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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Vol. 4.11 - The Muse / For The Cause [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • James L. Conway
  • Avery Brooks
  • Terry Farrell
  • David Livingston
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1996-10-28
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.94

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Vol. 4.11 - The Muse / For The Cause [1996] / 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 inter-personal 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.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation: All Good Things - The Full Length TV Movie [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Gates McFadden
  • Michael Dorn
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • LeVar Burton
  • Jonathan Frakes
Release date: 1995-05-22
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.95

Review Star Trek The Next Generation: All Good Things - The Full Length TV Movie [1994] / 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 The Next Generation 12 : Skin Of Evil / We'll Always Have Paris [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Michael Dorn
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Joseph L. Scanlan
  • Wil Wheaton
Release date: 1991-05-07
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.64

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 12 : Skin Of Evil / We'll Always Have Paris [1988] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds - Volume 2 Episodes 3 And 4 [1965] The Perils of Penelope + Terror in New York City
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2000-09-11
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.57

Review Thunderbirds - Volume 2 Episodes 3 And 4 [1965] The Perils of Penelope + Terror in New York City / ITV DVD:

"Filmed in VIDECOLOR [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too) and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracy boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracy, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. ) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nailbitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this tape: Lady Penelope indulges in some James Bond-style counter-espionage measures in the third episode, "The Perils of Penelope", while Parker indulges some of his famous Eliza Dolittle-isms; although he is trumped by the Cary Grant sound-a-like character Sir Jeremy Hodge (or 'odge as Parker would have it), whose response to a crisis is, "I say, open the door, we're British!". Then it's back to the action for the fourth episode, "Terror in New York City", in which poor Virgil is shot down by the US Navy in Thunderbird 2 before the boys must rescue an unscrupulous newshound from the wreckage of the Empire State Building (featuring the first appearance of their very own yellow submarine, Thunderbird 4) -Mark Walker.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 6.4 (Dragon's Teeth/One Small Step) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Robert Picardo
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Robert Beltran
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Roxann Dawson
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.95

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 6.4 (Dragon's Teeth/One Small Step) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.8 - Skin of Evil / We'll Always Have Paris / Conspiracy / The Neutral Zone
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph L. Scanlan
  • Rod Loomis
  • LeVar Burton
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • James L. Conway
  • Robert Becker
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Cliff Bole
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.39

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.8 - Skin of Evil / We'll Always Have Paris / Conspiracy / The Neutral Zone / 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 The Next Generation - Vol. 2.1 - The Child / Where Silence Has Lease / Elementary Dear Data [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • LeVar Burton
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Brent Spiner
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Rob Bowman
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.80

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 2.1 - The Child / Where Silence Has Lease / Elementary Dear Data [1990] / 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 Warner Home Video / The Avengers [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Ralph Fiennes
  • Sean Connery
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Uma Thurman
  • Jeremiah S. Chechik
Release date: 1999-08-30
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.49

Review The Avengers [1998] / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / X Files Trivia Game [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Katleman|William A. Graham|Gillian Anderson|David Duchovny
Release date: 1997-12-01
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £1.99

Review X Files Trivia Game [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 2.5 - The Trouble With Tribbles / Bread And Circuses / Journey To [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Jane Wyatt
  • Ralph Senensky
  • DeForest Kelley
  • Joseph Pevney
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • William Shatner
  • Mark Lenard
Release date: 1997-05-05
Run time: 144 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 2.5 - The Trouble With Tribbles / Bread And Circuses / Journey To [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

One of the most popular and influential shows in the history of television, for many viewers the original Star Trek (1966-9) defines good science fiction: however much it tries to be about the future, it cannot help but reflect the values of its own time, and Star Trek's vision was very much a product of creator Gene Roddenberry's 1960s liberal-humanist idealism. Conceived at the height of the Cold War and during the escalation of the Vietnam conflict, his was a radical vision of a world where national and racial differences have been put aside and all people work together. With a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other civilisations, and violence only as a last resort, Star Trek embodied a lost dream, a fantasy of what America could have been had John F Kennedy not been assassinated in 1963. Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) had the middle name of a Roman emperor, but otherwise shared his initials with the late president, and both were young, good-looking, womanising, charismatic popular heroes. If Kirk didn't uphold truth, justice and the American way from the White House, a big white starship was the next best thing. There was even a Russian, Mr Chekov (Walter Koenig), on the bridge, and the show delivered network TV's first inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Even though there was a white American male in control, it was still all a bit much for 1960s mainstream TV, hence the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, boldly going on its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, only lasted three seasons and 72 episodes before being cancelled in 1969, the year man first walked on the moon. While the once-ground-breaking special effects now look routine, and the then-radical politics have now become part of the politically correct global mainstream, Star Trek retains an enduring popularity due to its strong storytelling-the show employed such top science fiction writers as Robert Bloch, Harlan Elllison, Richard Matheson, Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon-and admirable characters. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Kirk, Chekov and Uhura remain icons for a world short of real heroes: loyal to the end, honest and utterly dedicated, these were the friends and colleagues who week after week trusted each other with their lives. Devoid of cynicism and self-interest the crew of the USS Enterprise never, ever let anyone down, and ultimately that is a very big reason for Star Trek's enduring popularity. [+]
- Gary S Dalkin.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.8 - Honour Among Thieves / Change of Heart
Actors & Directors
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • David Livingston
  • Avery Brooks
  • Terry Farrell
  • Michael Dorn
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Allan Eastman
Release date: 1998-08-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.69

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 Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Hostage / Countdown - Episodes 21 And 22 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
Release date: 1998-11-09
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.15

Review Blake's 7 - Hostage / Countdown - Episodes 21 And 22 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Cygnus Alpha / Time Squad - Episodes 3 And 4 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Vivienne Cozens
Release date: 1998-03-02
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.01

Review Blake's 7 - Cygnus Alpha / Time Squad - Episodes 3 And 4 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - The haunting of deck twelve & Unimatrix zero - Volume 6.13 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • David Livingston
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
  • Allan Kroeker
  • Kate Mulgrew
Release date: 2001-01-22
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £13.95

Review Star Trek Voyager - The haunting of deck twelve & Unimatrix zero - Volume 6.13 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Star Trek: Voyager, the first Trek spin-off to be made without any input at all from Gene Roddenberry, made its debut in 1995 and quickly established itself both as markedly different from cosmic cousin Deep Space Nine and as the successor to The Next Generation. Despite a lack of originality in its premise (Lost in Space anyone?), Voyager has been a bigger ratings success than any of its predecessors. Catapulted unwittingly to the far-flung Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Federation vessel Voyager must try somehow to get back home. The ghost of Katherine Hepburn lives on in Kate Mulgrew's forceful Captain Janeway. Until the fourth season, the fan favourite was the straight-funny man role of Robert Picardo's nameless Doctor. Then, with the brave Borg storyline "Scorpion Part 2", a serious improvement in the show's behind-the-scenes thinking introduced actress Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, who immediately upped sex appeal and viewing numbers. -Paul Tonks On this tape: Told in retrospect to the Borg children by Neelix, "The Haunting of Deck Twelve" involves Voyager enduring a complete power shut-down while passing through a nebula. "The Haunting" of course isn't a ghost but a non-corporeal-living-nebula-creature that manifests itself in a series of malfunctions throughout the ship. Like other "ship malfunction" stories it can't create enough drama to sustain an entire episode. "Unimatrix Zero" takes another twist on Borg individuality by creating a "dream realm" for their individual minds to inhabit when regenerating. [+]
Seven of Nine infiltrates the group but the Borg aren't far behind. The use of the Borg Queen as the adversary devalues the collective quality that the Borg maintained throughout earlier episodes. It's familiar ground, especially when the last two-part Borg episode, "Dark Frontier", had already dealt with the Voyager crew invading the Borg and it seems that the majority of this episode is a build-up to the cliff-hanger final scene that ends the season. -Colin Neal.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 9 : When The Bough Breaks / Home Soil [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Kim Manners
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Michael Dorn
  • LeVar Burton
  • Corey Allen
  • Wil Wheaton
Release date: 1991-02-04
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.00

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 9 : When The Bough Breaks / Home Soil [1987] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The New Avengers - The Last Of The Cybernauts...? / Sleeper [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Gareth Hunt
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Patrick Macnee
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.44

Review The New Avengers - The Last Of The Cybernauts...? / Sleeper [1976] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.05 - Atonement / Racing Mars [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Richard Biggs
  • Claudia Christian
  • Jerry Doyle
  • Jesus Trevino
  • Mira Furlan
Release date: 1998-06-22
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.95

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.05 - Atonement / Racing Mars [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 3.8 - Sarek / Menage A Trois / Transfigurations / The Best of Both Worlds Pt.I [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Bole
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Robert Legato
  • Tom Benko
  • Michael Dorn
  • Gates McFadden
  • LeVar Burton
  • Les Landau
Release date: 2000-10-02
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.89

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 3.8 - Sarek / Menage A Trois / Transfigurations / The Best of Both Worlds Pt.I [1990] / 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 The Next Generation: Time's Arrow - The Full Length TV Movie [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Les Landau
  • Michael Dorn
  • LeVar Burton
Release date: 1995-03-13
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review Star Trek The Next Generation: Time's Arrow - The Full Length TV Movie [1990] / 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 The Next Generation 27 : The Bonding / Booby Trap [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Gabrielle Beaumont
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Wil Wheaton
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Brent Spiner
Release date: 1991-10-21
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.00

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 27 : The Bonding / Booby Trap [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


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