If your idols disappoint you, try meeting them a second time.

 

 

Neat story!

Love it!  Star Trek NG was the acme of all the Star Trek iterations mostly because of Patrick Stewart and the cast.  They were genuine...a real family after the first few episodes.

On my national guard weekends my commanding officer and I would have dinner at a place called Rosie's and then retire to the BOQ on Lowry Air Force Base and watch the week's episode of NG on the TV set and sip a bit of The Glenlivit.

Once the writers of Star Trek NG held a seminar in Denver which my CO and I attended.  It was very interesting on how they viewed the cast...especially Wesley.  They got a lot of negative mail about him and wanted him written out of the show.  But they said they had to keep him because Roddenberry insisted he stay because he reminded Roddenberry of himself when he was a boy.

When NG went off the air I never bothered to watch those that followed.  I couldn't imagine NG could be surpassed, or even approached.  The younger generation might disagree with me on that, and I have never watched a follow on episode so I am probably being a bit unfair here.  But sorry, that's my hard headed attitude.

Noel 

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13 minutes ago, FBW737 said:

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What's that supposed to mean? The individual in question suffered from a mental illness, so this was signifcant for him.

He certainly did!🤣

Edited November 6, 20223 yr by FBW737

I must suffer from a mental illness myself.  I'm a big fan of Patrick Stewart and if I ever ran into him and had a short conversation with him I'd tell everybody I knew about it.

I found myself sitting next to Paul Tibbets on an airplane once.  We had a conversation, mostly about flying.  He didn't bring up the subject of the Enola Gay so I didn't either...although I would have liked to.

Later I told everybody I knew about it.  We mental retards do that quite often when we have the opportunity to meet and talk to a famous person.

Noel

Never was really a big fan of Star Trek NG.  I've tried watching it a few times but become disinterested pretty quickly.  I think it's the unrealistic technology, like the displays and controls and such.  I also wasn't a fan of Wesley's character, so I understand that some fans wanted to remove him from the show.

Star Trek Enterprise remains my favorite ST series of all.  Too bad they only made 4 seasons.

The latest Star Trek series, Strange New Worlds, was actually really good and I look forward to season 2.

Dave

Thanks for posting this, I can very much relate to how he sees the show. I’ve always hoped for a future where kindness, exploration and engineering pursuits would push us forward, but for some reason I ended up in this devolving clown world.

I find it interesting that Patrick Stewart didn’t recognize the similarity with an actual TNG episode where a boy pretended to be Data to cope with his issues.

" Patrick Stewart From "Star Trek: The Next Generation, $0 Per Year residuals."

Maybe he needs a time machine to go back and get a better contract!

https://www.obsev.com/entertainment/how-much-actors-really-earn-for-tv-reruns/

 

 

8 hours ago, birdguy said:

It was very interesting on how they viewed the cast...especially Wesley.

I must be the odd man out, I rather liked Wesley myself...

The great thing about Star Trek The Next Generation is that you can tell that Canada won the Third world war just before Zefram Cochrane invented Warp Drive because everyone in totally passive aggressive.

 

Some one should do a reboot of Star Trek the next generation based on a victor other than Canada winning the WW3. Say a military alliance between the Scots and the Irish. Now that would be edgy.😆

 

Edited November 7, 20223 yr by FBW737

18 hours ago, FBW737 said:

He certainly did!🤣

 

Mental illness is not something to joke about.

 

Edited November 7, 20223 yr by martin-w

15 hours ago, birdguy said:

I must suffer from a mental illness myself.  I'm a big fan of Patrick Stewart and if I ever ran into him and had a short conversation with him I'd tell everybody I knew about it.

I found myself sitting next to Paul Tibbets on an airplane once.  We had a conversation, mostly about flying.  He didn't bring up the subject of the Enola Gay so I didn't either...although I would have liked to.

Later I told everybody I knew about it.  We mental retards do that quite often when we have the opportunity to meet and talk to a famous person.

Noel

 

As far as I'm concerned, if TNG was a means by which the individual in the video could relieve his severe depression then that's a good thing. 

I'm an appreciator of Patrick Stewarts acting too. I recall Kurt Russel once modestly stating that acting was easy and no big deal. However, when you observe Patrick Stewart in some of his scenes in TNG, it does make you appreciate the more skilled among actors. 

I have to say that in regard to Trek, my favorites are ordered as follows...

1. Deep Space Nine

2. Enterprise. (Although if I'm honest, its a toss up for first place between DS9 and Enterprise)

3. TNG.

4. Voyager. 

Edited November 7, 20223 yr by martin-w