It’s so bizarre to read this in the present, knowing how incredible TNG was, but I get it - the original crew WAS Star Trek to them.

The dedicated fans revived this series in syndication, well after it had gone off the air in 1969, and felt attached to the characters that they had obsessed over between then and the 1980s. Like modern fans, they thought that departure from what they knew would ruin it.

I wish I could go back in time and tell them that TNG is going to rock.

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “unknown British Shakespearian actor…” Wow, I never thought I’d hear Patrick Stewart described that way.

    • GreenMario@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think he was just an extra in the movie Excalibur before TNG, outside of stage.

      Edit: “”““extra””“” in extra quotes forgive me it’s been over a decade since I saw the movie.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It took me a long time to reach this conclusion. I love TOS, and the characters are cultural icons, but when I want to fanboy over the whole “philosophy” of Star Trek, I’m thinking of TNG every single time.