It's apparent that Gene Roddenbery wasn't 100% by the time TNG rolled around. However, I would say the bigger problem with TNG had to do with the jackace who claims Roddenberry was nuts for wanting no conflict between the crew members and all the other Hollywood no-talents that agreed with jackace's conformist TV views. It's been a couple of years since I watched so exact name I forget but some typical Hollywood moron in this was claiming Star Trek should be like every other TV show. The only reason this once cancelled show is still a phenomenon today is it wasn't like every other show on TV. Crew members should hate each other, stab each other in the back, call each other names and apparently come to blows every week because that was 80's TV was this no-talent's argument. This is going along with all other Hollywood no-talents with their totally insane "making it more realistic" garbage we've heard for years. You can't make the easter bunny "more realistic". It's like claiming had the easter bunny starred in the Die Hard movies instead of Bruce Willis, the easter bunny would be a believable action hero and gotten more action movie roles. You can not make the already unrealistic Star Trek set hundreds of years in the future "realistic" by using current conformist, overused, beyond boring garbage that Hollywood copycats use in dramas set in the 1980's or any time up until now. Giving this Hollywood hack so much screen time and Shatner sort of being persuaded he was right is like if this jackace had asked why do we need Hobbits in Lord of the Rings since Hobbits don't exist or why is there magic in Harry Potter when magic doesn't exist. It's a beyond insane exercise and shows a beyond simple mind for this jackace and Shatner and anybody who buys the garbage. Warp drives and the planet Vulcan don't exist so why should Earthings getting along be so outrageous in a totally made up future that doesn't exist anyway? Nothing makes Superman, an alien, more realistic. Nothing makes Star Wars, in a galaxy far, far way, more realistic. And wanting TNG crew members to be Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Cosmo Kramer and Elaine Benes "friends" who actually hate each other and argue all the time doesn't make Star Trek more realistic either. The conflict was supposed to come from the Romulans, Ferengi, Cardassians, etc. so this simple-minded jackace and Shatner basically calling the genius Roddenberry insane for wanting Earthlings to get along in the future is beyond a waste of time. I enjoyed hearing from other TNG cast members, Shatner not a cast member but always giving his 2 cents anyway, but this is a middle of the road 5. Anybody giving it a 9 and 10 isn't a Star Trek fan and are in fact calling Roddenberry a hack and calling this conformist, no-talent, no ideas, simple-minded, complaining, typical Hollywood jackace the genius. Shame on all you phony fans.
Review of Chaos on the Bridge
