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Tag: TNG
The Enterprise Enterprise
Jerry Seinfeld's recent team-up with Bill Gates for a bizarre set of advertisements has put me in mind of other famous celebrity endorsements — especially when it comes to Star Trek. The show's futuristic setting has left Star Trek relatively immune to product placement, but that hasn't stopped the franchise from appearing elsewhere to promote…
Far Beyond the Stars
For the third time this year, I bring you news of several talented artists who have passed on. Composer and Emmy winner Alexander Courage passed away last month at age 88. His works include the theme to the original Star Trek television series. Yet he received little of his dues from that famous piece. To…
The Blessing and Burden of Methuselah
They say the mind is the first thing to go — yet it's a part of the organ we understand, and are able to replace, the least. Now, Dr. Gordon Bell intends to bring Harry Potter's pensieve to life by developing a way to duplicate the memories of the human mind as easily as any…
Return to the Forbidden Planet
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…
TNG at 20: A Good Day to Die
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…
TNG at 20: But Don't Take My Word For It
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…
TNG at 20: The Voyage Continues
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…