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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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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“The Reading Rainbow guy on MY Star Trek?! Oh god, is he gonna read a book to the shields to get them to hold?”

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He reads several actually. He even turns documentation into a holographic representation of a woman and makes out with it. Typical Geordi.

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then acts all weird when the real woman isn’t into it

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An engineer falling in love with virtual women but being awkward with women in real life? That seems a little farfetched.

The writers were a little TOO good sometimes

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

She was married, if I remember correctly.

Yeah, you don't become chief engineer by never reading a book.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It was mainly "Kunta Kinte?!?" coming from the boomers at the time.