Star Trek TNG Rare Advanced Promos (30 sec spots)

These aired in syndication as a countdown to the broadcast premiere of Star Trek The Next Generation. There are ten 10 second spots. Enjoy!

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[huckbone]

That would be beyond cool. Cross fingers. After all, Trek needs to start tossing in nuggets like this. Bitch all you want about George changing his movies, but he does includes lots of cool extras with every release. Of course, I'm a bigger Trek fan so I hope we get stuff like screen tests and outtakes.

[bamapagedesign]

I get so aggravated at people who say they watched TNG from the start, because it isn't true. After how lucky TOS got, TNG was just as lucky, because NO ONE watched it at first because it wasn't the original cast. People didn't really start watching until season 3, when Roddenberry realized he needed to change the formula.

[huckbone]

It is so true. I was there from the very first show, and as a fan, I stuck it out. IMO, Season 2 was worse than the first and I thought, well, they tried....a few good shows here and there...BUT THEN, season three kicks in and gives us better looking uniforms and, IMO, the BEST cliffhanger in television history! Now Trek lives on because of that spectacular, very pivotal moment.

[loganig88]

they are being attacked by a firefox logo around 3:25 / 3:26

[pixeldrift]

I really want to know why they inserted footage of the Genesis planet from Wrath of Kahn. And the closeup clip of the old guy falling made it really obvious the "rock" he lands on is spongy.

[rl1712]

Use these countdown promos for The Next Level Blu-Ray release.

[JayArgonaut]

@bamapagedesign That's right, I've read interviews where he stated that the way things were going Stewart expected to be out of a job very soon. There's also a number of books which corroborate his assessment with stats of the feedback by critics and viewers for Seasons 1 & 2.

[neonknights]

Love how they inserted smaller clips from the Star Trek movies here and there, guessing noone would notice it except for fanatic Trekkies. :D

[freedombear79]

Hard to believe that it has almost been 25 years since Star Trek TNG premiered! 

[ajgoodwinaviation]

@huckbone I hope they're included in the Blu-Ray versions of TNG when it comes to Blu-Ray next year.

[KaptinKilla]

I WANT THAT DAMN MUSIC!!!

[bamapagedesign]

@InaraPey First of all, advertising and syndicates =/= equal viewers per episode. See market share. Secondly, if you're throwing out info from Wikipedia, which is not a credible source, I'm going to ignore you.

Also, there's an interview with Patrick Stewart here on YouTube that's easy to find, where he talks about how unsuccessful the first two seasons of the show really were when it came to viewers.

[InaraPey]

@bamapagedesign TNG 1st season sold to 210 stations covering 90% of the USA. Ave audience 20 million for the run. Epsiodes each brought-in some $1 million in advertising for Paramount compared to an average of $800,000 for network shows. Season 2 reeled in $90 million in advertising. "Encounter at Farpoint" was one of the highest-rated premieres in terms of viewer numbers in its time. Not bad going for a show "no one" watched for those 2 years. The facts are out there. Read them.

[bamapagedesign]

@InaraPey Undoubtedly you don't know how or why syndication works and why it is preferable to being a network series. Also, if you'd watch the TNG Journey's End documentary and the 25th Anniversary special, you'd know where the information I'm talking about came from.