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Patrick Stewart was total overkill for Picard's role and although there are other great actors in the show, he just slam dunked it all the way.

Edit: If I may be so bold, you may want to give Babylon 5 a good chance.
 
amddude said:
Patrick Stewart was total overkill for Picard's role and although there are other great actors in the show, he just slam dunked it all the way.

Edit: If I may be so bold, you may want to give Babylon 5 a good chance.
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Patrick Stewart is probably my all-time favorite actor.

He's one of a very select few who always greatly benefit any show or movie they're in.
 
wait till the season 7 ep where Dr. Crusher falls in love and has intercourse with the GHOST who had been doing her grandmother. I shlt you not
 
i love TNG!!! glad you found it worth your while. just one of those series i will always have a special place in my heart for and can watch over and over. its in there with babylon 5, x files, firefly, felicity and sex in the city. something about those shows...
 
AC.hotfries said:
i love TNG!!! glad you found it worth your while. just one of those series i will always have a special place in my heart for and can watch over and over. its in there with babylon 5, x files, firefly, felicity and sex in the city. something about those shows...
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Hmm... Forgot about X Files. Not sure what I'd dump in my top 5 though :^/
 
amddude said:
Edit: If I may be so bold, you may want to give Babylon 5 a good chance.
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Just be advised that it doesn't really get going until partway through the second season. The first season is pretty slow and looks very dated since they were doing CG special effects in 1994 on a budget. Star Trek didn't switch to all-CGI until 1997.

I tried to watch B5 with my wife and we just couldn't quite make it. It was too slow for her. She loved TNG, DS9, and SG-1, but B5 takes a long time to get going. It's worth it once it does pick up.

Jadow said:
wait till the season 7 ep where Dr. Crusher falls in love and has intercourse with the GHOST who had been doing her grandmother. I shlt you not
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lol that was one of the worst episodes, next to a bunch of shitty season 1 episodes
 
^That was a terrible episode, but Gates McFadden was a ridiculously hot MILF.


Agreed that TNG has aged very well. Much better than TOS.

When it first aired, the lousy pilot, followed by yet another "space madness" episode really turned me off. I didn't start watching again until the end of season 1 (the sentient La Brea tar pit of doom episode). After that I started watching it semi-regularly before getting completely hooked during season 3.

Notable exceptions aside, the cast, led, of course, by Patrick Stewart, was so damned good that they raised TNG's production values higher than just about anything on TV at the time. Every episode was srs bsns, no matter how ridiculous the premise.
 
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Jadow said:
wait till the season 7 ep where Dr. Crusher falls in love and has intercourse with the GHOST who had been doing her grandmother. I shlt you not
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All of the Crusher women, actually.

That episode's title is "Sub Rosa"
 
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amddude said:
Patrick Stewart was total overkill for Picard's role and although there are other great actors in the show, he just slam dunked it all the way.

Edit: If I may be so bold, you may want to give Babylon 5 a good chance.
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I remember when TNG was announced and was about to premier and the big article in the Indy Star about the show, the characters, and the premise. I can remember reading it and thinking quite a bit of it sounded stupid (A guy named Data? A Klingon in the crew? A geezer as the captain? A lady who senses emotions? Who is that nerdy kid in the picture? Families on the Enterprise? WTF!) and I can also remember laughing at Patrick Stewart being the captain. Thankfully, it turned out much better than I anticipated and I just wish they wouldn't have had Wesley in the show. What was it with shows in the mid-80s to mid-90s including the token whiny "genius" kid?
 
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Westley never really bothered me. :\

You sure you're not just jealous because he got to make out with Ashley Judd?
 
IndyColtsFan said:
I remember when TNG was announced and was about to premier and the big article in the Indy Star about the show, the characters, and the premise. I can remember reading it and thinking quite a bit of it sounded stupid (A guy named Data? A Klingon in the crew? A geezer as the captain? A lady who senses emotions? Who is that nerdy kid in the picture? WTF!) and I can also remember laughing at Patrick Stewart being the captain. Thankfully, it turned out much better than I anticipated and I just wish they wouldn't have had Wesley in the show. What was it with shows in the mid-80s to mid-90s including the token whiny "genius" kid?
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LOL that reminds me, they had to include the token anti-drug message as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K6n-QFm7Pc
 
^LOL

Also funny is how old Picard looked to me at the time the show first aired.

Re-watching the show, he doesn't look that old now (Patrick Stuart was only 47 when TNG first aired), just bald.
 
sourceninja said:
Chain of Command ("There are 4 lights!") is probably one of my favorite episodes.
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The part at the end were Picard was freed right before he was going to admit to seeing 5 lights makes me LOL, because when we walks back up to the Cardassian, it sounds like the original like should have been "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS....MOTHERF****ER!"
 
qliveur said:
Also funny is how old Picard looked to me at the time the show first aired.
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My first reaction upon seeing the promo photo of the crew was: "Why on earth did they cast an old geezer as the captain?"

Re-watching the show, he doesn't look that old now (Patrick Stuart was only 47 when TNG first aired), just bald.
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True, but from a distance, you'd still peg him as much older. When they do close shots of his face, he does look 47 or younger.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
I remember when TNG was announced and was about to premier and the big article in the Indy Star about the show, the characters, and the premise. I can remember reading it and thinking quite a bit of it sounded stupid (A guy named Data? A Klingon in the crew? A geezer as the captain? A lady who senses emotions? Who is that nerdy kid in the picture? Families on the Enterprise? WTF!) and I can also remember laughing at Patrick Stewart being the captain. Thankfully, it turned out much better than I anticipated and I just wish they wouldn't have had Wesley in the show. What was it with shows in the mid-80s to mid-90s including the token whiny "genius" kid?
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yeah, I laughed at Patrick Stewart too. He looked like Capt. Stubing from The Love Boat:

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Fritzo said:
The next standout episode is in season 5 - The Inner Light, where Picard is affected by an alien probe and lives the entire life of another person in a period of a few minutes. It's a bit of a tear jerker and won Patrick Stewart a few awards for his performance.
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That episode is freaking awesome.
 
I have been on a TNG kick lately as well. I always thought that I have seen every single episode but there are a select few that I have either never seen or that I have only seen maybe half of the episode.

For the OP, yes, season 1 and season 2 can get really corny. I was watching "Time Squared" last night and I had forgotten how weird Worf looks in the first two seasons.. and the corny musical cues.

Take note that the last episode of Season 2, "Shades of Grey" is absolutely the worst episode of TNG ever. It's a stupid flashback show they had to fill the season out with because there was a writer's strike at the time.

Also there are some really corny episodes in the last season, "Masks" and the one with the train to Vertiform City..

But the rest are good to incredible, and even the bad ones are at least watchable - except for "Shades of Grey", that one really is a stinker.

BTW has anyone else noticed that from some weird reason, the syndicated re-runs (comes on Syfy now I think) show Season 2 a LOT? Half the time I'm flipping through the channels and I find a TNG episode, here comes Dr. Pulaski.
 
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