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@The\_Picard\_Maneuver And therein really lay the rub for me, why it was often difficult to take seriously, even if some of *TNG*'s stories were likely as good as the best science-fiction I've ever enjoyed and I posit were indeed so: every major character on the show who stuck around for all seven seasons was a caricature I could see right through, certainly full-time cast members. It was like watching *The Landlord's Play* from *The Big Lebowski*, with the parts played by Starfleet officers and their families onboard taking the parts of high school popularity and jock and nerd clique students.

Being extra normal.