star trek: tng and tos

[cimorene]

i used to love star trek: the next generation when i was little. i've sort of moved on from it to tos, where there are, imo, more empty spaces left for character exploration and a much richer and more fertile ground in the kirk/spock relationship and the triad of the big three. as i say at my trek site, "the learned and the subtle, like the primitive and the popular, tend toward the center of imaginative experience." ( --northrop frye, anatomy of criticism.) which is to say that simplicity is often more evocative. frye mentions, as an example, the power of shakespeare's later plays like the tempest which draw more strongly on archetypes.

anyway, i didn't even discover the original trek and the wonder of k/s ;) until i was a senior in high school. i used to watch tng when i was a little kid. it's all tied up with childhood for me, and all of a sudden i miss it. does anyone else remember watching it all the time? i used to see it every night. i was heartbroken when it went out of syndication (and god bless tnt, even though i haven't started watching it again). now i want to make a deanna troi icon or three. i swear i have icon schizophrenia. how often can you change icons, anyway?

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[jillanne.livejournal.com]

TNG was a huge part of my teenage years. Just -- yes. Every night. Tons of VHS tapes full of episodes. My sister and I geeked out and tried to find even more nitpicks than were in the Nitpicker's Guide. It did break my heart when it went out of syndication; I remember watching All Good Things... and thinking thank God for reruns.

Ahh, memories.