This has been my favorite thing about rewatching TNG. The show has reached its rhythm where it’s regularly in dialogue with itself about media and politics of the 90’s. I get to keep doing that stupid excited Leonardo DiCaprio point every time I see something that flew over my head when I was a child.

Can somebody explain to me, what WAS The Next Generation? It ran for so long and provided so much intermittent work for a-listing actors. Was appearing as a plot-centric guest a form of slumming it? Or was getting to deliver a line as a nameless ensign a momentous way for new actors to try and get in to the business?

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    For Famke Janssen, she was just branching away from modeling. Her appearance in s5e21 “The Perfect Mate” helped get her role in Goldeneye as Xenia Onatopp a few years later.

      • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        It’s a weird one, for sure.

        “Let’s create a species whose women can charm any male, then have her attempt to seduce Picard over and over again.” - Dick Berman

        There’s some fun moments, though, like Worf in Ten Forward or Riker’s “I’ll be in holodeck 3 if anyone needs me.”

        Also note the re-use of their makeup transferred over to the Trill on DS9.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          Dick Berman

          Bro you can’t just blame him for the horny shit. Star Trek has always been horny thanks to Roddenberry.

          • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            5·
            4 months ago

            Understandable, but he’d already passed by the time of that episode. The proverbial torch had been passed between sticky hands.