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    • 28 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.07.28)”

    I would disagree with the sentiment that TNG is dominated by Picard/Data.

    On the one hand, yes, everyone in that show’s cast got spotlight episodes, as happened on DS9 and Voyager. They were making 26 episode seasons, and that’s just how things functioned in 90s and 2000s ensemble dramas.

    I just don’t think the TNG writers really cared about the majority of the supporting characters, other than Worf and, early on, Wesley. Yes, Geordi gets lots of screen time, and the occasional episode focused on him, but what was his personality beyond affable guy who speaks fluent technobabble? I’m enough of a Star Trek nerd to have read lots of the novels published in the 80s and 90s. I remember reading a book written by Peter David and being shocked by how much more three-dimensional Geordi felt as a character after a couple of chapters, versus how he’d been written over many seasons of television. Crusher, Riker, Troi… most of the supporting characters were very thinly written, with most of their inner life coming from what the actors were doing, and episodes focusing on them often felt obligatory, like, “Well, I guess we haven’t done a Beverly story in a while, so…” So, yes, they definitely got more attention than Sulu or Uhura on the original show. But they still were presented as minor appendages to Picard in a way that Bashir and O’Brien on DS9 or Chapel and M’Benga on SNW aren’t.

    We’re now moving far away from the original discussion of which captain people prefer, and why.

    I prefer Picard. If I could yield children I would have his babies. He’s Daddy.

    Spock is the single-best Star Trek character, but Patrick Stewart as Picard is the single-best performance in Star Trek. I got no beef with him as my captain — even if Pike’s hair is an architectural marvel.

    Mount ending up in the Captain’s Chair is a good turn for him and the franchise. Anson was good in Hell on Wheels.

    My favorite TNG episode was “The Inner Light” where Picard’s mind is taken over by a probe and he experiences the death of a planet as a local villager. The scene at the end where he plays the flute in his cabin always made me a blubbering mess.

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    Mount ending up in the Captain’s Chair is a good turn for him and the franchise.

    Yeah, he was done dirty by Marvel for sure, was owed a cosmic redress. I guess this one was literal.

    Admittedly haven’t seen much TNG for decades, and it’s totally possible that the depth was coming from the actors, but one counter would certainly be Worf, who got a lot of episodes on TNG and DS9. So they must have been interested in him. They gave him a son! That’s more than the perfunctory “Beverly sleeps with a candle” episode. (And “sleeps” is sadly doing some work in that sentence.) Riker got a double, got tested when Picard was abducted, had subplots with Troi over seasons….I dunno, you may be wrong on this one. Taking your original point, the format was the same as the original (23 eps/season, mostly standalone, not serialized), and yet the secondary cast of TNG is much more fleshed out. It’s not really comparable.

    But I won’t seriously argue about Pike, because I love the guy in that role and appreciate the attempt to make a more modern captain. It’s probably easier to pick the WORST captain… Might it be Picard? Not the actor, obvs, but the captain wasn’t that great. Lacked the tactical genius of Kirk, the fortitude of Janeway, the complexity of Sisko, the empathy of Pike….oh wait, there’s Archer. Forget it.

    One thing I never understood about American culture, which has been dominant for my generation, is the Star Track fascination. Cliche stories, bad costumes, silly aliens (ok, other than Spock), terrible acting. Even Redshirts, Scalzi’s satire book, was boring to me. And I love SciFi.

    Yeah, it’s amazing that such a terrible show has succeeded so much.

    Did you finish your novel?

    Got some people to read it and doing another round of editing.

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    I did say that the writers grew to care about Worf. (After barely giving him anything to do in the first season.) He’s probably the McCoy in the TNG version of the TOS troika, with Picard as Kirk and Data obviously as Spock.

    Maybe our Trekkerblogger Question of the Day should be which Knicks legends match up best to which Star Trek characters?

    I hope it’s good. Critics can suck.

    Haha, yes they can. I learned to avoid the people who say no, and work with those who say yes.

    RIP Tom Lehrer, probably the most brilliant satirical lyricist ever.

    Alan, when I read your question the first thing I thought about was Jalen Brunson as Spock. Consistently expressionless, extremely rare and always surprising emotional outbursts, not-so-secretly caring, deeply consistent, regularly frustrating (but mostly for his never-ending consistency), and almost always right.

    RIP Tom Lehrer, probably the most brilliant satirical lyricist ever.

    Absolutely correct… his riffs on “New Math” and “National Brotherhood Week” (among others) were pure genius.

    The Bucks were much better in 767 minutes with Antetokounmpo on the floor without Lillard (plus-11.0 points per 100 possessions) than they were in 1,326 minutes with the two stars on the floor together (plus-4.7 per 100) last season, and the difference was all about offense (123.5 vs. 115.7 scored per 100).

    If people insist on talking about bball, this is kind of amazing. Pretty sure the board was unanimous that the trade would make the Bucks worse, but I’m also pretty sure that we all thought it would be on the defensive end. There remains a lot about this game I don’t understand.

    Either way, I don’t think the Bucks will be worse this year. But Orlando is still third.

    NBA has the Celts falling to 11th in the East. 11th! Yo, they still have some players, NFW on that one.

    Doncic slimming down:

    Sure… he has to get ready for the really important basketball competition Eurobasket 2025!

    this article claims luka recorded a 42 inch vertical. i mean, absolutely not.

    There’s a joke here somewhere about metric/imperial measurements conversions and his vertical actually being 42cm

    Oh, and he can jump. Lost in the narratives about his weight and conditioning is the fact that, as a 19-year-old at the 2018 NBA Scouting Combine, Luka delivered a 42-inch vertical leap. After a full offseason with Team Luka, he’s not sure that number is still the same. “This year, we didn’t measure the jumping yet,” he says. “But I think it’s a little bit higher.”

    He’s saying that he thinks its higher than combine but call me skeptical that it was that high to begin with. With respect to Luka, wake me up on March 1st 2026 and tell me how many pound she regained.

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