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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/startrek@startrek.website

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.

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[-] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They straight up got rid of crusher for a season

I believe McFadden was fired, which was why she disappeared for no reason or fanfare.

TNG had serious problems in the beginning and had some pretty big flaws even as the show got going. Off the top of my head

You're not wrong. I think the only main character that really had any development in the first 2 seasons is Dr Pulaski, going from someone completely unfamiliar with Data, and conscious machinery, to being an ardent supporter of his. We had a little but in Data settling into being an emotionless Android trying to learn to be more human, and Geordi becoming Chief Engineer, but they were very minor background tweaks to the characters.

Everyone else barely changed at all in that time, except for Lt. Yar, who went from being a living breathing person to corpse.

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