It’s so bizarre to read this in the present, knowing how incredible TNG was, but I get it - the original crew WAS Star Trek to them.

The dedicated fans revived this series in syndication, well after it had gone off the air in 1969, and felt attached to the characters that they had obsessed over between then and the 1980s. Like modern fans, they thought that departure from what they knew would ruin it.

I wish I could go back in time and tell them that TNG is going to rock.

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    351 year ago

    There were Star Trek fans at the time screaming from the rooftops about how TNG would ruin Star Trek. Before TNG even aired. But, there were also Star Trek fans who, while disappointed to not have the TOS crew back, were curious about what TNG was going to bring to the table. And, really happy to have a Star Trek series again. But, “Curious Trekkies Wait to See What’s What with TNG” wasn’t going to sell as many papers and stir up as much drama.

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      “Bad Trek is better than no Trek” was the begrudging opinion of TOS fans for the first season of TNG.

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        51 year ago

        Lol. That was it. I’m glad TNG had more seasons, getting better and better as time went on.

    • Altima NEO
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      Wasnt it 20 years later too? I mean the og crew probably didn’t want to come back

      • Nmyownworld
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        41 year ago

        Yeah. The TOS cast did movies, but there’s a difference between doing a film and doing a weekly series. TOS was comfort viewing, and fans were going to fan in wanting more of the same.

    • @TrustingZebra
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      There were Star Trek fans at the time screaming from the rooftops about how TNG would ruin Star Trek.

      Is this what people had to do to spread their word before the internet?

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      21 year ago

      Well, they probably have one point - how many modern Trek fans have even watched TOS?

        • AngrilyEatingMuffins
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          I’ve seen maybe a quarter of the episodes. Seen every other trek episode multiple times. I know it’s blasphemy but trek got a lot better post Roddenberry

        • v_krishna
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          1985, TNG was definitely my introduction, really even Voyager and then got into TNG from there. I haven’t seen more than a couple TOS episodes but have seen everything else (except the animated ones, and many of the old movies barely watched once)

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        A lot, I think. At the time of TNG’s initial broadcast, TOS was omnipresent in syndication. And outside of TAS, the only Star Trek series at the time. Star Trek fans watched the heck out of TOS. Then, the Star Trek movies with the TOS cast. The first four films were released before TNG first aired.

        • Match!!
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          61 year ago

          Friend, I hate to say this, but TNG aired 35 years ago…

          • Nmyownworld
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            31 year ago

            I’m aware. So is the newspaper article this post is about.