Star Trek: The Next Generation funding credits

Here's what it would be like if Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) were broadcast on PBS in this day and age. (NOTE: All corporate funding plugs are accurate as of the original timespan of the series)

Version 1
(commercial bumper for ST: TNG plays)

Random cast member (my top picks would be Picard, Riker or Data): Funding for Star Trek: The Next Generation was provided by the following:

Announcer 1: Every day, we enjoy people being cold to us... cutting us up... getting fresh with us... tearing into us... and calling us chicken. In fact, the more people do it, the happier we are. PepsiCo.

Announcer 2: Serving one industry after another from aerospace to biotechnology, we're creating new worlds by seeing in new ways. BASF: the spirit of innovation.

Announcer 3: Ford Motor Company, worldwide manufacturer of automotive products, has provided funding for this program. At Ford, quality is job 1.

Announcer 4: Prudential-Bache Securities, the investment firm with rock-solid resources and market-wise thinking in the business of making money.

Announcer 5: Lotus Development Corporation, providing software solutions that help people work together.

Announcer 6: State Farm Insurance, keeping our promise of protection with auto, home, life and health insurance. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

Announcer 7: Your gas company and America's gas industry, developing new ways to use clean gas energy to generate electricity and fuel vehicles to help meet America's goal for cleaner air.

Announcer 8: And Monrovia Nursery Company, producers of container-grown ornamental plants, available at nurseries and garden centers nationwide.

(last few bars of ST: TNG opening)

Same random cast member as before: Additional funding was also provided by: the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a catalyst for change in health, conservation, creativity and communication at home and around the world... the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, dedicated to strengthening America's future through education... the Ford Foundation, a resource for innovative prople and institutions worldwide... the National Endowment for the Humanities... the National Science Foundation... the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation... the William and Mary Greve Foundation... the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation... the F.M. Kirby Foundation... the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation... and many others. A complete list is available from PBS.

Major funding was also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you. Thank you.

Version 2 ("Funky Chimes")
("Funky Chimes" from Sesame Street plays in background; font is same blue Crillee on starfield BG like in the TNG credits)

Slide 1: Production funding for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION is provided by

Slide 2: Public Television Stations, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Ford Foundation

Slide 3: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation of New York

Slide 4: TRW logo and slogan

Slide 5: Exxon logo

Slide 6: Ford Motor Company logo and slogan

Slide 7: The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The National Science Foundation

Slide 8: BASF logo and slogan

Slide 9: The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Slide 10: GE logo and slogan

Slide 11: And many others / A complete list is available from PBS

Slide 12: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION is a registered trademark of Paramount Pictures and is registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. / ©1987 Paramount Pictures Corporation / "Star Trek" franchise ©2018 CBS Studios, Inc. / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Slide 13: Filmed at Paramount Studios / Hollywood, California (Paramount logo above it), FACILITIES BY UNITEL VIDEO, INC.