![]() ![]() The episode serves both as an exploration of a mind-bending science fiction concept (think Michael Chrichton’s Sphere, but less scary), and as a way to get a lot of information about our characters out at once. In “Where No One Has Gone Before,” the Enterprise is hurled into a far corner of space where thought and reality intermingle, allowing our new crew to lose themselves in memory and fantasy. (As with many episodes on the first two seasons, it was heavily re-written by producer Maurice Hurley.) This episode has the rare distinction of having been adapted from an already-published Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, by its author Diane Duane and by Michael Reaves, who would go on to co-create the cult cartoon series Gargoyles. If you need another reason to power through, the events of “Farpoint” are also revisited in TNG ’s excellent series finale. What makes “Farpoint” worth watching is the way it establishes each member of the crew and their relationships with each other (Fontana’s work), and the introduction of the fan-favorite antagonist Q (John de Lancie, a Roddenberry addition), who would go on to star in some of the series’ best episodes. It’s over-acted, over-scored, and sadly indicative of the rest of Season One. In college, my friends and I once watched through it and took a drink each time we would have turned it off if it weren’t called “ Star Trek ,” and we got hammered. “Encounter at Farpoint” is not a good episode by any stretch. “I forgot,” Fontana was quoted as saying, “working for Gene Roddenberry always costs me money.”) (This allowed Roddenberry to skim a handsome slice of her royalties. Then, at the eleventh hour, Roddenberry informed her that the episode would be two hours after all, and that he would write a “prequel” story to tack onto the beginning of her script and pepper callbacks to it throughout the episode. Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana, story editor on The Original Series and producer on The Animated Series, was tasked with writing the episode, and was told to aim for 90 minutes. Pike wanted a movie-length event, but Roddenberry insisted that the first episode be a standard one-hour affair. Production of The Next Generation was tumultuous from the very beginning, as series creator Gene Roddenberry and Paramount executive John Pike wrestled over the running time of the series premiere. ![]() Be kind to yourself and check out these ten episodes from the first two years to get the highlights and the important plot points, and then go boldly into Season Three with your head held high and your spirit unbroken. If you are the kind of viewer who absolutely needs to watch every episode of a show in order, the first 48 hours of your journey are going to be a test of your endurance, where the good episodes are outnumbered by the mediocre, the embarrassing, and the straight-up offensive. They are the result of a production so strife-ridden that it inspired an entire documentary called Chaos on the Bridge. ![]() Premiering in first-run syndication from 1987 to 1994, The Next Generation (or TNG ) was the first Star Trek TV series to become a mainstream cultural phenomenon while it was still in production (rather than in reruns), and penetrated the public consciousness in a way no Star Trek has since.īut before you go Binge Mode into its 178 episode run (available on most major streaming services), heed this warning: the first two seasons of TNG are not good. Based on his recent encounters with Dahj Asha, Picard and Jurati speculated that Dahj was created through fractal neuronic cloning of a neuron from Data.Ī symbol of two interlocking circles was a recognized symbol for fractal neuronic cloning both Dahj and her twin, Soji Asha, possessed necklaces with this symbol.With the new series Star Trek: Picard now in full swing, it’s only natural that viewers might want to check out its predecessor, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Agnes Jurati of the Daystrom Institute's Division of Advanced Synthetic Research, this approach could be used to create an android out of biological material – "out of flesh and blood" – appearing to be Human. The approach also entailed the creation of identical twin androids as "children" of the "parent" android.Īs described to retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard by Dr. Relying on the prior existence of a neural network from an existing android, this technique posited that the complete code for a new android, even including memory, could be reconstituted from a single positronic neuron of the original. Bruce Maddox and studied by Federation scientists in the late 24th century. A necklace with the symbol for fractal neuronic cloning.įractal neuronic cloning was a radical technique for creating an android with a stable positronic matrix, developed by Dr. ![]()
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