My family are big Trekkies. Star Trek the Next Generation was the first TV show I remember watching as a child. Forget Barney and Sesame Street. Star Trek all the way. So I was thoroughly appalled when I realized that I’ve had this blog for nearly four years and I haven’t had one Star Trek post. I shall fix that now.

My siblings and I loved it so much, we decided to make our own TV show in 2007. We were going to call it “Star Trek: the Youth Generation”. My sister outlined a script and we all pitched in to make an intrepid class starship. We were planning on making a “sick bay,” an “engineering,” a “personal quarters,” and, of course, the “main bridge”. The bridge we actually made as well as several transporter pads and Starfleet gadgets. Since we had just watched TNG at that point in time, the uniforms, tricorders, pads, combadges, and other technology was Next Generation style. We kids and a few neighborhood friends were going to film it.

I wanted to either be a Betazoid and ship’s counselor or a Bajoran. At first, my sister wanted to be a Vulcan, but because her fingers wouldn’t permit her to do the official “hello goodbye” of “live long and prosper”, she decided to be a human. She was planning on being captain. My brother was going to be her “number one” or first officer and he, too, was going to be human.

Unfortunately, before we could finish the project, my sister, the ring leader and task master, became too busy to continue. So with an unfinished script and ship, the Youth Generation never aired. But the next next generation isn’t gone yet, and neither are these few photos we got of the epic project before it was dismantled. So without further ado, the Youth Generation. Live long and prosper.

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