Consistently well-written and provactive, though they sometimes got caught up in the stupid, tired "who's sleeping with who" formula--including with Data the Android, for crying out loud! Might have been a tad too sophisticated for some of the original ST audience who were used to Kirk and Spock kicking (or getting some) alien ass and at least one red-shirted security guard getting blown away each episode...

Some people may hate me for this but I did not like this show. The people in it continuously whined. If they did it every once in a while, it wouldn't have been bad but they did it over and over again.
On one episode Worf and a woman were beamed to a planet. They started getting into a shoot out. I thought that this was going to be an awesome episode but I was wrong. The woman got killed and when Worf was beamed back aboard the Enterprise, they started whining. My brother and my best friend disliked this show also.
Another thing that I disliked about this show was that the women were called Sir instead of Maam.
I wasn't a big Star Trek fan but after watching a bunch of the Next Generation episodes, I started appreciating the original Star Trek a lot more. The original Star Trek rocked. The Next Generation did not. I give this show a 1 star rating.

Was this not a 90´s show?  I always thought it was, but I loved it nonetheless...  Love that Patrick Stewart

Well done overall. Kind of hinges on whether you like Patrick Stewart as the Captain. The rest of the cast was pretty good too. Too many weird looking obviously human under the makeup critters for me .

Resitance is Futile

The Best Sci-Fi series of all time. I am buying all seasons on DVD. A lot of the episodes were forgettable, but many were awesome, but overall the most memorable Star Trek TV series.

Fantastic !!

Classic.

This was one of the few shows the me, my mom, and my sister actually sat down and watched together and enjoyed it.

As a Star Wars geek I'm supposed to trash this one, but I gotta say that it is responsible for one of my all time favorite characters, Q. A Q episode is always a treat.

Easily one of the best Star Trek shows. Why is it so low on the list?

The Best of the of 5 TV series about Star Trek.

Intelligent show.

It was hard to decide on a rating for this one. I'm not exactly a Trekkie. My family used to watch this show religiously, and could never figure out why. It bored me for the most part. I guess the acting was okay, and some of the episodes had a cool plot, but I couldn't get into it. 2 and a half stars overall

Very intelligent show--maybe TOO intelligent for the average Joe Sixpack viewer, who prefers their Tee-Vee trashy and simple...

Star trek the worst generation!

Great Sci-Fi show.

there were boring episodes but there were really good episodes

Much more intelligent than the original.

i never was a big fan of the original star trek but i loved next generation.it had some of the greatest characters. worf was the best. i thought he cool. he had klingon pride and honor and yet some of the characteristics of being raised by human parents would come through and make him so lovable and made him standout compared to the other klingon characters. data was more human than some humans.this show showed a world full of diversity and showed that it is possible to accept differences in others

One of the best shows of the 80's early 90's. I loved that show. Nobody thought that bringing Star Trek back was a good idea, but they worked it out. The show started kinda slow (cheap effect, lame stories) but picked up during the third and fourth season. Patrick Steward and Brent Spiner are outshining the rest of the team, but everyone was doing their part. This show was a huge part of my teenagerhood and I love thinking back.

The question of TNG vs. TOS is a question of character-driven stories vs. plot-driven stories. Both have advantages and disadvantages, but in this case, both worked.

Quite possibly the only show worse than mamas family. Sci-fi sucks.

can not get enough

Original series in 70's a 5.

Great show. I grew up watching this, still hear the theme song in my head on the rare day that i am upbeat. For a TV show, it had great acting and solid story telling. i get a kick out of watching the dvd's and remembering how awesome i thought the effects were back then and realizing that they weren't as great i thought they were, but oh well. too many anomolies disrupt ship, people, polar bears, etc plots, made you wonder how anyone ever got anywhere alive in that universe. i really enjoyed the last episode of the series, one of the few great sci-fi moments of TV.

STAR TREK: The Next Generation is the best STAR TREK series. Good acting, good scenery and reasonable (but hardly superb) special effects are all reasons to watch it. It's only flaw is that it ran a couple of years too long. The earlier episodes had more flair than the newer ones. However, it stemmed the inevitable decline of Star Trek brought about by DEEP SPACE NINE and VOYAGER.

Best star trek I ever watched was star trek: TNG

I didn't like Star Trek: The Next Generation when I first saw the program. The special effects looked weak even for the later 1980's (I suppose for budget reasons), there were just too many characters, and I first thought the show felt like a futuristic soap opera (eg Deep Space Nine). Nevertheless, I grew to love it, and TNG remains the best of the Star Trek series. Eventually, as the show became more popular, the special effects got more elaborate (again I suppose with better financing), though I speculate that the occasional holideck episode was inserted for budgetary considerations. Generally, the casting and plots were excellent and imaginative. For instance the producers scored a real coup getting Patrick Stewart to play Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (though no Frenchman would ever be entrusted with this responsibility ~snickers~), and Brent Spiner proved to be the most versatile cast member as the inspired android Lt. Cmdr. Data. The series was progressive placing female actors in strong and substantial roles (eg Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher), and the producers correctly reversed the originally planned roles for Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby who ultimately played Counselor/Lt. Cmdr. Deanna Troi and Tasha Yar, respectively. The worst casting and screenwriting choice was (of course) Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher. Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced better alien races and further developed those from the original series (eg the Klingons and Romulans). Finally, this series was largely successful due to its naval themes and protocol, resulting in the chain of command and duties seeming better defined and structured than the science fiction shows that preceded the series.

Boy did this show get boring in a hurry. I'm amazed that this Star Trek incarnation was able to spin off so many other boring shows. I generally liked this show but it was too much of a soap opera most of the time. Certain times it was very well written, but over time those episodes were the exception and not the rule. One of the most irritating things about this show (and the other ST shows it spawned) was the incessant reliance on "subspace this and subspace that" that they used to explain ANY scientific concept that made no sense anyway. Poor science for a sci-fi show; maybe they should have gotten some help from Arthur C. Clarke or Issac Asimov when it comes to grasping realistic sci-fi concepts. Well, that's a bit nitpicky I suppose. The bottom line is that ST:TNG is worth watching but be prepared to sit though a lot of soap opera stuff and plots that tend to drag out. The acting was consistently above agerage for a tv show, by the way.

Why isn't this first??? Picard and co are my favorite! Superb acting, great story lines! It didn't get as much credit because it's sci-fi.

No offence to all of you crazy people who love Star Trek but I think it is one of the worst things to ever hit the television screen. I feel very sorry for the people who enjoy it.

Nothing in comparison to the original. Die, Picard, die.

When the original Star Trek series was first cancelled in 1968, a massive letter campaign brought the show back for one more season before being canned for good. This was just one sign that Gene Roddenberry had indeed begun a legacy of science fiction entertainment that could never be toppled. In 1987, after the original cast had seen success in multiple motion pictures, the second (officially, the animated series of 1973-1975 is non-canonical) Star Trek series warped into first-run syndication. Set ninety years after the end of the original series (and, thus, about eighty years after the first six motion pictures), Star Trek: The Next Generation proves why it is the second best of the Star Trek television series. The cast is, pardon the pun, stellar. Led by Shakespearian actor Patrick Stewart, the entire cast is talented and portrays a range of emotions and play situations from serious to light-hearted. The special effects, even though they are technically outdated, still look great even today. The design for the Galaxy-class Enterprise-D is still one of the best (what other starship can do the ultra-awesome saucer separation, huh?). The show also had a great, optimistic tone that everyone can enjoy. Earth was a paradise and had evolved beyond capitalism. On the home planet of the Federation, there was no homelessness, no strife and no crime. Our own world will be like that soon. The plots, although they sometimes drag (especially in the last two seasons) are great. Everything from the Klingons, the Borg, Q, time loops, amnesia, a virus that acts like alcohol on the brain, a vast galactic conspiracy, spatial anomalies. The show crossed over directly with Deep Space Nine more than once and launched the plot about the Maquis, which would later be integral to the concept of the best Trek show yet, Voyager. Star Trek is science fiction at its very best and while the others can try (the abysmal “Farscape”, for instance) they shall never beat the United Federation of Planets!

N.Gen gets a 3 by default.I love the original so I won,t give a 1 to a spinoff. Therank of Kirk and Picard is the same but look at their age diff. Picard was a goof up if it took him this long to make it. Also Kirk would not have allowed a snot nosed kid on the bridge every week,what was up with tittywoman running around ? Warf ,Tasha and No.1 who should have been cast as the Capt. almost made this show watchable.

I watched this show every night at 9:00 when they played it on FOX. I absolutely adore it.

Don't even try to compare this poor series to the original.

When this show hit the screen, I really did not like it very much and baulked at my old star trek being tampered with. However, once I gave it a chance, I really started to like it. However, it never did make it to what I would call, a favorite of the sci-fi genre.

It follows in the tradition oF Star Trek. They are all fantastic.

I've seen a lot of spin off shows really take a tailspin, crash and burn, but this show lasted longer than the original?!? I would've never thought it would. I was actually surprised by the skillful writing and how well the cast worked with this show. It was not a bad show and probably one of the most successful spin offs of all time.

Most of the time this was an excellent, well thought out program. Some of the episodes trudged familiar territory, but I always got the feeling the actors were enjoying what they were doing, and they always did a good job of acting. TNG showed more imagination than most of the other shows on at the time.

Star Trek TNG is the best series of ST by far, while I do have my problems with it like my favorite person on the show "Dr. Crusher" is over looked.... alot but hey I can live....

Excellent Sci-Fi show, and true to Gene Roddenberry's original dream. Great characters, interesting plots and very true to the formula. Best Star Trek Ever!!

1st season was iffy. But after that, lived up to it's predacessors. Shame the shows to follow it never did.

this show is horrible, irritating and stupid

The original Star Trek was good, amazing for its time, but Star Trek Next Generation was much, much better. Jean-Luc Picard was a great captain, with a super crew -- my personal favourites were Worf, Dr. Crusher, and Data. I'd be more optimistic if I thought the future might be like this!

This was the best Star Trek series ever; much more so than the totally silly original. TNG was intelligent, well written, and well acted. Picard is a much better captain than Kirk. Also loved Data and Beverly Crusher. Weaker but still watchable characters: Riker and Deanna Troi (What the heck was she doing on the bridge anyway?); most superfluos and annoying character: Wesley Crusher

Great story lines! One of the greatest sci-fi shows every!

Great writing and great acting. Too bad there isn't a DVD collection to buy, if there is please let me know. The "feel" the writers and actors have built up over the many episodes really shines when you watch a few shows. I don't think that feel can ever be bought to any tv show ever.

Star Trek: The Next Generation was a better attempt to revive the original series then Deep Space Nine, but it still suffers from a weak script. The idea of reviving it was pretty good, and Next Generation has a pretty good run, up until the 1992-1993 season, when the series lost a lot of it's spunk and storyline, and stuff like that.