What is Star Trek: The Next Generation's IQ Score?

Star Trek: The Next Generation has an IQ Score of 141/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 44/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 16/50 Educational Value, and 48/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Star Trek: The Next Generation educational?

Star Trek: The Next Generation is low on educational value, 16/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Star Trek: The Next Generation IQ Score 141/200

Name: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Genre: sci-fi
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Star Trek: The Next Generation has an IQ Score of 141/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-22·Methodology

sci-fi

141/ 200

Stimulating

Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

Score Breakdown

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Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,606 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Gene Roddenberry's sequel series that committed harder to the franchise's philosophical-inquiry premise than the original. The Picard captaincy turned the bridge into a forum for genuine ethical debate, the holodeck and the Prime Directive episodes are sustained moral-philosophy exercises in genre register.

Patrick Stewart's Shakespeare-trained delivery is the formal apparatus that allows the dialogue to land.

People & Production Gene Roddenberry · Paramount Domestic Television · broadcast syndication 25 connections

Direction & creation

Creator

Gene Roddenberry

On screen & sound

Selected cast

Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes Brent Spiner LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael DornSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.

Composer

Dennis McCarthy

Production & release

Production company

Paramount Domestic Television

Original broadcaster

broadcast syndication

Distributor

Paramount Domestic Television CBS Paramount Domestic Television CBS Media Ventures Netflix Hulu

Country of origin

United States

Original language

English

Related works

Follows

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Followed by

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Based on

Star Trek: The Original Series

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The Trailer

Official trailer, embedded from YouTube.

Characters Scored Here

People search for these characters by name. TVI doesn't invent fictional-character IQ numbers, but Star Trek: The Next Generation's score is the honest answer to how seriously the work treats each mind.

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