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Star Trek - The Next Generation - Series 1-7 - Complete (20th Anniversary Edition) (Box Set) (DVD)

For any fans of the next generation, this is certainly the ultimate set to own. With all sorts of extras and every episode of all seven series contained on 49 (yes, 49) dvd's there'll always be something new and exciting to watch. The show itself is fantastic, with Patrick Stewart starring ... Read review

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Star Trek - The Next Generation - Series 1-7 - Complete [DVD] [1987]

Star Trek - The Next Generation - Series 1-7 - Complete [DVD] [1987]

AfterStar Warsand the successful big-screenStar Trekadventures, it's perhaps not so ... more

surprising that Gene Roddenberry managed to
convince purse string-wielding studio heads in the
1980s that a Next Generation would be both
possible and profitable. But the political climate
had changed considerably since the 1960s, the Cold
War had wound down, and we were now living in the
Age of Greed. To be successful a second time,Star
Trekhad to change too.A writer's guide was
composed with which to sell and define where the
Trek universe was in the 24th Century. The United
Federation of Planets was a more appealing
ideology to an America keen to see where the
Reagan/Gorbachev faceoff was taking them.
Starfleet's meritocratic philosophy had always
embraced all races and species. Now Earth's
utopian history, featuring the abolishment of
poverty, was brandished prominently and proudly.
The new Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, was no longer a
ship of war but an exploration vessel carrying
families. The ethical and ethnical flagship also
carried a former enemy (the Klingon Worf, played
by Michael Dorn), and its Chief Engineer (Geordi
LaForge) was blind and black. From every
politically correct viewpoint, Paramount
executives thought the future looked just
swell!Roddenberry's feminism now contrasted a
pilot episode featuring ship's Counsellor Troi
(Marina Sirtis) in a mini-skirt with her ongoing
inner strengths and also those of Dr. Crusher
(Gates McFadden) and the short-lived Tasha Yar
(Denise Crosby). The arrival of Whoopi Goldberg in
season 2 as mystic barkeep Guinan is a great
example of the good the original Trek did for
racial groups--Goldberg has stated that she was
inspired to become an actress in large part
through seeing Nichelle Nichols' Uhura. Her
credibility as an actress helped enormously
alongside the strong central performances of
Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes
(First Officer Will Riker), and Brent Spiner
(Data) in defining another wholly believable
environment once again populated with well-defined
characters. Star Trek, it turned out, did not
depend for its success on any single group of
actors.Like its predecessor in the 1960s, TNG
pioneered visual effects on TV, making it an
increasingly jaw-dropping show to look at. And
thanks also to the enduring success of the
original show, phasers, tricorders, communicators
and even phase inverters were already familiar to
most viewers. But while technology was a useful
tool in most crises, it now frequently seemed to
be the cause of them too, as the show's writers
continually warned about the dangers of
over-reliance on technology (the Borg were the
ultimate expression of this maxim). The word
"technobabble" came to describe a weakness in many
TNG scripts, which sacrificed the social and
political allegories of the original and relied
instead upon invented technological faults and
their equally fictitious resolutions to provide
drama within the Enterprise's self-contained
society. (The holodeck's safety protocol override
seemed to be next to the light switch given the
number of times crew members were trapped within.)
This emphasis on scientific jargon appealed
strongly to an audience who were growing up for
the first time in the late 1980s with the home
computer--and gave rise to the clichéd image of
the nerdy Trek fan.Like in the original Trek, it
was in the stories themselves that much of the
show's success is to be found. That pesky Prime
Directive kept moral dilemmas afloat
("Justice"/"Who Watches the Watchers?"/"First
Contact"). More "what if" scenarios came out of
time-travel episodes ("Cause and Effect"/"Time's
Arrow"/"Yesterday's Enterprise"). And there were
some episodes that touched on the political world,
such as "The Arsenal of Freedom" questioning the
supply of arms, "Chain of Command" decrying the
torture of political prisoners and "The Defector",
which was called "The Cuban Missile Crisis of The
Neutral Zone" by its writer. The show ran for more
than twice as many episodes as its progenitor and
therefore had more time to explore wider ranging
issues. But the choice of issues illustrates the
change in the social climate that had occurred
with the passing of a couple of decades. "Angel
One" covered sexism; "The Outcast" was about
homosexuality; "Symbiosis"--drug addiction; "The
High Ground"--terrorism; "Ethics"--euthanasia;
"Darmok"--language barriers; and "Journey's
End"--displacement of Indians from their homeland.
It would have been unthinkable for the original
series to have tackled most of these.TNG could so
easily have been a failure, but it wasn't. It
survived a writer's strike in its second year, the
tragic death of Roddenberry just after Trek's 25th
anniversary in 1991, and plenty of competition
from would-be rival franchises. Yes, its
maintenance of an optimistic future was appealing,
but the strong stories and readily identifiable
characters ensured the viewers' continuing
loyalty. --Paul Tonks


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Fantastic (except for the box)

Advantages: 49 DVD's makes for a lot of entertainment
Disadvantages: The box breaks too easily

For any fans of the next generation, this is certainly the ultimate set to own. With all sorts of extras and every episode of all seven series contained on 49 (yes, 49) dvd's there'll always be something new and exciting to watch. The show itself is fantastic, with Patrick Stewart starring as the Federation's leading Captain, Jean-Luc Picard. I particularly enjoy the portrayal of the character Data, who in a similar fashion to that of the tin man ...
...it is to be human and have emotions. All the characters certainly have more depth than those of the original series (don't get me wrong, the original series is fantastic too) The only problem with this box set is the box itself, as it breaks all too easily - mine for example has a huge number of chips and cracks in it - so extra care has to be taken if you want it to stay in good condition.  ... more

Portnoyrules1 28.01.2009 (28.01.2009)
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