Star Trek: the Next Generation

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Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) was the second and highest-rated prime time television series in the Star Trek entertainment franchise. Aficionados call it "TNG" to differentiate it from Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) with William Shatner Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (DS9) with Avery Brooks.

The action takes place approximately one hundred years after the close of the first voyage of the Starship Enterprise. In The Next Generation, a new Enterprise has a 'continuing mission to explore strange new worlds; an introduction derived from TOS but changed slightly to be gender-neutral[[Jona. Patrick Stewart starred as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Jonathan Frakes played his First Officer. Michael Dorn portrayed Worf, the first Klingon officer in Star Fleet.

Its style was more deliberate than that of TOS. While Shatner, playing Captain James T. Kirk, was a swashbuckling adventurer, Picard was deliberate. Many watchers commented that Picard was believable as someone who would be given command of a major vessel, where Kirk would have been more appropriate to command a raiding party.

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