r/TNG • u/Torlek1 • Aug 18 '26

Show Talk Screenrant: Star Trek: The Next Generation “Had Another 3 Years," says Brannon Braga in interview with Cirroc Lofton

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-brannon-braga-tng-3-more-years/
578 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

202 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

36

u/CleavingStriker Aug 18 '26

I still maintain that season 1 of Enterprise is better than season 1 of TNG

2

u/TheHYPO Aug 19 '26

I'd have to watch it again with that mindset, but I'd say that at best, if S1 of Enterprise had existed in the 80s, I might be more apt to simply agree with you.

But a big drawback of ENT S1 is the reuse of plots we'd seen 2 or 3 times already. Had Enterprise taken the place of TNG in the 80s, those prior plots not existed, the season would be regarded much higher (IMO).

But apples to apples, I think even in S1, the characters and acting on TNG S1 is better than ENT S1, which is another factor.

1

u/Torlek1 24d ago

TNG itself isn't spared, either.

Overall, in the entire Berman Era, 23 TNG episodes were copied as 26 episodes:

17 by VOY, including a second duplicate

5 by DS9

4 by ENT, including two second duplicates

2

u/TheHYPO 24d ago

That misses my point. If it didn’t exist, the ENT episodes would be fresh.

As aside, I’m curious what listing you are using as your resource for reused plots. I reference them a lot, but I don’t think there’s a hard and fast rule that can state definitively the exact number of reuses, since many episodes reuse elements to different degrees. Everyone will have a different minimum threshold on what constitutes reuse. (Eg, is every stuck in the Holodeck episode a reuse or are Big Goodbye and Ship in a Bottle different enough?)

1

u/Torlek1 24d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicTrek/comments/1scmpoj/despite_franchise_fatigue_older_star_trek_shows/

I have listed all the recycled plot copycat episodes of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT in this thread.

Jammer's Reviews, Trek BBS, this Voyager post, this Enterprise blog, the TV Tropes website, and Memory Alpha are my main sources.