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If you've watched all of Star Trek The Next Generation, you've probably noticed a bump in the road when moving from season 5 to season 6. More exactly, after Gene Rodenberry's death on October 24, 1991 at the age of 70.

In this first episode without Gene Rodenberry's physical presence, the convergences materialize. Let's remember that according to rottentomatoes.com he was a writer and executive producer until 1992. It is understood that all the chapters were written.

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Let's review some of these "anomalies and convergences."

One of them is the presence of Leonard Nimoy in the series, the first time in the series to be exact and that "coincidentally" was in the episode dedicated to Gene's memory.


We are referring to "Unification I" broadcast on Saturday, November 2, 1991 and which turns 33 years old next Saturday, November 2, 2024.

First contact in sight...?

In this same season we find a series of episodes that revolve around life in the afterlife and its possibilities.


Starting with E22: "Imaginary Friends" followed by E23: "I Borg" continuing with E24: "The Next Phase" and culminating with episode 25 called "The Inner Light" one of the most famous of the series and Top Ranked episode on IMDb.


Some of you may have read our previous article on the movie Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
In it we mention Instrumental Tran-communication. A science that seeks communication with the spiritual world through electronic devices.

With information from scientists who have ventured into this science, we find Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison and even further back in time Sir Oliver Lodge, Physicist, Inventor and writer.

One of the most forgotten figures in electrical science and spiritualist science. Being contemporary of Allan Kardec and his studies on life beyond death, Sir Oliver had work to unified science and spirituality.

See: Shack and Awe: The Story of Electricity by the BBC, Third Part.

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With this background we try to put on the table facts from the real history of our world that lead us to the great crossroads:

Why having so many advances in all areas of human and extraterrestrial knowledge, there is no answer, in the Star Trek series, regarding to what happens after the so-called "death" and even worse the lack of communication with that spiritual world?

From a scientific point of view, it is unacceptable that any race in the Trek universe can not communicate with the disembodied ones, at least as far as we know. But Time Travel is no problem. :D

And we use this word to recommend episode 24 "The Next Phase" broadcast on Saturday, May 16, 1992, which comes to be the one closest to this reality of the afterlife.

The writers of this episode refer to the 1990 film "Ghost" regarding the challenge of special effects.

In this episode Ensine Ro and Geordi are supposedly dead, but Geordi does not believe it is so, for various reasons. We see the scientific ignorance of the Bajoran race regarding disembodiment and the same happens with Geordi who has very basic concepts regarding the Afterlife, for a civilization of the 24th century.

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It is clear that the Counselor Troi is outside the rules established by the series and fails to perceive both, who are still alive.

However way the episode was approached, the question remains the same, but the answer is a need that has only been met by Star Wars.

The final scene of the first season of "Obi-Wan Kenobi" in 2022, reaffirms the theory that what Star Trek lacked was compensated by Star Wars, and it is no coincidence that this last episode, number 6, was Top Ranked on IMDb.

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To really hit the nail on the head, we would have to ask ourselves what would happen to the Star Trek universe if communication with the spiritual world was part of the technology, as it is in our reality.

Not only the infinite possibilities it presents, but also the addition of scientific reincarnation, as a possibility presented by the Wachowskis in the film "Jupiter Ascending" in 2015.

JUPITER ASCENDING Review - Cinemast.net

In conclusion: let us dream of that day when writers and scriptwriters open the doors of hope for a future where our dead can communicate with us again.

Comments are of course welcome and expected in the case of errors due to our ignorance.

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 · February 19, 2025
TNG is my favourite Star Trek, and the one I grew up on. So happy to see someone writing about it here on this site.
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