Shark Bytes

When producer Rick Berman fired composer Ron Jones at the end of the fourth season for making his scores too "noticeable". Berman had a theory that melodic, stylistic or frankly good scoring was detrimental to the show. After that, the horrible wailing, bland, droning music of Jay Chattaway plastered all Trek wish a brush of stylistic sameness. One wonders if he even bothered to compose fresh "scores" or just xeroxed the same one each time and picked up his paycheck.

Definitely jumped the shark---happened definitively when first Wesley Crusher and then the Whoopi Goldberg bartender (or maybe the order was reversed) each became omni-powerful superbeings....

Once the cast seemed more comfortable in their roles, and the characters relationships to one another were better defined, the show really began to click. The first 2 seasons really felt like there was no chemistry between the actors. This show never jumped. It only got better as it went along.

CAPT. PICARD: I do not recognise the suthority of this court! I am no longer Jean Luc Picard! My true name is DANCES WITH BORG!!! You will all be...

KIRK: Thank you, Worf, you ugly Klingon bastard. Now Deanna, you were telling me about Betazoid weddings...

DR. ZAIUS: Stinking Humans!

The court martial of Capt. Picard:

ADMEERAHL KIRK: So let me get this straight. You captured a live Borg. Then your technogeeks came up with a brilliant virus to upload into the thing and infect the collective. But instead of doing that you just fixed him up, gave him a name and sent him on his way?

CAPT. PICARD: Hugh. His name is Hugh. Yes that is correct.

AK: Are you out of your mind?! Did you know that shortly after that the Borg destroyed a planet and all it's people, some 20 billion?

JLP: Yes but those people died knowing that they were upholding lib...er, Federation principles. We could not in good conscience kill Hugh and his friends, especially after he looked at us with those soulful eyes...er, the Borg can be reasoned with. It is our fault, after all, that they attacked us! We must have done some...

AK: Jeez! Enough of this! Take him away! Now, Counselor Troi. Is it true that Greek...er, Betazoid women know how to do "special" things?...

Rock Solid show, with a handful of exceptions.
1. Wesley Crusher, the Jar Jar Binks of Star Trek, you just keep hoping something bad will happen to him.
2. Political Correctness, which just hamstrings the federation and makes the story drag on in an unamusing manner.
3. The Holodeck, it just got old.
Other than those things, it was done very well, I liked some of the two parters the most, Best of Both Worlds, Time's Arrow, and Descent were all very well done, and the first part of birthright was great.

this show was great it never jumped best startrek ever even better than the first which is verry rare.

I missed out on the first two seasons, because I was appalled that a new Star Trek was even being made. However, I picked up on it and became a fan.

Marina Sirtis is gorgeous, and very funny. I've met her. Michael Dorn is a nice guy. I've met him. Worf was my favourite character; the hardcase Klingon in a "fish out of water" scenario.

However, when Worf and Counsellor Troi got together...bloody awful. The "gentle" Klingon? I thought Klingon lovemaking would have reduced Troi to being paralysed!

P.S. Michael Dorn told us that Marina did not at all like this storyline. I can't blame her.

Overall it was good, but I got tired of all their gay super-politically correct crap. Troy was really hot, but looks completely different in real person. I saw her on tv and she had'nt aged well and looked really geeky. The eps with Alexander were all REALLY gay as Worf discovered his gay feminine side. And Wesley was probably one of the gayest characters I have ever seen.
You just wanted to beat his ass for being so gay.
Anyway, the Brett Spiner was great, and so was Pat Stuart. The polish woman Doc that they got was really hot, too. Anyway, on the whole a good series, just a lot of pc bs.

Definitely the worst moment in this series was when Wesley turned into a ball of light. You'd think it would have made the series much better now that Wesley was gone for good, but this was canceled out by the fact that his "ascension to a higher plane of existence" was the culmination of the show's glorification of Wesley, which was one of the things that was causing the show's descension to a lower plane of existence.

This a comment aiming to address the innate incompetency of the previous post.

Barclay is a role played by an actor not actually a real person, this is also true of the "A-Team psycho" (as he was crudely described). the reason why one character is extremely extrovert while the other is extremely introvert is so the actor can show his emotional range which he can he add to his acting portfolio. It pains me that this simple concept needs to be explained.

Also ST:TNG never at no time JTS it was far to popular to need to.

Never jumped! Stuck to what made the Star Trek following in the first place. The Camelot theroy, "Might for Right" They were never the weakling and they always used their power for good and the right thing. Unlike Voyeger, DS9, and most of Enterprise where they were almost getting their butts beat every week. Someone decided that they had to have great and deep story lines instead of just an escape.

Jumped first few seconds when I heard the words "no ONE has gone before". Years and years of PC baloney to follow. Tough chick/lady cop Crosby. I don't even want to think about anything after the first season. Worf's kid, Whoopi, ... and Barclay/Dwight Shultz - that was it. The JTS moment. A-Team psycho turns sensitive wimp.

I actually really, really liked Wesley, but only at the very beginning of the series, and then after he left and became an unregular character. He was really overused, and the Wesley Saves the Day storyline was re-used too often. Season one was the worst, though it had it's great moments ("Datalore" "Home Soil" "The Neutral Zone" to name some) I think the Borg wa the trigger: it re-cast the Romulans as a threatening, but not deadly, enemy, and the Ferengi as lovably annoying comic relief, great as fodder for part of a larger storyline. The Borg however, were very...well...TNG-ish. Dark, creepy, horrifying, destructive to the Star Trek dream and extremely deadly. Definitely the best part of TNG, after Data.

One of the greatest shows on earth. It was really lousy at the beginning, they were lousy at the beginning: they were too much like the Original series. Lets face it, Star Trek, The Original Series was crappy, dumb, and cheesy, but by some random fluke in the mix of actors and characters and storylines and personalities and Roddenberry, it somehow became a wonderful show, one of my favorites. That kind of miracle is simple impossible to repeat, especially with characters like those on TNG. However, I think the show hit it's stride in the second season, it "anti-sharked" spectacularly, coining the phrase "grow the beard". Especially the episode "The Measure of a Man", which remains my favorite episode to date. Data is one of the best TV characters on record, he is the sweetest person I have ever met, he makes me laugh, melts my heart, and brings tears to my eyes all at the same time. Picard is also, as has been said several times, the gold standard, possibly even for the entire human race. He may have not been as "great" and revolutionary a **TV** character as Kirk, but he is just as wonderful wonderful on a very different level, and a much more realistic captain. And the ensemble cast...glorious. The average level of acting in the series is phenominal, it is rare to see a mediocre actor, no matter how small the part. Not like the original series, no quiet disguised talent of Nimoy's, none of the underlying bubbles of sincerity from Kelly and Doohan's dull dialogue, no erratic bursts of displaced brilliance from Shatner's cheesy style. Although it made the Original series greater than ever, it would not have held up in the style and material of TNG, which was fueled by a cast of wonder talent, especially from Spiner and Stewart. I don't know how to say it, when I was young I would watch it and marvel at the stomach-turning, gripping, twisting plotlines and the exciting tension and battle, but I also was left feeling pleasantly infuriated at the clash between a world where The Simpsons was good-naturedly predicting the impending doom of, with the clear, evident evolution of humankind, the overwhelming morality of the characters, their unfailing ethics and cultural and social beliefs so deeply engrained in their minds yet so different from ours, their optimizm. It is ironic that these two shows I have just mentioned were my favorites during the early '90s.
I believe that if TOS showed the adventure and glory of exploration, of the final frontier, of space and technology, TNG showed the glory of the future of the human race, the promise of great new worlds and new boundaries, protected from our now-greedy hands by futuristic ethics. Definitly the most uplifting TV show ever to go on the air.