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(Some Trekker Guy)		Twenty years ago, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was first broadcast (startrek.com)		384
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vegaswench		2007-09-28 11:57:36 PM

OMG I'm ollllllld!

Hi Wil!

goletaal		2007-09-29 12:03:41 AM

vegaswench: "OMG I'm ollllllld!"

Gaaa!! Me too! Take it back, subby, take it back!!!

RagingLeonard		2007-09-29 12:04:30 AM

Wow, I'm old too.
Jeez.

AeroBrewer		2007-09-29 12:05:35 AM

Headline should've included: Get off my bridge!

eyehate		2007-09-29 12:05:58 AM

I'm old.

But meh.

Watching Star Trek is as boring as going to church.

fariasrv		2007-09-29 12:06:14 AM

Well, in the New York area, it aired on October 5th. I remember this because my brother was born the next morning.

Apparently, saucer separation induces labor.

/God, I feel old...

stolibro		2007-09-29 12:09:27 AM

WHAT???!!!???

Oh my farking back/knees/scapula...

/have you ever dated yourself?
//did it end well?

cawaker		2007-09-29 12:09:47 AM

christ it started when i was 8?

dude that makes me feel old too.

Yesdog		2007-09-29 12:11:54 AM

I loved that show.

Manta537		2007-09-29 12:14:23 AM

I remember getting so excited for the show to start....

I was 19.

Kinda scary when you can say "20 years ago, I was..."

costermonger		2007-09-29 12:14:36 AM

In other news, a baby born the same day Top Gun premiered in theatres is now old enough to drink.

SilentStrider		2007-09-29 12:16:20 AM

Jesus.

I was 10 when the show first started.

I REALLY feel old right now.

Sinister Steve		2007-09-29 12:22:39 AM

I came into this thread to say I'm old, but all you other senior citizens beat my to it. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

EvilElecBlanket		2007-09-29 12:22:41 AM

This thread makes my hip hurt.

markie_farkie		2007-09-29 12:24:39 AM

Twenty years ago, I could legally buy booze for the first time. Coincidence? I think not!

Riche		2007-09-29 12:25:57 AM

Hate to admit it, but Encounter at Farpoint was an awful episode.

Much of Season 1 was hit-or-miss. Things worked pretty well by Season 2, though and for the most part got better every season.

Overall, ST:TNG was more than just a worthy successor to the original series. Many nerds will disagree with me, but I think it was a lot better than the original series.

paulandorder		2007-09-29 12:26:09 AM

It hasn't aged as well as the original.

panfried		2007-09-29 12:27:30 AM

"We hail Wil, come forth to us. Speeeeak to us from the place you are now. Wil, we beseech thy spirit and command thy post appear in this thread, we await."

AndrewGK		2007-09-29 12:30:39 AM

SilentStrider: Jesus.

I was 10 when the show first started.

I REALLY feel old right now.

I was 17 when this show first started.

Get off my damn lawn.
;)

/Seasons 1 and 2 did semi-suck
//Everything afterwards was good
///Best ST TNG episode - "The Inner Light"

SilentStrider		2007-09-29 12:32:15 AM

Sinister Steve: NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

pics.livejournal.com

markie_farkie		2007-09-29 12:32:19 AM

Riche: Much of Season 1 was hit-or-miss.

The characters were cardboard-ish and the dialog was very forced, I think, in an attempt to emulate a lot of the original series' campy appeal.

They did get MUCH better tho..

My all-time favorite was the one where Picard lived an entire life on a long-extinct planet, thanks to a probe's mind-control beam thingie..

falkensmaze		2007-09-29 12:32:35 AM

Twenty years ago I was 35. TNG was first broadcast on my birthday.

Holyspec Paladin		2007-09-29 12:32:55 AM

EvilElecBlanket: This thread makes my hip hurt.

Wow... So much win it's scary.

/Subby: Damn your eyes for making me feel old.
//LAWN!! OFF!!

JonnyJustice		2007-09-29 12:32:56 AM

I was only five?
Oh man, did my dad ever corrupt me?!

SilentStrider		2007-09-29 12:33:29 AM

AndrewGK: /Seasons 1 and 2 did semi-suck
//Everything afterwards was good
///Best ST TNG episode - "The Inner Light"

seasons 1 & 2 were, as previously said, hit or miss.
3 though, the show really took off. Best of Both Worlds pts 1 & 2, Yesterdays Enterprise, awesome episodes.

bob#?		2007-09-29 12:33:39 AM

And it's still the best out of the all Star Treks.

nastro		2007-09-29 12:33:56 AM

I'da banged Lt. Yar. Yarr!

AndrewGK		2007-09-29 12:34:07 AM

markie_farkie: My all-time favorite was the one where Picard lived an entire life on a long-extinct planet, thanks to a probe's mind-control beam thingie..

Yep, "The Inner Light" episode. (pops)

Sir_Spanksalot		2007-09-29 12:34:09 AM

huhuhuhuh. Im old huhuhuhuuuuuh

heheheehehe ya heheheehehe 30 heheheehehe

cha cha cha!

Disinseminator		2007-09-29 12:34:10 AM

The first season was awful, and painful to watch. Dumping Tasha Yar? Good move. Depussifying Worf? Great move. But it was more that the quality of the writing and development of the characters just got to where it needed to be. The Klingon succession and Borg episodes were near-genius, and better than anything else in any of the various series.

Even Wesley had a pretty decent subplot with that Academy thing...

Githerax		2007-09-29 12:34:15 AM

Let it be known that this thread has tipped me into my middle-age crisis.

The admin in my department had not yet been born when STTNG came out.

Time to go shop for a Corvette.

hockeyfarker		2007-09-29 12:34:34 AM

I was 3. Suck it, grandpas.

Person		2007-09-29 12:34:47 AM

Man, 20 years... I bet Wil is going to come out with a new book like that Brady Bunch kid.

!

Now taking bets for who he will claim to have had a homosexual relationship with while filming Star Trek.

MykeXero		2007-09-29 12:35:02 AM

You know who ruined that show?
Wil

/just kidding, visit us again at Strategicon some time, Wil

falkensmaze		2007-09-29 12:35:04 AM

AndrewGK: SilentStrider: Jesus.

I was 10 when the show first started.

I REALLY feel old right now.

I was 17 when this show first started.

Get off my damn lawn.
;)

/Seasons 1 and 2 did semi-suck
//Everything afterwards was good
///Best ST TNG episode - "The Inner Light"

I was 35 when it first aired.

Now, both of you get off my lawn!

Ruppaner Bier		2007-09-29 12:35:12 AM

Haven't seen the Wheaton tag in a while.

And TNG is awesome.

Allen. The end.		2007-09-29 12:35:43 AM

Oh my dear Borg, I am oldish. I was 16. So, theoretically, if I can drive a '78 Ford Fairmont staion wagon, I can...um...watch a new Star Trek franchise. Ah, screw it I got nuthin'...

/EXCEPT FOUR LIGHTS!!!!!

AndrewGK		2007-09-29 12:35:57 AM

SilentStrider: seasons 1 & 2 were, as previously said, hit or miss.

Yes, hearing Picard shout "NOW HEAR THIS" in the pilot episode was painful.

Troi's first hairstyle was hideous.

And Wesley was just damned annoying during those first few seasons. Thank God they fixed his character down the road...

canwolfshadow		2007-09-29 12:36:01 AM

I remeber watching it... I was 10. My Mom and her boyfriend both made a pretty big deal of it. Weird, the memories that it brings back.

AeroBrewer		2007-09-29 12:36:22 AM

AndrewGK: ///Best ST TNG episode - "The Inner Light"

I'm inclined to approve of you selection of episode -- I found this one to be very moving -- quality science fiction.

However, Yesterday's Enterprise was clearly the best IMHO.

Ophelia's Snorkel		2007-09-29 12:36:30 AM

13 when it started

/Dad bought me "Learn to Speak Klingon" tapes during the second season
//waves to the other old farkers & farkettes from my lawn chair

AndrewGK		2007-09-29 12:36:48 AM

falkensmaze: I was 35 when it first aired.

Now, both of you get off my lawn!

No.

Make me.

:)

AndrewGK		2007-09-29 12:37:57 AM

AeroBrewer: However, Yesterday's Enterprise was clearly the best IMHO.

I liked that episode too.

I'm a sucker for any episode involving temporal mechanics.

Cyxneo		2007-09-29 12:38:22 AM

Star what?

harrywalby		2007-09-29 12:38:47 AM

Between that and all my favorite songs being played on classic rock stations, I will admit that I am old. And I hate it when kids ride their skyrockets in the middle of my federation approved warp 5 zones.

Tachikoma		2007-09-29 12:38:53 AM

... I was barely three years old when this aired? This explains why I keep having arguments with my father about me not remembering watching most of the series, let alone the first episode.

"Inner Light" is still the best episode, hands down. I nearly killed a Jehovah's Witness when they came to the door half way through it once. Screaming "Shakah, when the walls fell!" in someone's face, and then slamming the door is priceless.

/wow
//I'm going to go re-watch all of Next Gen now, excuse me
///don't mind me, I'm just getting off the lawn

LocalCynic		2007-09-29 12:39:04 AM

Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra
With arms wide open

Allen. The end.		2007-09-29 12:39:20 AM

Although I must say, when Picard had a crush on the new science officer (stellar cartography, anyone?), I shat myself in mortal terror that the show was going the way of the Lifetime Channel. Arg.

/My mom was assimilated by Locutus of Borg, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt...

AeroBrewer		2007-09-29 12:39:24 AM

Holyspec Paladin: EvilElecBlanket: This thread makes my hip hurt.

Wow... So much win it's scary.

/Subby: Damn your eyes for making me feel old.
//LAWN!! OFF!!

You're welcome...

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