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In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings.

Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. --Paul Tonks



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Welcome aboard the new "Galaxy Class" Starship Enterprise, bigger and better than ever before. In this first, feature length episode of Star Trek, The Next Generation, we meet the new crew, explore the new Enterprise and meet an awesome new adversary, the godlike "Q". He sets a challenge to new captain Jean-Lic Picard (Patrick Stewart) who must prove to Q that humans are not a "greviously savage race". Q sets a proving ground - Farpoint - a planet where an alien creature is threatening the peaceful Bandi. Why?

Join Picard, his First Officer Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) who is an android and Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) who is a Klingon, in this intriguing adventure in space.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The story continues, 27 Nov 2000
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This is the first ever outing of the next generation crew. In this double bill we meet the crew of the enerprise D for the first time. They are sent to a space station called Farpoint to investigate the work being carried out at the station, and to pick up some senior crew members. However not all is what it seems.

This adventure also features the first ever appearance of Q, as the arch villain who puts Picard and his crew on trial for the crimes of humanity. This is a very good adventure and very entertaining, one of the best epiosdes from the first season of the next generation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Adventure Begins, 19 Nov 2003
For all those who are crazy trekkie's like myself, this is a must. For the next generation, this is where the adventure begins. It is amazing to see how each character is introduced into the plot, and good to see the difference in how the characters have evolved over the series.
This episode involves the power-hungry Q, who is trying to establish whether or not to destroy the human race. He presents Picard with a test, an 'evaluation' to decide the fate of humanity. With a plot that twists and turns, along with a mystery as good as any Agatha Christie, you are certain to see adventure, battle and intrigue. Picard is up to his usual wisdom and Riker still has his 'dive in first, think later' approach.
For those who have seen 'Nemesis', then you will see certain links with this video when you watch it.
Every tapestry has it's beginning...... and this is it.
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