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Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Moloch / Death- Watch - Episodes 37 And 38 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.98

Review Blake's 7 - Moloch / Death- Watch - Episodes 37 And 38 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 3 - K Is For Kill: Part 1 / Part 2 / Complex [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Gareth Hunt
  • Yvon Marie Coulais
  • Harvey Atkin
  • Pierre Vernier
  • Richard Gilbert
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Joanna Lumley
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 3 - K Is For Kill: Part 1 / Part 2 / Complex [1977] / Contender Entertainment Group:

Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one-Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker leCarrésque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period-the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Stardrive / Animals - Episodes 43 And 44 [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Glynis Barber
  • Josette Simon
  • David Sullivan Proudfoot
  • Mary Ridge
  • Steve Pacey
  • Paul Darrow
  • Michael Keating
Release date: 1999-09-06
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.75

Review Blake's 7 - Stardrive / Animals - Episodes 43 And 44 [1981] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 15 - Second Sight / Sanctuary [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Singer
  • Les Landau
  • Terry Farrell
  • Avery Brooks
  • Armin Shimerman
  • Colm Meaney
Release date: 1994-06-06
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £29.99

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 15 - Second Sight / Sanctuary [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. That meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy, or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit instead, demonstrating a ballsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; the Maquis was Starfleet vs Cardassians; section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; the True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond), there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. [+]
Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.9 - Visionary / Distant Voices [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Avery Brooks
  • Alexander Singer
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Terry Farrell
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Siddig El Fadil
  • Reza Badiyi
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.47

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.9 - Visionary / Distant Voices [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. That meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy, or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit instead, demonstrating a ballsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; the Maquis was Starfleet vs Cardassians; section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; the True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond), there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. [+]
Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 and 2 - Midnight On The Firing Line / Soul Hunter [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Johnston
  • Michael O'Hare
  • Claudia Christian
  • Richard Compton
  • Morgan Furlan
Release date: 1995-07-17
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.95

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 and 2 - Midnight On The Firing Line / Soul Hunter [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 14 - Rules Of Acquisition / Necessary Evil [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • David Livingston
  • Siddig El Fadil
  • Colm Meaney
  • Terry Farrell
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • James L. Conway
Release date: 1994-05-23
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 14 - Rules Of Acquisition / Necessary Evil [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. That meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy, or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit instead, demonstrating a ballsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; the Maquis was Starfleet vs Cardassians; section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; the True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond), there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. [+]
Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - The Web / Seek, Locate, Destroy - Episodes 5 And 6 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Fiona Cumming
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.99

Review Blake's 7 - The Web / Seek, Locate, Destroy - Episodes 5 And 6 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.9 - A Simple Investigation / Business As Usual
Actors & Directors
  • Avery Brooks
  • Steven Berkoff
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Michael Dorn
  • Terry Farrell
  • John T. Kretchmer
Release date: 1997-07-21
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.39

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.9 - A Simple Investigation / Business As Usual / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. This meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit demonstrating a gutsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; The Maquis was Starfleet vs. Cardassians; Section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; The True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. [+]
Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond) there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Headhunter / Assassin - Episodes 45 And 46 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Douglas Camfield
Release date: 1999-09-06
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.98

Review Blake's 7 - Headhunter / Assassin - Episodes 45 And 46 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.3 - Lonely Among Us / Justice / The Battle
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Bole
  • James L. Conway
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Rob Bowman
  • Jonathan Frakes
Release date: 1998-06-01
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.22

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.3 - Lonely Among Us / Justice / The Battle / Paramount Home Entertainment:

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.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.8 - Honour Among Thieves / Change of Heart
Actors & Directors
  • Allan Eastman
  • Avery Brooks
  • Michael Dorn
  • David Livingston
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Terry Farrell
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1998-08-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.51

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.8 - Honour Among Thieves / Change of Heart / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. This meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit demonstrating a gutsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; The Maquis was Starfleet vs. Cardassians; Section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; The True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. [+]
Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond) there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 7 - Battlelines / The Storyteller [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Avery Brooks
  • Nana Visitor
  • Siddig El Fadil
  • Paul Lynch
  • David Livingston
  • Terry Farrell
Release date: 1993-11-07
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.48

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 7 - Battlelines / The Storyteller [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. This meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit demonstrating a gutsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; The Maquis was Starfleet vs. Cardassians; Section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; The True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. [+]
Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond) there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.12 - Profit And Lace / Time's Orphan
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Farrell
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Allan Kroeker
  • Avery Brooks
  • Michael Dorn
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Alexander Siddig
Release date: 1998-12-07
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.45

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.12 - Profit And Lace / Time's Orphan / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. This meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit demonstrating a gutsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; The Maquis was Starfleet vs. Cardassians; Section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; The True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. [+]
Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond) there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 1.2 - Parallax / Time And Again [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Miguel Poveda
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.33

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 1.2 - Parallax / Time And Again [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Horizon / Pressure - Episodes 17 And 18 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
Release date: 1998-09-14
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.34

Review Blake's 7 - Horizon / Pressure - Episodes 17 And 18 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue - Episodes 39 And 40 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Viktors Ritelis
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.75

Review Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue - Episodes 39 And 40 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:

One thing Blake's 7, the BBC's low budget space opera that ran for four series in the interstellar slipstream of Star Wars, could always be counted on to deliver were memorable cliff-hanging finales. Terminal was the 13th and last episode of the third series (1981-2), where Blake had been replaced by Tarrant (played by Steven Pacey) and Jenna by Dayna (Josette Simon). It was originally planned as the very last episode of all, going-out with a bang by destroying the heroes' starship, the Liberator-a device later used for the climaxes of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek: Generations. When a fourth season was unexpectedly commissioned it opened with Rescue, featuring the shock death of one major character and the first appearance of a new ship, the Scorpio. It also marked the debut of Glynis Barber's sexy new heroine, Soolin, the creation of Script Editor Chris Boucher, who had introduced the even more sexy and popular Leela (Louise Jameson) in Dr Who in the story "The Face of Evil". If the fourth season of Blake's 7 was ultimately to demonstrate a show spectacularly collapsing into self-parody, it certainly began in promisingly eventful fashion. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.2 - House of Quark / Equilibrium [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Les Landau
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Terry Farrell
  • Avery Brooks
  • Cliff Bole
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Siddig El Fadil
Release date: 1995-02-27
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.33

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.2 - House of Quark / Equilibrium [2003] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. That meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy, or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit instead, demonstrating a ballsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; the Maquis was Starfleet vs Cardassians; section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; the True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond), there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. [+]
Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.7 (Waking Moments/Message In A Bottle) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Malone
  • Robert Picardo
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
  • Alexander Singer
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Kate Mulgrew
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.98

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.7 (Waking Moments/Message In A Bottle) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 20 - Blood Oath / The Maquis Part 1 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Siddig El Fadil
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Colm Meaney
  • Terry Farrell
  • David Livingston
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1994-08-22
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.98

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 20 - Blood Oath / The Maquis Part 1 [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. This meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit instead, demonstrating a gutsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; The Maquis was Starfleet vs. Cardassians; Section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; The True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. [+]
Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond), there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

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Blake's 7 - Moloch / Death- Watch - Episodes 37 And 38 [1978], The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 3 - K Is For Kill: Part 1 / Part 2 / Complex [1977], Blake's 7 - Stardrive / Animals - Episodes 43 And 44 [1981], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 15 - Second Sight / Sanctuary [1995], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.9 - Visionary / Distant Voices [1995], Babylon 5 - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 and 2 - Midnight On The Firing Line / Soul Hunter [1994], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 14 - Rules Of Acquisition / Necessary Evil [1995], Blake's 7 - The Web / Seek, Locate, Destroy - Episodes 5 And 6 [1978], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.9 - A Simple Investigation / Business As Usual, Blake's 7 - Headhunter / Assassin - Episodes 45 And 46 [1978], Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.3 - Lonely Among Us / Justice / The Battle, Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.8 - Honour Among Thieves / Change of Heart, Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 7 - Battlelines / The Storyteller [1995], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.12 - Profit And Lace / Time's Orphan, Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 1.2 - Parallax / Time And Again [1995], Blake's 7 - Horizon / Pressure - Episodes 17 And 18 [1978], Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue - Episodes 39 And 40 [1978], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.2 - House of Quark / Equilibrium [2003], Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.7 (Waking Moments/Message In A Bottle) [1996], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 20 - Blood Oath / The Maquis Part 1 [1995]

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