Laredo is a parody of " boy wonder " characters like Wesley Crusher of Star Trek TNG.

Michael Westmore, make-up designer for Trek since Star Trek: The Next Generation ( TNG ), was announced as working on Series V by the end of April.

Worf continued to appear in TNG films which is explained in various ways such as rescue ( Star Trek: First Contact ) and leave ( Star Trek: Insurrection ).

Unlike his TNG co-stars, this was Michael Dorn's second Star Trek film, having appeared on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, portraying his TNG character's grandfather, Colonel Worf, who defended Kirk and McCoy on their trial.

It is implied in the episode and later stated in the Star Trek TNG Companion that the Borg already knew about Earth and were already en route, Q's actions actually giving humanity an early warning.

The most note-worthy moment between the two happens in one of the deleted scenes of the last TNG movie, Star Trek: Nemesis.

Burton also commented that he was anxious about his role, because he feared that ST: TNG was going to flop: " At the beginning, you know, there was a lot of conversation in the press at what a bad idea this was I thought that since Gene was involved we had a real good shot of making a good show that would carry on in that tradition of Star Trek.

He attended Zefram Cochrane High School ( Star Trek: First Contact ) and then Starfleet Academy from 2353 to 2357 ( TNG: " Conundrum ").

Notable females include Sela ( Tasha Yar's daughter ), Caithlin Dar ( Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ), Donatra ( Star Trek Nemesis ), Taris, and Toreth ( TNG: " Contagion " and " Face of the Enemy ", both played by Carolyn Seymour ) and the Romulan Commander in the TOS episode " The Enterprise Incident ," who is never referred to by name ( in Star Trek CCG and some noncanon novels, she is called " Commander Liviana Charvanek ").

The following actors also auditioned for the role of William Riker ; they have all appeared at least once on Star Trek: TNG or a Star Trek series that followed it:

In the alternative future depicted in " All Good Things ..." ( the final episode of the Star Trek: TNG ), Federation starships travel at warp 13, although this is most likely due to a likely restructuring of the warp scale, perhaps putting warp 15 at representing infinite velocity.

) He has also directed episodes in three of them ( TNG, DS9 and VOY ) and was a popular and innovative director on the Star Trek set, often finding completely new ways to shoot the show's familiar sets.

She is best known for portraying the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher in the Star Trek: The Next Generation ( TNG ) television series and subsequent films.

McFadden reprised her role for all four TNG movies and also provided her voice for PC games Star Trek: A Final Unity and Star Trek Generations.

Although billed as the final Trek movie for the TNG cast, the ambiguous ending of Star Trek: Nemesis suggested a possible avenue for the return of Data.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation ( TNG ) episode “ The Ensigns of Command ”, the translator proved ineffective with the language of the Sheliaks, so the Federation had to depend on the aliens ’ interpretation of Earth languages.

( There is precedent for a Starfleet officer to not wear a regulation uniform, however: Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation only wore regulation uniform during seasons six and seven ( followed by all the movies starring the TNG crew ), while Worf wore a Klingon sash with his uniform throughout his Starfleet career on both U. S. S Enterprises and Deep Space Nine but these series take place in later centuries than Star Trek: Enterprise ).

Other Star Trek actors such as Michael Dorn ( Worf on TNG ), Brent Spiner ( Data on TNG ), Colm Meaney ( Miles O ’ Brien on TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ), LeVar Burton ( Geordi La Forge on TNG ), Nichelle Nichols ( Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series ), Avery Brooks ( Benjamin Sisko on DS9 ), Paul Winfield ( Clark Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ), David Warner ( various characters, most notably Gul Madred in " Chain of Command ", a two-part episode of TNG ) and Kate Mulgrew ( Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager ) were guest or recurring stars in the series.

The first version of the communicator badge was used throughout the TNG series and during the first two seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( DS9 ).

He also received two Emmys, one for his theme on Deep Space Nine and the other for background score on a Star Trek TNG episode, in addition to nine Emmy nominations for his various Star Trek-related work.

Later in TNG, and especially in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, it was repeatedly stated that the Federation did not use money, and that the pursuit of money was generally abhorrent to humans, especially as a counterpoint to the highly capitalist Ferengi ( although the Federation citizens on Deep Space Nine did purchase drinks and merchandise from Ferengi, and were no stranger to obtaining and using money, even if they didn't explicitly need any ).

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager used stardates corresponding to the season of TNG that was or would have been airing at the same time, then progressing forward in a similar way ( DS9 season 1's stardates began with 46, and Voyager season 1 episodes had stardates beginning with 48 ).

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

TNG writers Ronald D. Moore, Jeri Taylor, and Brannon Braga saw the drawing and wanted to use a saucer crash as a sixth season cliffhanger episode for the series, but were unable to do so because of a limited budget and resistance from producer Michael Piller.

Michael Jan Friedman's Stargazer series features the adventures of Captain Picard on the Stargazer, and reuses characters he established in his 1992 TNG novel Reunion.

McFadden also directed the TNG episode " Genesis " ( her only directing credit to date ) and choreographed the dance routine in " Data's Day ".

When one allows for the change in technology in the TV industry and increased budgets, it's easy to see how uniforms from the 23rd century ( TOS ) evolved into the uniforms seen in the 24th century ( TNG ).

Extradimensional aliens, from the " Q " Continuum, charge them-and all humanity-for crimes of violence throughout Earth history in the TNG episode " Encounter at Farpoint, part one.

Star Trek: Voyager began with stardate 48315. 6 ( 2371 ), one season after TNG had finished its seventh and final season.

As in TNG, the second digit would increase by one every season, while the initial two digits eventually rolled over from 49 to 50, despite the year 2373 still being in the 24th century.

For the first season of TNG, admirals wear a different insignia, consisting of a triangle or stripe resembling gold weave along the right collar ; one or two gold pips are sometimes underneath the weave.

And – okay, I'm really going to scare you with this one – after he got TNG going, he ... well ... he sort of decided that some of The Original Series wasn't canon either.

While no gay crew members appeared on TNG, " The Outcast " was one episode that was intended to address the subject of sexual discrimination in the Star Trek universe, although it was often subjected to criticism from people who felt that it was a cop out.

Braga alluded to some episodes of TNG and one DS9 episode featuring Dax as dealing with non-heterosexuality metaphorically.

* As the 80th episode of TNG this installment was noted as the one in which the episode count of Star Trek: The Next Generation surpassed Star Trek: The Original Series, which only had a total run of 79 episodes.

Along with Worf, O ' Brien is one of the two main characters that moved from TNG onto DS9.

Disregarding their eleven years of obvious aging, the episode is based during the TNG episode " The Pegasus ".

In Scotty's case, it created a seeming continuity error, given Scotty's dialogue in the TNG episode " Relics ".

This may be a reference to the TNG episode " Preemptive Strike " where Ro Laren reveals that her tactical training instructor, a lieutenant commander, left Starfleet to join the Maquis.

In the TNG episode " Heart of Glory ", Captain Picard keys the main viewer to Geordi's visor allowing him to see the way he does.

In the TNG season 6 episode " Face of the Enemy ", Counselor Deanna Troi was surgically altered by a Romulan underground organization to impersonate a Tal Shiar officer Major Rakal.

* Data participates in a JAG hearing to determine whether he is Starfleet property in the TNG episode " The Measure of a Man ".

The TNG episode " Bloodlines " features a dangerous and experimental " subspace transporter " capable of interstellar distances and the Dominion had the ability to transport over great distances ( DS9: " Covenant ").

In the TNG episode, " The Schizoid Man ", a " long-range " or " near-warp " transport was required as a Transporter beam cannot penetrate a Warp field.

According to the TNG Technical Manual, the transporter cannot move antimatter, but in the VOY episode " Dark Frontier " Voyager transported a live photon torpedo equipped with antimatter onto a Borg ship.

In the first appearance of Trill in the TNG episode " The Host ", Trill were unable to be transported, once joined with a Symbiont.

A similar arms race served as the backstory of the TNG episode " Too Short a Season.

Frakes appeared in dual roles in " Second Chances ", a TNG episode in which it was established that Riker had a " twin " created years earlier by a transporter malfunction.

The early script notes that he was the son of Commodore Matt Decker, who had been featured in " The Doomsday Machine " ( an episode of the original television series ), and would " command some landing parties ", anticipating the TNG situation where the first officer usually took down away teams.

Later, he again played himself on another Family Guy episode, where the all seven main TNG ( plus Denise Crosby and Wil Wheaton ) actors made voice appearances.

Sarek finally succumbs to Bendii Syndrome, dying in the TNG episode " Unification, part I ", which takes place in the year 2368.

The TNG episode “ Darmok ” also illustrates another instance where the universal translator proves ineffective and unintelligible, because the Tamarian language is too deeply rooted in local metaphor.

In the first appearance of Trill in the TNG episode " The Host ", Trill were depicted physically quite differently than their later appearances.