That picture of Geordi had the chorus from Michael Jackson's Beat It stuck in my head all day..
I'm 3 episodes into TNG, early impressions:
- The crew takes a bit of getting used to, none of them were instantly likable for me, unlike TOS where Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty were all hits from the get go for me.
- The show running and handling in general is tolerable so far, which says a lot since I'm a firm believer that good TV was made before the 80's and then after the mid 00's, excluding comedy of course.
- I like Patrick Stewart a lot, I know him as professor Xavier from the X-Men movies, Sejanus from I, Claudius and as CIA Deputy Director Bullock on American Dad, the latter being more recent and on-going, so on the first episode when his voice-over for the intro starts I kinda chuckled cause I thought of Bullock, it didn't help that Bullock called Stan Smith "number one" in a couple of American Dad episodes, but now I know where that came from
- Patrick Stewart is too British to be French and it doesn't seem like he's putting much effort into being French on the show, so I guess I can try to forget that he's supposed to be.
- Geordi, Riker, Worf and Data are the characters I found interesting and could potentially have some story lines that I'd find cool.
- Troi and Yar, not so much.
- Crusher and Wesley, not at all.
- It
really sucks that there are children on the ship, it takes away from the sense of danger they're suppose to have in exploring space.
- Data seems to be their way of having Spock around for this show without having another Vulcan on the bridge, he's not exactly like Spock of course but it feels like he was created to give the same impression.
- This is probably just me but it feels like that exposition dialogues on this show are sometimes too quick for how complicated they are, contrary to TOS where they usually eased you into the problem in a more relaxed fashion. On TNG I found myself rewinding a couple of times to catch details.
- I hope they explore Worf's backstory at some point, I'm curious to know if the Klingon empire has joined the federation or if he's some sort of rouge agent of his species.
Glad to have so much binge-ing ahead, I'll probably finish the first season then go back to finish TOS.