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   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In rec.arts.tv Jax  wrote:   
   > SoHillsGuy sez:   
   > <<   
   >> Wasn't the first season done during the year the writers' guild was   
   > on   
   >> strike for a good portion of the season?   
   >>>   
   >   
   > Second season, actually...the premiere episode of S2 was a script taken   
   > from the failed '70's revival Trek, and the finale...let's not even   
   > talk about "Shades of Grey".  Put it this way:  The entirety of Voyager   
   > and Enterprise was better than "Shades of Grey"...   
      
   I was one of those Trek fans from the first run of TOS in the 60s who   
   was outraged that anyone would dare make a new Trek show without the   
   original characters and actors.  So I refused to watch TNG at first, until   
   I finally stumbled across it by accident sometime in the third or forth   
   season and thought, "Hey, this isn't bad!"  It soon became a favorite   
   of mine, and even won over my wife (who never cared anything about TOS).   
   It wasn't until we saw the first couple of seasons on VHS that I realized   
   how lucky I'd been to be spared seeing it when it first aired.  If I'd   
   tried watching it from the beginning then I'd probably never have gotten   
   to the good seasons before giving up on it.  As it happened, seeing the   
   junky stuff *after* becoming a TNG fan wasn't so bad, because it was fun   
   to contrast the stiff, preachy tone of the characters (Picard and Troi   
   in particular) with the somewhat more relaxed and natural attitudes in   
   the later episodes.   
      
   (It became a joke in my household, when listening to anyone who was   
   beginning to sound a little pompous or pretentious, for one of us to   
   stop in the middle of the conversation and stare off into the distance   
   while saying something like, "But that's why we're out here, to explore,   
   to learn, to improve ourselves and make the Universe a better place.   
   Make it so!"  :-)   
      
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