Among other things, the dramatic music (as well as that background “engine hum”) was really overplayed in the first few seasons of TNG, almost to the point of drowning out the dialgue.
I’ve seen a few episodes of Voyager lately and its aged much worse than TNG has. I haven’t seen any DS9 episodes to compare them to though. 
and another thing, I don’t much like the color of your post.
The first season of TNG was very, formative (IOW it often stunk). It got considerable better from the 2nd season on.
You can always immediately spot a 1st season show by the uniforms. They had no collars, an extra stripe along the top black part and an obnoxious seem right down the front! Not to mention the ridiculous mini-skirt uniforms some of the women wore.
Troi’s hair (i.e. wig) and Worf’s makeup were both really bad too.
Some of the men, too. I kid you not.
Umm… I don’t recall this. Do you have a pic link to buttress this assertion.
! saw hairy legs walk by in a skirt in one episode. I can’t remember which. The guy was carrying one on those pads Yeoman Rand was always handing Kirk to sign.
There are definitely men in miniskirts in the pilot episode–the name of which escapes me now. Actually, I didn’t mind that, and kind of wished they’d kept it up…
I’ll see if I can get Mr. Cameron to get a screen capture. My computer isn’t set up for it.
Journey to Farpoint
“The Inner Light” was my favorite TNG episode. Most of the others had way too much trek-babble-as-substitute-for-writing-good-plot-lines, and the new age philosophy drove me absolutely batty. And especially the quasi-communist never-explained nature of the federation.
But let’s contrast TNG with the best SF on TV, which was Firefly:
TNG:
Captain: Helmsman, take us to planet X.
Troi: Captain, are you sure that’s wise? I’m picking up conflicting emotions.
Riker: Captain, planet X is off limits. Surely you know that!
Geordi: Yeah, Captain! Besides, it’s almost lunchtime. Shouldn’t we get together as a committee and decide whether or not we should actually set course before or after lunch?
Worf: Before we go, captain, would you mind if I killed something?
Captain: Oh, the decisions! It’s so difficult!
Firefly:
Captain: Set course to take us out of here.
Crewman: Are you sure that’s wise?
Captain: Do you know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I beat your ass with until you realize who’s in ruttin’ command!
Crewman: Aye Aye, sir!
Encounter at Farpoint.
For shame… you should have your Trekkie license revoked.
I agree. You’re conflating the first episode (Encounter at Farpoint) with the last (Journey’s End).
Hang your head in shame!
Ahem. Give me your card while you’re at it, young man. The series’ finale was All Good Things.
AHEM. It was “All Good Things…” - you forgot an ellipsis. Not a major infraction, to be sure, so I’m just going to put you on probation.
Whoops, Journey’s End wasn’t the last, but the seventh-to-last episode.
I remain smug and outraged.
I seem to recall that there was a television special called “Journey’s End”, hosted by Jonathan Frakes, which looked back on TNG, and aired like right before “All Good Things…”. I guess I’m misremembering, though, because I can’t find any evidence of it, even under a different title.
It was a test, and you did very well.
:dubious:
Let me hasten to add …
Data: I may learn something about being human on planet X.
Wesley: Wow, am I a weenie.
Barclay: Me, too. And everyone keeps asking me why the guy from “The A-Team” is wandering around the Enterprise.
And somebody’s got to run a Level 5 diagnostic, then crawl through one of the Jefferies tubes to reroute something through the deflector dish!
Don’t forget Q. It isn’t a TNG episode without him.