This is prevelent mostly in North America as there are lots of TOS fans more so than TNG.There are lots of TNG in Europe compared to TOS.That is why SFB is bigger in North America.
Ah No. By the time Generations was released, it was clear that there weren't going to be any new TOS based procutions. The original cast was aging. Kirk at least got to die kicking %$$.
That, I was very assure of to bad Paramount would of made more if they continued with the Orignal cast more so then TNG.
The original cast officially retired from Starfleet at the end of Star Trek VI. Even if they hadn't, the cast was getting on in years, and they started dying off after Generations. Mark Lenard died in 1996, Deforest Kelly died in 1999, James Doohan died in 2005.
I know that but they could of continued even without them just wite in the script.
But one must not forget that "Admiral McCoy" was escorted to the shuttle bay by Data in TNG:
Encounter at Farpoint. Most retired country doctors with a military (or military like) rank such as Commander tend not to be promoted at all upon retirement from that service...
There is this:
The reference manual Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual gives reference McCoy holding, in actuality, a special rank known as "branch admiral".
What I am getting at is, even though the crew may have been retired, put to pasture, or whatever, the crew may have felt some connection between themselves and the ship, even if that connection was in name only; a connection so deep that they felt that dropping by and saying hello was required.
I firmly believe that a ship has a life of her own, her own personality, her own quirks, places she likes to be touched, and special ways of talking to her... It goes beyond crews and wires and pipes... Its something you can feel as soon as you set foot on board - the soft sigh of her deck plates when you set foot aboard for the first time in ages, the air of relaxation as she rests on the blocks in dry dock for repairs, the pulse quickening adrenalin rush when battle stations is sounded... I've set foot on various ships at various stages of life (and death) and every one of them I could feel their personality... but there is only one that holds a place in my heart.
In TNG:
Relics Scotty and Picard have a long conversation about that special ship; "the one" if you will.
Now, TPTB could have made ST:7 and maybe ST:8 using the "old" crew, perhaps even having a better tie-in to
Generations... Cast wise they were getting older and tireder. Character wise they would have retired soon after ST:6/7/8 anyway. So to see the three retirees on the -B and the one on the -D, and throwing in the assumption that someone was there on the -C, it makes sense from a screen-to-real-life point of view (knowing what happens in
Generations to Kirk, and knowing how old Spock and McCoy are when
Encounter at Farpoint happens, I like to assume that they were both present on the -C when she launched - that maybe just by being there some part of them, perhaps even that part of them that was touched by Kirk and the others, would imprint itself upon another
Enterprise, and once again they would all boldly go...).
I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying
All of that aside - it is fairly safe to say that for anything, there are always fans that love all of it, some of it, or none of it. Not every fan of a thing is required to be a fan of all of a thing. I fully understand TOS fans not liking, say, TNG or DS9. BUt, in the end, I think that this argument has been pretty well
and
over the years. It doesn't need my help.
The Czar
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