Star Trek Next Generation DVD

Star Trek Next Generation DVD season 2

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The Star Trek Next Generation DVD season 2 contains 22 episodes on 6 discs : The Child, Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data, The Outrageous Okona, Loud as a Whisper, The Schizoid Man, Unnatural Selection, A Matter of Honor, The Measure of a Man, The Dauphin, Contagion, The Royale, Time Squared, The Icarus Factor, Pen Pals, Q Who?, Samaritan Snare, Up The Long Ladder, Manhunt, The Emissary, Peak Performance and Shades of Gray.

This S2 of The Next Generation is an improvement on the S1 of the series as we feel that the personalities of the characters have grown stronger. Two new characters are introduced : Dr. Pulaski and Guinan, which add a bit of conflict and comedy into the show.

The second season of Star Trek Next Generation was highly affected by the writer’s strike. The episodes show some variability (some great episodes and some… well not so good!) and the season is shorter than normal with only 22 episodes.

This dvd set is a must-have for anyone who enjoys The Next Generation (or any ST!). The picture was remastered and with Dolby Digital sound and tons of interviews and other great features, you will love this second season of TNG. While the first two seasons are certainly not the best of the series, they are an essential introduction to the series and deserve a place on your shelf.

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Star Trek Next Generation DVD season 1

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:26:05 +0000

The Star Trek Next Generation DVD season 1 contains 26 episodes on 7 discs : Encounter at Farpoint(1 & 2), The Naked Now, Code of Honor, The Last Outpost, Where No One Has Gone Before, Lonely Among Us, Justice, The Battle, Hide and Q, Haven, The Big Goodbye, Datalore, Angel One, 11001001, Too Short a Season, When the Bough Breaks, Home Soil, Coming of Age, Heart of Glory, The Arsenal of Freedom, Symbiosis, Skin of Evil, We’ll Always Have Paris, Conspiracy, The Neutral Zone.

You will simply love seeing together the 26 episodes from the first season. And this was about time. Released nearly 15 years after the end of the show, this first season is a real treat for any old or new fan of The Next Generation. This The Next Generation DVD features a lot of extras : behind-the-scenes information such as first-season cast members discuss their roles or the Roddenberry’s vision. This dvd set is well-organized and a big plus for all the fans, the order of air date was taken in consideration.

The beginning of the first season of Star Trek : The Next Generation shows an obvious lack of chemistry. However, this season is a must to introduce the characters and contains some of the best episodes of the series, such as “The Big Goodbye”, which got the series an Emmy in 1988.

You will find interesting as well as informative segments in the extra features and interviews.

This DVD boxed set is a must for anybody who enjoys any of the five Star Trek series. Order you first season now and prepare your order for the following order soon, you won’t be disappointed by the quality of this DVD set.

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Complete Series

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

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Star Trek Next Generation dvd : an overview

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Star Trek Next Generation (or TNG) aired between September 28th 1987 to May23rd 1994. 21 years after the original Star Trek, the Next Generation, this Star Trek series attracted millions of regular viewers. The first two-hour pilot (Encounter at Farpoint) itself had 27 million viewers. TNG has 178 episodes which spread over seven seasons, making it the longest series of all Star Trek series.

Over the years, the show gained a considerable number of viewers. Its popularity was such that it won 18 Emmy Awards, three Hugo Awards as well as the Peabody Award for excellence in television programming.

List of all the episodes and awards:

EPISODES

Season 1

Episode 1: Encounter at Farpoint
Episode 2: The Naked Now
Episode 3: Code of Honor
Episode 4: The Last Outpost
Episode 5: Where No One Has Gone Before
Episode 6: Lonely Among Us
Episode 7: Justice
Episode 8: The Battle
Episode 9: Hide and Q
Episode 10: Haven
Episode 11: The Big Goodbye
Episode 12: Datalore
Episode 13: Angel One
Episode 14: 11001001
Episode 15: Too Short a Season
Episode 16: When the Bough Breaks
Episode 17: Home Soil
Episode 18: Coming of Age
Episode 19: Heart of Glory
Episode 20: The Arsenal of Freedom
Episode 21: Symbiosis
Episode 22: Skin of Evil
Episode 23: We’ll Always Have Paris
Episode 24: Conspiracy
Episode 25: The Neutral Zone

Season 2

Episode 1: The Child
Episode 2: Where Silence Has Lease
Episode 3: Elementary, Dear Data
Episode 4: The Outrageous Okona
Episode 5: Loud as a Whisper
Episode 6: The Schizoid Man
Episode 7: Unnatural Selection
Episode 8: A Matter of Honor
Episode 9: The Measure of a Man
Episode 10: The Dauphin
Episode 11: Contagion
Episode 12: The Royale
Episode 13: Time Squared
Episode 14: The Icarus Factor
Episode 15: Pen Pals
Episode 16: Q Who?
Episode 17: Samaritan Snare
Episode 18: Up the Long Ladder
Episode 19: Manhunt
Episode 20: The Emissary
Episode 21: Peak Performance
Episode 22: Shades of Gray

Season 3

Episode 1: Evolution
Episode 2: The Ensigns of Command
Episode 3: The Survivors
Episode 4: Who Watches the Watchers
Episode 5: The Bonding
Episode 6: Booby Trap
Episode 7: The Enemy
Episode 8: The Price
Episode 9: The Vengeance Factor
Episode 10: The Defector
Episode 11: The Hunted
Episode 12: The High Ground
Episode 13: Déjà Q
Episode 14: A Matter of Perspective
Episode 15: Yesterday’s Enterprise
Episode 16: The Offspring
Episode 17: Sins of the Father
Episode 18: Allegiance
Episode 19: Captain’s Holiday
Episode 20: Tin Man
Episode 21: Hollow Pursuits
Episode 22: The Most Toys
Episode 23: Sarek
Episode 24: Ménage à Troi
Episode 25: Transfigurations

Season 4

Episode 1: The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2
Episode 2: Family
Episode 3: Brothers
Episode 4: Suddenly Human
Episode 5: Remember Me
Episode 6: Legacy
Episode 7: Reunion
Episode 8: Future Imperfect
Episode 9: Final Mission
Episode 10: The Loss
Episode 11: Data’s Day
Episode 12: The Wounded
Episode 13: Devil’s Due
Episode 14: Clues
Episode 15: First Contact
Episode 16: Galaxy’s Child
Episode 17: Night Terrors
Episode 18: Identity Crisis
Episode 19: The Nth Degree
Episode 20: Qpid
Episode 21: The Drumhead
Episode 22: Half a Life
Episode 23: The Host
Episode 24: The Mind’s Eye
Episode 25: In Theory
Episode 26: Redemption

Season 5

Episode 1: Redemption II
Episode 2: Darmok
Episode 3: Ensign Ro
Episode 4: Silicon Avatar
Episode 5: Disaster
Episode 6: The Game
Episode 7: Unification I
Episode 8: Unification II
Episode 9: A Matter of Time
Episode 10: New Ground
Episode 11: Hero Worship
Episode 12: Violations
Episode 13: The Masterpiece Society
Episode 14: Conundrum
Episode 15: Power Play
Episode 16: Ethics
Episode 17: The Outcast
Episode 18: Cause and Effect
Episode 19: The First Duty
Episode 20: Cost of Living
Episode 21: The Perfect Mate
Episode 22: Imaginary Friend
Episode 23: I, Borg
Episode 24: The Next Phase
Episode 25: The Inner Light
Episode 26: Time’s Arrow: Part 1

Season 6

Episode 1: Time’s Arrow: Part 2
Episode 2: Realm of Fear
Episode 3: Man of the People
Episode 4: Relics
Episode 5: Schisms
Episode 6: True Q
Episode 7: Rascals
Episode 8: A Fistful of Datas
Episode 9: The Quality of Life
Episode 10: Chain of Command: Part 1
Episode 11: Chain of Command: Part 2
Episode 12: Ship in a Bottle
Episode 13: Aquiel
Episode 14: Face of the Enemy
Episode 15: Tapestry
Episode 16: Birthright: Part 1
Episode 17: Birthright: Part 2
Episode 18: Starship Mine
Episode 19: Lessons
Episode 20: The Chase
Episode 21: Frame of Mind
Episode 22: Suspicions
Episode 23: Rightful Heir
Episode 24: Second Chances
Episode 25: Timescape
Episode 26: Descent: Part 1

Season 7

Episode 1: Descent: Part 2
Episode 2: Liaisons
Episode 3: Interface
Episode 4: Gambit: Part 1
Episode 5: Gambit: Part 2
Episode 6: Phantasms
Episode 7: Dark Page
Episode 8: Attached
Episode 9: Force of Nature
Episode 10: Inheritance
Episode 11: Parallels
Episode 12: The Pegasus
Episode 13: HomewardEpisode 14: Sub Rosa
Episode 15: Lower Decks
Episode 16: Thine Own Self
Episode 17: Masks
Episode 18: Eye of the Beholder
Episode 19: Genesis
Episode 20: Journey’s End
Episode 21: Firstborn
Episode 22: Bloodlines
Episode 23: Emergence
Episode 24: Preemptive Strike
Episode 25: All Good Things…

Awards

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
1995 : Won ASCAP

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1990 : Won Saturn Award for Best Genre Television Series
1991 : Won Saturn Award for Best Genre Television Series
2003 : Won Saturn Award for Best DVD TV Programming Release for seasons 1-7.
2005 : Won Special Recognition Award to the Star Trek TV series (1987-2005)

Cinema Audio Society, USA
1994 : Won C.A.S. Award – Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series
1995 : Nominated for C.A.S. Award – Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series

Emmy Awards
1988 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series
1988 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series
1988 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
1989 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
1989 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series
1990 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Series
1990 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
1991 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
1991 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series
1992 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series
1992 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series
1992 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
1992 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
1993 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series
1993 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series
1993 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series
1994 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series
1994 : Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects Production

Hugo Awards
1993 : Won Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation

Peabody Awards
1988 : Won Peabody Award for episode “The Big Good-Bye”.

Young Artist Awards
1989 : Won Young Artist Award for Best Syndicated Family Drama or Comedy Series
1989 : Won Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Family Syndicated Show Wil Wheaton

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Star Trek The Next Generation TV

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Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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Originally aired in 1987, Star Trek The Next Generation TV series certainly became one of the favorite Star Trek series of all time. TNG as many fans call it, kept the fundamentals of Star Trek, which is the main reason of Enterprise to exist, to allow the exploration of the galaxy. In Star Trek The Next Generation TV series, the crew is much more diplomatic than in the previous series. This series is set about 80 years after the original series and centers on the crew from the new Enterprise.

The crew consists of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (played by Patrick Stewart), Commander William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner), Lieutenant Worf (Michael Dorn), Doctor Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), Enterprise Computer (Majel Barrett).

Star Trek The Next Generation TV series was created after the box-office success of previous ST movies. Roddenberry, the creator of the main Star Trek first declined to be part of the new series. Unhappy with pre-production work, he became deeply involved in the production of this new series.

The series is comprised of seven season.

The Plot
The Next Generation TV series follow the adventures of the crew on the Enterprise (Galaxy-class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D), a United Federation of Planets flagship. The Enterprise main goal is to allow the exploration of the galaxy, but also to create new diplomatic relation. Because of the possible dangers, the ship is also design to protect the crew in combat situation, as necessary.

Through their adventures, the crew from the Enterprise will discover many other races and species, interact with them. They will survive through natural disasters, holodeck malfunctions, go through time travel or temporal loops, and become the center of external as well as internal conflicts (between the crew itself or with encountered aliens).

Star Trek Next Generation DVD

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The Star Trek Next Generation DVD first season was released in March of 2002. Throughout that same year, season 2 to season 7 were subsequently released on DVD. CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment join together to release the series 20th anniversary special : Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Complete Series. This complete series DVD box set was released on October 2nd 2007 and contains 49 discs.

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After Star Wars and the successful big-screen Star Trek adventures, it’s perhaps not so 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 Trek had 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

Product Description

Finally, the complete, epic sci-fi television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation is available in a complete series set for the first time ever. Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the landmark series and own all 176 classic episodes in one definitive collector’s boxed set, featuring all-new special features. This is the definitive release that fans have been waiting for!

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