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Tag: Roddenberry

Return to the Forbidden Planet

Posted on Oct 6, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

After a week of blogging about Star Trek: The Next Generation, you might get the impression it's my favorite of the Trek series. Even I haven't decided if that honor belongs to TNG or DS9 — but definitely not in the running is TOS. That's not an indictment of the show's datedness or lack of…

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TNG at 20: A Good Day to Die

Posted on Sep 28, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

This is it: the entire week has been building up to this. Star Trek: The Next Generation turns 20 today, having aired "Encounter at Farpoint" on Monday, September 28th, 1987. How best to mark this event? What would be an appropriate climax to this week of commemorative blogging? I could reflect on how different my…

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TNG at 20: But Don't Take My Word For It

Posted on Sep 27, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

The upcoming TNG complete series box set has a bonus disc of unique features, interviews, and documentaries. Though there is some unearthed arcana from decades ago, much of the material is retrospective in nature, created exclusively for this DVD collection. It can be fun to look at the making of Star Trek: TNG as it…

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TNG at 20: The Voyage Continues

Posted on Sep 26, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by GeneD

Twenty years ago this autumn, I was a sophomore in college. I remember watching the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation (or TNG) with friends. While most of us were fans of speculative fiction, we had little idea of how entertaining and influential TNG would become. I had grown up on the writings of…

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TNG at 20: The Human Condition

Posted on Sep 25, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Star Trek is a tale not of aliens, technology, and anomalies, but of humanity. However evolved the future's citizens claim to be, they still find ways to learn and and places to grow. Though Worf or Data or even Wesley may've developed the most over The Next Generation's seven years, the hero I found to…

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These Are the Voyages…

Posted on May 1, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

May 13th marks the two-year anniversary of the airing of the series finale of Enterprise — what may've been the last episode of Star Trek ever. My viewing habits precluded catching most of the fourth and final season when it originally aired, so this past weekend, I engorged myself on the last 19 episodes (which…

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