{"id":9234,"date":"2017-09-29T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2017-09-29T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T23:24:33","slug":"the-classic-legend-begins-an-all-new-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/the-classic-legend-begins-an-all-new-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Classic Legend Begins An All-New Adventure&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an addendum to my previous post: It&#8217;s the introductory preview that aired just before &#8220;Encounter at Farpoint,&#8221; the two-hour premiere episode of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation. <\/em>Or, as the announcer dude says it, &#8220;Starrrrrrrr Trek!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QgWdcFLLi4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See what I mean about the ads making this show look action-packed? Let&#8217;s just say this impression was&#8230; not entirely accurate. The ratio of long-winded speechifying to fisticuffs and\/or phaser fire was pretty broad in &#8220;Farpoint.&#8221; But it&#8217;s just as well, since TNG never did do action very well, in my opinion. I don&#8217;t know if the cast or directors weren&#8217;t comfortable doing action, or if the show&#8217;s tone of benign enlightenment simply wasn&#8217;t compatible with it, but TNG was always far better in moments of quiet drama than the sorts of shenanigans that Kirk and company often engaged in.<\/p>\n<p>Still&#8230; it&#8217;s fun to see this little clip again. I think it conveys some of the excitement that swirled around the premiere, which is so very different from the blase&#8217; or outright hostile attitudes with which the new <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> is being met&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an addendum to my previous post: It&#8217;s the introductory preview that aired just before &#8220;Encounter at Farpoint,&#8221; the two-hour premiere episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Or, as the announcer dude says it, &#8220;Starrrrrrrr Trek!&#8221; See what I mean about the ads making this show look action-packed? Let&#8217;s just say this impression was&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}