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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Middy Seafort: [qb] Hello, all. I recently re-watched the two-hour premier episode of TNG, "Encounter at Farpoint." While watching it, I realized there was a lot of potential for this series to go into many interesting directions that would've redefined television SF rather than merely update a 60's television series. Middy Seafort [/qb][/QUOTE]WTF are you TALKING about. TNG might have made a few TOS-ish episodes in early season 1 but by season 2 and definatley by season 3 TNG was a show unto itself. Leonard Nimoy after famously commenting you can't catch lightning in a bottle twice admitted by season 5 that TNG was it's own show. TNG redifined not only sci-fi TV but TV and sci-fi in themselves!! I'm sick of typing this but. If there was no TNG there would have been NO Babylon 5, DS9, Voyager, Stargate SG1, Buffy, Angel, Hurcules, Xena, *X-Files*, SeaQuest DSV, Sliders, Outer Limits, Space: Above and Beyond, Time Trax, Andromeda, Earth: Final Conflict, Charmed, Jeremiah, Earth 2, Firefly, Dark Skies, The Dead Zone, Crusade, 7 Days, Farscape, Highlander TV Series, The Crow TV Series, The Raven, Twin Peaks, Birds of Prey, Millennium, The Lone Gunmen, Harsh Realm, Total Recall: 2070, Lexx, Dark Angel... And those are off the top of my head. Yes some of those didn't last very long - but the fact that any of them were given the go ahead was a direct result of TNG showing that an hour long fantasty/sci-fi tv series could be WILDLY successful. And SYNDICATED to boot. What was around before TNG in 1987 or even 1990 with season 3 that was pulling ratings (and of the type of show TNG was)?? I would harbour a guess 1 or nothing. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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