Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Two DVD Special Features. Science fiction authors noted how Star Trek: The Next Generation influenced their occupations. Notable roles following Pulp Fiction involve a movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), a manufacturing unit employee in White Man's Burden (1995), an archangel in Michael (1996), an everyman with extraordinary powers in Phenomenon (1996), a corrupt U.S. Logan, Michael (August 24, 1996).