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Looking Back on 25 Years of Star Trek: The Next Generation

By Guttersnipe on October 10, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

“The Next Generation awakened in me a feeling of terrible and suffocating yearning — that hopeless childish escape wish that’s the wake of a certain kind of fantasy. That feeling that in a different world you’d be happy. I carefully recorded each episode on our VCR — I […]

Star Trek: The Next Generation: To Boldly Stay

By Carol on September 3, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

In her series of essays looking over the entire run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Abigail Nussbaum gets to a more pround change from the original Star Trek than tunic colors. By the second season, the Starfleet has decided to boldly stay within Federation borders. “[I]t’s clear […]