Re:View - Star Trek The Next Generation Season One

Funny TNG tidbit: I've been re-watching the series with the French dubs for practice, and the Vash character is renamed "Virian," most likely because "vache" is the French word for "cow".

Adam

But this started so many memes! Who can forget such classics as "Shut up Wesley!" ;)

Eric Topp

heyy mike it isn't beneficial for parasites to kill their hosts. Host dies, parasite dies. More of an advantage to keep a steady stream of nutrients without killing the host. I studied a parasite in bumble bees that has been incubating in bumble bees for as long as they can trace it back!

Sara June

SEASON 2 PLEASE

The Thinking Cat...Former Cthulhu Pofit Neo Normie and Masked fat guy but now a Cat ??

I love how angry you're making Shatner.

Tanya

We can only hope. I am so sick of Trekkies blaming DS9 for the downfall of the franchise. We all know the TNG movies are what did that, not DS9 or even Voyager. Whenever I hear someone say "TOS and TNG are the only real Star Trek series" I want to punch them in the face.

The Pizza King

Please do DS9 next. It's so much more interesting as a series and I would love to hear you guys discuss it.

Do more Star Trek please. You are at your best when you talk Star Trek.

This was great, thank you!

Rattslinger

Really as Season 1's go the 2 best in my book is DS9 and Enterprise really most sci Fi shows have clunker seasons like Season 6 of lost The BSG Pilot movie Season 2 of Babylon 5 Dr Who has so many clunkers like the 2nd series and 11-13 have been moribund. Still some shows never get good Firefly Discovery Picard and worst of all for me Caprica and Crusade which both were sister shows to greater Sci Fi properties but never made it beyond the first series.

The Thinking Cat...Former Cthulhu Pofit Neo Normie and Masked fat guy but now a Cat ??

Always great to see some analysis of TNG. I was one of the "What no Kirk?" kids who only knew of TNG from Reading Rainbow but have come to appreciate the show in later years.

Greymeister

I'd love to see something like Voyager, or maybe DS9. Really any of your top episodes in this 'Mike and Rich talk about Star Trek' series is great! Thanks.

Andrew Behlen

had to come back and say thanks again fellas. i could watch a 2 hour discussion of every episode and pay 20 dollars for each one.

Tony C

Please do TOS!

Keith Feinstein

i joined patreon because of your trek content. pls do all seasons

k4yr4h

Thank you! My brother and I are always so happy when you do STNG videos! So glad we so much more to discuss in the FUTURE! Your TNG videos brought me to your Patreon!

Tony C

Thought for sure Datalore would be one of your picks.

Bleedinghandcandle

I consider Datalore to be "must-see" even if it's not a particularly good episode.

Davey Cakes

I actually think Discovery season 3 was good, and I HATED season 1 and 2. The first and last episode of season 3 had stuff I didn't like, but the were still better then most of season 1 and 2, and the rest of the season was enjoyable. A fact which shocks me. So more season reviews of things please!

Twisted Wishes

Thanks for the great discussion. To one of your closing points: I think Michael and Denise Okuda deserve huge credit for establishing the technological consistency of TNG as the show progressed. Also, moving Geordi to Chief Engineer and building out that aspect of the ship was a significant post Season 1 improvement.

andrew

Many thanks, gentlemen. That was delightful.

Katy

Can you do season 2 please.

Ghost Crusaders

Will the Snyder cut be on best of the worst or half in the bag?

Michael Matzat

When are you coming out with your remake of 'The Neutral Zone' where the businessman is constantly saying, "stonks" and "hodl"?

Suzanne Kerrigan

"Do NOT ask us to do this thing that I have just now unilaterally decided we will be doing." I guess if I can't have top cutest Data's cat episodes I'll take top cutest Worf episodes.

Rhea

I just loved every minute of that.

They're talking to this object like it's an object.

AM

I really loved this episode fellas, very wholesome and cozy with a lil crumb of rich laughing just a lil bit

Chris Kilis

Thanks for taking one for the team! S2 has a few eps I like. Bring it on!

Mike St Louis

For me there are specific episodes that benefited from the suffering, not sure I would have cared quite as much about the Tasha Yar apology episodes if Skin of Evil hadn't been such garbage.

Sam

This was a fun watch! None of my friends care about Star Trek so it's nice to listen. I made the mistake of starting TNG from the beginning after seeing Measure of a Man, might not have made it through if I wasn't certain there was something to look forward to.

Sam

The Klingons are space vikings. Honor and glory...

Excellent as always! I recall Mike mentioning wanting to do a Re:View of DOOM PATROL: Season 1 once Rich watches it... That would be magic!

Snyder cut is gonna be BIS

AM

Snyder Cut HITB? very cool

Adam W Johnson

A season 2 review? Every season? For goodness' sake, just do DS9 already :)

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

DO do season two. And the rest.

Tanya

OK, I take back Conspiracy. You guys are right. And the final alien was ridiculous. Replace with...um...I dunno. Season one really does suck. The Arsenal of Freedom's concept always reminded me of a Paul Verhoeven movie (early Hollywood-era Paul Verhoeven).

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

Please do TOS!

Nathan Carlson

Rich looks rather pale in this video... I hope he's fine and it's just quarantine tan

Peter Varga

my name is also Jared, and I completely agree. It's nice to be able to compliment another Jared these days.

Isolated Thunderstorms

It was a pretty jarring tonal shift at the beginning of the series going from the really thematically heavy episode introducing Q to the episode where everyone on the enterprise gets really horny for each other.

Michael Parker

I could watch a whole series of "Two fat middle-aged hack frauds reminisce about their favorite childhood TV show"

Jared

I'm appreciating how much longer the videos are, these days

Molly Wiedemann

Isn't it nice to talk and think about the known entities that we like from our past? Just eternally perfect and safe from dogshit. The only hack writer who can fuck up my past is me.

Happens to me all the time, too...

Manuel Johnen

Not to badmouth Heart of Glory, not to glorify TOS, but I think Errand of Mercy is the best episode with Klingons. The Klingons basically represented the worst of humanity, but from the perspective of the Organians, Kirk and the Federation were equally bad. Errand of Mercy portrayed Kor and Kirk as the same type of personality, soldiers, who believe they're superior to the other, and who are stuck in war. So the Organians solved the problem for them. --- Symbiosis, 11001001, The Arsenal of Freedom, Heart of Glory are episodes, which I enjoyed watching too. Troi, unfortunately, felt superfluous in season 1 most of the time. Tasha Yar's goodbye message was nice. --- I remembered, that TNG was part of late night TV in 1998/1999, together with Cheers and the Harald Schmidt Show (a Letterman knock-off). It was enjoyable to watch the nightly episode of TNG and Cheers. It is much more enjoyable to watch them in their original language. Maybe, maybe I'll start watching TNG again, but tbh, I like it better to watch you guys talk about TNG. :) --- Patreon seems to auto-delete comments, when they contain certain words.

Marvin Falz

I haven't watched the video yet, but I wonder if I'm the only person who loves The Last Outpost? Ferengi laser-whips! Giant Skeletor floaty-head on a soundstage set! Armin Shimerman hopping around like a rabid gerbil! And all the while it actually has a pretty solid ticking-clock script and classic Picard out-maneuvering the Ferengi commander. It's like the best and worst of TNG at the same time, but even the worst stuff is great.

Chris L

I think my favorite season 1 episode was the holodeck episode "The Big Goodbye."

Michael Parker

I've said it before, I'm not a fan of Star Trek, but I'll watch Rich and Mike talk about the phone book because I know they'll make it informative and entertaining.

AllGoodNamesRGone

I love Trek talk!!!!! More. More. More....

I know you guys say to skip to season 3, but I've always been of the impression that you need to watch it all, the really good is only really good because of the bad you experienced and vice versa

Daniel Carlson

I wonder if these guys know how much they mean to people. I hope they do.

Dan Hiestand

I was just watching their other TNG review episodes over the weekend and thinking, “when are they going to make that guilty pleasures episode?” This was great! Keep going through the seasons please!

Nick Cameron

OK, just reached nearly the four minute mark. My three episodes: 11001001, Conspiracy, and The Big Goodbye. The Big Goodbye isn't good, but it's fun simply because the cast seems to be having fun, and I love the line from Cyrus Redblock, "Good manners, madam, are never a waste of time." Finally, Datalore is pretty OK. The rest really is garbage. People of Earth: if you've never seen TNG and want to get into it, start with season two's The Measure of a Man (a truly great episode); A Matter of Honor (important character development for Riker); Elementary, Dear Data (good holodeck fun!); and Q Who (important non-episodic plot developments). Then move along to season three. Watch season one when you've finished the rest of the series...if you feel like it. A better idea is to just start watching DS9 at that point.

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

Glory to you, and your house.

Starchwreck Models and Props

Aaaargh!! It's "starBASE" and "SPACEdock"!!! Infuriating! (Ironically, this is the kinda crap that makes me happy that I love Star Trek.)

LB876

Oh god the content I crave. Also there are no good episodes in season 1 of TNG. Although hearing you guys talking about the expanse would be A+

Alnarra

Well, that's tonight's viewing sorted.

This revelation is indeed a surprise!

hamish smith

Me too I’ve never seen TNG but I’ll watch them talk about it all day long

hamish smith

I love these even though I've never really watched Star Trek!

Peter Varga

OMG I'm fucking hyped

hamish smith

Mike likes Star Trek?!? Why haven’t you mentions this before?!

Mattytime