Why am I watching Star Trek The Next Generation?

[Deja Q]

It's the episode, early season 4, where Worf meets his human parents and Picard cries and whines to his brother about not defeating the Borg on his own. Ugh. :puke: (I could never see Kirk whinnying like that...)

[Cannikin]

1. Episode 'Family' Hey! I like that one.

[BarenakedLady]

2. Because it's good?

One of my many guilty pleasures.

[billyskank]

6. I love you

:loveya:


:D

[BarenakedLady]

7. Does that mean

If I tell you I have all the episodes on VHS, you will marry me?

:loveya:

[LynzM]

8. You and my dad should talk....

He has the same :) I grew up on it!

[billyskank]

10. Hell yeah

:D

[BarenakedLady]

12. Woot!

:bounce:

[DireStrike]

27. Not so fast, there!

This girl ain't big enough for the both of us.

:loveya:

[Deja Q]

14. I'm better!

:P

For I am the spawn of Q! :evilgrin: (as if you didn't know! :rofl: )

[BarenakedLady]

20. And Q is my favorite...

:bounce:

[LostinVA]

29. GIve 'em hell, BNL!

[edbermac]

3. Because it's a good show?

TNG was the best spinoff; DS9 was not bad; Voyager was fair; Enterprise was total SHIT!!

Besides, Troi was a hot babe...

[Deja Q]

17. GAAAAAAAAAH! 80s hair! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

:rofl:

[LostinVA]

30. I think DS9 was by far the best of the shows

And not just because the scrumptious Terry Farrell was on it...

[MrCoffee]

4. because it's awesome?

[Book Lover]

5. To kill the time until the next episode of the revamped TOS airs?

Yeah, "Family" is a pretty weak Next-Gen AFAIC. And it underlines the absurd assertion that Picard is French. C'mon!

What do you think of the new FX in the revamped TOS? Personally, I think they laid on just the right amount, not too much which was my fear.

[Deja Q]

15. I've not seen the revamped f/x yet...

I'm something of a purist, but depending on how they did them I might be awed...

[Book Lover]

19. Well, the Okudas managed the technical aspects of the

revamped f/x, if their pedigree matters to you. Personally, I think the new f/x are tastefully done. And the remastering of the color palette looks light years better than the crap they put on the first DVD set.

[Deja Q]

18. True, TNG produced MUCH better...

Seasons 1-4 contain my favorite episodes... though season 7 was a remarkable improvement over 5 and 6...

[Bassic]

41. That's true, I never undestood why they made a French

character, yet casted a guy who could only make him as British as British can be. I mean, he's a great actor and created a great character, just one who's name doesen't make much sense.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Star Trek TNG is a great show!

I never much cared for the original.

[tigereye]

11. we've been working our way through all of them

seeing a lot of great ones we missed the first time around.

The beauty of Picard is his complexity - we recently saw the cool one where he experiences an ancient civilization in the most integral way.It is one of my favorites and it underscores the wonderful ideas, writing and the way that the characters grow.

[SeattleGirl]

13. "The Inner Light"

That's one of my favorite ones, too.

[tigereye]

24. right, we just saw it and I couldn't think of the title

my husband said that that episode won awards....

[Deja Q]

16. Most people called 'complex' are not treated so nicely...

:spray:

[BreweryYardRat]

21. You'd never see Sisko whine like that either.

Early DS9 was awesome.

And Picard NEVER would have had the balls to punch Q.

[tigereye]

23. yeah, I actually prefer Sisko to Picard in some way

but Picard has a steely elegance that I really like.

[LostinVA]

31. I like Janeway the best

I think she was the best of Picard, Sisko, and Kirk.

[Puglover]

38. Hey Lost!

Totally on board with that!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Evoman]

25. Sisko was way to...."huffy". Always getting huffy when it wasn't

warranted. That being said, I thought he was cool anyways. Punching Q was awesome, "Picard never hit me!!"

[petronius]

26. That was the one thing that bothered me about Sisko,

there were times when he'd pull some demanding shit for no reason. For example, O'Brian would say he needed 10 hours to do something, and Sisko would say "You've got two!" When Picard told Geordi to get something done in 20% of the normal time it was because the ship was about to explode; Sisko just did it for the hell of it...

[ceile]

22. TNG Rocks!

Enough said.

[judaspriestess]

28. Like oh my God!

Star Trek Next Generation is a great show! One of my all time favorites. I really liked Enterprise too (Tucker was so hot with his cute ass accent) too bad it was cxld.

[wickerwoman]

32. That reminds me of a question that's been nagging me for years...

I remember an episode I saw once years ago where Q gets all the staff together (it must have been the first season because I think Tasha Yarr was in it) and offers to take away all their pain and hurt feelings and it had flashbacks of their pasts and then Picard says he doesn't want Q to take away his bad memories because that's the source of his strength. It's not in the DVD collection that I bought and I'm wondering if I made it up or if it was a real episode. Does anyone know the name and/or why it wasn't included in the DVDs?

[pokerfan]

33. Hide and Q?

Are you sure it's not on your DVD set?

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Next-Generation-Complete/dp/B00005Y1NF

[wickerwoman]

34. Nope,

That's the one where Q offers Riker membership. The one I'm thinking of has flashbacks to Riker's home in Alaska and Yarr's home planet and Picard makes some speech like "I need my pain... it's part of who I am..." and he refuses to let Q take away his bad memories. Maybe it's not a real episode and just an amalgam of some others but I could swear I saw it...

[pokerfan]

36. Well, that and Farpoint were the only Q first season eps

List of all episodes featuring Q:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28Star_Trek%29#Episodes_featuring_Q

[Bassic]

42. That sounds like McCoy in

Star Trek V.


But your description of the episode does not ring a bell, and I must have seen the series about 5 times over. So I can't help ya, sorry

[NMMNG]

35. On the flip side though,

At least Picard didn't bed a different woman practically every episode.

[Bassic]

43. That's true.

I think in the whole series he had sex twice, and never even with doctor Crusher.

[NMMNG]

45. Part of me always wanted them to get together

But then part of the pleasure was the tension between the two of them.

[Kutjara]

37. Because it is a sacred and beautiful thing.

Even the shitty first and second seasons are now shining objects of hope and simplicity, crafted from the purest stardust. The show gained moral strength as it progressed and, by it's conclusion, showed us all how we could be if we were only better people.

Compare Picard to Bush and, if you can refrain from vomiting, realize that STNG expressed some of the finest human sentiments conceivable. We are further from that ideal today than we were fifteen years ago.

And Gates McFadden is hot.

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. Because it's the best of all the Star Treks???

:shrug:

Even I can sit and watch them with MrG...and that's saying something.

[Bassic]

40. Kirk was never butt raped like that either.

Plus, as much as I like James T. Kirk, you have to admit that Picard is a much more complete, much more colourful character.

[malmapus]

44. The guy was assimilated!!!

Ghods know what the Borg did to him, I'd like to see how Sisko or Kirk handle the experience after being brought back.

Not only that but the Borg used his knowledge to give the Federation a good ass kicking at Wolf 539 (not like they really needed it to do that), so you know he blames himself for that.

So for that episode, and a couple others afterward, I always give Picard leeway to get himself back together.

[The Count]

46. because you hate yourself? They are all so pompous and self righteous

on this series, they almost sound like Republicans. A bore!

[FredStembottom]

47. Not a real good ep.

TNG didn't need to do an episode of "Family".

[jrandom421]

48. Kirk did whinny like that and worse

The episode was "The Naked Time"

On another note, "The Wounded", one of the best Next Generation episodes not only introduced the Cardassians, but brought the effects of war up close and personal.