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Summary: The cosby show for geeks...
Review: Like the title of my review says that is how I feel. St:tng is like a feel good cosby type of show for geeks... both have a loving family/crew and a problem which needs to get resolved and which always is within an episode or two. When I first heard of this DVD boxed set I couldn't wait. And even though many people say season 1 wasnt great, re-watch the episodes as I have done... you'll realize just how good they really were. Especially some of the early character development. Some other perks to this DVD are the sound in 5.1/although I would have loved to get my hands on a DTS version the 5.1 sounds is crisp and clear, and the bonus footage... over 20 hours to entertainment.Overall it's a great set to own... This is one tv show I can watch over again w/out the usual repeat boredom setting it. As always, enjoy.
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Summary: A Quality First Season Set
Review: As a first season this set is 5 stars all the way. The box itself is well designed and sturdy, it's survived both my cats knocking it off high places more than once. The interior foldout that holds the DVDs is well designed and aesthetically pleasing. Overall the visual appearance of the box set is very nice, and once all 7 are released they'll look nice together. The extra features on the seventh disk are nice. Even though Gene Roddenbery is gone, there's archived interviews of him talking about the original plans for the show. The interviews with the cast and crew are interesting, they each brought a little bit of information about the show that you might not have known at the time, like the use of a plastic egg to make an alien. The episodes are placed 4 on a disk, with the exceptions being disks 1 and 7 (1 had the two hour pilot, 7 had two episodes and the extra features). Each disk has the episode name listed, and while the theme plays a series of short clips from each episode cycles, allowing you to determine which ones you've seen. I don't have much to say about the episodes themselves, each one warrants it's own review, and there's not enough space here to do that. The quality of this set earns it 5 stars regardless of the quality of each episode. The people who produced this DVD must have spent a lot of time on it.
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Summary: magnificent
Review: I can't believe Paramount has given us this great gift in that we can get the WHOLE YEAR'S episodes of TNG on DVD's for this price. I'm patiently waiting for year#4. I feel like I'm watching it all for the first time---I'm in STAR-TREK heaven again--YOU"RE the BEST, PARAMOUNT!
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Summary: Star Trek TNG - The Complete 1st Season
Review: Like many of you, I've been watching TNG in syndication for quite some time. And while I admit that it's better than nothing, I would rather be able to watch the episodes in chronological order. Well, the wait is over. Finally, the DVDs are here and I'm happy to report they're everything they should be. The extra features (disc 7) are well done, informative, and worth the time it takes to view them. Of course, the episodes themselves are all they were when they were introduced. To the naysayers, let me say you're right; the first season was very campy, just like the original series. And yes, the show got better as it went on. But that's half the fun of the first year! To see Troi in that little mini-skirt pouring her heart into trite dialog; Data, a human actor trying to figure out how to play an android trying to figure out how to be human; Patrick Stewart trying to figure out exactly why he took the role of Picard. Furthermore, even in the first season, the show grew by leaps and bounds. I strongly recommend that every TNG fan buy this boxed set. Go back and relive that first year and enjoy it regardless of its weaknesses. At the very least, it will help you appreciate your favorite years all the more. Besides, your book shelf will look awfully empty if you only have six seasons.
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Summary: Superior Australian Release of this version
Review: The Australian release of this boxed set is in a neat plastic case looking far superior to the US version
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Summary: Classic!
Review: I can't get enough of Gene Roddenbury. I appreciate his genius (far ahead of his time). I love Star Trek and all it's "magic" and ability to allow me to live out some fantasies in my stressful life at times. I watch these episodes over and over and long for their simplistic life and unique flavor of their philosophy in our much too complicated and violent world. But alas, reality is always there, intrusive and threatening. I anxiously await the rest of TNG, as well as DS-9 and Voyager! But until then, Engage!
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Summary: Well, It's A Start, Anyway...
Review: Yikes... an entire season of NextGen shows in one shot! Now I'll admit TNG's first year wasn't exactly stellar (doh!), but it's still nice to take another gander at many of the eppies I haven't gazed upon in quite some time! Now, let's see... how should I commence the review proper? Oh, I know-- I'll discuss the set's picture & sound quality, and bonus features! Okay, here we go... The picture quality of the shows on DVD are a fair sight better than what I used to see on my old VHS tapes, and the sound is significantly superior as well! Unfortunately, the extra features are somewhat sparse: only four mini-documentaries that take up less than 90 minutes of time are included. But, the docs are reasonably informative, and include quite a few cast & crew interviews and memories & behind-the-scenes looks at the show's initial year. Also included is a little foldout booklet/poster thingy featuring a one-sentence mini-bio on each of the principal characters, and a table of contents of all the first-season shows. One feature I was half-expecting the TNG folks to include were the 30-second tv ad spots for each eppie, similar to what was done for the Original Series DVDs (no dice, I'm afear'd). I was also disappointed that Paramount ignored my e-mail suggestion to include an interactive 'Inflict a Slow, Painful Death Upon Wesley Crusher™' game; that would've been a REALLY cool bonus feature! Oh well, maybe they'll take my suggestion to heart for the next box set... Now it's time for me to let you in on my fave season 1 eppies. There's "Encounter at Farpoint"© which introduced that lovable, omnipotent scamp Q™. "Hide & Q"©: you-know-who returns, and Wesley™ gets a bayonet through the abdomen (sadly, this was only temporary)! "Datalore"©: Data™'s evil twin brother Lore™ pops up, and Wesley™ is told to 'shut up' by both the captain and his mom! Yes! Oh yeah, Worf™ gets the hell beaten out of him by Lore™ in the turbolift! Cool! "Skin of Evil"©- a core crew member bites it, but does re-appear in several altered-timeline/flashback episodes later on in the show. "Conspiracy"© features insectoid parasites that come yea close to taking over Starfleet™. Also shown here is the first exploding head in Star Trek™ history, complete with a heapin' helpin' of flying meat-bits! "The Neutral Zone"©: a bunch of cryo-freezed terminally-ill people are revived & cured, and The Romulans™ make their first TNG appearance! This particular show also foreshadows the arrival of a relentless, nearly invincible future threat (gee, I wonder who- or what- THAT might be...?)! Other notable eppies include "The Last Outpost"©, featuring the first appearance of the Ferengi™. Then there's "The Naked Now"©, which is basically a ripoff of the original series show "The Naked Time"©. The crew acts intoxicated after passing 'round a virus that an away team picked up on one planet or another. Thanks to this little 'booze bug', several uncomfortably revealing moments ensue between our Starfleet™ stalwarts, and Data™ discovers just how 'fully functional' he really is with a little help from Tasha Yar™... yowza! 'The Naked Now'© also marks the first Wussley-single-handedly-saving-the-Enterprise™-from-certain-doom plot gimmick, helping kick-start the TNG Trekkie Nation's contempt for the little punk that endures to this day! And speaking of overused plot gimmicks, who can forget "The Big Goodbye"©, AKA the very first holodeck™-malfunction episode, featuring you-know-who saving the day again! Finally, there's the first season's lowest point: "Justice"™. The Enterprise™ visits a planet of supermodels, and Wesley™ accidentally crashes into a restricted flower bed, a crime punishable by death. Unfortunately, Captain Morehead-whoops, I mean Picard™ steps in to save him from execution. Sheesh, Jean-Luc™, you really know how to ruin my day, don'cha? And just when I was ready to throw the switch myself, too! BTW yes, I am aware that I'm rippin' on Wesley™ really hard in this review. And no, I really don't care how you feel about it! It's MY review, I'll rip on him all I want, and there's nothing you can do about it, so there, nyah! And if you don't like it, then give this review a 'not helpful' and get on with your life! Time's getting' short, so I'd better top things off by throwing my two cents in about the box set packaging. All 7 platters are included on one long fold-out holder that folds up into a convenient, space-saving storage case. Unfortunately, except for the DVD spindles themselves, the holder's made of cardboard, which means it's gonna have a helluva time stayin' together in the long run. You might wanna keep some packing tape handy just in case those hinges start to give way! The holder is stored in a neat slipcase made of a heavier stock of cardboard, which unfortunately isn't all that durable, either. Mine already has a few scratches & pits on its surface, and I've only taken it off my video shelf twice since I bought it! Fortunately, what the packaging lacks in durability, it more than makes up for in convenience! The slipcased set is just a tad bigger than three standard DVD snap cases in width, which naturally means the occupation of a relatively minimal amount of shelf space! When it's all said & done, the entire TNG digital video collection will take up only two-thirds the space that the Original Series platters presently do! Of course, putting up to 4 shows on each disc (compared to Classic Trek's 2-per) helps a lot in the space-saving department... 'Late
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Summary: TNG's shaky season one
Review: When I first saw TNG fifteen year ago,I was still spoiled by the original series.Worse was the first episode I saw was the Naked Now,a knock off of TOS' The Naked Time.
I really didn't get into it until it was shown in re-runs,and it even surpassed the original series.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).
In all an interesting look at the beginning of a new and now legndary chapter in the Star Trek saga
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Summary: A solid beginning.....
Review: The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation was by no means its best - the show was still finding its measure, and the constant turmoil within the writing staff didn't help either! Anyway, I'm not here to give you all a history lesson, I'm here to review both the season and the DVD release! Season 1 certainly had it's high points, with some very entertaining episodes - "Datalore", "11001001" and "The Big Goodbye" are the real highlights for me. I suppose the best, though, didn't really start until Season 3, and this season certainly has it's downers - the lacklustre "Home Soil", for instance. All up, though, a good, solid start to a brilliant series. I'm in Australia, and the Region 4 packaging is very different to the US/Canada release - you might find it interesting. To start with, rather than a cardboard case, the R4 version comes in a plastic capsule case - very durable, it seems, and it looks great too! The original logo has been used, which I personally prefer, but the real downfall is that the 7 DVD's come in a bulky and quite flimsy digipack case. 7 CDs in a digipack = imminent doom. I doubt it'll last very long! Still, the packaging is neat, professional, and looks quite good. I'm happy enough. I agree that the sound, with the exception of dialog, is excellent!! I'm now very inclined to get surround sound set up in my house, to get the complete experience. The picture looks great on TV, but pop a disc into your computer and you'll notice just how grainy alot of the episodes are. The interface is very well done, though, and it's a nice touch that the episodes appear in airing order. The set only gets 4 stars from me - why? Just little things like the picture, the ridiculous digipack packaging, and the fact that the shows themselves only got better from here on in! It's fantastic to be able to experience this incredible show all over again on DVD. I have no doubt that Season 2 onwards will get 5 stars from me. =)
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Summary: A new beginning!
Review: The first season of The Next Generation wasn't by far the best of the seven. It was however, a great beginning to the series. It is very interesting watching these episodes in order again, season by season as they're released. To once again be watching the whole tapestry develop again is a true treasure.
Denise Crosby's decision to leave the show because she felt she wasn't getting enough lines was truely regrettable, I'm sure by all the fans and I'm sure by herself considering her less than stellar career afterwords. The one true great thing in her leaving was that it left plenty of room for the development of Worf who as we all know turned into an absolutely great character to include his four seasons on Deep Space Nine.
Anyone who is a true trekker or otherwise can appreciate The Great Bird of the Galaxy's influence on the first season. From the uniforms (uck!!! guy's in minidresses) to the general feel of the shows.
As stated above, not the best of the seven, but you've got to start somewhere, and while it took TNG some time to get some running legs, as we all know, once they were running, there was no looking back.
Even if you felt you didn't like the first season I suggest picking this up if not for the collector's status, for nostalgia's sake and having the complete TNG history at your disposal.
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