Originally, says SyFy Wire, the Borg weren't very scary. Though Worf is trying to murder them and Picard's beginning to succumb himself, Data engineers a treatment and saves the day. Crusher's experimental treatment has somehow reversed evolution. Worst of all, Worf has grown venom glands, an exoskeleton, and a supremely bad attitude. Barclay is now some sort of spider-man stalking engineering. They enter the counselor's quarters to find that Troi has turned into a frog woman, gills and all. The Enterprise is eerily quiet - but not uninhabited. It's weird but not odd enough to keep Picard and Data from going after a rogue test torpedo.īy the time the duo step back on board, it's a different matter. Worf becomes ultra-aggressive, Barclay gets extra twitchy, and Troi longs for a humidifier or 20 in her quarters. Seems innocuous, but people soon begin to act strangely. This time, he's actually sick with a mild flu, but Crusher says she'll cure him with a genetically engineered treatment. It starts with Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, usually a nervous, hypochondriac mess played for laughs. Read on to learn more, but beware the spoilers that lie ahead.
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The new series eventually won fans over, thanks to some beautiful episodes - and in spite of a few truly awful ones.
Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), among a cast of other rotating regulars. They were joined by Security Chief Worf (Michael Dorn), Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), and Dr.
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He was backed up by Commander Will Riker (Frakes), android Data (Brent Spiner), and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). Patrick Stewart featured as the bald English guy, the philosophical Captain Jean-Luc Picard. "They were generally not terribly interested and completely unfamiliar with the new Star Trek," he said recently at Galax圜on, " had a bald English captain with a French name, and an entirely new cast." According to Johnathan Frakes, who played Riker on TNG, early fan reactions were understandable. Running from 1987 until 1994, Star Trek: The Next Generation didn't get an easy start, as many die-hard Trekkies were skeptical of the new series. It's been the same for all subsequent shows in the franchise, including the sequel series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. At the same time, says SyFY Wire, its episodes have been generating controversy and confusion since the beginning. Since the very first episode of Star Trek aired in 1966, the series has built a fanbase of epic proportions.