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Summary: great set but way too pricey
Review: This is a great set of Star Trek out on Dvd and one of my favorite seasons. I've not purchased this season yet and not sure yet if I will because of the price. I have purchased the first season and several seasons of the X-Files but was very surprised when Buffy season two came out at half the price of both shows!! So in spite of a great set being out I just feel like somehow taken now paying that much. I'm still giving this DVD set 3 stars all for just being a great show on dvd but as for marketing I've now seen what a full season of other shows with great quality can be sold for.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: What can I say - it just gets better and better. I'm so happy they finally have come out on DVD. Can't wait for the other seasons! Great format on the DVDs - includes little known info on some about the making of certain episodes and quirky things about some of the crew. Nice touch!
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Summary: The season that saved TNG
Review: 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.
If you avoided the first two seasons,then this season three is the one to start your TNG DVD collection
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Summary: Completely Grand!
Review: For me this is the lynchpin season upon which ST:TNG pivots. It looks back to the first two seasons, improves upon what is good there, develops our main characters much further, and fixes what was "broke" (Wesley saving the Enterprise every third story is no more!). Season 3 sets several trends upon which the remaining four years will be based. Worf's saga of dishonor and subsequent redemption is begun in "Sins of the Father". Patrick Stewart carrying a whole hour practically by himself begins with the first among several memorable Picard stories in "Captain's Holiday". Although Data cannot feel heartache, we can as he creates a child android with painful consequences in the moving "The Offspring". Even Q gets a decent story in this season as he becomes less of an eye-rolling annoyance and more of a real character. And of course, we have the first of many season cliff-hangers to come, "The Best of Both Worlds"!
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Summary: TNG has won me over!
Review: Until the release of TNG on DVD, I was a stubborn original series faithful. Wow, what I have missed! I purchased the first season DVD upon it's release hoping to become a TNG fan and I became hooked immediately. I am very pleased with TNG's arrival on DVD. When the series first aired, I had trouble tuning in due to a busy schedule of classes among other things. Now that the series has been released on DVD, I can watch the episodes sequentially and at my leisure. And it looks and sounds outstanding! Thanks to Star Trek and Paramount! Being fairly new to the TNG universe, many may disagree with my opinions of the third season. I give year 3 of TNG four out of five stars. Season 3 winners are as follows: 1. Best of Both Worlds Part 1: This episode is believed by many to be the best episode ever. City on the Edge of Forever from the original series comes in at a close second.
2. Yesterday's Enterprise: Excellent plot and story, great special effects. A temporal rift sends the Enterprise-C 22 years into the future. Picard and crew must send the ship back to the past to avoid war against the Klingon Empire. I almost like it better than Best of Both Worlds.
3. The Offspring: Jonathan Frakes' directorial debut is a hit. Data constructs an android child, who attempts to adjust to life on board the Enterprise.
4. The Defector: An excellent adventure about a Romulan officer who comes to the Enterprise with vital news about a potential Romulan attack on Federation outposts near the neutral zone. The defector's questionable past creates a credibility issue.
5. The Bonding: So many episodes could have been tied for fifth best. TNG tackles the issue of death and letting go.
6. The Enemy: On a ravaged planet, La Forge teams up with a Romulan to save themselves from certain death.
7. Sins of the Father: Picard and Worf challenge accusations that Worf's father was a traitor, aligning himself with the Romulans.
Other big winners: The Ensigns of Command, The Survivors, Who Watches the Watchers, Booby Trap, Deja Q, Sarek, The Price, Transfigurations, The Vengeance Factor, Tin Man.
[Not as good]: Evolution, A Matter of Perspective, Hollow Pursuits, The Most Toys, Menage a Troi. This season is huge because we get to know the characters on a more personal level than we did in the first two seasons. The extras in the box set itself were satisfying to me, but if I were as familiar with TNG as I am the original series, I probably would find it lacking. However, the CD-ROMs that have been packaged with the DVDs as a bonus are a nice extra (episode guide with season 1, enterprise interactive technical manual with season 2, and two MP-3 audio books with season 3). I have noticed that many stores have the CD-ROMs but you will pay ... more. The picture and sound are fabulous. It's tough watching the episodes on TNN even with DSS. I'm glad TNG is kicking it in syndication, and I continue to tune in. However, the DVD experience is unmatched.
Gene Roddenberry was right when he said Star Trek would take off in season 4, but I don't think the writers, producers, directors, and actors had any idea during the course of season 3 that this would turn out to be the best season of TNG. From what I have read, there is quite a debate as to which season is the best, season three vs. four. I can't wait until early September to find out for myself!
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Summary: Why didn't they release these sooner!
Review: This DVD set is a must for any star trek or sci-fi fan! The extras on the last disk have exalent insight into the background of the show from both actor and producer view points. Many never before seen interviews and comments are included. The menu interface is simple and good looking very easy to use. If your a mid-way star trek fan this and the next two seasons contain the best of TNG episodes. I would recomend to any big or hardcore trekie to get all seven seasons, not only for the great episodes but also for the extra info in the special features included in each season.
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Summary: TNG Comes of Age in Season Three
Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation moved from puberty into growing adolescence in Year Three with the maturing of the prime characters, the change in uniforms and the standardization of much of the ship's functions and sounds -- without denegrating the story lines in any way. So much was gained and, no matter who or what the cause, episodes such as "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "The Offspring" proved the growth that Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner brought to their characters, which continues through Year Six. Well worth the purchase price!
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Summary: Whee! Season Three on DVD!
Review: "The Best of Both Worlds Pt. 1" & "Yesterday's Enterprise"...'Nuff said!
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Summary: Season Best
Review: The third season of Star Trek-TNG is by far the best of the show's entire 7 year run. There were a number of changes, in front of, and behind the camera, to liven things up a bit. Dr. Beverley Crusher (Gates McFadden) is back on board the starship Enterprise, to further her relationship with her son, Wesley (Wil Wheaton), and continue the backstory between her and Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) There were episodes featuring the return of fan favorites Q (John De Lancie), Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett), Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby), Guinan (Whoppi Goldberg) the Borg, and original series favorite Sarek (Mark Lenard). It also introduced us to recurring characters Vash (Jennifer Hetrick) and Lt. Reginald Barclay (Dwight Shultz) and marked the start of series star Jonathan Frakes as a director on the series. The Starfleet uniforms were tinkered with, as were a number of the sets for the ship itself, all of the changes are noticed, but not in your face. After a shortened 2nd season, the writing staff is much more stable then ever before. This is thanks to the arrival of eventual staff writers Michael Piller and my presonal favorite, Ronald D. Moore, who has a real sense of what works best when it comes to TREK There are very few "clunker" episodes in season 3. My favorites of year three are: The Survivors
The Bonding
The Enemy
The Defector
The High Ground
Deja Q
Yesterday's Enterprise
Sins Of The Father
The Offspring
Captain's Holiday
Sarek
The Best Of Both Worlds The seven DVD set is laid out like the previous season box sets. There is about an hour's worth of featurettes that cover season 3 on the seventh disc The interviews are made up of new and previously seen material. None of the information presented in these documentaries will offer anything earth shattering about the series, still it's nice to have and look back on that stuff to see how far the show came, in a very short time. The 3rd season box set is highly recommended
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Summary: Still Short of Being A Great Box Set...
Review: By it's third season, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was, undoubtedly, a great series. Some of the series' finest episodes were made during this season and it is considered to be arguably the finest season of television the people of Star Trek have ever done. That said, it's still a bit of a shame to see them not pull out all the stops for the DVD release - the format that's made for bells and whistles. Aside from the twenty-six episodes of the series - for which there is little reason to go into detail here given the large number of other reviews that discuss the episodes in detail - the seventh disc of the set features four extra segments - a season overview, a look at the changes in the crew in Season Three, and two "Departmental Briefings": this time around focusing on episode production as well as the usual "Memorable Missions" segment. They're all great segments and they do a great job of bringing the behind-the-scenes community to life. These segments especially illuminate what Michael Piller - who would go on to be one of the most influential backstagers on "Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager" - brought to the show when he signed on board that season. Much of the interview footage was shot new for the episode and it highlights and gives anecdotes for many of the episodes. All that said, though, the set - as with the previous two - seems to be missing something. There are no episode commentaries, no scripts, no storyboards, no deleted scenes, and no TV ads. While much of what would be covered in some episodes' commentaries is in the extras segments, it would still have been very nice to see a play-by-play analysis of "Yesterday's Enterprise" or "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I" - or even "Who Watches the Watchers" by Executive Producer Rick Berman and the aforementioned Michael Piller - or by Michael Okuda or Jonathan Frakes or any of the other Trek actors and creators that make the show so great. Likewise, there must be an absolute ton of material in the vaults - segments cut for time, episode promos, screen tests, etc. - that are still waiting to see the light of day. To really wow us with a box set, it would have been nice to have more of that in here. Nonetheless, this is still a wonderful DVD set and certainly worth owning - even by the casual Star Trek fan. As many others have said, Season 3 was the breakout season for the show - it's worth having on DVD.
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