ST-TNG's Relics: Episode Review (with link to full review)
For the entire review, please see: Relics: Scotty treks again in Star Trek: The Next Generation's Episode 130 In late 1986, when Paramount Pictures announced that its television division was producing a syndicated follow-up to Star Trek , creator Gene Roddenberry decreed that there would be very few links between Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST-TNG) and The Original Series (TOS) in order for the new show to stand on its own. Published articles in contemporary science fiction-related magazines such as Starlog reported that Roddenberry had deliberately set ST-TNG 100 years after the first season of Star Trek so that there would be very few possibilities for crossover appearances of the original series cast. There would also be no references as to the fate of major characters such as Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the familiar crew, presumably because the actors who played them would still be making feature films in those roles. As it turned out, Roddenbe