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The first seaon was rough and uneven. It got good in the second and great in the third.
Funny that Riker had to grow a beard to be taken seriously. Plus the second seaon uniforms are more dignified and less pajama-ey!
High points of the series:
The defection of Esign Ro Larin.
Picard and his brother brawling and bawling in wine fields of France after Picard has been throughly USED by the Borg the episodes before.
The two part episode that is the War with Borg (when Picard becomes Locutus)
Diana and Jordie trying to keep from laughing when Data adopts a beard.
The first half of the two part "Reunionification" story with Spock.
The entire guest appearance of Engineer Mongomery Scott.
Biggest opportunity passed up: In STNG: "First Contact" movie....when Stephen Cockrum is revealed to be a drunk and scared about making the test flight.... why didn't they give his black female companion (name I've forgotten) the opportunity to prove that 'behind every great man is a woman'...and allow HER to have made the historic flight...indicating that history has forgotten her, and honored the man instead. Would have been a GREAT message for women's lib and put men in their place. Too bad paramont chickened out on doing this. It sure felt like it was going there...
It's a shame that my favorite woman on the show's 1st season, Tasha, got killed off suddenly when Denise Crosby announced she wanted to quit the show. She may not have been my favorite kind of woman as far as face or personality, but I have a feeling I might have gotten along with her. By the episode "Angel One", she seemed to be loosening up a lot. I can't understand the complaint about her "not having enough to do". Her movie career sure didn't take off... (Doesn't that seem to be a running thing in the 80's and beyond? People quitting successful shows and then regretting it?)
I don't know ... did Denise Crosby regret leaving Star Trek: The Next Generation?
As for the complaint about not having enough to do, I can understand it. Acting isn't a 9-to-5 job, and any given actor might think being part of an ensemble when you have only one two-minute scene in any given episode because there are 11 cast members plus guest stars to include isn't what you signed up for.
That said, I'm still baffled by Sherry Stringfield, who quit NYPD Blue in its first year to join ER in its first year, but left in the third season -- and was contractually blocked from acting on TV for the duration of her original contract. She rejoined ER in the eighth season and quit again four years later.
Oh, I'm pretty sure that she wasn't happy with the parts she was playing on STTNG. Some might have compared her to the classic Ohura... "Hailing frequencies are open" (the intergalactic switchboard operator).
So, when she said that she wanted to leave, the producers needed to write a logical reason for her departure. To kill off the character may seem drastic, but look at the depth of the original character, and how little she was changing from week to week. She definitely seemed more interesting after she left.
I love the episode or two where she comes back (either through a trick of time-travel, or by the entire timestream shifting and the Enterprise B showing up, needing a tactical officer and captain before long.
But I thought the development of her daughter as a chief villain in league with the Romulans was just awful. Imagine a race of black haired militaristic Romulans willingly being led by a BLONDE offspring from the humans. I just couldn't buy it, but it was a clever way to allow her to return as a guest star on a hit series.
I wonder how the rest of the crew felt about her frequent returns?
(Other than appearing in Pet Semetary, I don't recall any other appearances in the movies, do you?)
I believe that she was in 48 Hours.
Tasha's memories were invoked in Season 2's "Measure of a Man" where Data's rights as a sentient being are put on trial and Season 4's "Legacy" where they meet Tasha's younger sister, Ishara.
Denise Crosby appeared in Playboy but was that before ST:TNG? Because I remember it being advertised as featuring Bing Crosby's grand-daughter than any Star Trek reference.
(Other than appearing in Pet Semetary, I don't recall any other appearances in the movies, do you?)
She was in Deep Impact, and I remember seeing her in a number of TV shows. Most recently Southland playing one cop's wife (she's a cop as well)
I could go with your take on situation if it wasn't for the fact that Denise Crosby knew going in that TNG was an ensemble show. So how much screen time did she realistically expect to get with 10 other actors in the cast? But then again, we don't know what the producers told her and they might have deliberately mislead her about her character's development to get her to sign up. It could well have been like a story I read where the producers of Gilligan's Island tried to get Raquel Welch to sign up for the show by telling her it was about a famous movie star who gets stranded on a deserted island with six of her fans.
ClarkKent_DC said:
It's a shame that my favorite woman on the show's 1st season, Tasha, got killed off suddenly when Denise Crosby announced she wanted to quit the show. She may not have been my favorite kind of woman as far as face or personality, but I have a feeling I might have gotten along with her. By the episode "Angel One", she seemed to be loosening up a lot. I can't understand the complaint about her "not having enough to do". Her movie career sure didn't take off... (Doesn't that seem to be a running thing in the 80's and beyond? People quitting successful shows and then regretting it?)
I don't know ... did Denise Crosby regret leaving Star Trek: The Next Generation?
As for the complaint about not having enough to do, I can understand it. Acting isn't a 9-to-5 job, and any given actor might think being part of an ensemble when you have only one two-minute scene in any given episode because there are 11 cast members plus guest stars to include isn't what you signed up for.
That said, I'm still baffled by Sherry Stringfield, who quit NYPD Blue in its first year to join ER in its first year, but left in the third season -- and was contractually blocked from acting on TV for the duration of her original contract. She rejoined ER in the eighth season and quit again four years later.
I had forgotten about her role in Deep Impact. I thought that was a great movie and her snap decision to save the baby made good sense... it was a good role for her, and one was wasn't expected at the moment.
I never ogt the impression that the STTNG producers had always intended her to be an esign Red Shirt. But I guess you could view her that way.
That makes her repeat appearance in the last two part series finale even more strange. I especially like that time jumping Picard gets it wrong, and gives a security order to Mr. Warf instead of her... ruffling her feathers a bit. It was a good bit, and Picard never lets on that he knows she's destined to die soon.
I never ogt the impression that the STTNG producers had always intended her to be an esign Red Shirt. But I guess you could view her that way.
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