Star Trek: The Next Generation is 25 Today…
I feel old. Star Trek The Next Generation was a huge part of my childhood. I was raised on it. When it went off the air, my church (oddly enough) had a big party where we all got together and watched it, and that’s despite the fact that the series finale has a large moment where they show all life on earth as primordial ooze that has yet to evolve into a single celled organism. That’s how powerful Star Trek is. Star Trek was able to get a theater full of hundred of Christians to put aside their feelings and belief system for 2 hours to enjoy good story telling.
So now here I am a grown man and Star Trek is off the air, and Wil Wheaton who was one of my biggest childhood heros is all grown up too and married and I don’t know how I feel about that. Wil Wheaton actually still feels like he’s in his 20s. That’s not a bad thing at all actually. That kind of youthful exuberance for all the things he’s passionate about is quite charming and something to be admired by people of all ages. I suppose I’m getting off track here…
So Star Trek TNG… a quarter of a century old, still one of the best things to ever happen to TV and one of the best things on TV… period. If a rerun is on, sit down, watch it, enjoy it. It’s going to be one of the better ways you fill your brain space with entertainment that day.
