Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction series created by Gene Rodenberry for syndication. It is a spin-off of Star Trek. It ran from September 28, 1987 to May 23, 1994 for seven seasons. It spun off four films as well as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Series summary[]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is in charge of an ongoing research mission to explore new planets and civilisations. He is joined by a diverse crew, including ladies' man William Riker (Jonathan Frakes), engineer Geordi LaForge (LeVar Burton), Klingon warrior Worf (Michael Dorn), robot Data (Brent Spiner) and others. Their adventures take them up against strange and terrible enemies including The Borg, a race of cyborgs who kidnap and assimilate life-forms into their hive mind.
Parent[]
Star Trek spun off Star Trek: The Next Generation. Leonard McCoy, played by DeForrest Kelly; Mongomery Scott, played by James Doohan; and Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, appeared in several episodes of The Next Generation.
Spin-offs[]
- Star Trek: The Next Generation spun off Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Miles O'Brian from The Next Generation joining the cast and Captain Jean-Luc Picard making a special quest appearance. Worf will join its cast later as a main cast member.
- Star Trek: Picard follows Jean-Luc Picard in the years after The Next Generation ended.
- This series also spun-off a film series:
- Star Trek Generations (1994)
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
- Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Westphall connections in Star Trek: The Next Generation[]
- The planet Alderaan from Star Wars is listed on a Starship Deploy Status chart of diplomatic missions in "The Measure of a Man"
- The Blue Barrot Café that Rick Blaine frequented in Casablanca is mentioned as having a satellite location on Sarona VIII in "We'll Always Have Paris".
- An Oscillation Overthruster from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is seen in "Pen Pals".
- A Type 7 shuttle craft named Indiana Jones appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation "Evolution". All other known Type 7 crafts were named after real people within the universe, so this appearance crosses the Star Trek franchise with the Indiana Jones franchise which began with Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- A sign for the King Mei Hotel from Another 48 Hrs. is seen in "Legacy".
- The San Francisco Globe, a fictional newspaper seen prominently in Falcon Crest appears in "The Big Goodbye".
- Altair IV from Forbidden Planet is mentioned in "Eye of the Beholder".
- The SS Buckaroo Banzai and Planet 10 from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension be seen on a screen in "Up the Long Ladder".
- An element named after the country of Freedonia from Duck Soup is seen in "Rascals".
- In "Conspiracy", Benjamin Franklin Pierce (Hawkeye) commands the USS James Fenimore Cooper and B.J. Hunnicutt orders the ship to make a different course heading. Both were characters from M*A*S*H.
- In "Interface", a medical log lists several characters from film and television:
- Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes
- Luke Skywalker from Star Wars
- On several occasions, it is mentioned that Data has a Positronic brain, a fictional robotic central processing unit prominently seen in I, Robot.
- In "The First Duty", an Academy trainer craft featured a Cobra logo, as seen in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
- In "The Game" The Phoenix Asteroid Cluster from Dark Star appears.
Westphall connections to Star Trek: The Next Generation[]
- The San Francisco Register from "Time's Arrow" appeared in Journeyman.
- William Riker is seen on a list of vital signs of members of a strike team in the episode "Babylon's Ashes" of The Expanse.
- Worf and two other recurring characters along with the Enterprise-D bridge from this series appeared in the Webster episode "Webtrek" when the title character was accidentally transported in space and time to the Enterprise.