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Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Sixth Season
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Possibly the Best season 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
Finally the seasons of hints and innuendo come to head and the dominion war finally occurs. This was the climax we had been waiting for. Starting after the amazingly gribbing cliff hanger, the show picks up head done into the war. The show never leaves it behind, but never resolves it either. While I expected the season to wrap it up at some point, much like real wars, it kept going, almost to the point where it was part of their regular life. The show was very dark in spots, but made up for it in a number of very light and fun episodes, involving Worf and Dax's wedding, and several fun ferengi episodes. I really have grown to love this show, and think it can stand toe to toe with any other sci-fi show out there. I recomend this season highly.
Another Season Of Star Trek Problems 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 3 people found this review helpful.
I like DS9 decently enough but the problem I had with the show was the DOMINION WAR.I thought while watching the conflict to the finale was if the Dominion was a galactic space faring empire for two thousand years why were they having such a hard time with the FEDERATION who's own space faring technology has only been around three hundred years.Seeing the deference in centuries of technological advancement would be like putting todays armies and navies with all their weaponry and having them go against a 9th century army there would hardly be any resistance from the ancient armies.That being said the season was one of the shows most action-packed seasons it seemed it had Sisko retaking the station from the Dominion,th marriage of Worf and Dax,and sadly Jadzia'a Death at the end of the season.The video quality and sound is excellent you seem to hear a lot more background noise and special effects then when you watched it on t.v. All in All if you're a big star trek fan this is one of the more decent seasons but if you can I say wait until a sale goes on or a year or two for the price to go down
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Fourth Season
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DEEP SPACE NINE 5 out of 5 stars.
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THIS WHOLE SERIES IS ONE OF THE BEST SCI FI SERIES THAT HAS BEEN ON AND IT SURPASSES ANY OF THE "MOSTLY JUNK" THAT IS ON NOWADAYS. I WONDER WHERE ALL THE EXCELLENT WRITERS WENT TO?
Deep Trek - Worf 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Star Trek Collection is a worthy hobby and certainly the largest of the television series DVD Collections (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise). At around 880 minutes, it is 4 episodes (1 Disc) less than TNG, and at least 2 Discs less than TOS. However in total, for the definitive, Star Trek collection, we are still looking at approx 30 boxes with 700 hours of viewing. That is 1 month of non-stop Star Trek. No DVD series comes remotely close to that. Get going collecting right now and build up on each succession over the years. By the end you will have a very serious anthology that defines the word awe. This is the kind of item that requires 1 hour a day of your time for the next few years. It is a cherished memory that served your fathers and will serve your children also. Our very planet, Earth, has advanced because of Gene Roddenberry's admirable concept. Roddenberry nailed the premise of the series when he said that he wanted to create a show with characters that we could look up too. They are like our family. Watch what they do. Then go and spend your life striving for the same on Earth. What engineer, medic, scientist, teacher, worker can not say that Star Trek has not influenced them? The show is this significant in the development of our species. Parents respect and quote its authority and it is not hard to see why. The DVD case may be the best of the lot. The shadowy design is foreboding of a darker trek inside. The case opens to reveal the 6 discs and a collectors' DVD-ROM of a section of a model graphic of DS9 (collect all complete the computer model). The discs are held in an open (no cardboard covering) plastic flip holder like in the TOS seasons. However these collectors' boxes are being replaced by the new slim line boxes that are cheaper. These are simply a cardboard holder with four to five slim DVD case holders with 1 to 2 discs in each holder (The slim line boxes do not contain the special collectors' DVD-ROM). There are 4 episodes per disc. However the last disc, disc 6 is devoted to Star Trek interviews and trailers with the usual expected extras...and then some more. Often the bonus disc may contain the last episode or two of the season, so watch out for those. Sometimes the episodes are ordered not in the sequence they where filmed, but in the sequence that they aired, however each episode has been numbered according to the order they where filmed in. This means on one disc you have shows 4, 2, 12 and 1, in that order. The sound has also been remastered to 5:1 Dolby Digital! Since the show was shot in full frame, these dimensions are retained.
Star Trek, Deep Space Nine (DS9), Season four is mostly about Worf joining DS9, the collapse of Cardassia and the Klingons breaking the peace treaty.
The same crew is back but with the addition of Worf from The Next Generation. DS9 is commanded by Benjamin Sisko. Jake Sisko is his son. Odo is the station's metamorphosing police constable and a Bajoran operative. Doctor Bashir is the Starfleet doctor and Chief O'Brien is chief engineer. Quark is a Ferengi host who owns a casino and bar. Major Kira is Sisko's first in command, and a Bajoran. Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax is a Trill woman (and a long term friend of Sisko) assigned by Starfleet as technical advisor. Gul Dukat is a leading Cardassian. The Cardassian Garak has a more permanent role to play.
Season Four of DS9 is mostly about Worf, Klingon Empire, other dimensions, Hippocratic Oath, secret affairs, the rules of society, tactics, time travel, mythical artefacts, James Bond, changelings, coup, love, demotion, honour, union strikes, the emissary, court-martial, memory implants, alternative universes, Muse, crime, Jem'Hadar, disease, contracts and Odo's people.
Best episodes are The Way of the Warrior, Hippocratic Oath, The Sword of Kahless, The Quickening and Broken Link.
DS9 Season four is the best of the first four DS9 seasons. The series has matured enough to have a good direction, ripe experienced characters, a sense of something bigger looming, the Defiant means DS9 now has a Star Trek ship and the quality of storytelling has increased tenfold with this season. Nearly every episode is excellent. They have also injected a little more humour but also a lot of darkness. The CGI has improved a lot and there are more space battles than any previous Star Trek instalment. One of the new directions this season goes in is with Worf. The series did need other characters and taking on Worf was an excellent move. The end of season four moves deeper into the Dominions plan to conquer the Federation. Season five looks like it will be all out war for everybody.
**As a note this season is rated `15' in Europe because it contains some stronger scenes of violence than usual for Star Trek, so parents may want to view the episodes before letting younger children watch them.**
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Run time: 1183 minutes Rating: Nr
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Seventh Season
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There's Just No Excuse 2 out of 5 stars.
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OK. I'm a huge StarTrek nerd, and DS9 is my favorite StarTrek series. That said, this final season is such a huge disappointment. The ingrates, that's right ingrates, running the Trek franchise just completely nose-dived this series into the ground.
Why ingrates? Well, the producers took the expansive loyalty and enthusiastic good-will of StarTrek fans and exploited it in an attempt to gratify their own outsized egos. Where to begin? How about Ezri Dax for starters. one question. WTF were you guys thinking? I realize losing Terry Farrell was a major blow, but come on! They wasted half of the FINAL season introducing and enlarging a character that was little more than a band-aid. Yes, she's a cutie, but there's an inter-stellar war on! They should have just buried Dax and let it be.
Next, Vic Fontaine. Need I say more? Well I will anyway. What in the name of all that is holy? Who's idea was this? Got to be Ira Behr's doing. I mean, come on Ira, who is this singer/actor/cheese sandwich, your boyfriend or something? Seriously, there's no other explanation for his presence on this show. Maybe if Behr would take off his Wayfarers when he went to work, he could see when he was making a gigantic mistep. OK, maybe, MAYBE, a one-off episode. But They made him a major character. Were they just bored with writing Sci-Fi? Look, if you'd rather be writing insipid rat-pack rip offs, then please, for all our sakes, just quit Trek. Leave the show with some dignity.
And finally, the resolving of the Dominion war is just lame. It doesn't make sense any way you look at it. It comes off like a undergrad creative writing assignment where the student realizes he's already reached the minimum required length, and decides to lazily tie up the story in one final paragraph. Why do you think the DS9 books are so popular? Because fans NEED them just to give some kind of believable closure to characters we'd all grown to love so much.
Bad job, Guys. You really dropped the ball here... as well as in other Trek series (Enterprise anyone?). Lets hope the new Trek movie will breathe some life back into Gene Roddenberry's much-loved Universe.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 1173 minutes Rating: Nr
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Fifth Season
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Best Season of DS9 5 out of 5 stars.
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I've really enjoyed reliving the DS9 series. It was during the 5th season that I watched only sporatically so I never did understand the whole Dominion war thing. This season delivers episodes with lots of action and intrigue. Any Star Trek fan will enjoy this whole series. It's such a departure from the "living on a space ship" type story. DS9 is almost a "serial" with this series. Get all 7 seasons. You won't be disappointed.
Mature DS9 episodes that fire on all cylinders, and even throw in some tribbles! 4 out of 5 stars.
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A very entertaining season, heavy with quality, character-based episodes, and free of any outright clunkers. This is also the season where the Federation's conflict with the Dominion moves closer and closer to war, which lends all kinds of tension to the proceedings... and tension equals drama equals viewing entertainment. And speaking of entertainment, yes, this is the season that features "Trials and Tribbleations", the famous DS9 sequel to the original series episode, "The Trouble With Tribbles". The episode is both a technical marvel (Sisko, Dax, etc. walk around in the original 1960's episode in a seamless fashion) and marvelously entertaining. The extras are fun, too: lots of "making of" details (especially about the tribbles episode) and lots of interesting "we were going for this or that" comments by the writers, actors, and producers. These season-long Trek DVD sets continue to be a lot of fun.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete First Season
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Good, but the Weakest Season in the Series 3 out of 5 stars.
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Though an essential part of any true Star Trek collection, the first season of Deep Space Nine isn't fully developed, especially with regards to the characters (Dax, most noticeably). Good, but the series will grow and become something much greater than what is in this particular season, so don't give up if you find that you don't care too much for the early episodes.
Only one season? 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'd do the unbox of this if all the seasons were available, as it I'll sit it out
Deep Space Nine Season One 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this for my fiance. He loves it. The purchase was super easy to make & we received it in a very timely manner. Pleasure doing business with you as always! Thanks!
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Great first season 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great first season of an outstanding series. The season is solid, and the series gets better from here! Recommended.
Great 5 out of 5 stars.
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It came quickly in good packaging. It was in great condition. My husband loved it. One of the best gifts I every bought him. Thank you for the great price and speedy service..
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006 Run time: 908 minutes Rating: Nr
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Second Season
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Fun For Trekkies! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I've been a Trekkie since 1966 and have enjoyed all the different versions of Star Trek! If I had to choose which version is my favorite, it would have to be Deep Space Nine. I already own and enjoy Season One, have obtained and continue to enjoy Season Two and I'm looking forward to obtaining Season Three.
Season Two continues to build on the foundation established in Season One and the last episode of Season Two is a cliff-hanger! Even though I know what is coming, I can't wait to watch it again!!!!!!!!
Better than I remembered 5 out of 5 stars.
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It's been about 10 yrs since I've last watched DS9. Season two was very insightful as it was building up to the Jem'Haddar war with the Federation. Many people feel the first two season weak, after watching this again, I have to disagree, it was not weak, just not as intensive or as story line driven.
Great watch for DS9 fans.
What can I say? It's Star Trek! 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of my favorite of the Star Trek shows. They took a chance and got away from the "life in paradise" ideal that was reflected in previous series. Characters on Deep Space Nine were flawed and imperfect...in other words, human! We could relate to them, even the "bad" ones like Quark. In the first season, we basically got to know all our new "friends". Now into the second season, introductions are over and it's time to get to work.
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Third Season
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Deep Trek - The Dominion and the Defiant. 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Star Trek Collection is a worthy hobby and certainly the largest of the television series DVD Collections (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise). At around 880 minutes, it is 4 episodes (1 Disc) less than TNG, and at least 2 Discs less than TOS. However in total, for the definitive, Star Trek collection, we are still looking at approx 30 boxes with 700 hours of viewing. That is 1 month of non-stop Star Trek. No DVD series comes remotely close to that. Get going collecting right now and build up on each succession over the years. By the end you will have a very serious anthology that defines the word awe. This is the kind of item that requires 1 hour a day of your time for the next few years. It is a cherished memory that served your fathers and will serve your children also. Our very planet, Earth, has advanced because of Gene Roddenberry's admirable concept. Roddenberry nailed the premise of the series when he said that he wanted to create a show with characters that we could look up too. `The Bridge' members are like our family. Watch what they do. Then go and spend your life striving for the same on Earth. What engineer, medic, scientist, teacher, worker can not say that Star Trek has not influenced them? The show is this significant in the development of our species. Parents respect and quote its authority and it is not hard to see why. The DVD case may be the best of the lot. The shadowy design is foreboding of a darker trek inside. The case opens to reveal the 6 discs and a collectors' DVD-ROM of a section of a model graphic of DS9 (collect all complete the computer model). The discs are held in an open (no cardboard covering) plastic flip holder like in the TOS seasons. However these collectors' boxes are being replaced by the new slim line boxes that are cheaper. These are simply a cardboard holder with four to five slim DVD case holders with 1 to 2 discs in each holder (The slim line boxes do not contain the special collectors' DVD-ROM). There are 4 episodes per disc. However the last disc, disc 6 is devoted to Star Trek interviews and trailers with the usual expected extras...and then some more. Often the bonus disc may contain the last episode or two of the season, so watch out for those. Sometimes the episodes are ordered not in the sequence they where filmed, but in the sequence that they aired, however each episode has been numbered according to the order they where filmed in. This means on one disc you have shows 4, 2, 12 and 1, in that order. The sound has also been remastered to 5:1 Dolby Digital! Since the show was shot in full frame, these dimensions are retained.
Star Trek, Deep Space Nine (DS9), Season three is mostly about the new war looming on the other side of the wormhole by the Dominion.
The same crew is back. DS9 is commanded by Benjamin Sisko. Jake Sisko is his son. The mysterious Odo, learning more about his species in this season, is the station's metamorphosing police constable and a Bajoran operative. Doctor Bashir is the Starfleet doctor and Chief O'Brien is chief engineer. Quark is a Ferengi host who owns a casino and bar. Major Kira is Sisko's first in command, and a Bajoran. Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax is a Trill woman (and a long term friend of Sisko) assigned by Starfleet as technical advisor. Gul Dukat is a leading Cardassian. The mysterious Cardassian Garak reveals more about who he truly is.
Season Three of DS9 is mostly about the Dominion, Klingon marriage, Trills, memory implants, Jem'Hadar, auto destruct, dimension shifting, Will Riker, Bajoran celebrations, time travel, life support, love, joint science projects, rules of acquisition, psyche, parallel universes, war, ships, Ferengi laws, resistance and shape shifters.
Best episodes are Improbable Cause, The Die is Cast, The Abandoned, Civil Defence, Destiny and The Adversary. DS9 Season three has lots about the new threat of the Dominion and many of the stories are very interesting. One of the new directions this season goes in is with the Defiant ship which allows the crew of the DS9 to leave the space station and travel more into deep space. This means DS9 looses some it's `hotel in space' criticisms and does more trekking. The end of season three sets the stage for a revelation about what the Dominion have been up to all along. Season four looks like it may be a paranoid year for Starfleet.
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Seasons 1-7
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine 3 out of 5 stars.
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Orginal set was missing the first dvd but replacement arrived in good order. Way over priced but an interesting series.
DS9 review 4 out of 5 stars.
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DS9 is a awesome set of movies and i enjoyed it and highly recommend the set for the price you cant beat it. Thank you.
Great show for a great price 5 out of 5 stars.
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When this show was aired, I loved watching it, and once I had my hands on the DVDs, it took me less than two weeks to devour it all :) An absolutely great cast that gives a new depth to the Star Trek universe by both more dark and conflicting story lines and great recurring characters next to the splendid main cast. A must-have for fans, especially at Amazon's price!
Far Beyond The Stars ... 5 out of 5 stars.
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After I watched this episode again recently, it set me thinking about a lot of things that I not only saw with this particular version of Star Trek, but science fiction as a whole. The episode 'Far Beyond the Stars' is easily the high-water mark for this entire show, despite the fact that it was completely separate from the main and ongoing story-line of the show. This episode actually stands by itself much like 'Inner Light' does with Next Generation and 'City on The Edge of Forever' with the Original Series.
The main thought, and I won't even bother to say premise, is that the ever lingering question that plagued this show and made things abrasive for many of the cast members was openly and very adroitly addressed here.
The question being: Can a show have a black Captain, or a black hero as the driving force?'
Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko suffered under this plague the entire time that the show ran. While many think that Hollywood is colorblind, it just isn't the case. Tensions from this show probably derailed much of what was going on with Star Trek in the nineties and quite possibly damaged the franchise for a long time to come, much like a butterfly effect. I'm sure the producers would disagree. Of course they would. I'm not saying that it was the fault of Avery Brooks or because they cast a black Captian and that it was a bad idea. Not at all. On the contrary.
The executives in charge of DS9, as well as the head writers were openly hostile towards Brooks and even through the seven years the show ran, the problems continued and never seemed to fade until finally, the show ended. Star Trek lore is rife with information about the relationships between Avery Brooks, Brannon Braga and Steven Behr. Let's just say it mirrors what Albert R. Broccoli once said about Sean Connery as James Bond when they were originally trying to get Carey Grant: 'He's not exactly what I was looking for'.
This episode speaks to this tension, in my opinion, more than anything. Not being a trekkie without inside knowledge doesn't diminish it either. Benjamin Sisko is 'Benny', stuck as a black science-fiction writer in 1950's America, during Jim Crow, Segregation and probably just before the bulk of the civil rights movement and dreaming of a better future for all of us, not just himself. The episode in this context is bleak and has the same sinister feeling that most of the DS9 episodes had, but deals directly with every day issues. It was a stroke of genius to have a science fiction show set 200 years in the future deal with an issue that is apparently 50 years in our past, but still relevant and eye-opening. Should this episode have won a Hugo Award? Yes. Without any doubt in the world. In 1998, when this episode and aired and would have been a contender, it never even got a mention. The Hugo in 1998 went to the film 'Contact'. Just shameful. I wonder if it had anything to do with 'a Black Captain'?
The struggle Benny is going through in this, shows the pain that all writers must endure on some level, some more than others. Charles Bukowski, suffered much like our good friend Benny and once stated: 'The Gods have really put a shield on me'. I've truncated that quote for reasons that are obvious to anyone that has read Bukowski. I fall apart every time I watch this episode because Avery Brooks depiction of the frustrated writer, caged in like a parakeet, is very true and very well-acted. It's painful to watch, not because of the intensity that he's going through on-screen, but because every word and gesture he emits is more than true. You can feel on some deeper level that you're seeing the events of perhaps thousands of peoples lives. It takes you all the way back to another question: 'Does the caged bird still sing?'
His soliloquy of 'you cannot destroy an idea' is powerful and so in the face of everybody that has never faced a day like this, a moment like this, a life like this.
I don't want to recap the entire episode as many folks have already done that. Watch the episode if you haven't seen it, you're really are missing out if you haven't. If it's been awhile revisit it, it's honestly Star Trek's finest hour, bar none.
This episode 'Far Beyond The Stars' is from Season 6 and is Episode 13. It premiered February 11th, 1998.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006
Star Trek Fan Collective - Time Travel
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Well-chosen episodes, but why allow repeats? Where are the Enterprise Episodes? 4 out of 5 stars.
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These fan collectives are a brlliant addition to the Trek family of DVDs. Surely only the most rabid and rich fans (rich in money AND in time!) could afford the thousands of dollars required to gather and watch all 5 series of Trek. For those of us unblessed by such qualities, these fan collectives are most welcome. Because Trek fans are among the most knowledgable (and most opinionated!) fans as a group, their populist choices to appear in these groupings of shows will represent the best episodes of each series. It also allows the viewers to see many of the 2-part episodes together without having to buy separate seasons of the shows. The only drawback is that these sets have been left entirely to the audiences' whims, without any overarching control. Thus, "City on the Edge of Forever" is in the Captain's set too; "Endgame" is in the Borg Collective. Finally, I'm disappointed that this set does not include anything from Enterprise: much of the 3rd season involved battle with a species with temporal weapons - were none of these shows more worthy that "Little Green Men"? Or worth putting on instead of "Endgame" that was already on the Borg Collective? I'm also not sure about "Tomorrow is Yesterday" as the second ToS choice - I prefer "All Our Yesterdays" and even "Assignment: Earth" is about the same level.
This set includes:
Tomorrow is Yesterday (ToS) (3.5/5) - a damaged Enterprise accidentally travels to 1960s Earth. In defending themselves, they destroy an airforce fighter and capture its pilot, who has a critical role in history. How can the crew get home and restore the timeline?
City on the Edge of Forever (TOS) (5/5) - McCoy accidentally passes through the Guardian of Forever into 1930s Earth. The timeline is changed and Kirk and Spock must right the timeline. Guest-starring Joan Collins as an idealistic soup-kitchen missionary with whom Kirk falls in love.
Time's Arrow (TNG) (3.5/5) - In its original run, I remember being quite disappointed with this cliffhanger/premier combo. It's certainly not as compelling as "The Best of Both Worlds" or "Redemption". Archaeologists on Earth discover Data's head, which has been buried in a cave for 500 years. In the course of their investigation, they discover time-travelling alien soul-sucking vampires (?!) on Earth at the end of the 19th century.
Cause and Effect (TNG) (5/5) - The precursor to the feature film, "Groundhog Day" - the Enterprise experiences the same day over and over after being stuck in a time-loop following collision with another ship. Features the most compelling "teaser" segment of all Trek shows: the Enterprise is destroyed with all hands before the opening credits!
Yesterday's Enterprise (TNG) (5/5) - during the battle that destroys her, the Enterprise C is thrown into the timeline of the Enterprise D, altering the future so that the Klingons and Federation are at war, Tasha Yar is still alive (and obviously Worf is not a member of the Enterprise D's crew). Only Guinan can sense the original timeline, and she must convince Picard to allow the Enterprise C to return to the battle (and sure destruction) to repair the timeline. This episode is supurb, but sets the stage for the very unfortunate subplot of the half-human/half-Romulan Sela who plagues future Romulan-based episodes.
All Good Things (TNG) (4.5/5) - The series finale of Next Generation. Q teleports Picard between three timelines - the "present" (season 7 of TNG), the past (Encounter at Farpoint, i.e. the beginning of Season 1), and the future, where Admiral Riker is in command of the Enterprise, the Klingons and Federation are no longer allies, and Picard is suffering from an Alzheimer-like disease. Picard is set a puzzle to solve that will save humanity if he succeeds, but destroy the entire race if he fails. A very interesting idea, but the solution is somewhat contrived, and the episode suffers on repeated viewings.
Little Green Men (DS9) (2/5) - the weakest show in the set. Nog, Quark, and Rom become the Roswell aliens after an accident with their warp drive sends them to 1950s Earth.
Trials and Tibbleations (DS9) (5/5) - taking a page from "Forrest Gump", the crew of the Defiant chase a Klingon agent back in time. The agent is trying to kill Kirk for interfering with Klingon plans during the TOS episode "Trouble with Tribbles". One extremely clever and seamless special effect has Kirk questioning Chief O'Brien about his involvement in a fight on the space station.
Year of Hell (Voy) (3.5/5) - a species tries using a time-travelling weapon to wipe out its enemies and make itself all-powerful in its region of space. Unfortunately, its "incursions" in space-time always have unintended consequences. The Voyager is caught in the middle by virtue of its temporal shielding, and attempts to find and destroy the temporal weapon while simultaneously taking on different iterations of the enemy species' conventional warships.
Endgame (Voy) 4/5 - The season finale of Voyager. Admiral Janeway, 30 years in the future, returns to "present time" Voyager with technology and a plan to get the Voyager home 25 years early, thus saving the lives of those she knows will die (or, in Tuvok's case, go insane) before Voyager makes it to Earth in the normal way. The plan involves a risky confrontation with Janeway's old nemesis, the Borg Queen, who is guarding a Borg-controlled wormhole-infested region of space.
As usual, this collective is bare-bones - text commentaries on "Tomorrow is Yesterday", "Yesterday's Enterprise", and "Little Green Men" are the only extras. But for those not wishing to purchase many Trek shows/seasons, this is a great "primer" full of worthy episodes.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/04/2006
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series (Seasons 1-7)
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st: ds9 bootleg 4 out of 5 stars.
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The 'Chosen Collection' is, to all accounts, a bootleg of the authorized discs. There are some misspellings and erroneous information on the packaging, but it plays well, and if you don't care that you were sold a knockoff, it's worth it.