I actually got through the first season before giving up on TNG. It seemed to me that they would be confronted by a menace, and the menace would then let them go at the end; so, nothing was really resolved.
A friend convinced me to revisit the show in reruns. It really hit its stride in the third season. That's when The Borg became major badasses on the show. The Borg were like the episode from TOS described in the article. They were part organic, part machine. They assimilated people into the Borg Collective.
The remaining seasons were pretty good. I didn't agree with every idea and concept on the show; but found it entertaining.
I saw some of the borg stuff. What was good about it was it forced them to deal with an adversary that you simply could not negotiate with. Which is how the world works a lot of the time.
They had to have some battle scenes. ;)
I dumped tv in 1997 but I will say my favorite space show at the time was Babylon 5. It was like “TV science fiction for people that actually read science fiction novels”.
I loved the guy trying to get a woman in his apartment so he could show her his “favorite thing to do”. After many failed attempts he got her in is place and proceeded to watch centuries old episodes of Warner Brothers cartoons.
Sorry, a bit off topic...
I’ve seen every episode of TOS at a minimum of 6 times. Some many more times.
And in case you are interested, some new episodes have been created. Also, some of the old ones have been spruced up with CG. This only affects the outer space scenes. The flyby’s of the enterprise (so close you can see people behind many of the windows) and planet surfaces that look like a modern SciFi movie.
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