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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] Something Simon said in another thread made me think. TNG was popular. Really really popular. Almost to the level of TOS popular, and for many young people much more so. I know several people who will knock Star Trek as being sad and geeky and yet also admit to watching TNG when they were younger and saying it was "quite good". Non fans know who Data is. Non fans know who the Borg are. Non fans went in fairly good numbers to see First Contact. The question is, why was it so popular? In hindsight, it did have a tendancy to be a bit boring and talky. I have trouble seeing how stuff like, ooh, "The Masterpiece Society" kept the viewers watching. And while I do think that the actors on TNG were really good, compare a dialogue scene between, say, Riker and Geordi to one between O'Brien and Bashir. Somone (possibly Moore) compared writing stuff like that. He said with TNG chats, he often struggled to ge tthe characters to say anything in a realistic way when there wasn't an emergency to talk about, whereas with the DS9 lot he often found himself writing pages and pages without realising it. And then, obviously, the SFX were a bit naff. The fight at the beginning of "The Wounded" doesn't exactly get the pulse racing. Even compare the sets. Roddenberry thought that the Ent-D looked like a hotel, other members of staff voiced the opinion that the bridge was far too empty (they wanted the sides to have consols, but couldn't get Paramount to do it as it would cost more in extras without opening up new storytelling opportinities), engineering a tiny place converted out of a corridor set, and as a result looked a bit shit. Soooooo...despite the dull characters, boring stories, horribly 80s sets, and static SFX, why did everyone love it? Why did I love it? Why (in some ways) did I love it more than the arguably superior Deep Space 9? And what of those elements can be used to make people want to see it in the cinema? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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