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Anime pins bigot7/2/2023 Data creates a daughter and decides that it’s only logical to give this new form of life the opportunity to assign their own gender. The episodic structure of Star Trek: The Next Generation checks the boxes of the original show: Strange new worlds! New life! New civilizations! Lots of boldly going where no one has gone before! But it also moved forward in ways that make the show even truer to the spirit of Roddenberry’s shining post-scarcity future than the original, too. Stewart’s Picard tries to maintain a professional distance, is flustered by intimacy, but even he is a big ol’ softie underneath. Data’s matter-of-fact friendships with Worf and Geordi, Worf’s deadpan badassery, Riker so clearly rooting for everybody, are framed almost like gags, except the goal isn’t to get you to laugh at a joke but to smile at a pleasant little moment. Over the course of seven seasons, we watch as they develop interesting little dynamics to play off of one another, such that you can almost imagine how they would react in other scenarios. It doesn’t hurt that the crew of the Enterprise-D are just fun to hang out with. (The writers and fellow cast members clearly hated this, and engineered scripts to allow for Crosby’s return multiple times for the sole purpose of being the baddest bitch in the quadrant.) Yes, even Wil Wheaton’s Wesley deserves a mention, and especially worthy of a mention is Denise Crosby’s Tasha Yar, who got done absolutely dirty by pissy producers who killed her off early in the show. Crusher, LeVar Burton’s Geordi LaForge, Brent Spiner’s android Data, Marina Sirtis’ Counselor Troi, and Jonathan Frakes’ Riker, the second-in-command who would lay down his life on the off-chance it might get a fellow crew member laid. Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads one of the best ensembles in TV history: Michael Dorn’s Worf, Gates McFadden’s Dr. And fortunately for everyone, that series was TNG, which I also dare to call one of the best television shows in the history of the entire medium. Gene Roddenberry, by all accounts a pretty well-liked guy who spent his life arguing for peace and inclusion, eventually sold some executives on the idea of kicking off a new series. Star Trek has become one of American pop culture’s deathless franchises, but before that it was a peculiar, nerdy little obsession for a lot of people that eventually started racking up big theatrical releases. (That it happens to also be the franchise’s best show-my DMs are closed-is related to this, but not the reason why it is.) Star Trek: The Next Generation is Trek’s apotheosis. He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all events in between. He has gone back through that door to find himself in 1963. He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. That’s All, Folks is a look back at television’s most unforgettable series finales.īilly has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. This year, Ken Lowe is revisiting some of the most influential TV shows that made it to an officially planned final episode. Most scripted television shows end in cancellation, so there’s something special about the ones that get the chance to go out on their own terms.
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