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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Logo used throughout all seven seasons of theshow
Genre Science fiction
Drama
Mystery
Action adventure
Created by Gene Roddenberry
Based on Star Trekby Gene Roddenberry
Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes
LeVar Burton
Denise Crosby
Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton
Theme musiccomposer
Alexander Courage
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer(s) Dennis McCarthyJay ChattawayRon Jones
Country oforigin
United States
Originallanguage(s)
English
No. of seasons 7
No. of episodes 178 (list of episodes)
Star Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is anAmerican science fiction television series created byGene Roddenberry. It originally aired fromSeptember 28, 1987 to May 23, 1994 in syndication,spanning 178 episodes over the course of sevenseasons. The third series in the Star Trek franchise,it is the second sequel to Star Trek: The OriginalSeries. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is partof the United Federation of Planets, it follows theadventures of a Starfleet starship, the USSEnterprise-D, in its exploration of the Milky Waygalaxy.
In the 1980s, Roddenberry—who had beenresponsible for the original Star Trek, Star Trek:The Animated Series (1973–74), and a series offilms—had been tasked by Paramount to create anew series in the franchise. He decided to set it acentury after the events of his original series. TheNext Generation featured a new crew that starredPatrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard,Jonathan Frakes as Commander William Riker,Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data, Michael Dornas Lieutenant Jg (later Lieutenant) Worf, LeVarBurton as Lieutenant Jg (later Lieutenant, then Lt.Commander) Geordi La Forge, Marina Sirtis ascounselor Deanna Troi, Gates McFadden as Dr.Beverly Crusher, and a new Enterprise.Roddenberry, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman,Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor served as executiveproducers at various times throughout itsproduction. The series was broadcast in first-runsyndication with dates and times varying amongindividual television stations.
The show was very popular, reaching almost 12million viewers in its 5th season, with the seriesfinale in 1994 being watched by over 30 millionviewers.[4][5] Following the show's success,Paramount commissioned Rick Berman andMichael Piller to create a fourth series in the
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Production
Executiveproducer(s)
Gene Roddenberry (1987–1991)
Rick Berman (1989–1994)Showrunners
Maurice Hurley (1988–1989)
Michael Piller (1989–1994)
Jeri Taylor (1993–1994)
Cinematography Edward R. Brown (1987–1989)
Marvin V. Rush (1989–1992)
Jonathan West (1992–1994)
Running time 44 minutes
Productioncompany(s)
Paramount Domestic Television
Distributor Paramount Domestic Television(1987–2006)
CBS Paramount Television(2006–2007)
CBS Television Distribution(2007–present)[1]
Budget $1.3 million per episode
Release
Original network First-run syndication[2][3]
Picture format NTSC 480i 4:3
1080p 4:3 (Blu-ray)
Audio format Dolby SR
Dolby Digital 5.1 (DVD)
DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (Blu-ray)
Original release September 28, 1987 –May 23, 1994
Chronology
Preceded by Star Trek: The Animated Series
Followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Related shows Star Trek: The Original SeriesStar Trek: Picard
External links
Star Trek: The Next Generation at StarTrek.com (http://www.startrek.com/database_article/star-trek-the-
next-generation-synopsis)
franchise, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, whichlaunched in 1993. The characters from The NextGeneration returned in the four films: Star Trek:Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact(1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and StarTrek: Nemesis (2002), and for the forthcomingtelevision series Star Trek: Picard. The series isalso the setting of numerous novels, comic books,and video games. The series received a number ofaccolades, including 19 Emmy Awards, two HugoAwards, five Saturn Awards, and a Peabody Award.
ProductionBackgroundSyndication and profitability
SeasonsSeason 1 (1987–1988)Season 2 (1988–1989)Season 3 (1989–1990)Season 4 (1990–1991)Season 5 (1991–1992)Season 6 (1992–1993)Season 7 (1993–1994)Legacy
EpisodesCast
MainRecurring
Story arcs and themesReceptionVideo gamesFilmsHome media
VHSBetaLaserDiscDVDBlu-ray
Standalone episodes"The Measure of a Man" HD extendedcut
Contents
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Streaming and syndicationSpin-offs and the franchise
"These Are The Voyages..." (2005)The return of PicardContext
See alsoReferencesExternal links
The Star Trek franchise originated in the late 1960s, with the Star Trek television show which ranfrom 1966–1969. Star Trek: The Next Generation would mark the return of Star Trek to live-actionbroadcast television.
As early as 1972, Paramount Pictures started to consider making a Star Trek film because of theoriginal series' popularity in syndication. However, with 1977's release of Star Wars, Paramountdecided not to compete in the science fiction movie category and shifted their efforts to a new StarTrek television series. The Original Series actors were approached to reprise their roles; sketches,models, sets and props were created for Star Trek: Phase II until Paramount changed its mind againand decided to create feature films starring the Original Series cast.[6][7]
By 1986, 20 years after the original Star Trek's debut on NBC, the franchise's longevity amazedParamount Pictures executives. Chairman Frank Mancuso Sr. and others described it as the studio's"crown jewel", a "priceless asset" that "must not be squandered". The series was the most popularsyndicated television program 17 years after cancellation,[8] and the Harve Bennett-produced,Original Series-era Star Trek films did well at the box office.[9] William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy'ssalary demands for the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) caused the studio to plan for anew Star Trek television series. Paramount executives worried that a new series could hurt thedemand for the films, but decided that it would increase their appeal on videocassette and cable,[8]
and that a series with unknown actors would be more profitable than paying the films' actors' largesalaries.[10] Roddenberry initially declined to be involved, but came on board as creator after beingunhappy with early conceptual work. Star Trek: The Next Generation was announced on October 10,1986,[11] and its cast in May 1987.[12]
Paramount executive Rick Berman was assigned to the series at Roddenberry's request. Roddenberryhired a number of Star Trek veterans, including Bob Justman, D. C. Fontana, Eddie Milkis and DavidGerrold.[13] Early proposals for the series included one in which some of the original series cast mightappear as "elder statesmen",[8] and Roddenberry speculated as late as October 1986 that the newseries might not even use a spaceship, as "people might travel by some [other] means" 100 years afterthe USS Enterprise.[14] A more lasting change was his new belief that workplace interpersonal conflict
Production
Background
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would no longer exist in the future; thus, the new series did not have parallels to the frequent "crustybanter" between Kirk, Spock, and Leonard McCoy.[10] According to series actor Patrick Stewart,Berman was more receptive than Roddenberry to the series addressing political issues.[15]
The series' music theme combined the fanfare from the original series theme by Alexander Couragewith Jerry Goldsmith's theme for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Some early episodes' plotsderived from outlines created for Star Trek: Phase II.[11] Additionally, some sets used in the OriginalSeries-era films were redressed for The Next Generation, and in turn used for subsequent OriginalSeries films.[16] Part of the transporter room set in TNG was used in the original Star Trek'stransporter set.[16]
Despite Star Trek's proven success, NBC and ABC only offered to consider pilot scripts for the newseries, and CBS offered to air a miniseries that could become a series if it did well. That the Big Threetelevision networks treated Paramount's most appealing and valuable property as they would anyother series offended the studio. Fox wanted the show to help launch the new network, but wanted itby March 1987, and would only commit to 13 episodes instead of a full season. The unsuccessfulnegotiations convinced the studio that it could only protect Star Trek with full control.[8][14]
Paramount increased and accelerated the show's profitability by choosing to instead broadcast it infirst-run syndication[17][10][18]:123–124 on independent stations (whose numbers had more than tripledsince 1980) and Big Three network affiliates.[8] The studio offered the show to local stations for freeas barter syndication. The stations sold five minutes of commercial time to local advertisers andParamount sold the remaining seven minutes to national advertisers. Stations had to commit topurchasing reruns in the future,[17] and only those that aired the new show could purchase thepopular reruns of the Original Series.[19]:222[20]
The studio's strategy succeeded. Most of the 150 stations airing reruns of the original Star Trekwanted to prevent a competitor from airing the new show; ultimately, 210 stations covering 90% ofthe United States became part of Paramount's informal nationwide network for TNG.[17][21] In earlyOctober 1987, more than 50 network affiliates pre-empted their own shows for the series pilot,"Encounter at Farpoint". One station predicted that "Star Trek promises to be one of the mostsuccessful programs of the season, network or syndicated".[21] Special effects were by Industrial Lightand Magic, a Division of Lucasfilm. The new show indeed performed well; the pilot's ratings werehigher than those of many network programs,[21] and ratings remained comparable to network showsby the end of the first season, despite the handicap of each station airing the show on a different dayand time, often outside prime time. By the end of the first season, Paramount reportedly received $1million for advertising per episode, more than the roughly $800,000 fee that networks typically paidfor a one-hour show;[17] by 1992, when the budget for each episode had risen to almost $2 million,[22]
the studio earned $90 million from advertising annually from first-run episodes, with each 30-secondcommercial selling for $115,000 to $150,000.[23][24] The show had a 40% return on investment forParamount, with $30 to $60 million in annual upfront net profit for first-run episodes and another$70 million for stripping rights for each of the about 100 episodes then available, so they did not needoverseas sales to be successful.[23]
Syndication and profitability
Seasons
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Season EpisodesOriginally aired
First aired Last aired
1 26 September 28, 1987 May 16, 1988
2 22 November 21, 1988 July 17, 1989
3 26 September 25, 1989 June 18, 1990
4 26 September 24, 1990 June 17, 1991
5 26 September 23, 1991 June 15, 1992
6 26 September 21, 1992 June 21, 1993
7 26 September 20, 1993 May 23, 1994
Star Trek: The Next Generation ran for seven seasons, from the fall of 1987 annually to the spring of1994. At the end of that season the cast switched over to production of the Star Trek film Generationswhich was released before the end of 1994.
The Next Generation was shot on 35mm film,[25] and the budgetfor each episode was $1.3 million, among the largest for a one-hour television drama.[17] While the staff enjoyed the creativefreedom gained by independence from a broadcast network'sStandards and Practices department,[19]:222 the first season wasmarked by a "revolving door" of writers, with Gerrold, Fontana,and others quitting after disputes with Roddenberry.[26]
Roddenberry "virtually rewrote" the first 15 episodes because ofhis "dogmatic" intention to depict human interaction "withoutdrawing on the baser motives of greed, lust, and power". Writersfound the show's "bible" constricting and ridiculous and could notdeal with Roddenberry's ego and treatment of them. It stated, forexample, that "regular characters all share a feeling of being partof a band of brothers and sisters. As in the original Star Trek, we invite the audience to share thesame feeling of affection for our characters."[10]
Mark Bourne of The DVD Journal wrote of season one: "A typical episode relied on trite plot points,clumsy allegories, dry and stilted dialogue, or characterization that was taking too long to feel relaxedand natural."[27] Other targets of criticism included poor special effects and plots being resolved bythe deus ex machina of Wesley Crusher saving the ship.[28][29] However, Patrick Stewart's actingskills won praise, and critics noted that characters were given greater potential for development thanthose of the original series.[27][28] Both actors and producers were unsure whether Trekkies loyal tothe original show would accept the new one,[30][31] but one critic stated as early as October 1987 thatThe Next Generation, not the movies or the original show, "is the real Star Trek now".[32]
While the events of most episodes of season one were self-contained, many developments importantto the show as a whole occurred during the season. The recurring nemesis Q was introduced in thepilot, the alien Ferengi had their sentinel showing in "The Last Outpost", the holodeck was
Season 1 (1987–1988)
Denise Crosby and GatesMcFadden were in Season 1 asTasha Yar and Doctor Crusher,respectively, but were removed forSeason 2.
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introduced, and the romantic backstory between William Riker and Deanna Troi was investigated."The Naked Now", one of the few episodes that depicted Roddenberry's fascination (as seen in theshow's bible) with sex in the future, became a cast favorite.[10]
Later episodes in the season set the stage for serial plots. The episode "Datalore" introduced Data'sevil twin brother Lore, who made several more appearances in episodes in subsequent seasons."Coming of Age" dealt with Wesley Crusher's efforts to get into Starfleet Academy while also hinting atthe threat to Starfleet later faced in "Conspiracy". "Heart of Glory" explored Worf's character, Klingonculture, and the uneasy truce between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, three themes thatplayed major roles in later episodes. Tasha Yar left the show in "Skin of Evil", becoming the firstregular Star Trek character to die permanently (although the character was seen again in two laterepisodes) in either series or film. The season finale, "The Neutral Zone", established the presence oftwo of TNG' most enduring villains: the Romulans, making their first appearance since the OriginalSeries, and, through foreshadowing, the Borg.
The premiere became the first television episode to be nominated for a Hugo Award since 1972. Six ofthe season's episodes were each nominated for an Emmy Award. "11001001" won for OutstandingSound Editing for a Series, "The Big Goodbye" won for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series, and"Conspiracy" won for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series.[11] "The Big Goodbye" alsowon a Peabody Award, the first syndicated program[17] and only Star Trek episode to do so.
The top two episodes for Nielsen ratings were "Encounter at Farpoint" with 15.7, and "Justice" with12.7.[33] The season ran from 1987 to 1988.
The series underwent significant changes during its secondseason. Beverly Crusher was replaced as Chief Medical Officer byKatherine Pulaski, played by Diana Muldaur, who had been aguest star in "Return to Tomorrow" and "Is There in Truth NoBeauty?", two episodes from the original Star Trek series. Theship's recreational area, Ten-Forward, and its mysteriousbartender/advisor, Guinan, played by Whoopi Goldberg,appeared for the first time. Owing to the 1988 Writers Guild ofAmerica strike, the number of episodes produced was cut from 26to 22, and the start of the season was delayed. Because of thestrike, the opening episode, "The Child", was based on a scriptoriginally written for Star Trek: Phase II, while the season finale,"Shades of Gray", was a clip show.
Nevertheless, season two as a whole was widely regarded assignificantly better than season one.[34] Benefiting fromParamount's commitment to a multiyear run and free fromnetwork interference due to syndication, Roddenberry foundwriters who could work within his guidelines and create dramafrom the cast's interaction with the rest of the universe.[10] Theplots became more sophisticated and began to mix drama with
Season 2 (1988–1989)
LeVar Burton starred as Geordi LaForge in all seven seasons and fourTNG movies between 1994 and2002. In the second season thecharacter became the ChiefEngineer aboard the Enterprise D
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comic relief. Its focus on character development received special praise.[34] Co-executive producerMaurice Hurley has stated that his primary goal for the season was to plan and execute season-longstory arcs and character arcs.[35] Hurley wrote the acclaimed episode "Q Who", which featured thefirst on-screen appearance of the Borg. Season two focused on developing the character Data, and twoepisodes from the season, "Elementary, Dear Data" and "The Measure of a Man", featured himprominently.[36] Miles O'Brien also became a more prominent character during the second season,while Geordi La Forge took the position of Chief Engineer. Klingon issues continued to be explored inepisodes such as "A Matter of Honor" and "The Emissary", which introduced Worf's former loverK'Ehleyr.[37] Five second-season episodes were nominated for six Emmy Awards, and "Q Who" wonfor Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.[11] Theseason ran from 1988 to 1989.
Season 2 marked the addition of the "Ten Forward" set at Paramount, located at Stage 8 at thestudios.[38] The set was designed by Herman Zimmerman, and in the show was a place for the crew torelax, hang out together, and eat or have drinks.[38] Inside, it featured a bar looking out on largewindows, and outside it featured a star field, or with use of green-screen special effects, otherscenes.[38]
Before the production of the third season in the summer of 1989, some personnel changes were made.Head writer Maurice Hurley was let go and Michael Piller took over for the rest of the series. Creatorand executive producer Gene Roddenberry took less of an active role due to his declining health.Roddenberry gave Piller and Berman the executive producer jobs, and they remained in that positionfor the rest of the series' run, with Berman overseeing the production as a whole and Piller being incharge of the creative direction of the show and the writing room. Doctor Crusher returned from heroff-screen tenure at Starfleet Medical to replace Doctor Pulaski, who had remained a guest starthroughout the second season. An additional change was the inclusion of the fanfare that was addedto the opening credits of the second season, to the end of the closing credits. Ronald D. Moore joinedthe show after submitting a spec script that became "The Bonding". He became the franchise's"Klingon guru",[11] meaning that he wrote most TNG episodes dealing with the Klingon Empire(though he wrote some Romulan stories, as well, such as "The Defector"). Writer/producer Ira StevenBehr also joined the show in its third season. Though his tenure with TNG lasted only one year, helater went on to be a writer and showrunner of spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.[39] Sixthird-season episodes were nominated for eight Emmys. "Yesterday's Enterprise" won forOutstanding Sound Editing for a Series and "Sins of the Father" won for Best Art Direction for aSeries.[11] After a chiropractor warned that the cast members risked permanent skeletal injury, newtwo-piece wool uniforms replaced the first two seasons' extremely tight spandex uniforms.[40] Theseason finale, the critically acclaimed episode "The Best of Both Worlds", was the first season-endingcliffhanger, a tradition that continued throughout the remainder of the series. The season ran from1989 to 1990.
The Season 3 finale and bridge to Season 4, "The Best of Both Worlds" went on to be one of the mostacclaimed Star Trek episodes noted by TV Guide's "100 Most Memorable Moments in TV History",ranking 70th out of 100 in March 2001.[41] It has routinely been ranked among the top of all StarTrek franchise episodes.[42][43]
Season 3 (1989–1990)
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Brannon Braga and Jeri Taylor joined the show in its fourth season. The fourth season surpassed theOriginal Series in series length with the production of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II". A new alienrace, the Cardassians, made their first appearance in "The Wounded". They later were featured in StarTrek: Deep Space Nine. The season finale, "Redemption", was the 100th episode, and the cast andcrew (including creator Gene Roddenberry) celebrated the historic milestone on the bridge set.Footage of this was seen in the Star Trek 25th-anniversary special hosted by William Shatner andLeonard Nimoy which aired later in the year. Seven fourth-season episodes were nominated for eightEmmys. "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" won for both Outstanding Sound Editing in a Series andOutstanding Sound Mixing for a Series.[11] Character Wesley Crusher left the series in season four togo to Starfleet Academy. "Family" was the only Star Trek episode not to have a bridge scene duringthe entire episode and is the only TNG episode where Data does not appear on-screen. The season ranfrom 1990 to 1991.
The fifth season's seventh episode, "Unification", opened with a dedication to Star Trek creator GeneRoddenberry (though the prior episode, "The Game", aired four days after his death). Roddenberry,though he had recently died, continued to be credited as executive producer for the rest of the season.The cast and crew learned of his death during the production of "Hero Worship", a later season-fiveepisode. Seven fifth-season episodes were nominated for eight Emmys. "Cost of Living" won forOutstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series and Outstanding IndividualAchievement in Makeup for a Series, and "A Matter of Time" and "Conundrum" tied for OutstandingIndividual Achievement in Special Visual Effects. In addition, "The Inner Light" became the firsttelevision episode since the 1968 original series Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever"to win a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.[11] Season five had the introduction of a jacketfor Picard, worn periodically throughout the rest of the show's run. The observation lounge set wasaltered with the removal of the gold model starships across the interior wall and the addition oflighting beneath the windows. Recurring character Ensign Ro Laren was introduced in the fifthseason. The season ran from 1991 to 1992.
With the creation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Rick Bermanand Michael Piller's time were split between The Next Generationand the new show. Three sixth-season episodes were nominatedfor Emmys. "Time's Arrow, Part II" won for both OutstandingIndividual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series andOutstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series,and "A Fistful of Datas" won for Outstanding IndividualAchievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.[11] The highestNielsen-rated episode of Season 6 was "Relics", with a rating of13.9.[44] The episode featured Original Series character Scottyplayed by James Doohan. Additionally, NASA astronaut Mae
Season 4 (1990–1991)
Season 5 (1991–1992)
Season 6 (1992–1993)
NASA Astronaut Mae Jemison,shown here on a Space Shuttlemission is featured in "SecondChances" (S6E24) as a Lieutenanton the Enterprise-D
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Jemison played Lt. Palmer in "Second Chances".[45][46] The season 6 finale cliffhanger includes acameo by Stephen Hawking (Part I of "Descent"). The season ran from 1992 to 1993.
The seventh season was The Next Generation's last, running from 1993 to 1994. The penultimateepisode, "Preemptive Strike", concluded the plot line for the recurring character Ensign Ro Laren andintroduced themes that continued in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. The NextGeneration series finale, "All Good Things...", was a double-length episode (separated into two partsfor reruns) that aired the week of May 19, 1994, revisiting the events of the pilot and providing abookend to the series. Toronto's SkyDome played host to a massive event for the series finale.Thousands of people packed the stadium to watch the final episode on the stadium's JumboTron. Fiveseventh-season episodes were nominated for nine Emmys, and the series as a whole was the firstsyndicated television series nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. To this day, The NextGeneration is the only syndicated drama to be nominated in this category. "All Good Things..." wonfor Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects, and "Genesis" won for OutstandingIndividual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series. "All Good Things..." also won the secondof the series' two Hugo Awards.[11] "All Good Things..." also achieved the highest Nielsen rating for allof Season 7, with a rating of 17.4.[47]
Although the cast members were contracted for eight seasons,[48]
Paramount ended The Next Generation after seven, whichdisappointed and puzzled some of the actors, and was an unusualdecision for a successful television show. Paramount then made filmsusing the cast, which it believed would be less successful if the showwere still on television.[49] An eighth season also would likely havereduced the show's profitability due to higher cast salaries and a lowerprice per episode when sold as strip programming.[48]
The show's strong ratings continued to the end; the 1994 series finalewas ranked number two among all shows that week, between hitsHome Improvement and Seinfeld,[48] and was watched by over 30million viewers.[4] TNG was the most-watched Star Trek show, with apeak audience of 11.5 million during its fifth season prior to thelaunch of DS9. Between 1988 and 1992 it picked up half a million to amillion additional viewers per year.[5]
Adjusted Nielsen ratings for Star Trek TV shows:[5]
Fall 1987 – Spring 1988: 8.55 Million TNG S1Fall 1988 – Spring 1989: 9.14 Million TNG S2Fall 1989 – Spring 1990: 9.77 Million TNG S3Fall 1990 – Spring 1991: 10.58 Million TNG S4Fall 1991 – Spring 1992: 11.50 Million TNG S5Fall 1992 – Spring 1993: 10.83 Million TNG S6 (DS9 S1 Debuted in Spring 1993)
Season 7 (1993–1994)
Legacy
Whoopi Goldberg portraysGuinan, an actress who wasinspired by the role of Uhura onthe original series to take on arole in The Next Generation.
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Fall 1993 – Spring 1994: 9.78 Million TNG S7 + DS9 S2Fall 1994 – Spring 1995: 7.05 Million DS9 S3 + VOY S1Fall 1995 – Spring 1996: 6.42 Million DS9 S4 + VOY S2Fall 1996 – Spring 1997: 5.03 Million DS9 S5 + VOY S3Fall 1997 – Spring 1998: 4.53 Million DS9 S6 + VOY S4Fall 1998 – Spring 1999: 4.00 Million DS9 S7 + VOY S5 (Voyager ended after two more seasons)
Science fiction authors noted how Star Trek: The Next Generation influenced their careers.[50]
Star Trek: The Next Generation aired for 7 seasons beginning on September 28, 1987 and ending onMay 23, 1994.
The series begins with the crew of the Enterprise-D put on trial by an omnipotent being known as Q,who became a recurring character. The god-like entity threatens the extinction of humanity for beinga race of savages, forcing them to solve a mystery at nearby Farpoint Station to prove their worthinessto be spared. After successfully solving the mystery and avoiding disaster, the crew departs on itsmission to explore strange new worlds.
Subsequent stories focus on the discovery of new life and sociological and political relationships withalien cultures, as well as exploring the human condition. Several new species are introduced asrecurring antagonists, including the Ferengi, the Cardassians, and the Borg. Throughout theiradventures, Picard and his crew are often forced to face and live with the consequences of difficultchoices.
The series ended in its seventh season with a two-part episode "All Good Things...", which brought theevents of the series full circle to the original confrontation with Q. An interstellar anomaly thatthreatens all life in the universe forces Picard to leap from his present, past, and future to combat thethreat. Picard was successfully able to show to Q that humanity could think outside of the confines ofperception and theorize on new possibilities while still being prepared to sacrifice themselves for thesake of the greater good. The series ended with the crew of the Enterprise portrayed as feeling morelike a family and paved the way for four consecutive motion pictures that continued the theme andmission of the series.
Episodes
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Episodes by season (1–4)
Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4
1. "Encounter at Farpoint" (Two-part episode)
3. "The Naked Now"4. "Code of Honor"5. "The Last Outpost"6. "Where No One Has Gone
Before"7. "Lonely Among Us"8. "Justice"9. "The Battle"
10. "Hide and Q"11. "Haven"12. "The Big Goodbye" (Peabody
Award Winner)13. "Datalore"14. "Angel One"15. "11001001"16. "Too Short a Season"17. "When the Bough Breaks"18. "Home Soil"19. "Coming of Age"20. "Heart of Glory"21. "The Arsenal of Freedom"22. "Symbiosis"23. "Skin of Evil"24. "We'll Always Have Paris"25. "Conspiracy"26. "The Neutral Zone"
1. "The Child"2. "Where Silence
Has Lease"3. "Elementary, Dear
Data"4. "The Outrageous
Okona"5. "Loud as a
Whisper"6. "The Schizoid
man"7. "Unnatural
Selection"8. "A Matter of
Honor"9. "The Measure of
a Man"10. "The Dauphin"11. "Contagion"12. "The Royale"13. "Time Squared"14. "The Icarus
Factor"15. "Pen Pals"16. "Q Who"17. "Samaritan
Snare"18. "Up the Long
Ladder"19. "Manhunt"20. "The Emissary"21. "Peak
Performance"22. "Shades of Gray"
1. "Evolution"2. "The Ensigns of
Command"3. "The Survivors"4. "Who Watches the
Watchers"5. "The Bonding"6. "Booby Trap"7. "The Enemy"8. "The Price"9. "The Vengeance
Factor"10. "The Defector"11. "The Hunted"12. "The High Ground"13. "Déjà Q"14. "A Matter of
Perspective"15. "Yesterday's
Enterprise"16. "The Offspring"17. "Sins of the Father"18. "Allegiance"19. "Captain's Holiday"20. "Tin Man"21. "Hollow Pursuits"22. "The Most Toys"23. "Sarek"24. "Ménage à Troi"25. "Transfigurations"26. "The Best of Both
Worlds" (Part 1)
1. "The Best of BothWorlds" (Part 2)
2. "Family"3. "Brothers"4. "Suddenly Human"5. "Remember Me"6. "Legacy"7. "Reunion"8. "Future Imperfect"9. "Final Mission"
10. "The Loss"11. "Data's Day"12. "The Wounded"13. "Devil's Due"14. "Clues"15. "First Contact"16. "Galaxy's Child"17. "Night Terrors"18. "Identity Crisis"19. "The Nth Degree"20. "Qpid"21. "The Drumhead"22. "Half a Life"23. "The Host"24. "The Mind's Eye"25. "In Theory"26. "Redemption" (Part 1)
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Episodes by season (5–7)
Season 5 Season 6 Season 7
1. "Redemption (Part 2)2. "Darmok"3. "Ensign Ro"4. "Silicon Avatar"5. "Disaster"6. "The Game"7. "Unification" (Two-part
episode)
9. "A Matter of Time"10. "New Ground"11. "Hero Worship"12. "Violations"13. "The Masterpiece Society"14. "Conundrum"15. "Power Play"16. "Ethics"17. "The Outcast"18. "Cause and Effect"19. "The First Duty"20. "Cost of Living"21. "The Perfect Mate"22. "Imaginary Friend"23. "I, Borg"24. "The Next Phase"25. "The Inner Light"26. "Time's Arrow" (Part 1)
1. "Time's Arrow" (Part 2)2. "Realm of Fear"3. "Man of the People"4. "Relics"5. "Schisms"6. "True Q"7. "Rascals"8. "A Fistful of Datas"9. "The Quality of Life"
10. "Chain of Command" (Two-partepisode)
12. "Ship in a Bottle"13. "Aquiel"14. "Face of the Enemy"15. "Tapestry"16. "Birthright" (Two-part episode)
18. "Starship Mine"19. "Lessons"20. "The Chase"21. "Frame of Mind"22. "Suspicions"23. "Rightful Heir"24. "Second Chances"25. "Timescape"26. "Descent" (Part 1)
1. "Descent" (Part 2)2. "Liaisons"3. "Interface"4. "Gambit" (Two-part episode)
6. "Phantasms"7. "Dark Page"8. "Attached"9. "Force of Nature"
10. "Inheritance"11. "Parallels"12. "The Pegasus"13. "Homeward"14. "Sub Rosa"15. "Lower Decks"16. "Thine Own Self"17. "Masks"18. "Eye of the Beholder"19. "Genesis"20. "Journey's End"21. "Firstborn"22. "Bloodlines"23. "Emergence"24. "Preemptive Strike"25. "All Good Things..." (Two-part
episode)
Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard is the commandingofficer of the USS Enterprise-D. Stewart also played the character inthe pilot episode of Deep Space Nine and all four TNG theater films.Jonathan Frakes as Commander William Riker is the ship's firstofficer. The Riker character was influenced by concepts for firstofficer Willard Decker in the Star Trek: Phase II television series.[11]
Decker's romantic history with helmsman Ilia was mirrored in TheNext Generation in the relationship between Riker and DeannaTroi.[11] Riker also appears in an episode each of Star Trek: Voyagerand Star Trek: Enterprise. In addition to William Riker, Frakes playedWilliam's transporter-created double, Thomas, in one episode eachof The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge was initially the ship's helmsman,but the character became chief engineer beginning in the second season. Burton also played thecharacter in an episode of Voyager.
Cast
Patrick Stewart playsCaptain Picard
Main
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Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar is the chief of security and tactical officer. Crosby left the series atthe end of the first season, and the Yar character was killed. Yar returns in alternate timelines inthe award-winning episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" and the series finale, "All Good Things...".Crosby also played Commander Sela, Yar's half-Romulan daughter.Michael Dorn as Worf is a Klingon. Worf initially appears as a junior officer fulfilling several roleson the bridge. When Denise Crosby left at the end of the first season, the Worf charactersucceeded Lieutenant Yar as the ship's chief of security and tactical officer. Dorn reprised the roleas a regular in seasons four through seven of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and also playedanother Klingon, also named Worf, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; with 282 on-screen appearances, Dorn has the most appearances of any actor in the Star Trek franchise.[51]
Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher (Seasons 1, 3–7) is the Enterprise 's chief medicalofficer. As a fully certified bridge officer, Dr. Crusher had the ability to command the Enterprise ifcircumstances required her to do so. She also, on occasion, commanded night-watch shifts on theship's main bridge to stay on top of starship operations. McFadden was fired after the first season,but was rehired for the third season[52] and remained for the remainder of the series.Diana Muldaur as Doctor Katherine Pulaski (Season 2) was created to replace Dr. Crusher for theshow's second season. Muldaur, who previously appeared in two episodes of the original StarTrek, never received billing in the opening credits; instead, she was listed as a special guest starduring the first act.Marina Sirtis as Commander Deanna Troi is the half-human, half-Betazoid ship's counselor.Starting in the season seven episode "Thine Own Self", Counselor Troi, having taken andcompleted the bridge-officer's test, is later promoted to the rank of commander, which allowed herto take command of the ship, and also perform bridge duties other than those of a ship'scounselor. The character's relationship with first officer Riker was a carry-over from characterideas developed for Phase II.[11] Troi also appeared in later episodes of Voyager and in the finaleof Enterprise.Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data is an android who serves as second officer andoperations officer. Data's "outsider's" perspective on humanity served a similar narrative purposeas Spock's in the original Star Trek.[11] Spiner also played his "brother", Lore, and his creator,Noonien Soong. In Enterprise, Spiner played Noonien's ancestor, Arik, and contributed a briefvoiceover (heard over the Enterprise-D's intercom) in the Enterprise finale.Wil Wheaton as Beverly Crusher's son Wesley becomes an acting ensign, and later receives afield commission to ensign, before attending Starfleet Academy. After being a regular for the firstfour seasons, Wheaton appeared sporadically as Wesley Crusher for the remainder of the series.
Majel Barrett as Lwaxana Troi, Federation ambassador and Deanna Troi's mother.Brian Bonsall as Alexander Rozhenko, Worf's son.Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien, botanist until her transfer to Deep Space Nine in 2369.Denise Crosby as Sela, Romulan commander and Tasha Yar's daughter.John de Lancie as Q, a member of the Q-Continuum who frequently visits the USS Enterprise-D.Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh, a Borg drone who was disconnected from the collective by Geordi LaForge and Beverly Crusher.Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren, conn officer until her defection to the Maquis in 2370.Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan, bartender hostess on the USS Enterprise-D.Ashley Judd as Robin Lefler, engineering officer on the USS Enterprise-D.Andreas Katsulas as Tomalak, a Romulan commander who has several encounters with the USSEnterprise-D.
Recurring
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Barbara March as Lursa, Klingon officer from the House of Duras and B'Etor's sister.Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien, conn officer and later transporter chief until his transfer to DeepSpace Nine in 2369.Eric Menyuk as The Traveler, a member of a species from Tau Alpha C who mentors WesleyCrusher.Lycia Naff as Sonya Gomez, engineering officer on the USS Enterprise-D.Natalia Nogulich as Alynna Nechayev, flag officer in charge of Cardassian affairs.Robert O'Reilly as Gowron, leader of the Klingon Empire.Suzie Plakson as K'Ehleyr, Federation ambassador, mate to Worf and Alexander Rozhenko'smother until her death in 2367.Dwight Schultz as Reginald Barclay, engineering officer until his transfer to StarfleetCommunications in 2374.Carel Struycken as Mr. Homn, Lwaxana Troi's attendant.Tony Todd as Kurn, Klingon officer and Worf's brother.Gwynyth Walsh as B'Etor, Klingon officer from the House of Duras and Lursa's sister.Patti Yasutake as Alyssa Ogawa, medical officer and head nurse.Ken Thorley as Mot, barber on the USS Enterprise-D.
For a more complete list, see List of Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members#Appearances
Enterprise-D Characters Season 1–7 (examples)
Character Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7
Captain Picard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
William T. Riker Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Data Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Worf Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deanna Troi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Geordi La Forge Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Beverly Crusher Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Katherine Pulaski No Yes No No No No No
Wesley Crusher Yes Yes Yes Yes 2 ep. No 2 ep.
Tasha Yar Yes No 1 ep. No No No 1 ep.
Guinan No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Star Trek had a number of story arcs within the larger story, and oftentimes different episodescontributed to two or more different story or character arcs. Some are epitomized by the aliens thecharacters interact with, for example, TNG introduced the Borg and the Cardassians. The Klingonsand Romulans had been introduced in The Original Series (1966–1969); however, the Klingons weresomewhat rebooted with a "turtle-head" look, although a retcon was given to explain this in anEnterprise episode. Other story arcs are epitomized by the appearances of a certain character such asQ or Ro Laren or by technology like the holodeck.
Story arcs and themes
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Certain episodes go deeper into the Klingon alien saga, which arefamous for having an actual Klingon language made for them inthe Star Trek universe. The Klingon stories usually involve Worf,but not all Worf-centric shows are focused on Klingons. Thefamous Duras sisters, a Klingon duo Lursa and B'Etor, wereintroduced on TNG in 1991 in the episode "Redemption" and theylater appeared in the film Generations.
One of the science fiction technologies featured in Star Trek: TheNext Generation was an artificial reality machine called the"Holodeck", and several award-winning episodes featured plotscentering on the peculiarities of this device.[53] Some episodesfocused on malfunctions in the holodeck, and in one case how a crew member became addicted to theenvironment created by the technology.[53] The dangers of technology that allows illusion is one ofongoing themes of Star Trek going back to the 1st pilot, "The Cage" where aliens' power of illusion tocreate an artificial reality is explored.[54] One of the plots is whether a character will confront a realityor retreat to a world of fantasy.[55]
The Next Generation's average of 20 million viewers oftenexceeded both existing syndication successes such as Wheel ofFortune and network hits including Cheers and L.A. Law.Benefiting in part from many stations' decision to air each newepisode twice in a week, it consistently ranked in the top tenamong hour-long dramas, and networks could not preventaffiliates from preempting their shows with The Next Generationor other dramas that imitated its syndication strategy.[22][18]:124
Star Trek: The Next Generation received 18 Emmy Awards and,in its seventh season, became the first and only syndicatedtelevision show to be nominated for the Emmy for Best DramaticSeries. It was nominated for three Hugo Awards and won two.The first-season episode "The Big Goodbye" also won the Peabody Award for excellence in televisionprogramming.
In 1997, the episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I" was ranked No. 70 on TV Guide's 100 GreatestEpisodes of All Time.[56] In 2002, Star Trek: The Next Generation was ranked #46 on TV Guide's 50Greatest TV Shows of All Time list,[57] and in 2008, was ranked No. 37 on Empire's list of the 50greatest television shows.[58]
On October 7, 2006, one of the three original filming models of the USS Enterprise-D used on theshow sold at a Christie's auction for US$576,000, making it the highest-selling item at the event.[59]
The buyer of the piece was Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, owner of the Museum of Pop Culture inSeattle. The piece is on display within the Science Fiction Museum.
Brent Spiner (left) stars as theandroid Data on the show and allfour movies, and also plays Data's"father" (e.g. manufacturer) and"brother".
Reception
Exhibit in Los Angeles featuring thecrew quarters of Captain Picard(uniform shown)
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In 2012, Entertainment Weekly listed the show at No. 7 in the "25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past25 Years", saying, "The original Star Trek was cult TV before cult TV was even a thing, but itsyounger, sleeker offspring brought, yes, a new generation into the Trekker fold, and reignited thepromise of sci-fi on television."[60] Although TNG did develop a cult following, it was noted for itsprime-time general audience viewership also.[5]
The flute from "The Inner Light" was valued at only a few hundred to perhaps US$1,000 when it wentto auction, but was sold for over 40,000; in this case the auctioneers admitted they hadunderestimated the appeal of the prop.[61][62][62] In the days leading up to the auction, Denise Okuda,former Star Trek scenic artist and video supervisor, as well as co-writer of the auction catalog, said:"That's the item people say they really have to have, because it's so iconic to a much-belovedepisode."[63]
DS9's "The Emissary", which came out half-way through season 6 of TNG achieved a Nielsen rating of18.8.[64] Star Trek's ratings went into a steady decline starting with Season 6 of TNG, and the secondto last episode of DS9 achieved a Nielsen rating of 3.9.[65]
In 2017, Vulture ranked Star Trek: The Next Generation the second best live-action Star Trektelevision show.[66]
In 2019, Popular Mechanics ranked Star Trek: The Next Generation the third best science fictiontelevision show ever.[67]
Video games based on The Next Generation TV series, movies, andcharacters include:
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future's Past (1993), for the SNES
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Echoes from the Past (1993) aport of Future's Past for the Sega Genesis
Star Trek Generations: Beyond the Nexus (1994), for NintendoGame Boy or Sega Game GearStar Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity (1995), for MS-DOSor Macintosh. A Final Unity sold 500,000 copies by 1996.[68]
Star Trek: Borg (1996), includes live action segments directed byJames L. Conway and acting by John de Lancie as QStar Trek Generations (1997), for IBM PCStar Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard (1998), forMac and Windows 95 and 98Star Trek: Hidden Evil (1999), for Windows 95 and 98Star Trek Invasion (2000), for the PlayStationStar Trek Armada (2000),[69] for Microsoft Windows 98Star Trek: Armada II (2001)Star Trek: Bridge Commander (2002)Star Trek: Conquest (2007) (Wii, PlayStation 2)
Video games
Actor John de Lancie playsthe role of the mysteriousbut powerful alien known asQ. Like many actors in theseries, he also worked onsome of the video games ofthe period.
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The Enterprise and its setting is also in other Trekiverse games like Star Trek: Armada (2000). Forexample, in Star Trek: Armada voice actors from The Next Generation returned to their characters inthe game including Patrick Stewart reprising the roles of Jean-Luc Picard and Locutus, Michael Dornvoiced Worf, Denise Crosby reprised Sela, and J. G. Hertzler[70] voiced Chancellor Martok. Severalother voice actors who had been previously unaffiliated with Star Trek also voiced characters in thegame, among them was Richard Penn.[71]
Star Trek: Armada II was set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation era of the Star Trek universe.[69]
Star Trek: Hidden Evil (1999) included voice acting by Brent Spiner as Data and Patrick Stewart asPicard,[72] and was a follow-up to the ninth Star Trek film Star Trek: Insurrection.[72]
Four films feature the characters of the series: Star TrekGenerations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek:Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
An ancestor of Worf, also played by Dorn, also appeared in StarTrek VI: The Undiscovered Country.[73]
I think it was kind of an honor they had my characterbe sort of the link between the two series. It waswonderful to be working with the other cast (from theoriginal Star Trek series). It was kind of a fantasybecause who would have thought when I waswatching the original show that I'd be working in themovie? Beyond that, it's like professionalism takesover and you just kind of do the best you can and notmake yourself look bad.
— Dorn on his role in The Undiscovered
Country[73]
Star Trek harnessed the emergence of home video technologiesthat rose to prominence in the 1980s as new revenue andpromotion avenue.[74] Star Trek: The Next Generation hadrelease in part or in full on VHS, Betamax, LaserDisc, DVD, and Blu-Ray mediums.[74]
All episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation were made available on VHS cassettes, starting in1991. The entire series was gradually released on VHS over the next few years during the remainder ofthe show's run and after the show had ended.
Films
Michael Dorn also had a scene asan ancestor of Worf in Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country. TheWorf character would also continuefor another 4 seasons on the DS9spin-off TV show and was in all fourTNG films.
Home media
VHS
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The VHS for TNG were available on mail-order, with usually two episodes per VHS cassette.
Some episodes had releases on the tape videocassette format Betamax.[74] Releases of all Betamaxpublications including those of the Star Trek: The Next Generation was halted in the early 1990s.[75]
Paramount published all episodes on the LaserDisc format from October 1991 using an extendedrelease schedule that concluded in May 1999. Each disc featured two episodes with Closed Captions,Digital Audio, and CX encoding. Also published were four themed "collections", or boxed sets, ofrelated episodes. These included The Borg Collective, The Q Continuum, Worf: Return to Grace, andThe Captains Collection.[76]
There was a production error with episode 166, "Sub Rosa", where a faulty master tape was used thatwas missing 4½ minutes of footage. Though a new master copy of the episode was obtained, nocorrected pressing of this disc was issued.[76]
Star Trek: The Next Generation was also released on LaserDisc in the non-US markets Japan andEurope. In Japan, all episodes were released in a series of 14 boxed sets (two boxed sets per season),and as with the US releases were in the NTSC format and ordered by production code. The Europeanlaserdiscs were released in the PAL format and included the ten two-part telemovies as well as a discfeaturing the episodes Yesterday's Enterprise and Cause And Effect. The pilot episode, Encounter AtFarpoint, was also included in a boxed set called Star Trek: The Pilots featuring the pilot episodesfrom Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,and Star Trek: Voyager.
The first season of the series was released on DVD in March 2002. Throughout the year the next sixseasons were released at various times on DVD, with the seventh season being released in December2002. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the series, CBS Home Entertainment and ParamountHome Entertainment released Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Complete Series on October 2,2007. The DVD box set contains 49 discs. Between March 2006 and September 2008, "FanCollective" editions were released containing select episodes of The Next Generation (and TheOriginal Series, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager) based on various themes. The individual episodeswere chosen by fans voting on StarTrek.com. In total, six "Fan Collectives" were produced, along witha boxed set containing the first five collectives. In April 2013 all seven seasons of Star Trek: The NextGeneration were re-released in new packaging featuring a silhouette of a different cast member oneach box. However, the discs contained the identical content that was previously released in 2002.
CBS announced on September 28, 2011, in celebration of the series' twenty-fifth anniversary, thatStar Trek: The Next Generation would be completely re-mastered in 1080p high definition from theoriginal 35mm film negatives. The original show was edited and post-processed in standard definition
Beta
LaserDisc
DVD
Blu-ray
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for broadcast, as were all the show's visual effects (e.g. all exterior shots of the Enterprise, phaser fire,or beaming fade-ins and -outs). For the remaster almost 25,000 reels of original film stock wererescanned and reedited, and all visual effects were digitally recomposed from original large-formatnegatives and newly created CGI shots. The release was accompanied by 7.1 DTS Master Audio. MikeOkuda believes this is the largest film restoration project ever attempted.[77]
An initial disc featuring the episodes "Encounter at Farpoint", "Sins of the Father", and "The InnerLight" was released on January 31, 2012 under the label "The Next Level". The six-disc first season setwas released on July 24, 2012.[78] The remaining seasons were released periodically thereafter,culminating in the release of the seventh season on December 2, 2014. Season 1 sold 95,000 units inits launch week in 2012.[79] The Blu-ray sets include many special features and videos, such as a 1988episode of Reading Rainbow where LeVar Burton (who plays Geordi on TNG) documents the makingof a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode.[80]
The entire re-mastered series is available on Blu-ray as individual seasons, and as a 41-disc box settitled The Full Journey. Eventually, all remastered episodes became available for televisionsyndication and digital distribution.[81]
Season Releasedate[82] Special features
Season1
July 24,2012 Documentaries "Energized!" (about the VFX remastering) and "Stardate Revisited" (Origin)
Season2
December4, 2012
Extended version of "The Measure of a Man", Reunification: reunion interview with entireTNG cast.
Season3
April 30,2013 Inside the Writer's Room, Resistance is Futile: Assimilating TNG, A Tribute to Michael Piller
Season4
July 30,2013
In Conversation: The Star Trek Art Department, Relativity: The Family Saga of Star TrekTNG, Deleted scenes
Season5
November19, 2013 In Conversation: The Music of TNG, Requiem: A Remembrance of TNG, Deleted scenes
Season6
June 24,2014
Beyond the Five Year Mission- The Evolution of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deletedscenes
Season7
December2, 2014
The Sky's the Limit – The Eclipse of Star Trek: The Next Generation, In Conversation:Lensing Star Trek: The Next Generation, deleted scenes
When TNG was remastered in high definition, several episodes were released as stand-alone singleshow Blu-ray products.[83] Of the most famous episode pairs "The Best of Both Worlds" is splitbetween two seasons, whereas the standalone product includes parts 1 and 2.[84] "The Best of BothWorlds" single was released in April 2013 coinciding with the release of Season 3.[85] Other singles ofTNG HD include the two part shows "Redemption", "Unification", "Chain of Command", and "AllGood Things…".[85]
Standalone episodes
"The Measure of a Man" HD extended cut
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"The Measure of a Man" was released in HD in 2012 with an extended cut.[86] The extended versionincludes an extra 13 minutes of footage as well as recreated special effects.[87] It was released as partof the Season 2 collection set.
Star Trek: The Next Generation is available on various streaming video services including, Hulu,Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Apple iTunes, and CBS All Access, under various qualities andterms.[85][88] The Netflix version included some additional special effect improvements.[89] Oneservice stated that by 2017 the most re-watched episodes of Star Trek:The Next Generation amongthe most re-watched Star Trek franchise shows in their offerings, were "The Best of Both Worlds, PartI", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", "Q Who", and "Clues".[90] Streaming offerings were noted forbinge watching, including Star Trek: The Next Generation 178 episodes among the overall 726episodes and 12 movies that had been released prior to Star Trek: Discovery in late 2017.[91]
As of the late 2010s, Star Trek: The Next Generation is syndicated to air in the United States on thecable network BBC America and the broadcast subchannel network Heroes & Icons.[92]
Star Trek: The Next Generation spawned different media set inits universe, which was primarily the 2370s but set in the sameuniverse as first Star Trek TV shows of the 1960s. This includedthe aforementioned films, computer games, board games, themeparks, etc. In the 2010s there were rumors of a Captain Worfspin-off, the bridge officer that debuted on TNG and was alsofeatured in the TNG spin-off show Deep Space Nine.[93]
Star Trek: The Next Generation-era novels (examples):
Balance of PowerThe Children of HamlinDark MirrorDeath in WinterThe Devil's HeartI, QImmortal CoilImzadiThe PeacekeepersPlanet XStar Trek: The Q ContinuumQ-in-LawRogueRogue SaucerStar Trek: The Lost EraStar Trek: Typhon Pact
Streaming and syndication
Spin-offs and the franchise
Re-creation of the TNG starshipbridge for Star Trek: The Exhibition
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Star Trek: StargazerStrike ZoneSurvivorsStar Trek: A Time to...Star Trek: TitanVendetta
In 2005, the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise called "These Are the Voyages..." (S4E22) featureda holodeck simulation on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generationduring the events of the episode "The Pegasus" and the return of Commander William Riker(Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis).[94] It was written by Berman andBraga, who noted "... this was a very cool episode because it has a great concept driving it".[95]
Star Trek: Enterprise was the TV show launched following the conclusion of Star Trek: Voyager andwas set 100 years before TOS and 200 years before TNG, in addition to including some soft rebootelements with an all new cast. Some episodes connected to TNG directly including guest stars byBrent Spiner and connections to the events in TNG's fictional universe. The three-episode story arcconsisting of "Borderland", "Cold Station 12", and "The Augments", with a Soong ancestor portrayedby The Next Generation regular Brent Spiner provides some backstory to Data's origins. Also, theEnterprise episode "Affliction" also helps explain the smooth-headed Klingons that sometimesappeared, a retcon that helped explain this varying presentation between TOS, TNG, and the films.
Star Trek would not return to television as a show for over 12 years, until the debut of Star Trek:Discovery on CBS, but thereafter exclusively available on the internet service CBS All Access (Netflixinternationally) at that time. The film franchise was rebooted in 2009, essentially a grafted on fork offof the timeline known in Star Trek: The Next Generation. That movie contains an event from theTNG timeline, which is the destruction of Romulus and the flight of Spock's special shift to the timefork. In the Star Trek franchise, witnessing the events of time shenanigans is a common plot device.
On August 4, 2018, Patrick Stewart stated on social media that he would return to the role of Jean-Luc Picard in a project with CBS All Access.[96]
"These Are The Voyages..." (2005)
Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis returned to their The Next Generation roles for the series finale of Enterprise.
The return of Picard
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Stewart wrote, "I will always be very proud to have been a part of Star Trek: The Next Generation, butwhen we wrapped that final movie in the spring of 2002, I truly felt my time with Star Trek had runits natural course. It is, therefore, an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited andinvigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Seekingout new life for him, when I thought that life was over.
"During these past years, it has been humbling to hear stories about how The Next Generationbrought people comfort, saw them through difficult periods in their lives or how the example of Jean-Luc inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, pursuing science, exploration and leadership. I feelI'm ready to return to him for the same reason – to research and experience what comforting andreforming light he might shine on these often very dark times. I look forward to working with ourbrilliant creative team as we endeavor to bring a fresh, unexpected and pertinent story to life oncemore."
It is believed that the new project will be a continuation of the story after Star Trek: Nemesis, and willnot be a reboot of the series' storyline as was done with the J.J. Abrams Star Trek films.
In January 2019, the producer said that the Picard series will answer questions about what happenedto Captain Picard in the 20 years after.[97]
This infographic shows the first-run production timeline of various Star Trek franchise shows andfilms, including Star Trek: The Next Generation
Cultural influence of Star TrekList of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodesList of comic books based on Star Trek: The Next GenerationList of Star Trek Starfleet starships
Context
See also
References
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