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Advantages: Good special effects
Disadvantages: slow storylines

...Tyler) 'dying, really showed why Doctor Who should never have disposed of the only two stars it really had. Don't get me wrong, David Tennent IS a great actor but I never thought he was right for the role of 'the Doctor', to me he is much to 'dramatically' for the role. The first series made people interested again about watching what was already a classic sci-fi series for decades. The show gaining a new, younger audience as well as keeping the ...
...the old enemy of the Doctor reappeared in a 2 part series, the cyber men return as a new army to try and take over the world,(again). Then the 'idiots lantern' take you back to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the second, the men in black taking people away for 'questioning'. Then the next two parted introduces the devil onto your screen, battling wits against a small band of people stranded on a planet hovering above a black hole. Love and ... Read review

Advantages: Essential for the true fan, good extras
Disadvantages: not remastered

...by Gene Roddenberry in 1964 Star Trek quickly established itself as one of the most groundbreaking and intelligent plot led science fiction series ever made. For the first time the genre was targeted at an adult audience and often very problematic themes were dealt with which could only get past the restrictive censorship of the time due to the fantastical nature of the program. The vision of the future was a benign one where humanity despite having ...
...all the episodes the original Star Trek series (first broadcast between 1968 and 1969). On disc 7 Star trek fans get a real treat, the original pilot episode first commissioned in September 1964 featuring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike (with no captain Kirk!) Indeed two different versions are included one in colour and one where the action switches from colour to B/W, which was never shown. Apart from Kirk missing we also get to see an early incarnation ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant TV show that is so much more than a generic sci-fi series
Disadvantages: Not enough people know just how good it is

...a brief review of the Farscape Ultimate Collection, but after about three lines I realised there was no way I could encompass what I thought about four complete & one mini-series of such a wonderful show into a single paragraph. So I finished quickly, hit save and then planned to come back when I had more time to try to explain why this is my favourite sci-fi TV series ever and why everyone in the entire world should know how good it is. "The "Ultimate ...
...probably the best thing about Farscape - it is so much more than just a sci-fi show for geeks, full of techno-babble & lycra-clad lovelies (although there are those elements to some degree). It is a human drama (albeit about some people who aren't exactly human and two main characters who are puppets) and how they cope with life, death, love, loss, the unknown and space monsters. In Farscape, the situations that arise are extreme (after all, it's ... Read review

Advantages: Remember how terrible the video quality used to be?
Disadvantages: None.

Fans of the series will definitely want to purchase this newly remastered DVD set of season one. The amazing picture quality, clarity of sound and atmospheric musical effects alone are a must have for any true Space 1999 fan. The actual video extras are a little light but given that the series is almost thirty years old, this can be forgiven as finding source material is often difficult. However the booklets that come with the set are a wonderful ... Read review

Advantages: One of the best Voyager seasons
Disadvantages: Is the LAST of the Voyager seasons

...view, the best of the Star Trek spin-offs since Kirk and Spock blessed us with their rubber rocks and spandex uniforms! Deep Space Nine was too static and The Next Generation although brilliantly acted, lacked the budget in it's effects to truly make it "believable". Not so with Voyager. Mr Roddenbury himself would have been proud of this, the final installment of the series. I had been waiting on this release for ages and when it finally came ...
...this DVD set. Seven of Nine Opens the show with a dangerous dreamworld in Unimatrix Zero, fighting the Borg in the sleeping world aswell as the waking world.....as if a battle with the Borg in one dimension isn't enough!!! The DVDs hurtle through adventure after adventure, Tom Paris taking the Delta Flyer for a joyride, the re-emergence of the Marquis, the birth of a Klingon-Human Hybrid and plenty of other great episodes............I really want ... Read review