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Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Old Friendships Renewed: STTNG 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
I had Seasons 4-7 for a couple of years and I finally broke down and bought season 1. It was really great to see how "green" the crew was and the opening with Picard's dialog. A lot of people, like myself, have overlooked the first three seasons as a settling in period for the characters. But when I looked at season one I was glad I had purchased it. What thrilling time to see this crew pull together. It was like seeing old friends for the first time in years. The newness and freshness of the characters survives the years in this first season DVD.
I plan on getting seasons 2 & 3.
Rent, Don't Buy 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
Much as I have enjoyed viewing the Season 1 episodes, I would enjoy them more if they looked better. On DVD, many episodes or scenes within episodes suffer from one or more ills: washed out colors, erratic brightness and contrast, distracting digital artifacts. I recommend renting Season 1 (or checking it out at the public library) instead of buying it. Maybe Paramount will remaster Season 1 when the studio prepares it for distrubtion on Blu-Ray. I hope so because at higher resolution, these episodes will look even rougher.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Third Season
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Total reviews: 84
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Next Gen Really Hits Its Stride See it in HD 5 out of 5 stars.
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There are several compelling reasons to purchase this set:
This is by far the best of several great NG seasons; writing is crisp, the dialog is visceral, the tempo is great, and the shows are generally as good or better than you will find in earlier or later years.
The characters' development is proceeding on all fronts, human, Klingon, and crew-wise. The production, writing, and directing is nearing its peak.
But, as important as any of these are, don't forget ILM (div of LucasFilms) did the special effects. This is as high a quality of special effect as you will ever see in television. It is guaranteed with all the computer and CGI junk as there is now, you will not see better sci-fi action than this. MANY OF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THE ORIGINAL Next Gen SHOWS IN HI DEF. YOU MUST!! It is leaps and bounds better than other versions.
Many of us trekkers are just now getting the high quality 1080i or 1080p high def televisions. You will not believe how much better the quality of Next Gen is until you see it on one of these hi def sets. Get one with HDMI and upcoding, and it will up-convert your standard def show like Next Gen DVD TO HDMI and 1080i or p. It is unbelievable!! As good as the VHS tapes were, as good as you can record Trek off TV nowdays, the factory stuff with the Dolby Surround encoding cannot be beat. Many movies do not have the quality of these Trek shows. Some of these shows had as much as 3 Million in special effects budgets- for 1987 that was a ton of money. Some blockbuster films did not have much more budget than a single trek show!
So, add this new compelling element, top quality video, to the OTHER strengths of Season Three Next Gen and you have an all time winner. No collectors set of videos would be complete without Year 3, the Third Season, of Star Trek Next Gen. It is excellence personified. The stereo is near perfect, audio mixing is the best I ever heard (check out the subwoofer content in engineering scenes), surround is first class, the directing, writing, acting, and direction, cannot be beat for TV, and the special effects are as good as you will ever see. You can bet there will never be another Trek Next Gen. But if you have a high def television, you are in for a treat, as this is historic. The Pinnacle of television.
This is the complete package for Sci Fi and Trek fans. You get the action, the effects, the cerebral, philosophical nature of Trek, and video that cannot be beat, 19 hours of it, for 62$. Mighty hard to beat. Gene, the Great Bird of the Galaxy, would be proud. Do yourself a favor and treat yourself to some really classic trek and sci fi and at least get season three. If you are a trek fan, this one season is the least you can try out. Science Fiction simply does not get any better than this. Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Third Season
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Second Season
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Total reviews: 73
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
Would give 4 stars but both sets had factory defects! 3 out of 5 stars.
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I love Star Trek OK? That being said, this is the season where Next Gen really took off, starting with The Child, Contagion, the profound Measure of A Man, and culminating with Elementary Dear Data, the monumental Q Who?, and the exciting Peak Performance. Excellent writing almost across the board, excellent acting and superb chemistry between the actors. Can't beat it for Television. And they did all this for a mere 1.5 million per episode. Realize that this is upwards of 267 Million dollars for the Next Gen franchise. That is a huge investment, and in that context, 62.00$ is not too bad for 19 hours of enjoyment!
The one issue I have is Paramount's DVD quality control. If you order a set, FIRST THING YOU DO AFTER YOU UNPACK THIS YEAR'S SET IS INSPECT THE UNDERSIDE OF EACH DISK FOR SCRATCHES OR DEFECTS!! A must! One small flaw and you get skips, or freezes. Major scratches and your disk will come to a grinding halt and will lock up. Usually at the worst possible time, at a critical moment in your favorite show. For this kind of money, you don't need that. Now for the good stuff...
In my collection, you will find Season Three, Season Four, and Season Two, the best, most consistent quality oriented, thoughtful scripts, screenplays and compelling acting in my opinion, however, I had to go through multiple sets of Year 2 because there was at least one major flaw (I mean big ones) on the underbelly (laser burned side) of at least one disk in every set of Year 2 I owned.
Year two premiered the development of Riker's great Sir Walter Raleigh beard, and the debut of Ten Forward, THE place to go to blow off steam or just relax and be human, and have fun. While I thought a few of the first year's shows were indicative of potential, Year Two was when that potential began to be tapped. In Season Two, Troi's accent was not quite so pretentious, Riker became more of a real, vibrant, Machiavellian character, with a great humour, quick wit, and less of a stiff cartoon character. Picard really found his voice, and Beverly took off a year (and thereby, somehow, became a great actress) while she was away having her baby. Worf became a more handsome and believable Klingon, and everything just moved ahead by leaps and bounds. Dr. Pulaski was great in Elementary Dear Data and she sparkled in Peak Performance. This was just great fun, with some powerful philosophy thrown in for good measure, in typical Star Trekian fashion. Top quality entertainment.
Next Gen. really took off in year two. You might notice three or more decibels of additional bridge and engineering sub-bass and engine noise in year two's shows. Your higher powered subwoofer will confirm this. This also added to the moxy and the gravitas of the second (and subsequent) seasons, and added together, they spelled success in capital letters! No other Trek show had this unique idea.
Next Gen was destined for a big splash, and year two, the Second Season, was when it really began to coalesce. The crew became THE Crew. This season cemented the chemistry that made all seven years of Next Gen possible.
No Trek collection would be complete without The Second Season of Next Gen.
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Second Season
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Seventh Season
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Total reviews: 64
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Star Trek 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
This show is timeless as are all star trek shows.
I love Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi.
I feel she is the best of all the star trek characters.
I missed my startrek 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
The dvd came on time and in perfect condition. What more can you say?
Always loved the series.
Chris
Great season with a suprise ending! 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
The next generation was the series that got me back into star trek and they (the series) kept getting better and better after this. It was cool to see this blend in with DS9. I don't know how, but I've never seen the season' end until I bought this set. (There aren't many episodes I haven't seen)
It was extremely entertaining to watch the seventh season in order. I have all seven seasons and this this one is the one I like to watch over and over (especially the season finale).
The best season of a grand show 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
The case is nice, the DVD interface is easy to use, and of course, the show is incredible. Highly recommended.
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7 disc set of the seventh season of star trek next generation Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Rating: Nr
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fifth Season
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Total reviews: 63
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Thank you 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
It has taken me a while to find the fifth season. It is were my mom got the name for my brother and she wanted to him to see the episode that his name came from. Thank you
Too Expensive 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
Too expensive. I paid over 60$ for it. I've noticed that the price has come down recently. I hope it's not a case of Amazon keeping track of their customers past purchases and then increasing the prices of items that they expect them to purchase later on. That would be a devastating thing to find out.
I gave it three stars. The content deserves five. The price brings it down to three.
Price Increase?! WHY!? 1 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
I just watched the price of all Star Trek Boxsets jump over night from $35 to $50.....Why Amazon?
Star Trek NG Season 5 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
My husband and I are slowly watching all the NG episodes in order, we are still in the middle of season 4, but having season 5 here makes it easier to watch b/c any cliff hangers at the end of the season will not really be cliffhangers for me.
I wasn't a star trek fan until my husband made me watch several episodes of season 1, and since then I have become attached to the characters and notice a message in the episodes.
If you are a NG fan, you already want this season, if you aren't I recommend starting at the beginning.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Rating: Nr
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fourth Season
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Total reviews: 55
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Trekky 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
What's to say: the product was in great shape as it arrived, and for a real trekky this is a must have...
Excellent Set with Numerous Special Features 5 out of 5 stars.
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I saw very few episodes of Star Trek THG went it was originally aired. I am thoroughly enjoying the 4th season. I have previously purchased and watched the first three seasons. Each year the quality and special effects improve.
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fourth Season 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
I ended up purchasing the entire series after sampling with season 4. Apparently the 4th was about the time when you got to see the actors doing a lot of the directing.This one has Jordi as a lizzard;Picard in France just freed from the Borg;Data plays his dad,himself, and brother;Whorf has a wife and a son; Wesley survives the dessert/saves Picard and runs off to the Academy;.. a good season.I was sad when it was all familiar again.
JUST GREAT! 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
Just hated to see the season end, but at least I am moving on to the next in line. The special effects and surround sound are outstanding! No wonder people become "trekies".
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Sixth Season
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Total reviews: 46
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Good season 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
I'm not a huge TNG fan, but wanted to add this to my collection. There are lots of good enjoyable episodes, and worth adding to your collection.
Star Trek DVDs 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
Show is of course excellent, some DVDs have a small part or two that won't play properly on any device. So that's a bit of a set back, but otherwise I am very happy with my purchase.
Star Trek Watcher 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
Series was fantastic. I purchased all 7 seasons separately. I just can't believe that it would cost less to buy all 7 than the complete series.
Oddly, my first real experience with Star Trek 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
I actually bought this as a gift for my Trekkie parents who have only recently discovered the joy of boxed DVD sets. And I have to admit I watched it with them! Maybe I have not much with which to compare this, but I was impressed by the sheer fun and determination of the storylines. The entire setup of the DVDs, including packaging, was wonderul as well.
Captian Picard at it again! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Yep. Season six doesn't disappoint. If you enjoyed seasons 1-5 you will enjoy this one too. There are a few super hokey episodes- more like w/ Kirk than Picard, but for the most part it stays true to the story lines.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Rating: Nr
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Complete Series
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Total reviews: 53
Average rating: 3.5 of 5
Great product, crappy package 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
I love this star trek series, but the package it came in was badly made and the bright green plastic case had a broken piece. I wish they could have made this package as well as they did for the DS9 series.
Twenty minutes of reading to find out that the product is not worth buying 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 5 people found this review helpful.
I am happy to see that Amazon includes customer reviews, but I do believe that the company bears a certain responsibility for the products it offers for sale. Rather than waste my time reading reviews for a product that is not worth buying, I would prefer that Amazon exercise some judgment and not offer such a product for sale. This is akin to a grocery store offering spoiled food for sale; it just is not right.
Perhaps an entry next to the product's name saying, "This product has been removed because of numerous unfavorable reviews and our own observations."
Star Trek: Next Generation Complete Series 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is freakin' awesome. I am in love with old t.v. shows and have found that t.v. today just isn't cutting it at all. I haven't watched t.v. in over 3 years but I have always loveed the Star Trek Series and love to watch iot with my girlfriend and mother, and now I have it and I have literally sat down for hours and hours just watching it. I was surprised how fragile the collectors case was, when i got it in the mail it arrived chipped, but the case itself is decent. The DVD's look great and the menus are fantastic! The DVD main menus look like the command center for the Worf's security control panel, very cute.
This is a must buy for all star trek fans!
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/02/2007 Run time: 8085 minutes
Star Trek Fan Collective - Borg
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Total reviews: 51
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Resistance is futile..prepare to assimilate this collection! 4 out of 5 stars.
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I always found my favorite episodes in any Star trek series were the ones with the Borg, They were opponents dreamt up after the Ferengi induced more laughter than fear, and they were good villains to have around. My favorite episode was TNG, the Best of both worlds, and I feel it was movie material. Look at this 2 part cliffhanger compared to wimpy movie productions like Nemesis, and you will see what I mean...
About the product:
1. It comes in a cardboard slipcase, with nice graphics inside
2. A plastic DVD book, unlike the bad packaging that the Enterprise DVD set came in
3. Opens like a book, should last a while, with care
4. Not a very sturdy construction
5. 4 DVDs, with 16 episodes at 32$, so that is 2$ each.. but all of them are good episodes, the Enterprise DVD quality is better
It is something every Trek fan should have, if you don't have the episodes separately. Best of both worlds alone, makes the set worth it, though the Voyager episodes are also good, especially Scorpion and Unimatrix 0. I enjoyed Endgame, though it had a shaky plot and was not a fitting end to a 7 year saga.
Definitely worth it. Thinking over this buy is irrelevant,thinking is irrelevant. Prepare your credit card for assimilation!
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/07/2006
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Seasons 1-7
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
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After Star Wars and the successful big-screen Star Trek adventures, it's perhaps not so surprising that Gene Roddenberry managed to convince purse string-wielding studio heads in the 1980s that a Next Generation would be both possible and profitable. But the political climate had changed considerably since the 1960s, the Cold War had wound down, and we were now living in the Age of Greed. To be successful a second time, Star Trek had to change too.A writer's guide was composed with which to sell and define where the Trek universe was in the 24th Century. The United Federation of Planets was a more appealing ideology to an America keen to see where the Reagan/Gorbachev faceoff was taking them. Starfleet's meritocratic philosophy had always embraced all races and species. Now Earth's utopian history, featuring the abolishment of poverty, was brandished prominently and proudly. The new Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, was no longer a ship of war but an exploration vessel carrying families. The ethical and ethnical flagship also carried a former enemy (the Klingon Worf, played by Michael Dorn), and its Chief Engineer (Geordi LaForge) was blind and black. From every politically correct viewpoint, Paramount executives thought the future looked just swell!
Roddenberry's feminism now contrasted a pilot episode featuring ship's Counsellor Troi (Marina Sirtis) in a mini-skirt with her ongoing inner strengths and also those of Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) and the short-lived Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby). The arrival of Whoopi Goldberg in season 2 as mystic barkeep Guinan is a great example of the good the original Trek did for racial groups--Goldberg has stated that she was inspired to become an actress in large part through seeing Nichelle Nichols' Uhura. Her credibility as an actress helped enormously alongside the strong central performances of Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes (First Officer Will Riker), and Brent Spiner (Data) in defining another wholly believable environment once again populated with well-defined characters. Star Trek, it turned out, did not depend for its success on any single group of actors.
Like its predecessor in the 1960s, TNG pioneered visual effects on TV, making it an increasingly jaw-dropping show to look at. And thanks also to the enduring success of the original show, phasers, tricorders, communicators and even phase inverters were already familiar to most viewers. But while technology was a useful tool in most crises, it now frequently seemed to be the cause of them too, as the show's writers continually warned about the dangers of over-reliance on technology (the Borg were the ultimate expression of this maxim). The word "technobabble" came to describe a weakness in many TNG scripts, which sacrificed the social and political allegories of the original and relied instead upon invented technological faults and their equally fictitious resolutions to provide drama within the Enterprise's self-contained society. (The holodeck's safety protocol override seemed to be next to the light switch given the number of times crew members were trapped within.) This emphasis on scientific jargon appealed strongly to an audience who were growing up for the first time in the late 1980s with the home computer--and gave rise to the clichéd image of the nerdy Trek fan.
Like in the original Trek, it was in the stories themselves that much of the show's success is to be found. That pesky Prime Directive kept moral dilemmas afloat ("Justice"/"Who Watches the Watchers?"/"First Contact"). More "what if" scenarios came out of time-travel episodes ("Cause and Effect"/"Time's Arrow"/"Yesterday's Enterprise"). And there were some episodes that touched on the political world, such as "The Arsenal of Freedom" questioning the supply of arms, "Chain of Command" decrying the torture of political prisoners and "The Defector", which was called "The Cuban Missile Crisis of The Neutral Zone" by its writer. The show ran for more than twice as many episodes as its progenitor and therefore had more time to explore wider ranging issues. But the choice of issues illustrates the change in the social climate that had occurred with the passing of a couple of decades. "Angel One" covered sexism; "The Outcast" was about homosexuality; "Symbiosis"--drug addiction; "The High Ground"--terrorism; "Ethics"--euthanasia; "Darmok"--language barriers; and "Journey's End"--displacement of Indians from their homeland. It would have been unthinkable for the original series to have tackled most of these.
TNG could so easily have been a failure, but it wasn't. It survived a writer's strike in its second year, the tragic death of Roddenberry just after Trek's 25th anniversary in 1991, and plenty of competition from would-be rival franchises. Yes, its maintenance of an optimistic future was appealing, but the strong stories and readily identifiable characters ensured the viewers' continuing loyalty. --Paul Tonks