'People were SO BUTTHURT over a Klingon on the bridge': Star Trek fans forgot a critical Gene Roddenberry message with their hatred of Patrick Stewart's The Next Generation

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Worf's only problem was that he was a Klingon!

🚀 Gene Roddenberry vs. Patrick Stewart: The Real Story!

Star Trek: The Next Generation, starring Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, and Jonathan Frakes, premiered back in 1987. It was the third series in the overall Star Trek universe and opened amid great skepticism from fans who had grown too used to at the characters of the original series and couldn't imagine another story that reached the same kind of heights that TOS reached.

Star Trek: The Next Generation. | Credit: Paramount.

While The Next Generation eventually won them over after exceeding expectations, some fans of the franchise still tend to find a number of flaws with it. This despite the kind of beloved characters it brought to fans, with one character, in particular, receiving a barrage of criticism simply because of the species it belonged to.

'People were SO BUTTHURT over a Klingon on the bridge': Star Trek fans forgot a critical Gene Roddenberry message with their hatred of Patrick Stewart's The Next Generation.
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