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Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 4.8 [VHS] [1990]
 
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Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 4.8 [VHS] [1990]

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  • Actors: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis
  • Writers: Gene Roddenberry
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, French
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • VHS Release Date: 1 Oct 2001
  • Run Time: 130 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00005IB8I
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,566 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings.

Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. --Paul Tonks



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Features the episodes 'Half A Life', 'The Host' and 'The Mind's Eye'.

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4.0 out of 5 stars LOVE and WAR, 19 Oct 2001
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"THE HOST" was our first introduction to the fascinating Trill race who would be later seen regularly on DS9.
Trill Ambassador Odan comes aboard to mediate in a dispute between the people of two moons. However, he is fatally injured in a shuttlecraft accident before the talks come to a conclusion. The symbiant in Odan's body is transferred to Riker and the first officer now takes on the personality of the ambassador and does his best to conclude the peace talks in a positive light.
The Trill race could perhaps have been better introduced in this episode instead of just having the host killed off immediately. The Enterprise crew only got to learn of the symbiant in Odan's last minutes of life so were completely unprepared for the transplant.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine goes a lot deeper into the Trill society.

From the "Drumhead" we began to see that a war was being planned and "THE MIND'S EYE" for me was where the Klingon Civil War started.
When Geordi La Forge is abducted by Romulans and is brainwashed into killing a Klingon governor, it soon becomes apparent that there is a Romulan/Klingon collaboration going on. In this episode we are able to witness how the Romulans go about their scheming plots, headed by the cunning Romulan commander, Sela.
We hear Sela's voice in this episode but she is only seen later on in "Redemption" and later on in "Unification".

"IN THEORY" can be called a calm before the storm in that it was a prequel to the bloody Klingon Civil War which would appear in the following episode, "Redemption".
Jenna D'Sora uses Data as a fallback after a breakup with Jeff Arton and she eventually falls for Data. Due to the android's lack of emotions, Data seeks advice from his fellow senior officers on how to approach the situation. After receiving some suggestions, Data does his best to impress his new flame, but Jenna soon realizes that Data is being artificial about his feelings and she concludes that that was exactly what her ex-boyfriend was like.
The directors did a good job of allowing Data to explore this side of his programming. Not since Data's sexual encounter with Tasha Yar in "The Naked Now" in season one has this side of Data been explored.

"REDEMPTION" sees the start of the Klingon Civil War in all its might. The Romulans join up with the Duras family and attack the rest of the Klingon Empire in a bid to take over the Empire. Worf is also granted leave from Starfleet in order to assist Chancellor Gowron in his defense effort.
This two-parter continues on video 5.1 with the conclusion of the war and the fall of many high-ranking officials on the Romulan and Klingon sides.

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