It all began in 1987, when Gene Roddenberry along with other Paramount writers decided to create another series in the Star Trek saga. The first episode Encounter at Farpoint aired about the time that the immensly popular Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home came out on video casette. Gene Roddenberry, who became the Producer, now had much more control than he had during the feature films. Even though Encounter was not as popular or happily received by the fans, it went on to prove the fact that people should never estimate the success by the first/pilot episode. Patrick Stewart, along with Marina Sirtis and other cast have mentioned that they were literally living in suitcases, ready to return to England where other acting career opportunities were in the great numbers. However, after a few episodes and the end of the First Season, fans started realizing "Hey, this series isn't bad after all!" There was character development, better plots and storylines, and everything seemed to "fit" much more nicely. Star Trek: The Next Generation is dated near the beginning of the 24th century. Seventy-eight years have passed since the time of Kirk and Spock. The billions of stars in our galaxy are still being charted and their solar systems explored, a task so vast that without almost unimaginable changes in the nature of humanity and its space travel methods, this could go on for hundreds of centuries. During the time of the original Enterprise, 4% of the galaxy had been charted - not explored - since exploration would have required visit to all the approximately 11,000,000,000 stars and planetary systems in that 4% of the galaxy. By the 24th century, only 19% of the galaxy has been charted.
Did you know?
- Picard's brother, Robert, and his son, Rene, that he visited them in "Family", burned to death in a fire
(ST: Generations).- Worf's grandfather, also named Worf, defended Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy in a Klingon trail (ST 6 -
The Undiscovered Country).- The "T" in William T. Riker stands for Thomas.
- Data and Lore are not the only Androids known in the galaxy: there were a civilization of androids
discovered by Captain Kirk ("I, Moud" (?)- TOS). Their designers came from the Andromeda galaxy and
inhabited a planet with sophisticated androids to learn Humans.- Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar) participated in 3 episodes after her character died: two times as Tasha,
and once as her daughter.- 3 officers of the original Enterprise crew are still living in the generation of the Enterprise-D (not
including Kirk that died in ST: Generations).- Brent Spiner is Doctor Nunian Sung, and he was playing 3 characters at the same time ("Brothers").
- Worf's forehead bones have been changing over the years that Star Trek : TNG was on the air. Talking
about quick evolution...- Guinan's specific age is unknown, but according to "Time's Arrow", she is more than 500 years old!
- Stephen Hawking participated in "Descent" Part I, as himself, playing poker in the Holodeck.
- The stardate in the episode "Symbiosis" is not mentioned. Why? Denise Crosby participated in it, just
one episode after she died.- In the episode "The Host", there was a Trill - Odan. He was unable to transport through the transporter
because he could die. In Deep Space Nine, I don't see any problem Dax has with trasporters... This is one
of those things the producers wanted us to forget...- In "The Neutral Zone", the Enterprise found an ancient space craft from the late 20th century. Data and Worf transported to it and found frozen people. So far so good, but - in the late 20th century we still do not know how to create gravity in space, and as I remember, Data and Worf walked just fine...
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