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Star Trek The Next Generation - Jean-Luc Picard Collection

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Jean Luc Picard Collection 4 out of 5 stars.
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Its really great, but I would have chosen Attached over Drumhead as one of the episodes along with Darmok and Inner Lightwhich are fantastic. I think it would have assured a 5 star rating to the collection. Nevertheless, it's well worth the buy.

Excellent Episode Choices but Where is BoBW? 5 out of 5 stars.
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I think Jean Luc Picard is one of the best characters ever developed for television. I, personally, feel he's the best of all Trek Captains (Kirk fans, please set phasers to stun, I like him too, but Picard to me is the better of the two). This set picks some excellent episodes that highlight the outstanding acting of Mister Patrick Stewart. However - where is the excellent "Best of Both Worlds (parts 1 and 2)". A Picards set without them, that doesn't seem right.

Arguable choices. Still a very good collection. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Clearly a Picard-focused retrospective should include some Borg action. Given that a special collection of Borg episodes was envisioned, I understand the decision to stick with no Borg content on this DVD. Even so, a switch of some content for the masterful "Best of Both Worlds" would have made this a five-star collection for me. At least Q made an appearance.

Not all of the episodes resonate with me. It's a diverse set, from straight bottle shows ("Drumhead") to alien worlds ("Darmok") to the holodeck ("Big Goodbye") and even Earth ("Family").

"The Inner Light" easily stands above the rest as one of the finest shows of any Star Trek series.

As a Q fan, I enjoyed "Tapestry", with Q as guardian angel Clarence to Picard's George Bailey. Not exactly, of course, since it was the alternate path not taken vs. never been born.

Jimmy Stewart appeared again in "Drumhead", where Picard sounded like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" with his passionate remarks and standing up for rights. This show is decent, if a bit heavy-handed.

Count me in the minority for not praising "Darmok" as highly as others. This one could have been expanded into a fine two-part episode that developed the interesting core idea more. As it was, the story seemed rushed and a bit derivative, even though the two never came to blows "Arena"-style.

"The Big Goodbye" was TNG's "Piece of the Action". What a difference between Kirk and Picard in those two shows! I also liked the inkling of a potential relationship between Picard and Beverly here, from early in the series. Very stylish costumes, too.

"Sarek" nicely brings Spock's father around for another turn, with a good take on what might happen to an aging Vulcan's mind, particularly when it involves the loss of control.

"Family" doesn't stand that well out of context and was rather predictable. I may have trimmed the Worf thread and spent more minutes on Picard and his brother.

I would gladly have traded the bonus documentary, which has nothing really to do with Picard or TNG other than Stewart narrates, for another episode.

Kudos to Paramount for making a solid collection at an affordable price.

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/03/2004 Rating: Nr

Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Seasons 1-7

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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

Star Trek Next Generation Collection (Widescreen Edition)

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lizzbomb review 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 38 people found this review helpful.

I AM 1 OF THE FEW ENGLISH TNG FANS.GENERATIONS IS MY FAVOURITE FILM I LIKE THE MIX OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES AND THE NEXT GENERATION.INSURRECTION ALSO HAS SOME VERY GOOD ONE LINERS.IF YOU LOVE STAR TREK,THE NEXT GENERATION AS I DO THIS IS A MUST FOR YOU.BUY IT AND ENJOY,LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!!!!!!

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/26/1999

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Chosen Collection: Complete Seasons 1 - 7 (IMPORT)

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Cheap Chinese Bootleg. No matter how cool and unique the packaging looks... BUYER BEWARE! 1 out of 5 stars.
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I spent a small fortune on this after loving my chinese import of Transformers G1. However, this time it was very disappointing. Whatever transfer method they used creates a worse then broadcast viewing experience. I would rather have the show on VHS, taped directly from TNN when they squashed the screen to make room for a banner ad at the bottom of the screen.

At time the color almost drops completely, as if they tried to copy it without first figuring out how to disable macro protection. Okay... maybe that last sentence was a bit too nerdy... but buy the real genuine US DVD sets with the official paramount/CBS seal! (That are also printed and made in China, but are at least authorized to do so with quality controls. LOL)

A whiter shade of green 1 out of 5 stars.
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After viewing only two episodes, I agree with C Bailey's first customer review. Skin tones suddenly have a ghastly green tinge but relax folks it isn't your television set; it is the digital transfer to dvd. If you can get beyond that the box itself looks nice. There is no booklet or episode breakdown other than what is on each individual dvd. The discs themselves are numbered and have which season you are viewing on each of the 48 discs. Going online and printing out an episode breakdown might be helpful if you wish to locate a special telecast. This set is half the price of the official release but the picture quality is poor at best.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Seasons 1 - 7 are available in a complete series set. Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the landmark series and own all 176 classic episodes in one definitive boxed set on 48 DVD's.

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Star Trek The Next Generation - Jean-Luc Picard Collection

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