{"id":1459,"date":"2026-06-28T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:30:19","slug":"star-trek-the-next-generation-wasnt-just-1987s-best-sci-fi-series-it-changed-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: The Next Generation Wasn&#8217;t Just 1987&#8217;s Best Sci-Fi Series, It Changed TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be hard to believe, but there was a time, not that long ago, when science fiction TV shows were, to be blunt, pretty lame. The occasional good one would slip through, but those didn&#8217;t last long. For the most part, sci-fi TV was filled with cheap special effects, over the top or, even worse, bland writing, and pretty lame characters. The one show that really stood out as something special was <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/star-trek-the-original-series\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/a> which, even though it only lasted three seasons, continued to impress viewers for decades. But nothing really connected in the same way. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be hard to believe, but there was a time, not that long ago, when science fiction TV shows were, to be blunt, pretty lame. The occasional good one would slip through, but those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}