{"id":34757,"date":"2025-09-28T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34757"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:58:34","slug":"goes-nowhere-does-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34757","title":{"rendered":"Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We take you to breaking news, live footage of the inside of my head&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_20250928_203945.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a 3D pipes screensaver, just a tangle of pipes red, yellow, green, blue, teal\" class=\"wp-image-34756\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While none of these are specifically labeled as GNDN pipes, these are <i>absolutely<\/i> GNDN pipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GNDN was a <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> acronym\/in-joke, GNDN meaning &#8220;Goes Nowhere Does Nothing.&#8221;  And it&#8217;s entirely appropriate for today, as it was on this day in 1987 that <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> premiered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Trek: The Next Generation Premiere Ad\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJ6NIuaTWjU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, the dramatic tones that could only come from ABC television announcer Ernie Anderson!  The strange emphasis he puts on words (like &#8220;android&#8221;) as if he&#8217;s only just discovered the word and must invent a pronunciation that will last for eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The version of &#8220;Encounter at Farpoint,&#8221; the first episode of <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i>, Anderson describes sounds impressively epic, far more so than the actual episode, which was a bit dull and chaotic. (Paramount didn&#8217;t know how long they wanted it to be. Dorothy Fontana wrote one script, Gene Roddenberry added all of the Q stuff, and it&#8217;s a bit sloppy, perhaps more so than the usual pilot.) Still, I liked it enough to keep watching, as did millions of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were all so young then.  Even Patrick Stewart, who was born old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take you to breaking news, live footage of the inside of my head&#8230; While none of these are specifically labeled as GNDN pipes, these are absolutely GNDN pipes. GNDN was a Star Trek: The Next Generation acronym\/in-joke, GNDN meaning &#8220;Goes Nowhere Does Nothing.&#8221; And it&#8217;s entirely appropriate for today, as it was on this<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34757\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5137],"class_list":["post-34757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}