"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) TV series 1987-1994

User Rating:

8.8/10   

Creator:

Gene Roddenberry

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Release Date:

26 September 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

New Stars. New Stories. New Worlds To Explore.

Plot:

Set decades after Captain James T. Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers in a new Enterprise set off on their own mission to go where no one has gone before.

Plot Keywords:

Captain | Security | Mother Son Relationship | Space Shuttle | Outer Space

Awards:

Won 18 Primetime Emmys. Another 11 wins & 52 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Tue. Nov. 10	1:00 AM	WGNAMER	Starship Mine	#6.18
Tue. Nov. 10	3:00 AM	CW	Starship Mine	#6.18

Cast

Patrick Stewart	...	Captain Jean-Luc Picard / ... (176 episodes, 1987-1994)
Jonathan Frakes	...	Commander William T. Riker / ... (176 episodes, 1987-1994)
LeVar Burton	...	Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge / ... (176 episodes, 1987-1994)
Marina Sirtis	...	Counselor Deanna Troi (176 episodes, 1987-1994)
Brent Spiner	...	Lt. Commander Data / ... (176 episodes, 1987-1994)
Michael Dorn	...	Lieutenant Worf / ... (175 episodes, 1987-1994)
Gates McFadden	...	Doctor Beverly Crusher / ... (154 episodes, 1987-1994)
Majel Barrett	...	Enterprise Computer / ... (96 episodes, 1987-1994)
Wil Wheaton	...	Wesley Crusher / ... (85 episodes, 1987-1994)

Also Known As:

Star Trek: TNG (USA) (promotional abbreviation)

Runtime:

45 min (176 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Klingon | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L (some episodes) | Iceland:LH | Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Canada:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant - 6100 Woodley Avenue, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

Captain Picard has a fish in his quarters named Livingston, named after David Livingston, the show's line producer. The fish has its own trading card in the ST:TNG card series as well.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Any time Data plays the part of Sherlock Holmes he's shown as wearing a deerstalker cap and smoking a goose necked pipe. Holmes only wore a soft cloth cap (drawn as a deerstalker though never said to be one by Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle) when in the country, not in the city. Also Holmes never once smoked a goose necked pipe. That was an alteration made by an actor who found that it was the only pipe he could hold between his teeth and still be able to say his lines clearly. Finally, Sherlock Holmes never once spoke the words "It's elementary, my dear Watson." That was something else added in a script but never once written by Doyle. An android would get these details right.

Quotes:

Lieutenant Worf: Nepo!
Capt. Picard: This is mutiny!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Danger! Death Ray (#7.20)" (1995)

What a great show

I have been hooked on this show ever since I rented a couple of episodes on video over 10 years ago. The series was shown on Norwegian Television, but they stopped it at the end of the forth season. I then bought the whole series, one season after another on DVD. I watched all the episodes, and I realized how great this show is. Over the course of the series, the characters deepen and it gets to be more and more interesting. There is the mishap of the second season, but although it was the worst season, it did have some very good episodes, like 'The Measure of a Man' and 'Q Who?'. I have seen this show now five times from start to finish (and I think that will be seeing much more), but I have found that the episodes which are much action oriented, like the double episode 'Chain of Command', was quite boring. I love episodes like 'Darmok', 'The Inner Light', 'Disaster', 'The Nth Degree', 'First Contact' and 'Who Watches The Watchers?' where the crew meet new races or find themselves in a situation that they are not used to.

This is a series that can be appealing to people who like to see action in their science fiction and people who like to see, meet and know new races in their science fiction. This was a fantastic show.