In Star Trek : Next generation is the opening line to boldly go where no Man or no ONE has gone before ?

Answer 1

Why not just listen to it yourself...

Answer 2

In the original Star Trek series the line was "to boldly go where no man has gone before". In Next Generation the line was changed to reflect the time and political correctness. Also, it is probably that it was also changed because the business people realized that a fair amount of their audience was female. So the new line had more appeal.

Answer 3

The difference between the words in the opening title sequence in the original series and the Next Generation are as follows:

Original:
FIVE YEAR mission

Next Gen:
CONTINUING MISSION

Original:
To go where no MAN has gone before

Next Gen:
To go where no ONE has gone before.

I think Star Trek is a very good reflection of the different attitudes of society between 1966 and the 1990s - just think of the style of Kirk in comparision to Picard.

Answer 4

People are right that it was meant to be more inclusive than the original. In Star Trek VI remember at the end Kirk said 'where no man - no *one* - has gone before'. This may have been a reference to the earlier scene where Chekov referred to 'human rights' and the Klingon woman said this term was racist. It also formed a link between the old crew, whose last movie this was, and the Next Gen crew, who were to be the only ST game in town after 1991.

Answer 5

It's no one, no man was from the original series. It was changed for the film star trek 6 the undiscovered country. How sad is it I know that!

Answer 6

in the original star trek series it was 'no man' but in 'next generation' it is no one. I assume this is due to changing times ie sex discrimination and the like

Answer 7

The phrase was changed when "Spock" read it at the end of Star Trek II (1982) and remained changed thereafter, which included TNG (1987)

Answer 8

No "ONE."

In the original series in the 60s it was still appropriate to use the "universal masculine" (man, mankind, etc) to describe humanity. But by the more politically correct 80s this was considered sexist, and so the producers VERY CONSCIOUSLY chose to emphasize -- "No One." Nice question.

Answer 9

It's been both. First "no man" and then "no one" later on when "no one" was thought to be more politically correct.

By the way, did you know that this famous phrase commits a grammatical faux pas by splitting infinitives?

Answer 10

original star trek is next man
next generation is no one

Answer 11

to boldly go where no man has gone before