STAR TREK: TNG now officially a laughingstock

In the last day or so the internet has been abuzz about the bizarre, nonsensical dubs that the comedy group Day Job Orchestra has done for various clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation. If you haven't seen them before, here's one. (Language NSFW.)



They're pretty funny, but I must admit that I'm close to reaching my saturation point with these various memes mocking Next Generation. The show has always attracted a certain amount of mockery, but just in the last few weeks it seems like there have been a lot of these things. I've been seeing a whole lot of stuff about Riker farting, Data babbling like a lunatic and Geordi talking "street". It's gone from feeling novel to feeling like some sort of trend.

I know, everybody but me thought the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot was the most awesome-est thing ever, but it seems like all of the enthusiasm for that stuff is being accompanied by a wave of sneering disdain for the Trek that immediately preceded it. And that needs to stop.

Admit it: you loved Star Trek: The Next Generation when it was on. (Don't even try to deny it. Back in the '90s, everybody loved Star Trek: The Next Generation.) Data fretting about being more human? The Borg? Q? You loved that crap. But now a younger and shinier Trek has come along, and you're kicking poor old TNG out of bed without so much as a kiss, you cad.

Yes, certain aspects of The Next Generation have not dated well. But The Next Generation was and is a damn fine show. So, enough with the wacky dubs of Worf growling about diarrhea and stuff. Move on to another show that's more deserving of your ridicule. Like, say, Small Wonder. Remember, the creeptastic '80s sitcom about the little robot girl who lived in the suburbs and slept in a closet every night? Yeah. Have at it.

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