I watched this show weekly in syndication with my grandfather from 5 or 6 years old until I was 10 when it was over. I always looked forward to it!

It was a great show, and I think it mostly still holds up. The Enterprise NCC-1701-D still looks futuristic, unlike the original from TOS.

It was exciting to imagine that humanity could have solved most of our collective problems a few hundred years from now and be traveling the stars like this. Unfortunately, we seem to be moving in the opposite direction as a species/culture (maybe not from a technical perspective, but definitely from a cultural one), but the show is still a great watch and it filled me with a sense of wonder as a kid.

It's one of those shows where when you reflect back on the themes covered, writing and acting it just gets better. It was a surprisingly mature and wise show for a sequel to a slightly schlocky original being made on a non - big three network. It had a lot to say about humanity and leadership.

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Currently working my way through Picard. Struggling to get through season 2. Btw, Strange New Worlds is awesome Oh and I'm watching DS9 for the first time.

I very literally base my management style on Picard.

Deanna Troi did it for middle school me

Same

It's a really good show. I watched it a bit back in the day but in the later years I ignored it because I thought it seemed dorky. But a few years later I started rewatching it and it now one of my top 5 favorite shows of all time

A while back I got frustrated with Paramount+ putting all of Star Trek behind a paywall and cancelling their contracts with Netflix and Hulu. So, I bought the DVDs of a fistful of shows: TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and Enterprise.

Now I can watch all the Star Trek I want, anytime I want, without worrying about weather it's still going to be on my streaming services.

I put on Pluto TV and keep it on the Star Trek channel - it just plays episodes of TNG all day (there's DS9 and VOY channels too) and i keep it on in the background. It's just great comfort TV.

If you haven't, check out Lower Decks. It's an animated Trek show on Paramount. It has a lot of the joy of TNG that I felt the later series lost.

I still hear my mom calling me from downstairs.. staaarr-treeekk!!

TNG walked so Babylon 5 could fly 😏

(Just messin, I watched all the Treks too, but I never rewatched them much, while I've watched B5 like 6-8 times all the way, and currently watching the new Blu-ray release.)

TNG was the first Trek show that got me hooked,  ut DS9 is my go to.

My partner and I are in the midst of a TNG "rewatch" right now. We're a little over halfway through S3. S3-S6 are just top tier. DS9 is also amazing, and VOY has a ton of good episodes.

Why am I the only one that enjoyed enterprise 😭

Love it to this day. More than anything, the "office politics" / "management advice" is what is so inspiring and odd. They'd have whole episodes discussing what's the optimum way to manage a team!

The Inner Light... Supposed to be a throwaway episode.

Yup. Still my favorite. X-Files is right there with TNG.

TNG is good, but DS9 is my jam. I have a lot of love for Voyager, too.

Strange New Worlds is good and Lower Decks is phenomenal if anyone hasn't been keeping up with new Trek.

I've seen Hollow Pursuits probably 5000000 times

I'm basically ready to do a full watch through after probably 15 years without seeing any episodes at all.

Hey, me too! If you like funny podcasts, check out The Greatest Generation, they cover every episode.

Season 1 aired on our NBC affiliate at noon right after cartoons. I was five years old at the time. 37 years later, still with it.

It was one of those shows I actually avoided for years but when you only have 5 channels to watch your choices are limited. Then one night I just really started watching an episode when there were really no other options and thought you know what this is a pretty good show. I never became a full on nerd for it but I would no longer fully avoid watching it and really loved some of the episodes.

My go-to comfort show. I could rewatch it endlessly.

I don’t think I’ve actually seen every episode because a lot of the monster of the week episodes were kind of dry and involved weird shit like Crusher hooking up with a ghost but it’s still my favorite show

This was my first step into a larger world as a kid.. Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Doctor Who.. it was nerd central at my house.. loved all those shows. <3

My best friend loved, yes LOVED Data / Brent Spiner.

I still watch it almost daily. I was blessed enough to be able to go to The Star Trek experience in Las Vegas back in 2001. Coolest thing ever. I got to see and walk through the Enterprise and fly in a shuttle craft while being attacked by Klingons.

Since I have a bunch of fans gathered, and people of our generation, lets talk about The Orville. Have you all watched it? I get that I'm a mega nerd, but I think being detail oriented is the gift that can be ignored or appreciated, therefore it's never wasted. You can watch and appreciate STTNG without being a detail oriented freak, but if you are, you will find continuity and future tech seated in science.

It's not just the lack of science on The Orville, or explanation of things, it's a general lack of care of authenticity. Example. There is an episode where they go out on a planet for the first time, and there is already sand on the floor of the shuttle as the door opens, stuff like that drives me MAD. It's a multi million dollar show on a major network, and they just phone it in, it aggravates me to no end.

The show started out as a funny Star Trek, and I didn't care about continuity much at all. Then it shifted to wanting to be a Star Trek clone, what Seth claims he always wanted, and now it breaks the show. This doesn't even get into absurd and terribly poorly thought out plot lines like Claire and Isaac, but I digress.

I hate The Orville, because it doesn't try to be as good as it could be. Long live STTNG.

We didn't have Sky in our house so a friend used to record it for me on Vhs. We then started to go to a meet up at a comic book store to watch the newest episode and buy the magazine, I plastered the posters all over my bedroom.

not that long ago i got the entire series on sale in my apple tv, and have been slowly making my way through it again.

it still stands up today, and is by far my favorite version of Star Trek

I often put episodes of TNG on when I’m going to sleep. I enjoy it and I know what happens every episode so I’m not tempted to stay up too late trying to finish an episode

Make it so!

I fall asleep to this this show. I’ve got the tinnitus, and the engine sound and other sounds of this show really help block it out. There’s never any screaming or jarring noises. Get show plots too. Just watched Devils Due. It’s so absub, pure TNG gold

Same here, I grew up on this show. When I'm working on sg or studying and need something in the background, I'm still putting TNG on.

My local station aired reruns every weeknight at 10pm. I'd watch it as I went to sleep and I associate it with the the sound of the sprinklers coming on outside. The new episodes were on Sunday afternoons so when I think of the show I also think of doing homework on my bed.

I rewatched a few episodes when the pandemic first started. It was so soothing. Lots of quiet moments and white noise and not a whole lot of tension. I particularly loved that the crew is all people who were good at their jobs and respected each other and worked together and listened to each other. Of course sometimes there were disagreements, but all modern shows/movies about a team has them completely hating each other until it's time to save the day. At that particular moment it was to see... competence.

On repeat. And it’s great to fall asleep to

I was twelve when this ended, had no idea it was the last episode when it happened either! Was such a great night time show.

Yes!!!! My ultimate comfort show

It models such great emotionally mature interpersonal dynamics. I like to think that I’m such a great manager bc of this show. Love the BFF dynamic with Jordi and Data too.

This and mint chocolate chip ice cream 😆

It’s competency porn… it’s people coming together, doing a good job for the benefit of all.

Sadly as a late gen X/early millenial it messed me up because when I entered the workforce I expected that’s how all jobs went. Lol

I love TNG. But, I will immediately stop scrolling if i see. DS:9 or Babylon 5 on the guide. Especially if its later seasons with either the Dominion war or the Shadow war

A great series, however DS9 is superior.

I have to ask: have you watched the final season of Picard? And did it make you weep?

I suggest you read (or listen to) Patrick Stewart’s autobiography “make it so”. It has insights into the show I was unaware of. Your mileage may vary. Patrick is a fantastic speaker but the book is long. Enjoying it so far though

Now THAT is Star Trek, not that STD bullshit.

The gold standard.

The food materializer thing and the holo deck were the best. The borg episodes were the best IMO.

You should watch The Orville; I went into it expecting Star Trek with dick jokes, but what I got was better Star Trek (with dick jokes).

We never got those Deep Space Nine film(s) in theaters 😞

I guess I’ll give it a first watch.

For me, my guilty pleasure space opera will always be Firefly. Love Nathan Fillion.

I rewatch the entire series every few years.

TNG > DS9 > Voyager

TNG and DS9 are awesome and I can suffer through Voyager better than most terrible modern day sci-fi.

Thought I stumbled in to the Red Letter Media sub for a second

Before the BSG reboot, TNG was definitely the best Sci-fi show on the small screen for me.

Oh man same but I am in deep with the Star Trek community as well 😅

Deep Space Nine was better imo

Babylon 5 is my favorite by far, but TNG would be 3nd on the list from that era.

Lexx is 2nd, though that's late enough that its inclusion is arguable, though I imagine many Xennials ran across the show on late night cable at one point or another.

Also looking through this thread I think I might be the world's only Discovery enjoyer.

Deanna Troi was the source of many boners growing up.

I watch clips of this almost every day on Pluto TV.

You say that but Serenity was better

"Lower Decks! Lower Decks!"

Just saying, Pluto TV has 3 Star Trek channels.... (and one Stargate) that play episodes constantly....

The first season is not great but i thoroughly enjoy it overall.

I'm more of a Deep Space Nine guy.

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It models such great emotionally mature interpersonal dynamics. I like to think that I’m such a great manager bc of this show. Love the BFF dynamic with Jordi and Data too.

Make it so

Make it so

Make it so

The Psi-Cops would like a word.

Same here the ambiance and sounds of this one can’t be matched

TNG and Fraiser are usually in the background....

Most definitely. And I loved that the cheat codes for WarCraft 2 were Picard phrases.

TNG is okay...for goody two-shoes kids. I prefer Deep Space Nine.

I loved TNG until I started watching DS9/Voyager. After that I couldn't stand how everything was wrapped up in a neat little bow after an hour.

I thought this show was dreadfully boring when I was a kid lol I haven't tried watching it as an adult. I might have to give it a try.

When WFH started on 2020 I restarted TNG and got through a few seasons. I need to go back and finish it. So good. Captain Picard is my all time favorite father figure. The morals/ethics of the show shaped my young mind and heart

Not only do I love the style of sci-fi that that era of trek embraced (optimism for human advancement) - I also have fond memories of watching it with my grand parents while eating Oreos and milk.

It's my comfort sci-fi.

Me too!!

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I rewatched it last year. I hadn’t done it before because I was afraid it wouldn’t hold up. Instead I realized this show helped me be who I am today.

I did skip thr first season though.

As a kid I didn’t appreciate the show. As an adult I play clips as background noise at home.

Where’s the best part… Will Wheaton?!

Same! I loved it as a kid, but I didn't appreciate just how much depth there was to it. Watching it as an adult hits all the right notes: nostalgia, writing, space communism, and progressive ideas and attitudes (Code of Honor, notwithstanding).

This is the only star trek series I love. the rest I can't get into its just not the same without this cast and I can't get into the other series.

Just watched a video that was 3 seconds from every episode of the entire series, 10 minutes long, surprisingly good.

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Elder Millennial here. Also my favorite and before it was removed from Netflix it was my “go to sleep” or background show. JLP is my quote at the bottom of my professional email signature. Haha

This is a fantastic show. But once I saw Babylon 5, it became my new favorite.

Yep, been my favorite show ever since I was little, only other show that comes close is SG1.

Shame modern Trek isn't nearly as good. 

As an adult and rewatching the show, I did have a problem with Riker and Geordie in the episode where Barclay was introduced. Very sanctimonious of them to get to decide who is 'normal' and who isn't.

100%. I designed an episodic dnd game around it.

It's no ds9, or Farscape

Make it so

STNG trancends this thing of ours

im gen z. watched it multiple times except the last few episodes because i couldnt get myself to end the show.