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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 [1990]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5014437813138
Label : Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Paramount Home Entertainment
Publisher : Paramount Home Entertainment
Release date : 2002-04-01
Title : Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 [1990]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 7
Original release date : 1990-09-26
Region code : 2
Running time : 999
Studio : Paramount Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1987-09-26
Number of discs : 7

Editorial reviews

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In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: the Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett).

The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the conference room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledged that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. --Paul Tonks

On the DVD: Star Trek: The Next Generation comes to DVD in a distinctively packaged seven-disc set. This is reproduced for all seven series, thus forming a handsome collection. The outer gunmetal grey case is plastic, and the discs themselves are held in a rather flimsy cardboard fold-out sleeve. Each disc has nicely done animated menus and audio/subtitle options for each episode--though no "play all" facility. Disc 7 also includes bonus features in the shape of informative cast and crew interviews (both new and from the launch of Season 1), subdivided into four chapters: "The Beginning", "Selected Crew Analysis", "The Making of a Legend" and "Memorable Missions". Picture is adequate 4:3 with good Dolby 5.1 showing off the innovative sound effects. --Mark Walker

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-11-09 rating:

A better series than some Trekkers say
A lot of people think this is the weakest of TNG seasons, but for my money it's one of the strongest with good stories and an interesting new group of characters, not all of them making it to later seasons. The problem is that like all the seasons of TNG, the picture quality is ropey. Why spend all that money on sets, actors and effects and shoot it on low quality tape that always looks soft, even on DVD? So not a total recommendation because of the picture quality. Maybe when they get to Blu-Ray they can improve it a bit?

review by: date: 2008-08-04 rating:

In the Beginning...
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 was both good and bad. The pivital episode obviously would be the first "Encounter at Farpoint" which was a two-part episode when we met Q for the first time and get to be introduced to all the TNG Characters who will go on to get so much better later in the series.

Basically if you are a big fan of the show then you'd just couldn't not buy this box-set. Although the show get's much better, this first season still has its memorable moments.

Highlights of Season One of Star Trek: The Next Generation:

Encounter at Farpoint - Q puts humaninity on trial.
Datalore - Data discovers that he has a brother named Lore.
The Big Goodbye - The Holodeck puts the crew in danger.
Conspiracy - Picard discovers that things are not all that they seem in starfleet!

review by: date: 2006-07-28 rating:

A must have
I know there are knockers with The Next Generation but if you are a trekkie, then it is just one of the things you have to have.

Not every episode is great, but it is still a must have and a bargain too at the price.

review by: jb004q8978 date: 2006-01-02 rating:

Star Trek The Next Generation Season 1
I recommend this too Fans of the TV show! as Most star trek fans like me will say that the first season of Star Trek The Next Generation was not the best but if you are a fan of the show you should buy this show. you will find that as you go through the show you will find that the episodes will get much more interesting!

review by: date: 2005-04-01 rating:

Fun to go back to the beginning
Fun to go back to the beginning and see the pilot episode. particularly the ideas that were dropped imediately - Riker and Troi comunicating telepathically anyone? Also look out for some great 'bloopers' watch what Riker does when the computer gives him directions for example.

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