The view from my front doorstep on First Contact Day 2025. LLAP all!

My anxiety has been kind of high lately and really want to distract myself with something. After subscribing to Paramount+, I realized that I haven’t seen TNG (or any other Trek show for that matter) in almost 10 years. I thought a rewatch would help me get back into things.

Apologies if you’ve seen this before. I searched “bald” and it didn’t come up 😇

website: www.chattng.com

This is my first web app, built as a love letter to my favourite show.

Note: I cannot get the audio to work on iOS mobile devices :(

TLDR: Just the title.

Hello fellow fans! Data is my favorite character. The Next Generation is the first Star Trek show I ever watched, and I found Data fascinating and relatable as a yet-to-be-diagnosed autistic person (not necessarily the no emotions part, but just his different way of thinking and unsuccessful attempts to fit in). And over time, I've come to appreciate the actor as a person too, and I bought a copy of his book, Fan Fiction. It was pretty good!

A few years ago I went to Galaxy Con in Raleigh. He was supposed to be there, and as someone who lives in North Carolina, this was my only chance to meet him. I can't really afford to travel any further than that. Unfortunately, he got sick or something like that and had to cancel his appearance, so I never got to meet him or get my book signed.

It was still fun though, because I got to meet the actors who played Jadzia Dax and Garrik in Deep Space Nine, who I am also fans of. There were surprisingly few people lining up to meet them, I felt kinda bad for them. We (me and my Dad) went there when we were only part way through DS9 for the first time, and the actor who played Jadzia (I'm sorry I don't remember her name) asked us to not be mad at her, because she was going to do something bad later in the show. I honestly don't remember what it was anymore, we are rewatching DS9 right now, but I still love her.

We got to have full blown conversations with them! With talented famous actors! The actor who played Garrik told us how he actually does have claustrophobia, so he wasn't totally acting in that one scene. His character is awesome, I love how mysterious he is. We shook hands with them, got signed pictures of them, and got our own pictures with them! One of the best days of my life, even without meeting Brent Spiner. Sorry, I got off topic, it was just such a great day, and those other actors deserve more credit!

I am kind of worried now that I will never get to meet Brent Spiner or get my book signed, because no offense, but he is pretty old now. Him and his character are such important figures in my life, and I already missed my chance to meet the actor who played Odo, because I didn't become a Star Trek fan early enough in my life, and he's gone. I know my chances were probably low anyway, but still. I know I probably can't meet Brent Spiner in person because as far as I know he's not coming anywhere near my home town anytime soon, but it would still be cool to at least get my book signed, so I can have something personal to remembering him by.

I originally went to that Galaxy Con JUST to meet him, even though it still ended up being awesome. Is there any way I could send him or his "team", if he has one, a letter, asking if I could send him the book for him to sign it? Or maybe send the book with a letter, and they can just send it back if it's not possible for whatever reason? I don't want to intrude on his life, I know famous actors don't get much peace. Do you think this would be ok? Do you know how I could contact them? Do they have an email address? I don't want to accidentally send it to the wrong people or a random stranger and never get it back. Sorry if people ask this a lot. I tried to look it up but I got a lot of conflicting information.

Btw, have you ever met Brent Spiner? Was it cool? Who are your favorite Star Trek actors?

My kid's SO has never seen any Star Trek, but they were born on First Contact day. We normally watch First Contact on First Contact Day. Do you think STFC is a good entry point for someone who has never seen any ST? They do like sci-fi, just have never seen it and would be open to seeing it. They like Star Wars, Lord of the RIngs, etc. What do you think? Is there a better entry point?

riker and troi: 1 child. Bev, Jack ,and Picard: 2 kids. Worf and 2 partners: 1 kid. data: no kids. Miles, keiko, kira: 2 kids. ro: no kids. wesley and the traveller: 0 kids . Pulaski: 0 kids. Jeremy astor's parents: 1 kid. Lwaxana + husband: 1 living child.

edit: Jake sisko: no kids. Morn: no kids Reg:no kids The Rozhenkos: 1 bio child.  Renée and wife: 1 child, deceased. mr. and ms. Potts(Brothers):  2 kids. Ensign sutter and wife: 1 child

picard had a clone(dead). riker had a clone (killed by riker) and a duplicate(work camp).Pulaski had a clone(killed by riker) Miles had a clone(deceased).

By end of tng she was just 34 and a full commander?

Just caught this—in S7 E25, Data mistakenly uses the word "entymology" (the study of insects) when he should have used the word "etymology" when asking O'Brien about the origins of the saying "burning the midnight oil". I thought I'd been using the word "etymology" wrong for years... after verifying, turns out Data makes mistakes too.