It’s so bizarre to read this in the present, knowing how incredible TNG was, but I get it - the original crew WAS Star Trek to them.
The dedicated fans revived this series in syndication, well after it had gone off the air in 1969, and felt attached to the characters that they had obsessed over between then and the 1980s. Like modern fans, they thought that departure from what they knew would ruin it.
I wish I could go back in time and tell them that TNG is going to rock.
“The Reading Rainbow guy on MY Star Trek?! Oh god, is he gonna read a book to the shields to get them to hold?”
He reads several actually. He even turns documentation into a holographic representation of a woman and makes out with it. Typical Geordi.
Yeah, you don’t become chief engineer by never reading a book.
Then acts all weird when the real woman isn’t into it
An engineer falling in love with virtual women but being awkward with women in real life? That seems a little farfetched.
The writers were a little TOO good sometimes
She was married, if I remember correctly.
It was mainly “Kunta Kinte?!?” coming from the boomers at the time.