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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [QB] Simply, TNG was the first of its kind. A successful syndicated hour long fantasy/science fiction INTELLIGENT television show, with good writing and believable characters while it still held the spirit of TOS and the movies in it's heart. Now look at what has littered the Television stations over the last 15 years. All wannabe TNG copy-cats. Lets start a list shall we (and yes even though I adore DS9 it was originally something to end up replacing TNG after it's run had finished). Please add to this list. (I think there are some good references for such a list - I think "The Continuing Mission" has a nice year-by-year synopsis of what was 'competing' with TNG. In the beginning there was nothing like it on television. The closest thing that might have been, could have been Battlestar Galactica bat that was the "Star Wars" of the television world. *TNG* 1987-1994 REALLY a success in 1990 and onwards Should we put this in some sort of chronological order? At the moment I'm just going to list the shows as the come off my head. And think about this list - I can appear quite varied, but these shows would NOT have gotten past a pitch pre 1987 Hollywood. Deep Space Nine Voyager SeaQuest DSV Time Trax Space: Above and Beyond The X-Files Babylon 5 Mellennium The Lone Gunmen The Adventures of Hercules Xena Warrior Princess Earth 2 Space Rangers Total Recall 2070 Space Precinct Earth: Final Conflict Andromeda Sliders Starhunter Stargate-SG1 Farscape Crusade Harsh Realm Dark Angel Buffy the Vampire Slayer Charmed Angel Psi Factor Smallville Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers Highlander Highlander: The Raven The Crow: Stairway to Heaven The Visitor The Net American Gothic Dark Skies The Outer Limits (new series) Kindred: The Embraced Enterprise Mutant X Jeremiah The Pretender Roswell Of course within that list you have "The X-Files" clones. And you have your Movie->TV show clones. And your spinoffs of other shows. But really, none of them could have 'happened' without TNG busting it's way onto TV and being a phenomenon (in Hollywood - a financial success) All of these shows - yes they weren't all on at the same time, and some didn't get past a handful of episodes show what the TNG influence has been, but also how much the 'market' has been split up by competition. I doubt in 1990 there would have been flame-wars on usenet over which was better TNG or LA Law! ;o) Imagine pre 1987 and trying to pitch the X-Files or Buffy - to name two successful shows. It's happened in a few other TV Genres... look at all the Simpson's clones. None are as good as the Simpsons. (No matter how funny Futurama or South Park might be). Looking at that list too, there are a lot more movies fantasy/sci-fi wise that probably wouldn't be around in the last 10 years if it wasn't for TNG. Yes, TNG and the TOS movies probably wouldn't have been around except for the Success of Star Wars and the creation of ILM. BUT *STAR WARS* wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for Star Trek. Lucas is a Fan, I've read it. Hello "proton torpedoes". :) It's a big web. Would Twin Peaks have made it to TV if there was no TNG? I'm not sure about this one. It's success did - I reckon - lead to the emergence of again, the X-Files but also 'quirky' shows like Northern Exposure and Picket Fences. The Success of Picket Fences meant more David E. Kelly shows... Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Snoops. etc. (but that's a different tangent). Andrew [/QB][/QUOTE]
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