I was brought up on the original series of Star Trek. I loved it. So I was a little dubious when Star Trek The Next Generation came along. But whatever doubts I had disappeared the moment the pilot episode kicked in. It was a very different world. No longer were the crew of the Enterprise really charting a new frontier - they were actually very comfortable and aware of their surroundings now. Not that things were boring but it did get rid of some of the more rubbish concepts in the original series - Kirk and the gang land on a world run by people obsesessed with a book on the Roman Empire... or whatever. Now the show had more drama in it and interaction of ...  Read the complete review

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION was the first spin-off series from STAR TREK to be made (if you discount the animated version made in the 1970s). During the mid-1980s the movie versions of the original series had been very popular and Paramount Pictures had convinced Gene Roddenberry to create a new version, with all new characters, for the new generation of television audiences. The show that Roddenberry came up with was THE NEXT GENERATION, which first aired in September 1987. The first couple of seasons of the show were a little iffy to say the least. Some of the acting was wooden, and storylines were regurgitated from the original series (the most guilty ...  Read the complete review