-Computer voice sounds VERY different -Romulans are introduced / hinted at in "Angel One" -Enterprise D computer refit should have taken place a few episodes earlier, after "Datalore" -Prime Directive is somewhat different then in later episodes since the Enterprise contacts planet Angel One which is inhabited by not warp-capable people (comparable to 20th century Earth according to mr. Data) -The time between each episode is much smaller
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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
One of the biggest problems with season 1 and 2 of TNG was there inability (and lack of foresight) in establishing any kind of technical consistancy. I reference the aforementioned computer voices (as well as the "You're welcome Commander Riker,and if you would care to enter..." from Encounter at Farpoint)and the Russian language dedication plaque aboard the Tsiolkovsky (I know I probably destroyed that spelling). Things like this simply were not thought out ahead of time, and IMHO the show suffered for it.
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I in turn enjoyed the "wide open" feel of the show that was so sorely lacking in the later years. The tech of TNG is "inconsistent" because later episodes dumbed it down (the tabletop holograms everywhere were a thing I missed a lot, but the more primitive computers of later years are IMHO also a bad mistake - since the Enterprise is something of a cast member anyway, why not give it a full "HAL", "Ziggy" or "KITT" personality to go with the voice?).
And the first season of TNG is the only one with stories of epic scope, something that should be part and parcel of "ship" shows. In DS9, apart from the Dominion concept itself, there was less need for epic things since were were getting close and personal with the people. But the TNG crew was always in the danger of being nothing but a bunch of high-ranking snobs with little personal chemistry (no wonder in a ship of 1014 people trekking in the infinite universe and seldom visiting places twice). Epic plots would have been their saving grace, but after the first season-and-half, that dwindled down to cliffhangers (and of those, the superb Borg one was followed by successively less interesting ones).
I think the personalities of Picard, Worf and to some degree Data were at times tear-jerkingly interesting. But the lack of such intensity in the rest of the crew made it impossible for TNG to work as a soap the way DS9 very nicely worked.
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Well, at least Worf evolved from a grumpy silent Klingon to an interesting Starfleeter
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