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?

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 小时前

    God damn it. Well keep us informed of insights.

    As for guest appearances, people loved trek and were willing to do it. Just like real scientists in BBT (musk doesn’t count).

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    7·
    5 小时前

    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.

    • sad_detective_manOPEnglish
      3·
      5 小时前

      what was WITH that episode? I almost made my next post about that because it fucking wrecked me

      • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        5·
        5 小时前

        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.