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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Well TNG did have the influence of the Gene machine. I just read that original 15 page treatment for Star Trek. It's amazing. The sense of wonder. He had no idea it was going to work so well. He didn't know that 30+ years after it got cancelled there would be snooty electronic message boards bickering back and forth with less discerning message boards about the minutiae from the original and all the subsequent series. He just had an idea for a way to tell space stories on national television. I think that's what TNG had: that kind of pragmatism. Ultimately the ship and the show are a vehicle for telling compelling science-fiction stories. TOS in particular, but TNG too was moving forward, creating the genre as it went. We were exploring new areas of the galaxy while the show was exploring the uncharted terrain of serial science-fiction television. Try as they might, the later series generally had to walk in TNGs shadow. This isn't to say they weren't innovating, but they had a smaller space in which to do it, and the audience now had certain expectations. I would argue that the most popular episodes are those that did things you just couldn't do on any other show. "Yesterday's Enterprise" couldn't really be told on Cheers. Cybernetically enhanced space-zombies in huge cubes flying around trying to assimilate the universe wouldn't really play out well on Murphy Brown. In a way I agree with the Captain about people loving TNG for it's flaws. Maybe not for it's flaws, but perhaps because it did have them. They were taking chances. Sometimes you get 'BoBW', sometimes you get 'Skin Of Evil'. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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