Star Trek: The Next Generation Turns 35 - Part Two
One TNG anniversary tribute isn't enough. Here's Next Generation Two with observations & warp fueled recollections from the funnyman himself, stand-up comic and TV producer Adam Feuerberg. Make It So!
Sometimes a thing is so big, so epic, so grandly galaxy spanning, it deserves far more attention than merely one celebration. Star Trek: The Next Generation crossing another timescape of a milestone is definitely one of those big, big things.
Go big or go home? Do you know just how BIG Captain Picard’s Starship is?
We did a first go round and Next Gen fans loved us for making it. You can check out our first installment here. But we felt it just wasn’t enough.
So, let’s talk about Star Trek: The Next Generation a wee bit more.
Phasers And Pockets
Lasers are simply quaint light guns to proper Starfleet explorer folk. Let’s talk about those handy dandy phasers.
The ray guns which Captain Kirk and Spock used so lovingly and devastatingly in the original series are now iconic. How do you do better than a legend? The Next Generation production staff sought to put a new updated spin on them and did a truly cool redesign.
How about those uniforms? Where the hell are the pockets? How tight is too tight? Ask Jonathan Frakes who played Will Riker. He was the beefiest one - next to Michael Dorn’s Worf - how did he like having to slip into those one piece leotard like costumes? Don’t eat another brownie at lunch - those uniforms are unforgiving.
Here’s what Frakes had to say about having no pockets.
"The only problem I have with the costumes is that they have no pockets. Where do they keep all their stuff?"
As a stand-up comic, Adam Feuerberg knows the fun and funny in our lives - even those living in our far flung future. Adam offers his own recollections of first seeing The Next Generation way back when he was only just a wee lad. Yet this formative experience stuck with him and turned him into a life long Trek fan, Trekkie or Trekker - take your nickname pick.
C’mon, let’s talk more of the fantastic future which creator Gene Roddenberry launched in the 1980’s. Let’s talk the next sci-fi generation, let’s talk Star Trek: TNG.