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

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Summary: For those of you who want it new.
Review: Buy it from Amazon. K. Robinson obviously doesn't see the value of buying the boxed set new but I certainly do. I think DVD boxed sets are collectible items. They are not going to stay in production forever. They have limited production runs. Even for a title like Star Trek DVD sets go in and out of production.

However if you want to find it new and cheaper buy it from DVD Planet or DVD Empire where it is selling for around $625.00.

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Summary: Just What I Didn't Want
Review: Go ahead and order them if you must, but the transfer to DVD is terrible. To get all the episodes on as few disks as possible, they either compressed them too much or just didn't take care in doing a quality job. I can't watch them in full screen mode without horrendous artifacts. So I have to reduce screen size to make it look as good as it did on television. I shouldn't have to do that.

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Summary: TNG Boxed Set
Review: I just saw this boxed set at Costco for $499! Finally, TNG seasons are coming down enough in price for me to consider buying them. After all, why would you not want them all if you wanted any one of them?

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Summary: televisions Giant.
Review: I own all seven series. Purchased them all about a year ago, when they first came out. I had to wait months for the seasons to be released after each other. It took around 9 months for them to finally release all 7 seasons on DVD. Here you have them all in one set. The picture looks great for all seasons, aside from a few in the first season. The 5.1 is what I've been waitng for. And i wasn't let down eiher. These DVD's serve as the trophy of my DVD collection. If I were to lose them somehow, I would buy the complete seasons 1-7, because I could not be left to watch spike. Who annoy me with their logo and commercial interruptions. The specials are wonderful, but the seasons lack commentary. This i was hoping for. But i live on with behind the scene footage. Interviews from as early as the beginning of the show to 2002. Jonathan Frakes still looks like yesterday in his interviews. I learned how dearly Patrick Stewert still feels towards the cast members. Another bonus are the uncut episodes. Such as "all good things", where you get perhaps 5 or 7 additional scenes. My favorite episode is genesis on the seventh season, or perhaps "the inner light" on the 5th season.

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Summary: Star Trek, The Next Generation seasons 1-7; discount version
Review: I purchased the "chinese" version. If you investigate the cheaper options, you will find these are "chinese versions" running about $200, a considerable savings from the english versions. The only difference is the style of packaging, and the writing on the box and the DVD's is in chinese (except the title "Star Trek The Next Generation", and the numbering on the discs). Also, chinese subtitles can be enabled if you want them. The text, spoken lines, credits, content, and the entire show is perfectly identical to what was broadcast on TV. English subtitles are also an option, or no subtitles at all. The "catch", however, is that some of the episodes are clipped slightly short. There are four episodes on each disc. The last episode on the disc stops short by about 2 to 4 minutes. Most of the time, this means you just miss the ending credits. However, the first disc of each season runs a little long, and about the last four minutes of the last episode on that particular disc will be lost. Therefore, only seven episodes out of the total are significantly affected, and there is not enough missing to "leave you hanging". But if you are a serious collector who wants every minute accurately archived and obtainable, you might want to pay the extra $400 or so for the english version. For those of you who won't be upset over a total of 20 minutes, that don't significantly affect the content, missing from 7 episodes (of the approximately 175 total episodes), you can save a fair amount of dollars. The quality is similar to the original broadcast, there are some extra features and interviews, and we thoroughly enjoyed seeing all those great episodes again, in order and without commercials. There are about 50 discs in the chinese version that are in induvidual plastic sleeves, and fit compactly into a nice wooden box that is about 8in. x 10in. x 2 in., and doesn't take a large amount of space. Hope this helps you "make it so".

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Summary: Fabulous series now on DVD
Review: I used to watch this show with my dad and younger sister all the time. I recently was talking about this series with a friend who used to watch it with HIS family too. We both agreed that this series was one of the best, and how nice it would be to have them all on DVD to share with OUR families.

Obviously, our wish was granted. Too bad this is no longer available in stores.

From season one, Start Trek, the Next Generation was exciting and interesting. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is the captain of the Starship Enterprise, including a large crew that in later seasons includes Whoopi Goldberg, Brent Spinner, Levar Burton and others.

Watching this show is engaging and interesting because the show takes place in the furture where there are alien races of all sorts and intergalactic wars between cultures and new planets to explore. How lucky the characters are in the show to explore the universe and discover new races of people! They also have better technology, such as the Hollodeck-a deck of the ship that creates holograms in 3-d form. Its like an elaborate dress up room in ANY time and or place.

The episodes are engaging throughout, but many are unforgettable, such as "The Child" Where Dianna Troi becomes pregnant by an alien entity and the child goes from being an infant to an 8 year old in one day, and "Elementary, dear Data" where Data plays a Sherlock Holmes mystery on the Holodeck. Another interesting episode from season 3 is called "Hollow Persuits" in which one of the crew members uses the Holodeck to act out his fantasies about the crew, including having Troi seduce him, and having a swordfight against Data, and Captain Picard!

I would reccomend getting this series in ANY way you can, its worth the VERY high $$. Sure its on TNG now, but someday it won't be on TV anymore, and you'll own all the episodes on DVD, to watch over and over again.

This 48 disc set is well done and spans the many years that the crew of the Starship Enterprise worked together.



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Summary: TNG-Beyond the final frontier
Review: When I first saw TNG seventeen year ago,I was still spoiled by the original series, and thought the show was a mistake to make. I really didn't get into TNG until it was shown in re-runs,as it even surpassed the original series in quality and longeviety.
Worse was fact that the first episode I saw was the Naked Now,a knock off of TOS' The Naked Time.The first season was the shakedown.The cast still finding their characters,as well as a handful of okay to bad episodes(The Big Goodbye,11001001,Heart Of Glory were the classic episodes of the season).
Aside fom the drastic changes that happened between seasons(casting and character promotions),The second season of TNG was a big improvement over the first.Yet it was still far from the great show it would later become.
The intrduction of Guinan(as well as Ten-Forward)and the temporary residence of Dr Kathrine Pulaski in The Child,added a new dimension to the show.The best episodes include The Measure Of A Man,The Emissary,A Matter Of honor,and of course Q Who,which not only brought back Q,but introduced The Borg.
From the beginning of season three of ST:TNG,it's obvious that the show was coming from under it's spin-off banner and became its own show.
The writing was excellent,the characters were more fleshed out with room for growth.Gates McFadden returned as Dr Beverly Crusher,finally restoring the magic chemestry between the cast.
The best episodes included The Survivors,Who Watches The Watchers,The Bonding,Booby Trap,The Enemy,Yesterdays Enterprise,The Offspring,Sins Of The Father,Sarek,and of course,The Best Of Both Worlds pt 1,regarded as TNG's finest moment..Although Pt II was somewhat of a letdown,the fourth season was no less than a success. Classic episodes,including Family,The Drumhead,Reunion,Data's Day,Q-pid,The Host,and the season finale,Redemption ,measured up easily with the best of the original series.
The high quality of the 4th season episodes continues during the 5th.Dispite such clinkers as Imaginary Friend, and the over hyped yet warmly welcomed appearence of Spock in Unification, as well as The First Duty,Darmok,and The Inner Light along with many great episodes. The season also saw the passing of Gene Roddenberry,and Rick Berman finally in place of the heir apperent,which metephorically was seen in the final scene of Unification as Spock mind-melded with Picard,finally closing the "Generational Gap".
While many took note that the spin-off Deep Space Nine's premire took a little wind out of the sixth season,TNG juggled with stories that ranged from Playful(Rascals,A Fist Full Of Datas),introspective(Tapestry,Lessons),suspenseful(Face Of The Enemy) to eerie (Man Of The People,Schisms).
The highlight of the season was Relics,which James Doohan's Scotty returns after being in a transporter stream for 75 years.The best episode of the season is the two part Chain Of Command which has Picard re-assigned,then taken prisoners & tortured by the Cardassians.
The season finale Descent, returning with a new Borg threat ends on a limp note(especially after Best Of Both Worlds Pt 1),but season six was definately an interesting experience.
In what seems a trend in the Star Trek series,the final season, after previous ones had quality episodes,produce some of the worst ever episodes.
A majority of the episodes ranged from mediocre(Liasons,Bloodlines,Journey's End,Homeward,Interface) to just plain terrible(Masks,Emergence,the season premire Descent Pt II).There was even an episode that was the ultimate guilty pleasure(Sub Rosa).
But season seven also had some classic episodes(Phantasms,Attatched,Parallels,The Pegasus,The Lower Decks,Pre-emptive Strike) and of course the memorable series finale All Good Things which would've made a better movie than Star Trek Generations.
Nearly ten years after the last episode,and four movies that seemed like big screen TV movies,it really was the end as the movies shifted it's focus solely on Picard and Data,leaving the other characters in the background(excluding Worf who was featured in the latter four seasons of Deep Space Nine).But even a flawed final season is a safer bet than it's big screen offspring.
Despite having to follow in the footsteps of a phenomenon as big as the original series ,The Next Generation proved that Star Trek influence was nowhere near dissipating, and would be around for the long run.

Ten Favorite TNG Episodes

1.Chain of Command
2.The Drumhead
3.The Offspring
4.The First Duty
5.Relics
6.Schisms
7.Tapestry
8.The Emissary
9.Family
10.The Best of Both Worlds