Yep, I would have been turning 22 that year (man, I feel old, but at least I don't look old), I kind of figured Q had something to do with Picard's time jumping, I just didn't know how.
Did you watch "All Good Things..." when it first aired?
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Yup. 'twas there, too...
It gets to "teh feelz", and one has to do some mental gymnastics to explain how Pasteur generates the initial beam, which requires time to form before it hightails itself into gear (thus letting everyone else not see it and think Picard's gone crazy), then it goes back in time, which evolved into seeing all three Enterprise incarnations as the source. Where'd the USS Louie P. there go? Yeah, when Future-D goes there and does its own scan whenever -- again, mental gymnastics. It's easier to say "Q did it". And they couldn't have shown Picard doing the action directly outright as that'd spoil the big reveal, and it's so good a one (Picard caused humanity to not exist, woohoo!) that I can't nitpick it too much. So, yup, Q did it and they didn't use exposition to tell the audience that.
Either way, it's a robust send-off
It gets to "teh feelz", and one has to do some mental gymnastics to explain how Pasteur generates the initial beam, which requires time to form before it hightails itself into gear (thus letting everyone else not see it and think Picard's gone crazy), then it goes back in time, which evolved into seeing all three Enterprise incarnations as the source. Where'd the USS Louie P. there go? Yeah, when Future-D goes there and does its own scan whenever -- again, mental gymnastics. It's easier to say "Q did it". And they couldn't have shown Picard doing the action directly outright as that'd spoil the big reveal, and it's so good a one (Picard caused humanity to not exist, woohoo!) that I can't nitpick it too much. So, yup, Q did it and they didn't use exposition to tell the audience that.
Either way, it's a robust send-off
Not only did I watch it in its first airing, I then went around my local Star Trek fan club and asked them their opinions of it so I could write an article for the club newsletter! If memory serves, it went over well.
Me, I thought it was a good send-off -- I'd contend it's the best Trek series finale so far. Admittedly, TOS and TAS didn't really have finales, and nobody loves ENT's; DS9's was good but I thought the second half dragged; VOY's was passable but didn't pay off the series premise very well.
The poker scene at the end made me weepy. So good to see JLP there at last!
Me, I thought it was a good send-off -- I'd contend it's the best Trek series finale so far. Admittedly, TOS and TAS didn't really have finales, and nobody loves ENT's; DS9's was good but I thought the second half dragged; VOY's was passable but didn't pay off the series premise very well.
The poker scene at the end made me weepy. So good to see JLP there at last!
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It was the BBC's first run-through of All Good Things as we didn't have Sky back then, technically it was 1996 when I was 12. 
I was a fan of TOS and the films by that point and having TOS, TNG, and DS9 (and eventually VOY) on BBC2 was awesome for new fans.
I was a fan of TOS and the films by that point and having TOS, TNG, and DS9 (and eventually VOY) on BBC2 was awesome for new fans.
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Yes, I watched it locally on WPIX back in May of 1994. While it was sad to see TNG end after 7 seasons, that feeling was tempered by the knowledge that we would see the crew up on the big screen in Generations just six months later.
Postscript: In the autumn of 1994, only a week or so after the premiere of Generations here in the US, a co-worker bought a bootleg videotape of the film from a vendor on 14th St. in NYC and mailed it off to a Trek friend in Germany. The tape format was NTSC, not PAL, so this fellow had to make the transfer himself after it arrived. At any rate, he and a small group of fellow Trekkers in Dortmund got to see the first TNG film a few weeks earlier than the rest of Germany, thanks to my co-worker engaging in an act of international piracy (albeit for a very good cause!)
Postscript: In the autumn of 1994, only a week or so after the premiere of Generations here in the US, a co-worker bought a bootleg videotape of the film from a vendor on 14th St. in NYC and mailed it off to a Trek friend in Germany. The tape format was NTSC, not PAL, so this fellow had to make the transfer himself after it arrived. At any rate, he and a small group of fellow Trekkers in Dortmund got to see the first TNG film a few weeks earlier than the rest of Germany, thanks to my co-worker engaging in an act of international piracy (albeit for a very good cause!)
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I sadly have to admit that I've still not seen the entire episode! 
I saw bits and bobs over the years but never watched that much of seasons six and seven, especially seven! 
JB
I saw bits and bobs over the years but never watched that much of seasons six and seven, especially seven! JB
I sadly have to admit that I've still not seen the entire episode!
JB
Dude, 'All Good Things...' just might be the best episode of the entire series, in Top 10 easily.
Later seasons are getting weaker but in the case of AGT there's no problem there.
Also watched AGT whenever BBC2 first aired it in the UK, back in June 1996. Had already seen Generations in the cinema, so was confused at first by a fully functional Ent-D still existing in the future timeline!It was the BBC's first run-through of All Good Things as we didn't have Sky back then, technically it was 1996 when I was 12.
I was a fan of TOS and the films by that point and having TOS, TNG, and DS9 (and eventually VOY) on BBC2 was awesome for new fans.
I literally bought the VHS rather than wait to see it transmitted here. Same was true for Relics and DS9 Emissary. It was great being that excited for things at the time. I had first seen Encounter At Farpoint on a tape that had somehow made its way across the Atlantic too, prior to that my only Trek screen experiences had been a couple of the movies taped from TV, and my main exposure was through reading James Blish novels and The Making Of Star Trek. (Half a memory of perhaps watching TOS when very young, but not sure it was still being shown.)
TNG was my first proper Trek.
TNG was my first proper Trek.
Yes. It was a Monday and I remember the Viewers Choice Marathon (Relics, Yesterday's Enterprise, The Inner Light, and Best of Both Worlds I and II) that weekend before hosted by Jonathan Frakes. It was a very exciting time.
I watched it whenever it aired here in Sydney, which might have been a Saturday at like 7.30 instead of 10.30 on a Tuesday. I'd read the novelisation beforehand so I was wondering where the scenes with Pulaski and Lwaxana or Ensign Calan or the Terrellians were and I had a really different image on the anti-time eruption in my mind.
Yes. Also for Best of Both Worlds.
At the time it was sad, but my brain kept thinking the movies and follow-up shows would make up for it. They did to some degree.
When Picard happened I realized I still missed TNG, and while Picard was very different it felt good to see it again. I think season 1 will be a great milestone for this particular part of the franchise, and season 3 to a more surface but lesser degree just because all the cast is there.
When Picard happened I realized I still missed TNG, and while Picard was very different it felt good to see it again. I think season 1 will be a great milestone for this particular part of the franchise, and season 3 to a more surface but lesser degree just because all the cast is there.
Yes, I did. Loved it. Though it was sad how they all grew apart. They were sort of like a family. Then Picard illness. and Troi's death.
When All Good Things aired, I had about another fifteen years to wait before even being born.
Obviously, I watched it.
Obviously, I watched it.
I did. I just saw that I'd voted but not posted.
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