Love TNG.
I disagree with the group hug comment. I always found TNG to be a kind of show that takes on todays faults in society and deals with them in ways that we should be dealing with them.
Well, maybe not the episode where Worf kills Duras. But I think I'd have killed him too.
Picard is the man. Yeah yeah, it's just a tv show... But the writing for Picard was so good, so often. Could you imagine him as US prez?
The only episodes that I really didn't care for were ones that focussed on Troi. She was pretty... Pretty annoying.
As for the technobabble... Well, I'm just a geek at heart. I loved it.
I once googled the star trek galaxy (or something to that effect), and stared at that map for a good half hour. It had everything on it... Romulan space, the neutral zone, UFP, Klingon empire, cardassia, betazed...
I think I'll go look for that map again.
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