WinterKing Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 57 minutes ago, DaveSumm said: I often wonder this. Considering it's a lot of people's favourite Trek, it has a dire first two seasons. Can you imagine if the new series kicked off as badly? It wouldn't stand a chance of surviving. Maybe Marvel's Agents of SHIELD could be a more recent example of a show that survived (and improved) after a dismal first season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon AS Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 SHIELD wasn't anywhere near as bad as TNG in its first season, just bland and boring. It also hasn't ever reached anything resembling the heights of TNG's best moments. And if it hadn't been the spinoff of a ridiculously successful movie franchise, it might not have gotten the numbers for a second season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felice Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 TNG's first season might be bad by modern standards, or even compared to its own later heights, but what competition did it have at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 TNG's first season might be bad by modern standards, or even compared to its own later heights, but what competition did it have at the time? Reruns of Barnaby Jones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon AS Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 TNG ran in syndication, not tied to one specific network. Presumably interest in Trek was relatively high at the time. Not only had the original show become enough of a cultural touchstone, but the most recent film had also been a hit. That combined with different standards at the time is probably a sufficient explanation. It wouldn't work today, and that's one of the bigger concerns with the plan to tie the new series to one exclusive streaming service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 This week on Nitpicking:The Next Generation, Deanna Troi's love life is turned upside down by a telepathic space Dowager Countess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon AS Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 "Everybody's just wearing really bizarre clothes" - Star Trek's costume design philosophy in a nutshell. I think I would have liked Lwaxana a lot more if the character had been written as a little more self-aware, making it clear that at least half the time she acts the way she does because she enjoys messing with people (particularly stuffy Starfleet types) rather than having it seemingly arise from aristocratic snobbery. As written, I find the character very hit and miss, probably with more misses than hits. Next episode introduces everyone's favourite Star Trek plot device: malfunctioning holodecks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 On this week's Nitpicking: The Next Generation, the first holodeck episode finds the Enterprise crew trapped in the most boring noir novel ever written. (At least until "The Royale.") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aemon Stark Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I like "The Royale". Nothing says class like sets outfitted as the most boring Vegas casino ever of the 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aemon Stark Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 For some reason the most recent episode isn't appearing in iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 On 3/16/2016 at 10:18 PM, Aemon Stark said: For some reason the most recent episode isn't appearing in iTunes. I'm sorry about this--there's some weirdness going on that we hope to fix tonight. (We've been super-busy this week.) Until then you can stream or download the episode from www.peccable.com. Thanks for sticking with us! UPDATE: The episode should now be visible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 On this week's Nitpicking: The Next Generation, Data's encounter with his evil twin leaves everyone in a plot worthy of "General Hospital" without the genre savvy to deal with it. (Episode is on iTunes!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 On this week's Nitpicking: The Next Generation, the Enterprise crew interferes with a matriarchy enough to tick them off but not enough to do any good. And Riker gets sexy. (For some value of sexy.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 On this week's Nitpicking: The Next Generation, Riker is on the most pathetic cyber-date in history, and the Enterprise is hijacked. AGAIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 On this week's Nitpicking: The Next Generation, the long tradition of Starfleet admirals up to no good begins with a gun-running renegade hopped up on the Fountain of Youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 On this week's Nitpicking: The Next Generation, we see the inevitable endpoint of the Federation in the form of an antiseptic, naive, technologically over-reliant Atlantis of the Stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 On this week's Nitpicking: The Next Generation: After sixteen episodes, the writers finally serve up a science fiction story for us ugly bags of mostly water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackerNeil Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 This week on Nitpicking: The Next Generation, we witness the mind-games that are the Starfleet entrance exam while yet another admiral acts shifty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I've starting watching it from the beginning and I can say with confidence that it would have been canceled during season one if it were on now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I feel like every Star Trek series would be canceled during season one if they tried to run now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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