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• "d1andonly9"

  June 8th, 2012 at 9:06 am

  271 of 317 people found the following review helpful

  
  All About The Fitst Set, January 17, 2002

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  “d1andonly9″ (Omaha, Nebraska United States) –

  This review is from: Star Trek The Next Generation – The Complete First Season (DVD)

  Each season of TNG will be presented in a highly collectable box set, with seven discs and a pull-out booklet of episode information and a panoramic montage of the crew (Season 2 will have only six discs due to the abbreviated season of 22 episodes versus 26). The seven box sets will create an attractive library of the entire series.

  “Star Trek is one of our most popular and enduring video franchises,” said Eric Doctorow, president, Paramount Home Entertainment Worldwide. “We are very excited to be releasing Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD because we are now offering consumers the ultimate home viewing experience for this immensely popular show.”

  The contents of the Season One box set are as follows:

  Disc 1: Encounter at Farpoint Parts 1 & 2 (episodes 101, 102), The Naked Now (103), Code of Honor (104)

  Disc 2: The Last Outpost (107), Where No One Has Gone Before (106), Lonely Among Us (108), Justice (109)

  Disc 3: The Battle (110), Hide and Q (111), Haven (105), The Big Goodbye (113)

  Disc 4: DataLore (114), Angel One (115), 11001001 (116), Too Short a Season (112)

  Disc 5: When the Bough Breaks (118), Home Soil (117), Coming of Age (119), Heart of Glory (120)

  Disc 6: The Arsenal of Freedom (121), Symbiosis (123), Skin of Evil (122), We’ll Always Have Paris (124)

  Disc 7: Conspiracy (125), The Neutral Zone (126), Special Features

  Disc 7 includes the following special features:

  - The Beginning: focusing on the challenges of creating a new series and keeping to Gene Roddenberry’s vision. Includes interviews with Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart, Robert Justman (former producer of the Original Series), Rick Berman (Co-Executive Producer at the time), Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Denise Crosby and other cast members.

  - Selected Crew Analysis: features first-season cast members talking about their roles, their acting backgrounds prior to being cast and their impressions of the Star Trek legacy. Also features a comparison between the launch of the series in 1987 and the comments from the cast seven years later (1994), using archive interviews and b-roll to present a fascinating “before-and-after” look from the series cast members.

  - The Making of a Legend: features commentary from the first-season production staff members – Michael Westmore (Make-up), Herman Zimmerman (Production Designer), Mike Okuda (Scenic Artist), Richard Stembach (Scenic Artist), Dan Curry (Visual Effects), Peter Lauritson (Co-Producer), Rick Berman and others – as they discuss the making of the new series. Uncovers information on how the beaming effect is achieved, Worf’s make up process and how much time and effort goes into creating each episode.

  - Memorable Missions: cast and crew discussions of specific episodes and events that occurred during the first season.

  The DVD of Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season One is presented in a full-frame version, and the audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo. The DVDs are subtitled in English and closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.

  The Season One box set carries no suggested retail price but is expected to be priced by retailers for their customers at under… It is not rated in the U.S. by the Motion Picture Association of America; it is, however, rated G in Canada. Each disc has a running time of approximately 176 minutes, with the exception of Disc 7, which has 88 minutes of features and approximately 60 minutes of special features. All seven discs are encoded with the Macrovision™ AntiCopy process. The above information pertains to the North American release only.

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• Jack London

  June 8th, 2012 at 8:35 am

  113 of 117 people found the following review helpful

  
  ST:TNG Season One – DVD, April 27, 2002

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  Jack London –

  This review is from: Star Trek The Next Generation – The Complete First Season (DVD)

  Superb. Seeing these twenty-six episodes together for the first time in fifteen years was truly a treat. The behind-the-scenes information is well done and worth the purchase, and the menus are well-organized. The preview (Episode Log) screen for each of the seven discs is excellent, with each disc providing four scenes from each episode set to the backdrop of the main theme for the series. One of the benefits of the package is that production order and air date order are taken into consideration, and this shows with regard to the order in which each title is furnished in the menus (e.g., 121, 120, 122, 123).

  The first season has often been termed ‘sterile’ by some; this probably has some merit given that any new series doesn’t necessarily have chemistry from the outset. However, some of the episodes are in the opinion of this writer among the best in the series–among these, “Code of Honor,” “Where No One Has Gone Before,” “Justice,” “The Big Goodbye,” “Datalore,” “11001001,” “Home Soil,” “Coming of Age,” “Heart of Glory,” “The Arsenal of Freedom,” the Stefano-written “Skin of Evil,” “Conspiracy,” and “The Neutral Zone”–the latter episode perhaps introducing us (albeit cryptically) to the Borg.

  The segment on “Memorable Missions” was particularly poignant, especially the portion where Natasha Yar (Denise Crosby) reflects on her work on ST:TNG. The interviews with the Production (and other) Staff were also very interesting and informative; I found the excerpt with Michael Okuda intriguing and eye-opening. This DVD boxed set is a must for lovers of any of the five Star Trek series. I’ve already placed my order for ST:TNG Season Two. …

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