This has been my favorite thing about rewatching TNG. The show has reached its rhythm where it’s regularly in dialogue with itself about media and politics of the 90’s. I get to keep doing that stupid excited Leonardo DiCaprio point every time I see something that flew over my head when I was a child.

Can somebody explain to me, what WAS The Next Generation? It ran for so long and provided so much intermittent work for a-listing actors. Was appearing as a plot-centric guest a form of slumming it? Or was getting to deliver a line as a nameless ensign a momentous way for new actors to try and get in to the business?

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    13·
    18 days ago

    For Famke Janssen, she was just branching away from modeling. Her appearance in s5e21 “The Perfect Mate” helped get her role in Goldeneye as Xenia Onatopp a few years later.

      • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        9·
        18 days ago

        It’s a weird one, for sure.

        “Let’s create a species whose women can charm any male, then have her attempt to seduce Picard over and over again.” - Dick Berman

        There’s some fun moments, though, like Worf in Ten Forward or Riker’s “I’ll be in holodeck 3 if anyone needs me.”

        Also note the re-use of their makeup transferred over to the Trill on DS9.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          4·
          17 days ago

          Dick Berman

          Bro you can’t just blame him for the horny shit. Star Trek has always been horny thanks to Roddenberry.

          • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            5·
            17 days ago

            Understandable, but he’d already passed by the time of that episode. The proverbial torch had been passed between sticky hands.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    8·
    17 days ago

    Ah yes, seasons 6-7. Where they tried to make the show “Pop” and ran out of ideas.

    Of course they did die hard. They also had PULSE POUNDING ABSAILING ACTION with SAFETY GEAR. (Chain of Command)

    The less said about the ghost fucking autopsy hobbyist Crusher the better.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    8·
    17 days ago

    God damn it. Well keep us informed of insights.

    As for guest appearances, people loved trek and were willing to do it. Just like real scientists in BBT (musk doesn’t count).

    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      I could see that. I want to believe dressing up as an alien to talk about galactic-micron phaserzorps for an episode is a fun thing that people look forward to.