Avionics plays a heavy role in modernization initiatives like the Federal Aviation Administration's ( FAA ) Next Generation Air Transportation System project in the United States and the Single European Sky ATM Research ( SESAR ) initiative in Europe.

* Alexandra Nuñez, aka Alex Nuñez, character in Degrassi: The Next Generation

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.

This follows the Star Trek tradition of naming Shuttlecraft after prominent scientists, and particularly in The Next Generation, physicists.

In The Next Generation episode " Conundrum ", Worf mistakenly believes that the baldric indicates his rank or authority, so he briefly assumes command of the Enterprise.

* Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who was born blind and uses optical implants combined with a removable unit called a VISOR, to see.

* " Conspiracy " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ), a TV episode

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Crystalline Entity appeared in two episodes, " Datalore " and " Silicon Avatar ".

In September 2010, Barrymore was confirmed to play the role of Ganga in the Indian Bollywood film The Lifestyle – In Generation Next to be directed by Santosh Kumar Jain, to be released in 2012.

He is best known for his roles as Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on the 1980s action show The A-Team, and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First Contact.

In the early 1990s, he had a recurring role as Lieutenant Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

* " The Enemy " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ), appears in the Star Trek: Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise "

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-D ), the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation

*" The Power of Love ", an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation ( 2004 )

Advances in technology and new demands on the existing system have now led to efforts to modernize the GPS system and implement the next generation of GPS III satellites and Next Generation Operational Control System ( OCX ).

The program is being implemented through a series of satellite acquisitions, including GPS Block III and the Next Generation Operational Control System ( OCX ).

* Gene therapy is a crucial plot element in the video game Metal Gear Solid, where it has been used to illegally enhance the battle capabilities of soldiers within the US military, and their Next Generation Special Forces units.

— Wil Wheaton, who played " the kid " Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation

The IEEE P802. 15 Wireless Next Generation Standing Committee ( SCwng ) is chartered to facilitate and stimulate presentations and discussions on new Wireless related Technologies that may be subject for new 802. 15 standardization projects or to address the whole 802. 15 work group with issues or concerns with current techniques or technologies.

* The Next Generation Networks ( NGN ) concept takes into consideration new realities in the telecommunication industry characterized by factors such as ; the need to converge and optimize the operating networks and the extraordinary expansion of digital traffic ( i. e., increasing demand for new multimedia services, mobility, etc.

Some German operators started to implement Next Generation Networking, generally realized via DSL and unbundled local loop.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " A Matter of Honor ", several members of a Klingon ship's crew speak a language that is not translated for the benefit of the viewer ( even Commander Riker, enjoying the benefits of a universal translator, is unable to understand ) until one Klingon orders the others to " speak their ' humans ' language ".

In addition to being producer he guest-starred as the Angel of Death on Medium, and Captain Morgan Bateson in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Cause and Effect ".

In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in " Dark Page ", the seventh episode of the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

( They are similar to the creatures in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Evolution ", which featured " nanites " taking over the Enterprise.

This plotline was later revisited in the spinoff series Star Trek: The Next Generation in the episode " The Naked Now.

The station's first appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation was during the sixth season episode " Birthright " and in addition, two Next Generation characters, Miles O ' Brien and ( from Season 4 onwards ) Worf, became regular members of DS9.

The episode featured guest appearances by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis as their Star Trek: The Next Generation characters William Riker and Deanna Troi.

The British director had no feature film experience, but had directed several episodes of Star Trek, including the popular Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " and the Deep Space Nine double-length pilot episode " Emissary ".

The problem is that [...] too often it seems like little more than an overbudgeted, double-length episode of the Next Generation television series.

First introduced in the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Wounded ", the species originated on the fictional Alpha Quadrant planet Cardassia Prime.

In the American Star Trek science-fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th Century paramilitary organization or terrorist group first introduced in the 1994 episode " The Maquis " of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who subsequently also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.

This is the only animated Trek episode written by original series and later Next Generation writer D. C. Fontana.

Beginning with the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q became a recurring character, with pronounced comedic and dramatic chemistry between himself and Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

" 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 ).

First portrayed by DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek series, McCoy also appears in the animated Star Trek series, seven Star Trek movies, the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and in numerous books, comics, and video games.

Kelley reprised the role for the " Encounter at Farpoint " pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 ), insisting upon no more than the minimum Screen Actors Guild payment for his appearance.

In " Chain of Command ", a 6th-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, he was a Cardassian interrogator.

* In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Chain of Command, Part II ", Picard is tortured by a Cardassian in a manner similar to a torture scene from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Lee has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as A Night On the Water ( 1998 ), Error in Judgment ( 1998 ), Chain of Command ( 2000 ), Nurse Betty ( 2000 ), This Girl's Life ( 2003 ), Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure ( 2003 ), and Ferrari in The Girl Next Door ( 2004 ).

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Chain of Command, Part 1 © 1992 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.