alt title(s): The Next Generation; Next Generation
A sequel to the
original series, set in the 24th century, about 80 years after Kirk and company.
See the
Star Trek page for spinoffs.
Character profiles and roles in the script:
Is the
Trope Namer for:
Notable trope-based episodes include:
Tropes used by this show in general are:
- Absentee Actor: Some episodes struggle to include all the actors, even with the Mandatory Line.
- Alternate Universe
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma (Data)
- Catch Phrase (Several: "Make it so", "Resistance is futile", etc.)
- Death Ray (The Varon-T Disruptor, capable of painfully killing rather than just disintegrating)
- Double Dont Know ("The Battle")
- The Dutiful Son (Robert Picard)
- Evil Twin (Lore)
- Face Framed In Shadow (For a surprise revelation about long lost Tasha Yar's fate.
- Good Troi Episode
- Growing The Beard - The key example of this trope. After a half-baked effort of a first season, the series started to improve dramatically beginning with Riker getting away from his Kirk clone image by suddenly sporting a full beard.
- Just Ignore It (a device that can kill anyone with a single thought. However, being a Vulcan invention, it only works on the aggressive)
- Limited Advancement Opportunities
- Mary Sue
- Mr Exposition
- Mysterious Past
- Near Death Experience
- Negative Space Wedgie
- Not Even Bothering With The Accent (Jean-Luc Picard, a Frenchman played by an obviously English actor using Yorkshire idioms- "Grand.")
- Not Named In Opening Credits (Dr. Pulaski)
- Ontological Mystery
- Requisite Royal Regalia (Lwaxana Troi brags she's "Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed", among other boasting of her position, which likely means she's high nobility at the very least.)
- Rescued From The Scrappy Heap (Wesley, though he later had a Snap Back to his annoying self in season 5)
- Rubber Forehead Aliens (so much so that it is often difficult to tell alien species apart)
- Space Friction
- Space Is Cold
- Space Is Noisy
- SORAS
- Screaming Birth
- Sufficiently Advanced Aliens (Q)
- Technobabble (Teraquads of it.)
- Teleporters And Transporters
- Tin Man
- Touched By Vorlons
- Viva La Evolution (The Borg)
- Warrior Poet
- We Hardly Knew Ye (Tasha Yar)
- Will Not Tell A Lie (Betazoids)
- You Look Familiar (Suzie Plakson as Selar and K'ehlyr, to name one)
To date, the show has spawned four
movies. Tropes in
Star Trek: Generations included:
Tropes in
Star Trek: First Contact:
Tropes in
Star Trek: Insurrection:
Tropes in
Star Trek: Nemesis:
