Star Trek The Next Generation - Season 1 (Slimline Edition) [1987]

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Trek official alternatives.......2007-09-20

If it is Star Trek fix you are looking for, then you really ought to browsers and look for the high fan series that have been created.

Star Trek Hidden Frontier has recently finished a 7 season run,
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Helena Chronicles another spin off from Hidden Frontier set aboard the USS Helena featured in the latter episodes of HF.
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If you are a fan of the Original series Check out the Star New Voyages which are the continuing adventures of the Enterprise from the end of The Original Series, George Takei and Walter Koenig have both featured in recent episodes.
Starship Farragut takes Trek aboard the USS Farragut set in TOS era.
Star Trek Intrepid another UK production of high quality. with a cross over with Hidden Frontier special coming shortly.
Star Trek Of Gods and Men a by the stars of trek from the fans movie directed by Tim Russ (tuvok) featuring many of the cast of various Treks.

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Brilliant, Star Trek is one of a kind!.......2007-06-02

Excellent season, see more into the emotions of the crew of Enterprise. Well worth buying for such a reasonable price.

Mostly great, but somewhat bad DVD-quality.......2007-03-22

The DVDs were great as expected. However, this was a little diminished by the fact that most of the the DVDs tend to do small skips and jumps during certain parts, typical to low budget DVD releases (tested on two different DVD-players, one of them of the sort that virtually plays anything). One of the episodes was actually completely inaccessible. You might think that my disks were scratched and damaged, but they had absolutely no signs of physical damage.

The Next Generation's Weakest Season.......2007-03-01

Original Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hadn't produced a television series since the original series, and unfortunately it shows.

For a series that debuted in the late 1980's, the early episodes of this season couldn't have felt more out of date. Both the directing and the musical score felt more like it belonged in the 1960's.

There were also no shades of grey within the storylines. A line form Wesley to the effect of "We're from Starfleet, we don't lie", is the kind of dated dialogue that left the television industry years earlier.

Also, some of the main characters were portrayed a little awkwardly at first. Wesley, for example, was this boy wonder who saved the ship a few times too many whom the adults didn't really take seriously. Worf was this mysterious Klingon who didn't get any development for several episodes. Tasha Yar seemed to utter the words "Hailing frequencies open" every episode. Geordi La Forge was only a helmsman with no apparant vital function. Even Picard seemed cold and unkind in an unrealistic way.

That's not to say the season is completely terrible though. I enjoyed episodes such as '11001001', 'Coming Of Age' and 'Conspiracy', but for every good episode, there were perhaps three bad. The absolute worst must be 'Justice', depicting a world whose population run around with barely anything on. Very daft!

I would say because this slimline packaging is so cheap, it's worth buying this season to see how it all began, but suffice to say, things do get better as the seasons go on.

By the way, these slimline versions do contain the same content as the other larger sets, including all the special features and extras. The only difference is the packaging.

slimmer nicer package with ALL features!.......2006-10-18

Before I bought this version I tried to find a really helpfull review regarding the extras as DVD extras and NOT package content but everywhere I looked it said no extras on this version! it's NOT true! The dvd extras are on the 7-th disc just like on the other release so if you want STNG in a very nice slim version go ahead and buy it at a fantastic price! Those plastic boxes are so clumsy and unelegant!

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