Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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What critics compared Star Trek: The Next Generation to
Ah, so new opening credits this season? Just like TNG did in season 3!
Fans watching during the golden age of The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space 9 know this feeling of anticipation and excitement well.
Star Trek: The Next Generation used romance tropes to play with the bounds of heterosexuality—like having one character fall in love with a member of a species that has no concept of gender or another character contemplate whether she could live with the fact that her symbiote boyfriend now had a woman’s body—in an era when it was the insistently enforced norm.
The writing this season nails the middle ground between the silly-but-sometimes-smart space operatics of the original series and the warm surrogate-family vibe of The Next Generation.
…or the tragedy in TNG’s “The Wounded” of Captain Ben Maxwell, who never got over the loss of his family in the Cardassian War and almost brought the Federation into another war as a result?
Of course, this isn’t the first time Star Trek has done a “disaster in space” episode. Just look at TNG’s appropriately named “Disaster” for starters.
…landing somewhere between Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Data and Interstellar's TARS…
That landed differently in the past, especially with the mighty Data on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
…they feel a bit like Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Holodeck, creating a perfect but hollow approximation of different Earthly climes or cliques…
Ares’s own stumbles toward sentience are so simplistically traced that you might think you’re watching a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode from 30 years ago.
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The Tesseract, by the way, is your basic MacGuffin, an all-powerful cube (see Transformers’ Allspark, Star Trek’s Borg or the dice in Dungeons and Dragons) that will allow Loki to open a portal to another universe and stage an invasion.