Star Trek’s Worst Showrunner Perfected Its Best Villain
One of the things that many fans forget about Star Trek: The Next Generation is that it had three different showrunners. It was originally helmed by Gene Roddenberry, and it was Michael Piller who arguably made the show great when he came on board in season 3. In between, there was Maurice Hurley, who is generally considered the worst of the TNG showrunners but who made one undeniably awesome contribution to the show: he imagined the godlike Q (John de Lancie as a mischievous entity here to teach us lessons, and that shaped the character through the series finale and beyond.
Is Star Trek: Strange New Worlds too "Star Trek-y" for casuals?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a beloved new entry into the world of Star Trek. It features Captain Christopher Pike getting to finish the stories that franchise head Gene Roddenberry had hoped he would all those years ago when he created the failed first pilot of the franchise. Now, fans are fully behind the leading man character and his plucky crew of fellow Starfleet greats.
The Real-Life Couples of the ‘Star Trek’ Cast: Love Stories Beyond the Final Frontier
Anyone who's seen the original Star Trek is well aware that Captain James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner, has a reputation with the ladies that stretches from one end of the galaxy to the other, and that Mr. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, has had a few romantic liaisons of his own, but what about the ...
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The Star Trek Writer Who Gave Data His Finest Moment
Star Trek is one of science fiction’s longest-running franchises, and even as audiences are enjoying NuTrek offerings like Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, it’s important to remember the creators who led this Gene Roddenberry franchise to where it is. For example, Melinda M. Snodgrass is not a household name among most fans, but she wrote “The Measure of a Man,” which many consider the best episode of The Next Generation ever written. This Star Trek writer arguably has the best understanding of the android character Data (Brent Spiner), and she gave him his finest moment in “Pen Pals” when he encouraged Captain Picard to save a doomed little girl.
The Star Trek Episode Gene Roddenberry Made Nearly Impossible To Film
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek out of his utopian ideals, but it didn’t take long for those ideals to cause a problem in the early days of The Next Generation. The creator infamously didn’t want to portray any kind of conflict between humans (especially between the Enterprise crew) because he wanted to drive home that humanity had evolved past such petty bickering. This edict made it difficult to write and direct for the show and nearly made one TNG episode impossible: “The Icarus Factor” director Robert Iscove hated being unable to dive into the conflict between Riker and his deadbeat dad and turned down later Trek directing jobs.