Henchmen21
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Early season 4 "Legacy". Forgot which specific ep number.
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Star Trek The Next Gen has some really weird stuff in it (rant)
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Early season 4 "Legacy". Forgot which specific ep number.
My main gripe with TNG is how darn weak their ship is. Almost every encounter with a hostile ship ends with them losing all shields in like three shots, then always somehow finding a way around. Shouldn't you guys invest your time in some better defenses?
OPs criticisms are mostly for S. 1-2 and even then, cmon. Late 80s television isn't exactly known to hold up well, especially the wardrobes. It's a silly thing to nitpick.
OPs criticisms are mostly for S. 1-2 and even then, cmon. Late 80s television isn't exactly known to hold up well, especially the wardrobes. It's a silly thing to nitpick.
Freshmaker
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Pantsless people were only in early S1. They dropped those in a hurry.
Along with the tabletop hologram displays that morphed into iMacs.
GreenMonkey
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Bob Coffee
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tng is great even now, watched it as it aired when i was a kid. but if you want gritty trek, there is ds9 which is secret best trek. garak alone has more characterization than almost the entire main tng enterprise cast. Sisko also punched Q which earns him tons of points.
Henchmen21
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Yes. Like most of S7. Written by Jeri Taylor who need I remind some people here, was one of the main architects behind Voyager.
FrankCanada97
Roughly the size of a baaaaaarge
It's no wonder why Voyager was filled with poor imitations of TNG filler episodes.
iamaustrian
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wait, data has actually no real free time? like he is 24h working.
I know that they simulate night and daytime on the enterprise via the lightning and the regular bridge crew (picard,riker,worth,data etc) is working only day shifts. at "night time" they dim the lights and an entirely different bridge crew ,except for data (who commands the enterprise at night),is taking over. probably because he needs no rest/sleep
so, when does he actually have the free time to paint etc? why does he even have an own room?
I know that they simulate night and daytime on the enterprise via the lightning and the regular bridge crew (picard,riker,worth,data etc) is working only day shifts. at "night time" they dim the lights and an entirely different bridge crew ,except for data (who commands the enterprise at night),is taking over. probably because he needs no rest/sleep
so, when does he actually have the free time to paint etc? why does he even have an own room?
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
He requests extra time once he finds that he can sleep and wants to paint etc. Since he didn't need to before that, and had no reason to do so, he just kept on truckin'
He has quarters likely due to fleet protocol. He's an officer, so he gets an officer's quarters.
Dictator93
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.And that's after she got into Fed style clothing. Here's what she wore before
Harlock
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That sounds amazing. Link?
crisdecuba
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I want to see this thread!
GurgleBot20
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As much as I like Next Generation, there are lore aspects from the first season that were never dropped which weren't great in the first place. Such as children being on the Enterprise (because no one in the 24th century is afraid of death, even though that's repeatedly shown to be not ture?), or Data wanting to become human.
crisdecuba
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Data wanting to become human is an excellent character trait that motivated some of the best episodes of the series.
GurgleBot20
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I never liked the phrasing of it, because he wasn't trying to become more human in the literal sense, but rather he wanted to better interact with humans to fulfill his own desires.
I wished they kind of explored the option that he may have already had emotions? Dr. Crusher kind of questions that in the episode where Data creates his daughter and he says he has no emotional attachment to her, but most of the time it's acted like it's a given that he feels nothing at all, even though he obviously has career/artistic ambitions and friends he cares about.
Edit: To elaborate, this has to do with my problem with how Data was introduced, as it was tied to Season 1's weird fetishization of the future human race as some sort of perfect species. When Data first says he wants to become human, it implies that he is implicitely an inferior being because of his species, when it's put against the constant speaches on how humanity is able to overcome any challenge, and has left all its problems in the past. It also ties into how Worf is nothing more than primitive beast in those first couple seasons.
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