FARK.com: (3101006) Twenty years ago, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was first broadcast

If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.

(Some Trekker Guy)		Twenty years ago, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was first broadcast (startrek.com)		384
		More: Wheaton

• • •

11591 clicks; posted to Main » on 29 Sep 2007 at 12:28 AM | Favorite | share:

Share this link:

URL:

http://fark.com/go/3101006

Bookmark:

Article Comments close

384 Comments (+0 »)

Archived thread

First | « | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | » | Last | Show all

AndrewGK		2007-09-29 12:58:31 AM

kb7rky: Let's have a show of hands...anyone who thought Tasha was teh hawt? Anyone?

*raises hand*

kilgorn: never could stomach Voyager

It was OK. Not good. Not horrible. Just OK.

its_lime_time		2007-09-29 12:58:38 AM

That show was an event in my house. No one and I mean no one was allowed to speak when it was on. And if you did, it better not have been a question about what was going on.

/Mom was a trekkie.
/Pass the tacos quietly please.

Ophelia's Snorkel		2007-09-29 12:58:47 AM

seekercuz: My roommate and I spend hours watching Star Trek on nearly a daily basis. We are both teachers, and when we get home around 3:00 ST:TNG comes on SPIKE. We finally start watching something different around 8:00 when Star Trek is no longer available. We get to see all of the various shows, from the Original to Enterprise.

/live in the far north
//no theatre, restaurant or entertainment
///must stress this is not an everyday thing
////screw it, I don't care what you think

Don't be ashamed! My dad does the same thing (and it is every day for him). He can quote ST like Farkers can quote Monty Python.

fanbladesaresharp		2007-09-29 01:00:49 AM

vegaswench: OMG I'm ollllllld!

Hi Wil!

Oh well. What else did we watch at that time? Married With Chidren, ALF, Cosby Show, Cheers, SNL was still funny, M.A.S.H. was beginning syndication, Miami Vice....

hol E Shiat. 20 years? Alfarking ready?

Dr. Orpheus		2007-09-29 01:00:54 AM

Direct hit. No damage to the Borg ship.

AeroBrewer		2007-09-29 01:01:08 AM

Wise_Guy: skinink: And to think, Wil went from being the fat kid in Stand by Me to slimming down for Star Trek. Good job, you were a porker in that movie.

FAIL.

Yep, Total Fail... the fat kid, Vern, was none other than Jerry O'Connell of Sliders fame.

JackerCrack		2007-09-29 01:01:30 AM

I was assimilated by the Borg, so I'm getting a kick out of some of these replies.

/damn, I'm old.

img212.imageshack.us

Mentat		2007-09-29 01:02:01 AM

The Grinch		2007-09-29 01:03:17 AM

Hey! 'Conundrum' was listed, but this is 'Power Play'. Oh well, a better episode!

Pootie-Poot		2007-09-29 01:03:49 AM

To the Battle Bridge! Prepare for Saucer Seperation!!

/Sure dropped that one quick

Raharu		2007-09-29 01:03:55 AM

Why has Wheaton forsaken us?

kb7rky		2007-09-29 01:04:01 AM

Mini-Poll:

The best Trek Spinoff to date was:

A. Star Trek, The Next Generation
B. Star Trek, Deep Space Nine
C. Star Trek, Voyager
D. Enterprise

My answer? B.

TNG started out okay, faltered a bit, but caught its stride around Season 3.

Voyager never earned the right to be called Star Trek.

Enterprise has potential, but the audience prolly grew tired of the franchise.

DS9 hit it off real well from Day One, and never looked back...okay, maybe during "Trials and Tribble-ations", but still...

lollygaggers!		2007-09-29 01:04:39 AM

Picard was my model for management.
"Make it so!"

skinink		2007-09-29 01:04:40 AM

Wise_Guy

"skinink: And to think, Wil went from being the fat kid in Stand by Me to slimming down for Star Trek. Good job, you were a porker in that movie.

FAIL."

C'mon, did you really think I didn't know that Jerry O'Connell was the fat kid in that movie? When they talk about Jerry in that movie, he was always referred to as the fat kid. Now look at him, banging Rebecca Romijn and looking more fit than a lot of Farkers.

Oh well, here's a pick of my favorite Next Gen'r:

artfiles.art.com

Bondith		2007-09-29 01:04:50 AM

I was in Australia at the time, and it wasn't being broadcast there. I came back in time for the third season, but didn't start watching until about halfway through the fourth.

Wes was always my favourite character. I sorta identified with him, which will give you some idea of what sort of kid I was.

Now I can't watch the first season 'cause he's cringe-inducing. From what Wil's say in his TVSquad reviews, he seems to have the same reaction. It was the writers, dude. All the writers.

AndrewGK		2007-09-29 01:06:02 AM

The Grinch: Hey! 'Conundrum' was listed, but this is 'Power Play'. Oh well, a better episode!

Agreed. It made more sense.

Wise_Guy		2007-09-29 01:07:09 AM

skinink: C'mon, did you really think I didn't know that Jerry O'Connell was the fat kid in that movie?

My bad.

To be honest, I thought the fat kid in Stand By Me was Corey Feldman's ear.

mpfjr		2007-09-29 01:07:37 AM

I like the one where they are caught in a time loop. It always starts with Picard just about to take a bite of his froot loops and Riker says "So what do you think about it?" Then Beverly comes in while Geordi was complaining about his water bed leaking and shorting out his alarm clock. There is some commotion and a phaser goes off that shoots Geordi. Worf bursts into the room with a security team and a bomb goes off making time loop again. Barclay decides to use this time to learn to play the piano, ice sculpt, and eventually gets Troi to fall in love with him.

The best episode ever!

kilgorn		2007-09-29 01:08:49 AM

AeroBrewer
Wise_Guy: skinink: And to think, Wil went from being the fat kid in Stand by Me to slimming down for Star Trek. Good job, you were a porker in that movie.

FAIL.

Yep, Total Fail... the fat kid, Vern, was none other than Jerry O'Connell of Sliders fame.

Yup fail, it was Vern, but thanks for reminding me of the
wonderful saga of lard-ass....

And the women's auxiliary barfed all over the Benevolent Order of Antelopes.

/sick balls

flaminio		2007-09-29 01:09:07 AM

Twenty years ago, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was first broadcast

www.flaminio.com

Bondith		2007-09-29 01:09:24 AM

skinink

Why does Marina Sirtis have man arms in that photo?

trapped-in-CH		2007-09-29 01:09:50 AM

Wife and I are slowly going through all the episodes again. I taped them all (or thought I had - I'm still indexing all 48 tapes and I might have missed some). So far we're up to season 4, episode 13. Woman poses as Ardra, aka the devil, holding Ventax II to its contract.

I got all those plus a whole lot of the Flash, and Batman the Animated Series. Plus a few Ren & Stimpy and Red Dwarf thrown in for good measure.

I still think they should relaunch Star Trek on TV with Wesley as first officer or something. Or have him invent a new type of warp drive and get to run around (with a crew) in a rinky dinky prototype ship. that goes warp 20. and throw the man a few orion slave girls too.

Just Drawn That Way		2007-09-29 01:10:27 AM

OK, here is my claim to fame.

I own ONE PIECE of this costume. Yes, the original...

www.stuartrubin.com

/And have worn it in a show!
//Thank you Ebay!

bingo the psych-o		2007-09-29 01:11:59 AM

Bondith: skinink

Why does Marina Sirtis have man arms in that photo?

Because she is empathizing with you?

hatelabs		2007-09-29 01:12:13 AM

Wow,...I was 14 *sooo old,..sooo lonely*
God I loved that show. I still love to have a re-run in the background during computer zoning..
TWO things wrong with the show though that were hard to overlook (you just had to love Trek to be able to deal with it):

And while only mildly related,.. this always makes me smile when I see it.
www.hatelabs.com

fanbladesaresharp		2007-09-29 01:12:39 AM

JoeBlack: Still the hottest babe in Star Trek.

I dunno man, those Orion girls are pretty hot.

Once you go green......

47 is the new 42		2007-09-29 01:13:05 AM

hockeyfarker: I was 3. Suck it, grandpas.

I have you beat: I was 2, so get off my lawn! Re-watching the repeats, I would have to agree that seasons 1 and 2 were hit or miss, but The Next Generation was the best of all the Star Trek series. My rankings go like this: TNG > TOS > DS9 > VOY > Enterprise.

/At least Picard had the guts to admit he was bald.
//Not that he was French though.
///Yes, I know, we know the character was French; it's just a lot of people always wondered about the English accent.

The Onanist		2007-09-29 01:13:25 AM

Set phasers to "fap".

davynelson		2007-09-29 01:14:39 AM

actually it was a good show til Wil showed up

that's when they jumped the shark-
when they threw in the little kid to capture the kid audience

like many shows do

pathetic

good show til then
sorry will

the-meter-man		2007-09-29 01:14:54 AM

Cassandra: I don't believe I've ever had French champagne before...

Benjamin: Oh, actually all champagne is French, it's named after the region. Otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Americans of course don't recognize the convention, so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white "champagne", even though by definition they're not.

Wayne: Ah yes, it's a lot like "Star Trek: The Next Generation". In many ways it's superior but will never be as recognized as the original.

steveo		2007-09-29 01:15:02 AM

kb7rky: "Trials and Tribble-ations"

Brilliant episode. Also, while I agree with you about DS9 being the best series, it was far from perfect. You know of what I speak.

www.steveospage.com

skinink: Oh well, here's a pick of my favorite Next Gen'r:

Wow. Used to think she was hot in an exotic Mediterranean kinda way, but those are some seriously hairy man arms. I'd hate to see what her knees look like.

RavinDave		2007-09-29 01:15:46 AM

Before the show aired, I read the original writer's bible -- the guidelines that producers send out to prospective writers. The funniest thing was that the "Ferengi" were originally envisioned to be these ultra-scarey bad-asses living in shadows and whose very name evoked terror and caused bald captains to soil themselves.

Then they rapidly evolved into those dopey munchkins.

kilgorn		2007-09-29 01:16:29 AM

Hottest babe in Star Trek

/still in love

davynelson		2007-09-29 01:17:21 AM

i'm sorry
but deep space nine sucked so bad

my dad's wife had to explain to me that it wasn't
an actual star trek spinoff

which explained everything

cthu1hu		2007-09-29 02:13:40 AM

davynelson: i'm sorry
but deep space nine sucked so bad

You must not like sci-fi then.

anthonix		2007-09-29 02:13:45 AM

BEST TV SERIES EVAR!

Top episodes:

1. All Good Things
2. Yesterday's Enterprise
3. Lower Decks
4. The Offspring

Worst Episode:
1. The FINAL one with Wesley. Horrible, horrible negative crappy awful script.

/Seriously loved TNG
//Loved Voyager
///Didn't like TOS
////Hated Deep Space Nine
//Never "hated" Wil's character. Wesley was great in the later episodes sans his last (puke) episode.

OptimistPrime		2007-09-29 02:16:23 AM

My daddy gave me good genes and an obsessive interest in science fiction.

I wonder if he knew how deadly the combination would prove to fanboys.

FastJeff		2007-09-29 02:19:20 AM

I don't think I started watching this show until I was in my twenties, was too busy playing hockey. But yeah.... 20 years? You sure?

Sorry, hottest Star Trek woman is Linda Park.

By far.

Crocodile		2007-09-29 02:19:35 AM

OK...I was such a dork that I refused to watch TNG for the first two years. I was such a big fan of Kirk and Spock and the original that I thought the very idea of the new one was sacrilege.

In Manhattan, Kansas, it was on the Fox channel. As I grew to enjoy other Fox shows, and as I noticed the crowds that gathered to watch it in the basement of my dorm (Moore Hall), I eventually started watching it, too.

And yes, now I think Picard > Kirk.

/Darmok FTW

Jument		2007-09-29 02:22:13 AM

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only pathetically old farker around here.

Fracktober		2007-09-29 02:23:08 AM

Man, that picture of Troy there...

Set phasers to ARM HAIR REMOVAL!

anthonix		2007-09-29 02:23:44 AM

Manta537: I remember getting so excited for the show to start....

I was 19.

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

Holy cow! When I first read your post, I thought: "Jeez, Manta537 was YOUNG when TNG came out!" Then I did the math and remembered I turned 39 on June 1st 2007. 19+20=39. I was NINETEEN when TNG came out too???

Saturday nights with my friends at my apartment meant Smith and Wessons (White Russians with Coke), Chips + salsa + sour cream + guacamole, COPS, then TNG, then PARTAYing. Yes, there were girls there too.

At the end of "The Best of Both Worlds" part one, we all screamed when we realized it was going to be a cliffhanger. That next fall was a GOOOD party at Anthony's to watch Part 2!

Good times. :)

juicy		2007-09-29 02:24:59 AM

FastJeff: Sorry, hottest Star Trek woman is Linda Park.

By far.

Didn't I see her on 'Las Vegas' tonight??

stox		2007-09-29 02:27:06 AM

The absolute hottest babe in Star Trek.

Samwise Gamgee		2007-09-29 02:27:22 AM

No, you utter fools. THIS is the hottest girl in Trek, BAR NONE.

www.beat-lux.ch

0x1a4		2007-09-29 02:27:40 AM

AndrewGK

Not banging Robin Lefler (Ashley Judd) is unacceptable.

Just because Wes didn't don't mean Wil didn't. (You don't have to admit anything, Wil, I just hope you did!)

ST:TNG was the best of the franchise, IMHO. And ST:TOS was on all the time when I was very young. I remember the cartoon on Saturday morning, same music as superfriends.. And I was legal drinking age when TNG came out. I remember getting a case to watch the premier. Anyhow, I guess what I'm trying to say is:

Stop trying to make me feel old, because I ain't!

/buying twin tips this season, gonna ride me some rails this season!
//backwards even!!!
///yes i'll probably hurt myself
////don't care
//slashies!!!

rebelyell2006		2007-09-29 02:28:24 AM

The Onanist: Set phasers to "fap".

Set phasers to arm hair.

Bill_Wick's_Friend		2007-09-29 02:28:52 AM

old. me. lawn. off. kids. etc.

Samwise Gamgee		2007-09-29 02:29:46 AM

Actually, I'm gonna say Andrea the android is the hottest girl, ever. Star Trek or otherwise. And that sexy voice...

Allen. The end.		2007-09-29 02:33:44 AM

Just Drawn That Way: OK, here is my claim to fame.

I own ONE PIECE of this costume. Yes, the original...

/And have worn it in a show!
//Thank you Ebay!

May I offer you all the finest luxuries Dragoncon has to offer?

/No, really?
//Really?

Displayed 50 of 384 comments