Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

Bubbles also maintained his freelance output, producing designs for Peter Jenner ( Ian Dury and Billy Bragg's manager ), and others, creating a prodigious output by working for such bands, musicians and performers as Vivian Stanshall, Generation X, Big Star, Johnny Moped, Whirlwind, Billy Bragg, Clover, The Sinceros, Roger Chapman, Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Dr. Feelgood, Inner City Unit and The Psychedelic Furs.

Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post – World War II baby boom.

The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.

The term " Generation X " was coined by the Magnum photographer Robert Capa in the early 1950s.

Describing his intention, Capa said ' We named this unknown generation, The Generation X, and even in our first enthusiasm we realised that we had something far bigger than our talents and pockets could cope with '.

The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976 – 1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book Generation X — a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.

Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.

In the preface to Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion, a collection of global essays, Professor Christine Henseler summarizes it as " a generation whose worldview is based on change, on the need to combat corruption, dictatorships, abuse, AIDS, a generation in search of human dignity and individual freedom, the need for stability, love, tolerance, and human rights for all.

In American cinema, directors Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater and Todd Solondz have been called Generation X filmmakers.

When compared with previous generations, Generation X represents a more heterogeneous generation, exhibiting great variety of diversity in such aspects as race, class, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Change is more the rule for the people of Generation X than the exception.

The U. S. Census Bureau cites Generation X as highly educated, statistically holding the highest education levels when looking at current age groups: U. S. Census Bureau, in their 2009 Statistical Abstract.

The 2011 publication " The Generation X Report ", based on annual surveys used in the Longitudinal Study of today's adults, finds that Gen Xers, who are defined in the report as people born between 1961 and 1981, are highly educated, active, balanced, happy and family-oriented.

London newspaper The Guardian cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965 and 1982 and referred to it as the me generation ' of the Eighties.

" The Telegraph cited Generation X birth dates as falling into a longer time span ( 1965 – 1985 ), whilst the The Independent estimated an earlier range of birth dates ( 1963 – 1978 ) compared to other writers or researchers.

A BBC News article about a lack of " mid-career volunteers " in their 20s provided a Generation X age range, which, in 2007, would suggest birth years that fall between 1962 and 1982.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

" Toward the end of The Next Generation, Q is less antagonistic toward Picard, even, in " Tapestry ", apparently saving Picard and helping the captain better understand himself ( although whether Q actually appeared in this episode or was merely a hallucination Picard experienced during surgery is deliberately left ambiguous ).

For example, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Redemption ," when the Klingon Empire experienced a brief civil war, Captain Jean-Luc Picard refused Chancellor Gowron's request of aid, even though he was the legitimate ruler of the Empire, and even though the Romulans were suspected of supplying weapons to the opposing side, as an imperial civil war was deemed an internal conflict.

Also known as Generation 3 Omni VII and Generation 3 +, following the issues experienced with generation IV technology, Thin Film technology became the standard for current image intensifier technology.

Star Trek: The Next Generation saw the introduction of Starfleet's first Klingon officer, and other races such as Bolians, Betazoids, and Trill were seen and given more central roles in later series ; some of these, notably Klingons, had been shown as enemies in earlier episodes.

The introduction of the Next Generation Touring Car specification, from 2011, started a phased transition from Super 2000 cars in an effort to cut costs and improve the sport.

Five years after the release of The Wrath of Khan, a version of the introduction was included in the title sequence of the TV-series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

This style of Balanced Scorecard has been commonly used since 1996 or so: it is significantly different in approach to the methods originally proposed, and so can be thought of as representing the " 2nd Generation " of design approach adopted for Balanced Scorecard since its introduction.

With the introduction of Line Equalisation Modules and Tone Generation Modules, the phasing advance and retard is so well calculated that the distortion is almost entirely averted.

Production of OHV Generation II engines ended in 1994 after the introduction of the Generation III in 1993.

In 2011, Saab Bofors Dynamics ( successor company of Bofors Defence ) announced the introduction of the new RBS 70 New Generation ( RBS 70 NG ).

* Gruen, Erich S: The Last Generation of the Roman Republic ( University of California Press, 1974 ; reprinted 1994 with new introduction ) paperback ISBN 0-520-20153-1

One of their first hits was " Rolled into 1 ", and other tracks included: their single " Short Change " which was a part of GTA2s soundtrack by Rockstar Games ; " Cop Theme " which was a part of the Sled Storm soundtrack ; The Origin Unknown remix of " Tough At The Top "; " Soundclash " part of the Rollcage soundtrack, and " Breakbeat Generation " which can be heard in the introduction of Rollcage Stage II.

In " All Good Things ...", the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise-D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek: Generations, and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship.

After completing in 1978 his last low-budget and very personal ventures ( In a Year of 13 Moons and The Third Generation ) he would concentrate on making films that were becoming increasingly garish and stylized.

The economic success of The Marriage of Maria Braun allowed Fassbinder to pay his debts and to embark on a personal project, The Third Generation ( Die Dritte Generation, 1979 ), a black comedy about terrorism.

) Subsequent development of this technology led directly to the first Generation 0 image intensifiers which were used by the military during World War II to allow vision at night with infrared lighting for both shooting and personal night vision.

In the 1996 Generation X telefilm on Fox, Cerebro was depicted as a desktop personal computer with a few custom peripherals.

* In the original outline for Green's appearance on the show, the logo worn by the Fourth World military in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Encounter at Farpoint " would have been shown as Green's personal emblem.

He was well known for his roles as CEO, co-founder, and later Chief Inspired Protagonist and Executive Chairperson of Seventh Generation Inc., the country's largest distributor of non-toxic, all-natural cleaning, paper and personal care products.

Seventh Generation, Inc. is an American company that sells cleaning, paper, and personal care products.

In contrast, the Klingons in Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent TV series, as well as the later movies, have a culture and traditions based more on a cross between the vikings and Japanese Samurai ( or, rather, Western imaginations of them ), focused on personal and familial honor and placing value on sacrificing their lives for the causes they serve.