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Summary: star trek next generation-third series.
Review: I know that the series is excellent on tape anyway, and i just know that the sound affects and picture quality are going to be excellant. My husband is a very serious star trek fan and has series 3 on tape. But he is now trying to collect then on dvd,as and when we have the money.
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Summary: The measuring stick for the rest of the series
Review: Is this the same TNG? Wow, so much so that I think fans often look back at season 3 as what propelled the show to its legendary status. Lets review the changes: first, it appears that many of the officers get new quarters. Data's quarters in seasons 1 and 2 resemble a receiving room in an airport hangar; here he and everyone else get really nice, spatious living areas. The uniforms have been mentioned by a number of people: they go from tight stretched, peel-off-to-undress-looking T-shirts and tights to collared, sweatshirt-resembling uniforms without that annoying seam down the middle of the chest. Now there is a place for command rank pips (there's a 1st season episode where Picard's pips are bunched together at one end and spread out at the other end!). There is a new and better title sequence. The crew begin to settle into their positions and pesonalities as well. Troi is more at ease, her empathic powers more even and toned down. Geordi, perhaps my favorite of the characters, settles into his chief of engineering position for good (in season 1, you never knew what the crew would be doing each episode - Data might be chief of security and Worf the transporter chief). Q is back and isn't so malevolent as in the 1st and 2nd seasons; he becomes more of a trickster character from here on through Voyager. Riker and Picard are more trusting of each other, and thank goodness Dr. Crusher is back to stay! Why didn't Dr. Pulaski work out? Because she was supposed to be like Dr. McCoy. Two things are wrong with that: no one could ever be like Dr. McCoy, and the restriction banning any personal conflict between characters was still in place then. That leads me to say as well that what helped the show this season more than anything was the stability in the front office. The new staff shifted focus from quasi political stuff to harder science fiction. The "We're perfect in the 24th century" thing is vitually non existant from here on out too, or at least its not as in your face. Starfleet indeed takes on more of a military feel (why else would a ship have multiple phaser banks and 150 photon torpedoes?) from the Picard attitude of "Oh no, we're not the military!" in season 2. This is all why Voyager is such a favorite of mine - it's a little more wild, willing to do stuff you would never have seen in TNG. There aren't any real clunker episodes in the third season; it gets off to a bit of a slow start, but those first several episodes are very focused and have a lot of dramatic quality. "Sarek," "Allegiance," "The Enemy," "The Defector," "Sins of the Father," "The Offspring," and "The Best of Both Worlds, part I" are top notch in one of TNG's top notch seasons. We learn much about Worf as an individual in "The Enemy," including his prejudices. Worf fans will love it as well as "Sins of the Father." Action/suspense fans will enjoy "Booby Trap," "The High Ground," and "Yesterday's Enterprise." Drama critics will go wild over "Sarek," one of the finest actor's scripts to date. There is a lot in season 3; I recommend it highly. For those who haven't seen these box sets yet, they're stunning. The picture quality of these episodes is far above and beyond anything you've seen on the VHS versions.
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Summary: The season that saved Star Trek
Review: Season 3 of STTNG is the season that saved Star Trek.
In the first two seasons,the show's good ratings had slowly been dropping.These first two seasons had so-so production values and some rather forced conflict.
In those first two seasons,cast members wandered around the Enterprise in comic book T-shirt uniforms or went down to a "planet" that was obviously a studio set.
The very average effects were usually of a cheap shot of the ship in moving in front of a planet.
Reviews of the show had been mixed,but in the third season the critics were very pleased with the quality of the show.
The stories were much improved and more inventive than the very average and sometimes mediocre first two seasons. Writer Michael Piller joined the series and he was a great addition. He was responsible for the much improved storylines which concentrated more on characterization rather than monster or alien stories.
The cast were back in new and better looking cotton uniforms with higher collars replacing the awful costume design of the first two seasons.
Other uniforms,such as the ridiculous patchwork Admirals uniforms were also re-designed and improved.
The Doctor Crusher character was brought back and was an improvement over the Dr Pulaski character.
The set design,effects,stories and production values were vastly improved to the point of this virtually being like a new show,such was the improvement.
And because of this,the ratings went back up and were the best ever.Star Trek's future was assured.This is the box set to buy for the series best.
The first episode "Evolution" was similar to season ones mediocre "Home Soil" but this time the story was done much better,showing how superior this season was.The special effects and production values were at the time innovative.
There were some great episodes like "The Survivors" and "Who Watches the Watchers" which has a plot about a planet being watched by Starfleet through a duckblind and was much like the movie Star Trek:Insurrection."Booby Trap" showed how the special effects had improved and the planet scenes for "The Enemy" where La Forge is trapped on a storm-ridden planet with a Romulan showed how much the new lighting team had improved the stage scenes for planet surface scenes.No more did they look like sound stages."The Defector" gave us good drama as a Romulan defector warns of an impending war and "Yesterdays Enterprise" is one of the series favourites with great battle scenes.Check out Tasha Yar's officer boyfriend-he was one of the actors originally tested for the Riker role and missed out.Other great episodes are "The Offspring" where Data creates a daughter and "Sarek" about Spock's father becoming ill."Hollow Pursuits" is an eccellent Barclay episode and "Deja Q" is a good comedy episode.It all ends with the cliffhanger "Best Of Both Worlds" episode which started a cliffhanger trend in Star Trek.I have seen all the Star Trek series and this one is the most entertaining,with the best lineup of Trek characters and is the most fun.Seasons 4 and 5 continued the high standard before Rick Berman made the mistake(in season 6)of making two Star Trek series at the same time and lowered the standard of writing.52 episodes per season was too much.Still,seasons 6 and 7 did have some good episodes as well,but season 3 is the best.
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Summary: 5 stars from here on out
Review: o.k. now the series is great. After the first two so-so seasons we finally got the Star Trek we wanted. Not a carbon copy of the original but something with life and energy. If you want to defend the first two seasons that is fine but, this one and the ones that follow are far superior. I'll probably pre-order this one before I even go buy the others. If you liked the show but do not want to shell out three hundred dollars just to get to the good stuff then start here.
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Summary: Simply the Best
Review: This is the season that started it all, the year a half-hearted imitation of a legend began building it's own legacy. From the feature film quality episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" to the mind blowing cliff hanger finale of "Best of Both Worlds", the third season of TNG had it all. It turned my friends and I from occasional viewers into die hard fans. You can shell out the money for the first two seasons if you have to be a completist, but you really only need to start with this set to have the best of what sci-fi on television has to offer.
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Summary: The best season of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Review: Now this is where it gets interesting! After the shortened and varied second season, The Next Generation finally gets going in the third season. Not only is the writing brilliant but the production values have had a shot in the arm. The revised title sequence is much stronger and the title music is re-mixed. The entire ship looks and sounds better too, with the new uniforms with the collars (much better). A new director of photography was brought whose lighting technique allowed them to get rid of that "this is obviously filmed in a studio" look when creating planet side sequences. This season also has some of the best scores to accompany the series before it became a constant rehash of the same orchestral sequences later on in the programme. Ron Jones does a particularly excellent job, especially with "The Best of Both Worlds" and newcomer Jay Chattaway's score to "Tin Man" turned a mediocre episode into something more emotional. This season shines with great episodes such as The Enemy (Romulans!), The Defector (real spy thriller stuff), The Hunted, The High Ground (terrorist episode). There are however 2 stunners: "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "The Best of Both Worlds." Alternative timelines and the Borg have always made some of the best episodes - Yesterday's Enterprise gives Tasha Yar a chance to return for an episode where the Federation is still at war with the Klingons. The Best of Both Worlds is the high point of the entire series - great story, great effects, great music, and that feeling of "they can't do that" when the "To be continued...." line appeared on the screen. Great stuff. Episode List: Evolution
The Ensigns of Command
The Survivors
Who Watches The Watchers?
The Bonding
Booby Trap
The Enemy
The Price
The Vengeance Factor
The Defector
The Hunted
The High Ground
Deja Q
A Matter of Perspective
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Sins of the Father
Allegiance
Captain's Holiday
Tin Man
Hollow Pursuits
The Most Toys
Sarek
Ménage à Troi
Transfigurations
The Best of Both Worlds, Part I
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Summary: TREK AT IT'S BEST
Review: THE THIRD SEASON OF STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION IS PROBABLY THE BEST OF THE SERIES.THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF CHARACTER DEVELOPEMENT AND THE STORIES ARE VERY WELL WRITTEN.
BEING A LONG TIME STAR TREK FAN FROM THE OLD DAYS, I MUST ADMIT I WAS SCEPTICAL ABOUT TNG, BUT I WAS VERY IMPPRESSED WITH
IT, AND THE THIRD SEASON IS A DELIGHT TO VIEW!
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Summary: First truly great season of a great SF television series
Review: This first fully satisfying season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is a must-buy. Every episode in this third season is at least solidly entertaining (okay, I admit I have a soft spot for the one where Mrs. Troi is kidnapped by the Ferengi), with at least six or seven episodes being among the best the series has ever done. Stand-outs include "The Offspring" (Data creates an android daughter); the trippy "Yesterday's Enterprise" (a time anomaly re-writes history, resulting in Tasha Yar being alive again); and "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I" (the Borg return). A suggestion: if you buy this set, be prepared for a season-ending cliff-hanger, mainstays of ST:TNG from season three onward. This means you'll have to run out and get the season four box set to see how the Enterprise gets out of the deadly situation with the Borg seen in the final moments of season three. About the DVD's: picture and sound are sharp and clear, and the extras are often fascinating. I especially enjoyed the surprisingly candid interviews, where cast members discuss what they liked and didn't like about the ways their particular characters were handled by the producers. This is a great set; don't hesitate to pick it up.
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Summary: The TNG we know and love
Review: This was the beginning of what TNG was all about, strong characters, great storylines, great acting and overall good writing. I found the start of the season a little weak until the episode, The Bonding, which delt with a child who lost his mother and a alien being who is trying to replace her to make him happy was just wonderful. Then it got rolling. Here is my favorites of the season.
The Survivors
The Bonding
The Booby Trap
The Enemy
The Defector
Deja Q
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Sins Of The Father
Tin Man
Hollow Pursuits
The Most Toys
Sarek
The Best Of Both Worlds Part 1
This was the start of the TNG we know and love.
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Summary: Season 3: The best season of TNG
Review: Season 3 of TNG is the best season of the entire series. Some of my favorites from season 3 include: "The Defector", "The Hunted", "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "The Best Of Both Worlds". This is a must have for any star trek fan.
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