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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1506904" data-attributes="member: 1014">Well I have discovered the joy of Netflix and I am obsessivly watching the entire series of ST:TNG.  It is my goal to see all of it.  I had watched a lot of the series but this was back in the 90s (dark and dangerous times, where technolgies such as TiVo were unknown to humankind).  If I missed the intro to an episode I would have to either wait for it to come on again or ask a favor of a trek junkie who kept a vaguly distirbuing life-size carboard cutout of Troi in his appartment.  Neither were viable options to my mind.This project will likely take me awhile, but it will give a sense of closure to a part of my life.Season One The series is cooler in season one than I had remembered.  The acting is cheesy and no one is really very comfortable, but there is some definate punk/gritty elments to the series.  Geordi's pain from wearing the visor isn't ignored, Riker and Tasha didn't come from idylic homes, and Picard is espcially far more stuck up than in later episodes.  Troi ... well ... they were obviously still going back and forth between her "sex kitten" and "serious psychologist" stereotypes.  I really think Troi didn't come into her own until she put on a proper Starfleet uniform late in the series.  Worf looks dumber than I remember.  Wesley Crusher has grown on me.  Possibly because the actor and I are of a simiar age and meeting Will Wheaton would be kind of a cool thing.  Beverly Crusher carries Doctor McCoy's legacy as does every Star Trek doctor.  Deforest Kelly simply nailed his role and tainted the part of ship's doctor for forty years.I'm almost done season two.  Will comment on that when I finish.</blockquote>

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