Star Trek: The Next Generation

I don't know if it's because I was at the ideal age and mindset when this series was aired, but it's precisely this series of Star Trek stories that I like the most. The optimal casting, the star fleet, and the crew of the Enterprise made me identify with Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes. There are decent scripts for each episode, which are in some cases borrowed from the original TV series from the '60s. Overall impression: 65%. Later mutations, especially Voyager, seemed somewhat cliché with the constant presentation of the same schemes and also with a certain studio "sterility." (18.04.2009)

The best section of the Star Trek cult, probably because it is our "contemporary". In 40 years, viewers will probably laugh at it the way we laugh at the original series today, but still, I’ve grown to like the big family under the command of the charismatic "skinhead" Jean-Luc Picard. Thanks to The Next Generation, Star Trek has become a massive fiction world with incredible sophistication. The entire Star Trek series is a celebration of human imagination and often a treasure trove of great craftsmanship (some of the works are among the best that the series has produced as a genre). It is also gratifying to incorporate literary classics into an otherwise hi-tech storyline. In short, thanks to the Enterprise of any series, we can go where no one has gone before. (26.01.2004)