The nineteenth episode of the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Genesis, aired March 19, 1994. I enjoyed this episode, even though it seems not many other people did. Gates McFadden, who plays Dr. Beverly Crusher, directed the episode.
Capt. Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) and Data (Brent Spiner) go chasing after a malfunctioning torpedo in an asteroid field. Upon their return to the Enterprise, they discover that the crew has inexplicably mutated into strange creatures.
The episode won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series. It was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series.
The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, All Good Things..., won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Visual Effects at the 46th ceremony, held September 11, 1994. It also won the Emmy forOutstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.
It had been nominated for another eight: Outstanding Drama Series (Picket Fences? Seriously? Oh, well. Angela Lansbury and Helen Mirren got ripped off, too), Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing for a Single Camera Production, Best Makeup, Best Music Composition, Best Sound Editing, and Best Hairstyling.
A fitting end for one of the best television series ever!
Star Trek: Nemesis, the fourth and final movie to feature the Next Generation cast, debuted in US theaters December 13, 2002. The film was the first to feature the Romulans primarily. Unfortunately, it was not the box-office success as the previous Star Trek movies. It was the first film that did not open at #1 its first weekend. Due to its poorer than expected performance, subsequent movies featuring the Next Generation cast were cancelled.
The original crew of Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis, appeared. Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman played antagonists. There were cameos by Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway, Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, Majel Barrett as the computer's voice and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan.
Tom Hardy was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Star Trek: Insurrection, released December 11, 1998, is the third in the Star Trek movies featuring the Next Generation cast.
The movie is about a planet with regenerative radiation, where the people never grow old. The radiation regenerates their bodies, making them immortal.
Jonathan Frakes, who plays Commander Riker, directed. The entire cast of the Next Generation appeared in the movie. Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, and Marina Sirtis. F. Murray Abraham played the main antagonist.
The movie that bridged the gap between the original Star Trek series and the Next Generation premiered November 18, 1994. In Star Trek Generations, Captain Picard must join up with Captain Kirk to stop a madman (Malcolm McDowell) from destroying planets to gain immortality.
Star Trek Generations got mixed reviews but it was a box-office success!
Spock, Bones, Uhura and Sulu did not appear in this movie.
On May 23, 1994, the last episode of one of the best shows on television ever aired. Star Trek: The Next Generation, which had been on for seven seasons ended its run with "All Good Things". Fortunately, it was the start of the movie run for the cast, who made 4 movies together.
The final episode brought back Lt. Yar and Chief O'Brien who had left the series earlier for different reasons.
They don't make them like they used to. All good things...
Star Trek: The Next Generation airedd "The Host", the 23rd episode of the 4th season, May 11, 1991. It was the first appearance of the Trills, a race of symbiotic aliens, one of whom would become a major character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dax.
In TNG, Beverly Crusher is swept off her feet by Ambassador Odan (Franc Luz), who is on a diplomatic mission to settle a brewing situation between two moons of a planet. One moon has found a way to tap into the magnetic fields of the mother planet to their immense benefit. However, this new-found system is having a devastating effect on the second moon. The moons are about to go to war so the home planet has brought in Ambassador Odan.
Deanna Troi senses strange things in Odan but cannot quite figure it out. When Ambassador Odan is attacked, he is injured and the true nature of the Trill becomes apparent. The symbiot can be saved but must be transferred to a new host immediately. William Ryker is chosen to be the host, despite him not being a Trill.
All of Odan's past lives are channeled into Will's memories and Odan (through Ryker) manage to resume their courtship.
The joining of Odan and Will takes its toll on Will's body but a replacement host from the Trill world arrives. As Beverly prepares to meet the new host, she is dissappointed to discover the new host is female.
As I mentioned before, Trills played a major part in the Deep Space Nine series with Jadzia Dax and Ezri Dax, along with appearances by many of their previous hosts.
The lovely, glamorous Gates McFadden, who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was born March 2, 1949. Although Dr. Crusher was my favorite role of hers, I also enjoyed her role in "Keep the Yuletide Gay". Granted her on-screen appearances were hardly more than cameos, I still liked seeing her. Her part in "The Hunt For Red October" was so small, if you blinked, you might have missed her, like I almost did.
