Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation1987

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 44 minutes

Featuring a bigger and better USS Enterprise, this series is set 78 years after the original series -- in the 24th century. Instead of Capt. James Kirk, a less volatile and more mature Capt. Jean-Luc Picard heads the crew of various humans and alien… more »



Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy.

Ralph Offenhouse:
You've got it all wrong. It has never been about possessions. It's about power.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Power to do what?

Ralph Offenhouse:
To control your life, your destiny.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
That kind of control is an illusion.

Ralph Offenhouse:
Really? I'm here, aren't I? I should be dead. But I'm not.

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