It’s so bizarre to read this in the present, knowing how incredible TNG was, but I get it - the original crew WAS Star Trek to them.
The dedicated fans revived this series in syndication, well after it had gone off the air in 1969, and felt attached to the characters that they had obsessed over between then and the 1980s. Like modern fans, they thought that departure from what they knew would ruin it.
I wish I could go back in time and tell them that TNG is going to rock.
Apparently the most recognisable name was Levar Burton, being in Roots and Reading Rainbow.
Just take a look, it’s in a book, Reading Rainbow.
I… caaan fly anywhere!
I thought RR was after Trek
Says reading rainbow was 1983-2006. TNG was 87-94
That’s probably the only reason the article pegs him as “the new Spock”.