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.
Another of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation series Disaster aired October 19, 1991. After the Enterprise hits a quantum filament, the ship is incapacitated, isolating the crew. Troi, Miles O'Brien and Ensign Ro are trapped on the bridge. Picard is trapped in a turbolift with three children and his child-skills are put to the test. Riker, Data, Worf and Keiko O'Brien are stuck in Ten Forward. In a hilarious break from the drama, Keiko goes into labor and Worf has to deliver the baby.
This was another one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Thine Own Self which aired February 12, 1994. Data (Brent Spiner) is tracking a failed probe which crashed onto a primitive planet, that is unaware of interstellar beings and warp drive.
Unfortunately, Data also crashes and loses his memory. He wanders into a nearby village that appears to be technologically similar to medieval England. He is taken in by a kindly widower Garvin and his daughter Gia. Without his memory, Data inadvertently exposes the inhabitants to radioactive rocks, and soon people start getting sick. So one can imagine what happens when a stranger comes to town and people fall ill.
The village doctor Talur (played by actress Ronnie Claire Edwards [an Okie!] is a strong female character who accepts Data and is not afraid of him.
Meanwhile, Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) is taking her bridge officer tests, which Riker (Jonathan Frakes) is supervising. She keeps failing the engineering engineering test.
Written by Ronald D. Moore (inspired by Raise the Titanic) and directed by Levar Burton, episode 12 of season 7 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Pegasus, aired January 8, 1994.
I liked this one because of the concept that the United Federation of Planets could finally have cloaking technology. I always thought they got ripped off in the treaty with the Romulans, especially since the Klingons had access to the same technology.
I remember when Kirk and Spock stole a cloaking device from a Romulan vessel in The Enterprise Incident but it was in the final season of the original series, like The Pegasus was.
This episode also had a creepy feeling to it as Riker and Admiral Pressman discuss what happened to the crew who were inside the rock when the Pegasus materialized. Ick.
At the end, when Picard says they will be contacting the Romulans concerning this incident, I was kinda pissed at him. The Enterprise should have kept the cloaking device since it was clearly giving the Romulans a huge advantage.
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.
Jonathan Scott Frakes, born August 19, 1952, gained international fame as his role as Commander William Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also an accomplished director, having directed two Star Trek movies, as well as episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
He is good friends with TNG co-star Marina Sirtis and he is maried to Genie Francis of General Hospital.
