Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) was the second and highest-rated prime time television series in the Star Trek entertainment franchise. <ref>A short-lived cartoon series ran for two seasons. Aficionados call it "TNG" to differentiate it from Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) with William Shatner Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (DS9) with Avery Brooks.

The action takes place approximately one hundred years after the close of the first voyage of the Starship Enterprise. In The Next Generation, a new Enterprise has a 'continuing mission to explore strange new worlds'. Patrick Stewart starred as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Michael Dorn portrayed Worf, the first Klingon officer in Star Fleet.