people I know.
@@markwilliams2620 There is no evidence of an increase or number or severity of hurricanes. There is an increase in population in their path. Before 1979 people gave to charities to help out, and most all held accountable those who got the money. FEMA is in no way careful with spending. We didn't get to 36 trillion in debt by government making wise choices.
Miles is also the most important man in Starfleet
12:50 'hey, what did you think of the Planet of the Nymphomaniacs?'
Planet of the what?!
'oh , you missed that! That's a riot that is, some folk spend years on that.'
7:27 After the 10th time seeing it, "The Lonely Man" theme from Incredible Hulk gets geometrically funnier each time you use it in a video.
Season 2 is my favourite
Frakes was an emergency shatner if Stewart didn't work out.
good point
Star Trek TNG Season 1 was my very first introduction to Star Trek; I love it!
32:33 Brent tells a great story when they were shooting Tasha's funeral. After weeks of telling everyone to be serious, Patrick stands on the top of the hill and starts singing "The hills are aliiive..."
Cant wait for the rest of the seasons
It's no conspiracy but the episode entitled "Conspiracy" was out of this world.
*head explodes*
I heard that in his voice.
Almost every episode of star trek happens outside earth, so yeah, most of them are out of this world.
@@Freenure
Star Trek the original series "City on the edge of forever" was out of this world also and that was set almost entirely on earth.
The first ep making you think "okay, this show might become something cool."
"Make it so-so" is really funny. Far funnier than it should be. hahahaha
I'm not even a Season 1 hater.
"Ugly giant bags of mostly water" was one of the few times TNG hit a home run with one line.
A+
And thats how Groppler Zorn became the most beloved character in Trek.
Alison Pregler approves of the Groppler Zorn movement.
@@paulharries9558 Alison Pregler? Is she even still a thing?
@@nunyabizness6595 Only Groppler Zorn knows for sure 😌
@@nunyabizness6595 absolutely, and still doing Star Trek episodes every 2-3 months in among Baywatch content.
@@nunyabizness6595She's still doing videos on UA-cam. And that's in no small part down to Groppler Zorn.
Season 1 is fantastic, by far my favorite
I've always wondered who mopped the holodeck o_O
I was just happy it was on free TV. & could watch it on rabbit ears. 😅 I knew it wasn't very good but good enough. It got better. 😮. Maybe better than the original, story wise . Big fan . I love this.
The most important thing to say about Season one of Star Trek Next Gen is.... It's get better soon.
@@mikavirtanen7029 PIller died WAY, WAY, WAY too early. He was just getting started. What a loss to his friends, family and the watching world of his great story telling.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV hear hear
I can not say there were any bad episodes during Season One.
Yes, there were some cheesy moments and some episodes could have been written better, but I was excited to see a new crew.
Season 1 got me into Star Trek. I never saw anything like it. There's only a few episodes I'd say are bad. Most are pretty awesome.
They are ??? You really think so ???
@@kerry-j4m Yes I really think so. 😊
Wonderful - thank you. As someone who watched all of NextGen back in the day and purchased the amazing blu rays (still waiting for any of my progeny to be remotely interested in them however), this wrap-up should be an official blu ray extra, it’s that good 👍
When Riker-Q ages up Westley, I like to imagine what that scene would look like with an IRL older Wil Wheaton. Like his mother and everyone is just staring at him awkwardly trying to hide their disappointment. "Oh... so... I guess you never fill out at all then. You're just... always gonna look like... an oddly aged child." 🙁
I eagerly await "Captain, I protest; I am NOT a merry man!"
Michael Dorn's main dramatic contribution in series one was to say "Wesley, the boy?" In disbelief whenever said child genius saved the ship every week.
Erm...Heart of Glory?
i remember standing in my room, and the premiere of ST:TNG started...i heard the music and i started to cry. Why? Because ther was so little in the world i could just sit and enjoy...and this was it, for quite a while
My brother also was choked up. I was not but I watched the episodes because you nailed it. There was nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing worth watching. Original programming? No way. Before ST;TNG zip. After ST:TNG? All kinds of stuff, Fox even made a new channel.
I was at college and these showed up on tape at our local corner shop. Clearly didn't have Sky back then, but the halls did have an ancient video player, and we were so excited to see Star Trek back on telly. Even at the time I think it we recognised it was a bit clunky to start with, but we just loved having it
Hug
100 percent there was nothing like it and arguably nothing like it since.
Oh my, I eagerly await the 1-2 seasons a year we're going to get :D (I'm very glad this is more in the vein of your Doctor Who videos, rather than the TOS episode roundup. Although I enjoyed the latter, I think this format works best.)
Great retrospective! Looking forward to the next seasons :)
Yeah, a lot of people say to skip the first two seasons. Personally, I like them both - especially the 2nd season.
You just can't skip seasons of a show like this. Makes no sense. It's like skipping elementary school and just going straight to high school.
@@jovetj Season 1 is awesome anyway.
@@pferreira1983Facts.
@@kirk1701 It got me into Star Trek. It was the first live action series I would watch all the way through. I was seeing MacGyver and Knight Rider at the time but never saw full episodes.
Just gonna say I was 11 when TNG premiered, and my favorite stories were Wesley stories. I didn't learn until years later how much older viewers hated him, but as a character meant to rope in younger viewers, well, it worked on me. At least enough to get me to stop and enjoy a UA-cam deep dive a couple decades later.
Stam has bills to pay, time for a Star Trek episode!
I kid, because I love, or as Aussies will put it, what a waaankeeeer!
Again, the music and chosen clips to underscore points: *chef's kiss!
Roll on 100,000 subs!
When Conspiracy was first shown in the UK, it was heavily cut down. I remember seeing it and thinking 'what just happened?'
Mum got the episode on video and I was pretty creeped out. The first really good episode of the series.
I almost gave up on The Next Generation because of the pilot episodes but I gave the show a chance to get going, and it was one of the few TV series that I thought got better from season to season. Especially when the producers made Troy an officer instead of a cheerleader or a carnival fortune teller.
Making her a telepath was a mistake. When filming a telepath either their arms are sticking out like they're doing magic or the actor looks like they're constipated because they're concentrating so hard. The writers are eventually forced to nerf those abilities because they're too OP, or it becomes a save the day trope like Weasley.
@@tim2024-df5futhey had to make sure she wasn't around for episodes where her telepathic abilities would have ruined that week's plot
Troi...nevermind... 😆
Even the first season has some great episodes.
Another great retrospective from Stam! Keep up the watching and commenting and we’ll keep up reminiscing and enjoying!
I was about 9 or 10 when this first aired in the UK as for some reason the BBC didn't pick it up until a few years after it aired in the States. I remember really enjoying Encounter at Farpoint but the only other episode I remember from season 1 was Skin of Evil. The idea that this show could just casually kill off a regular character blew my mind, I'd never seen it done before (I got into Doctor Who a few years too late to have seen Adric) and it stayed with me for years.
I've been waiting for this since your last TNG video 😁
Still mystified why stam hasn’t got more subs. Come on YT boost this thing.
I wonder if it has to do with dropping at midnight in Pacific Time and later in the other N American time zones. Some say the algorithm feeds off the first hour's success, and if the audience is asleep, they ain't clicking in that first hour.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV that’s a very astute point if that’s how it works. I wonder if stam is aware of the intricacies of the all-enveloping algo- :as a longtime YT star he’s prob tried all sorts. I wish him well.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV the first hour? I knew the first 1-2 days were important, but the first hour... yk, Dankpods uploads at a time that's evening in Europe and afternoon in America, and he's clearly told his pal James to do the same. Maybe there's something to that. Easy enough to change if you schedule your uploads.
@@kaitlyn__L It's all secrets how that darned thing works but I hear it from plenty of people that the first hour is make or break, and I see it on my channels too. If it gets shared, liked or comments it keeps getting more hits, if not, then buried forever. You are at the mercy of early viewers and their moods.
I never noticed at 8:29
The dude standing next to Yar - WTF was wrong with his left eye?
That first season was a bit bumpy but once TNG found it's groove it was a wild ride. Many a late tuesday night watching Sar trek on channel 9. good times
11:10 for a second I thought that was Ryan Hurst (Opie from Sons of Anarchy) 😂
Also, family legend has it that Gothos was our original last name, lol.
General Gogol! Exactly how I always see that actor lol. 👍
Everyone was so wooden during the first season or two, especially my namesake. So glad they loosened up.
I thought they got boring in later seasons, especially Picard who tends to go into speeches and stand on his high horse.
Tip-Top... thank you
I always think of Season 1 as being irredeemably bad. Thanks for the reminder that there were actually quite a few decent episodes.
As a Tasha Yarr fan, I’ll always have a weird soft spot for season 1… it was fun having her around, bummer to see her go, but at least she had some of the best episodes in later returns
great walk down memory lane. I hope you eventually do deep space 9 and Voyager as well..
Manitoba Canada shout out!
Watching the first season of TNG is like watching the first season of The Simpsons.
Very rough and janky but it’s also kinda fascinating to go back to from time to time.
Season 7 was more 'janky' in my opinion.
@@pferreira1983 Season 7 felt more like Season 2 for me in that they both have some janky episodes but on the flip side you have some stand outs (Season 2 had measure of a man and Season 7 had All Good Things).
@@theycallmejojo6090 Season 2 was quite aimless, especially at the beginning (even though it had good episodes at that beginning like the Sherlock Holmes one) but they had a grapple on things by the mid point. Season 7 feels tired and most of the episodes are watchable but nothing special.
Season 1 is so bad but so good
Not enough Riker and his Bone.
Star Trek: Training Wheels.
A serious cold that's gone viral. That is gold.😅
7 Days The Next Generation
Stephen King's short story, "The Raft" from his anthology "Skeleton Crew" (1985) has a being in it that does the same thing as one is this does. Only King's has colors on it like an oil slick and is on water; the colors mesmerize people till it can reach up and grab its prey.
Any chance you'll review Star Trek Prodigy at some point?
its possible, but not for a long time
All the McGyver talk makes me wish for a full Stargate SG-1 review.
The man who cleans grandma Crusher, must of been Ronin 😂 but size fits 😂
Everybody loves "Conspiracy" and I will never, ever understand it. The entire plot is absurd, the villains are cartoonish, and the resolution is just _oh-look-we-can-do-gore!_
Channel 9 here in Australia wisely looked at the episodes, screened S01E01, the skipped straight through to S02E01, but the trekkies cried out, Season 1 came back, and the show tanked...
This is what 'fandom' does.
That's because Aussies don't really like Sci-Fi as its not sport
Pretty harsh on 'Encounter at Farpoint'. It is actually my favourite two parter of the whole series. And yes, I started watching from Season 1, not from The Best of Both Worlds.
Fun fact, in the novels it turns out that Trelain is Q's kid (and an even bigger jerk), and that just explains soooo much.
Good thing the novels aren't canon.
To think in season 1 Deanna almost married T-Bag
I guess a lot of fans don't like Conspiracy? I thought it uncommonly interesting and vindicated you liked it, I guess it's not a surprise I liked DS9 a lot. I was hoping these guys would make a return some day, if at least to address the way the episode ended.
First season's entirety is handwaved often now but the Crystalline Entity / Lore ep and a few others feel indispensable to me. Really wish Crosby had stuck around but I don't blame her for leaving...
I'm sometimes surprised how far TNG had surpassed TOS in the collective memory but it feels like it's more honed in its philosophy. Still wish they'd gone easy on the technobabble, though
I never got the sense that a lot of fans hated that episode. That's new to me.
As for collective memory: I see more women cosplaying the skirt and boots unifrom TOS or, from a lesser extent the Kelvin universe uniform.
@@kirk1701 It was a bit of a surprise when I heard it, so maybe it was just some section of the fandom I hadn't been exposed to before
@@nutherefurlong Possibly.
Groucho Marx from Horsefeathers described ST:TNG season 1 best:
"A mere boy and a beardless youth. I kissed them both goodbye."
The first two seasons suffered from a lack of cohesiveness by the production team. After that, the show really got good.
The show got boring for me in later seasons, but I revisit some episodes every now and then.
@kirk1701 Interesting. That's not typical reaction I see from TNG fans. What about the later seasons didn't do it for you?
@@rickbase833 A lot of sitting around and talking. I’m a big fan of TOS and liked how there was more action in DS9 and even ENT brought action and the sexy back.
Not to mention, both crews visited my favorite era and wore the uniforms.
Also, I didn't care for how Geordi was written.
@@rickbase833 I also hated the new (at the time) look they gave to the Romulans. They looked similar to TOS in ‘The Neutral Zone.’
I also hated the unisex look they gave to the Vulcans.
And some of these issues were in the Berman era overall.
@kirk1701 True that there were more action driven arcs during DS9's 7-year run. The tension that the station experienced from the Cardsssians through the Dominion war. I liked that TNG and DS9 overlapped with Worf and O'Brien moving over after TNG ended. DS9 was a very different show on many ways.
I have seen this face. Lol 16:36
Wait...Sean Connery had a German accent?
Cdr Riker gave Pinocchio a run for his money
I love TNG. The sets were always well lit and easy on the eye, the characters were likeable and the actors always had time to speak without being rushed. Over the 7 years of watching the show could see the characters becoming more of a family as time went on. I have great affection for series 1 and 2 as it was new and mysterious. It's a new ship but it's got the right name. 🖖🙂
John De Lancie saved Season 1
Like Farpoint a lot given its the first and everyone is unsure of their roles BUT that "wheeling" in of Q on a rickety camera dolly??? They make those smooth you know for cameras!! OR was he meant to be bouncing as the peasants rolled him in?? We will never know but the effect of a all powerful floating entity would have been amazing, but makes him look silly and non powerful.
Oh boy. I missed some of the first episodes of S1. And apparently those were the cringe ones.
Season one is basically a rough draft.
At least it was slightly better than the first season of Babylon 5...
My wife even said why does Troi speak as if she's deaf and cant hear herself? I said i guess shes supposed to sound alien or something? 😂😂😂😮
Ok, we going to get a MacGyver series review?
MacGyver the original series , Excellent TV Series.
I think Justice was very good.
Well my brother is that is known as a "Trekkie". So the first episode is my favorite except for the Q part. Didn't expect that. I've probably seen 90+% of the episodes. Seen most of the movies you. Missed out on the Shatner directed one & the one with Tom Hardy. Sorry, just not a big fan. I am a big fan of Stam though. I would watch him review that L.Ron Hubbard/Travolta movie. My favorite characters on the Next Generation? Yar, Wesley, Lore, & Troi in the skirt.
I don't hate the first season.
Denise Crosby looked gorgeous
This show really hit it's stride in season 3
Is your omission of Toronto’s city hall in the always have Paris episode a personal slight against Ontario??
When I first saw 'The Naked Now', I couldn't believe it! Sex with an android?!
Kim got a promotion