Making Star Trek: The Next Generation Even Better (Analysis) (Scifi TV Analysis)

Star Trek: The Next Generation had a lot of good things going for it. Visually, it was a treat: the colorful uniforms, the sets, the spaceships, Counselor Troi in certain outfits, etc. Some of the characters like Picard and Data were very interesting. The show also had a lot of intriguing ideas about time travel, parallel dimensions, clones, robots and other classic sci-fi themes. But some of these ideas were either executed poorly, or weren't written as well as they could have been. Some episodes felt like they were dropped in from soap operas or Sesame Street and had little to do with Star Trek. At times the behavior of many of the characters simply was not realistic. The purpose of this book is to show how much better The Next Generation could have been, critiquing both the plot and the characterizations.