Convention Fans

I really wanted to write a glowing review of the “Star Trek“ Family Guy episode. But I have admit it: I was disappointed in Family Guy’s much hyped Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (technically titled “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven“). I had been waiting for it ever since Wil Wheaton (or if you watched the episode: “Whhil Whheaton”) posted about the episode back in September 2007. My mistake was watching the promotional video that Fox put out about a week before the episode aired. Almost all of the scenes with the Next Gen cast were in that promo video. Granted, not every single second was, but it was damn close.

I guess what I don’t understand is why the Star Trek portion of the episode wasn’t the A story? Why bother going through the trouble to get the entire Next Gen cast together to voice themselves, if their scenes were going to be relegated to the B story? There was so much potential for hilarity, and I felt like some of that was wasted.

Now, don’t get me wrong. What I did see was very funny and I loved it (especially the Tasha Yar scene that wasn’t in the promo video). My complaint is that I had already seen most of it in a preview, and that there wasn’t more. Most of the members of the cast had some great lines (Brent Spiner cracks me up!). I also really appreciate the fact that these actors can have such a great sense of humor about the whole fandom thing, and go on a show like Family Guy.  So…kudos to the cast of The Next Generation for coming together and giving the fans a really good laugh.

As for the “A plot” with Meg and Brian, I’ve seen a few Trek fans complaining about Family Guy lampooning Christians. I have to wonder if a lot of these Star Trek fans had never seen Family Guy before, and only watched it on Sunday because of the Trek content. To them, I say this: The show is an equal opportunity offender. Don’t worry, they have gone after all religions with equal zeal. You really should watch the show more often. Trust me.

P.S. Star Wars fans got the Family Guy episode “Blue Harvest.” Can we get an episode based on Wrath of Khan?!

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