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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.7 - For the Uniform / In Purgatory's Shadow
Actors & Directors
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Gabrielle Beaumont
  • Michael Dorn
  • Avery Brooks
  • Terry Farrell
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Victor Lobl
Release date: 1997-06-02
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.25

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.7 - For the Uniform / In Purgatory's Shadow / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.02 - The Summoning / Falling Towards Apotheosis [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Claudia Christian
  • Jason Carter
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • David J. Eagle
  • John McPherson
  • Peter Jurasik
  • Jerry Doyle
Release date: 1998-03-30
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.65

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.02 - The Summoning / Falling Towards Apotheosis [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Troma Inc / The Toxic Avenger Part 2 [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Herz
  • John Altamura
  • Ron Fazio
  • Lloyd Kaufman
  • Phoebe Legere
Release date: 1996-09-30
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Toxic Avenger Part 2 [1989] / Troma Inc:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.8 (Blood Fever/Coda) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Mulgrew
Release date: 1997-06-23
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.75

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.8 (Blood Fever/Coda) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.13 - Body Parts / Broken Link
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Farrell
  • Avery Brooks
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Michael Dorn
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Les Landau
Release date: 1996-11-18
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.39

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.13 - Body Parts / Broken Link / 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 Contender Entertainment Group / The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 1 - House Of Cards / Dead Men Are Dangerous / Angels Of Death / Medium Rare
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Austin
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Jon Finch
  • Mike Hallett
  • Jeremy Wilkin
  • Sidney Hayers
  • Ernest Day
Release date: 1999-03-08
Run time: 200 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 1 - House Of Cards / Dead Men Are Dangerous / Angels Of Death / Medium Rare / 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 Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 11 : Symbiosis / Conspiracy [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Win Phelps
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Les Landau
  • Wil Wheaton
  • Michael Dorn
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 1991-04-08
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.49

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 11 : Symbiosis / Conspiracy [1988] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 3 : The Last Outpost / Where No One Has Gone Before [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Bowman
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Michael Dorn
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Gates McFadden
  • Richard A. Colla
  • Wil Wheaton
Release date: 1990-07-02
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.48

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 3 : The Last Outpost / Where No One Has Gone Before [1987] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Thunderbirds 6: The Movie [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • John Carson
  • Gary Files
  • Peter Dyneley
  • David Lane
  • Sylvia Anderson
  • Keith Alexander
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.40

Review Thunderbirds 6: The Movie [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

Thunderbird 6 was the second feature spin-off from the hit Gerry Anderson puppet-animation TV series Thunderbirds, and revolved around a new addition to the line-up of International Rescue's five emergency craft. The plot sees Lady Penelope, Alan, Tin-Tin and Parker as the only passengers on the maiden, round-the-world flight of a futuristic airship, which is hijacked in a bid to capture Thunderbirds 1 and 2. From the moment Alan arrives on a Bond-style jetpack, the film veers away from the TV show into espionage adventure territory, and while the only people International Rescue rescue are their own members, they kill a fair number of baddies. The global tour means there are more locations than ever, and though the story takes a long time developing, the Die Hard-on-an-airship finale delivers the most explosive set piece of Gerry Anderson's career. As for Thunderbird 6, opinion remains divided as to whether it's an ingenious twist or a disappointing gimmick, but the movie's blend of model and live-action footage results in two superbly staged stunt sequences. Predecessor Thunderbirds Are Go (1968) is also available, and the Andersons would make one further feature film, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969). On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 ratio image is sharp, full of detail and boasting well-saturated colours, only the briefest moments of damage and some graininess revealing the age of the print. The film was shot in ultra-wide Techniscope, and there are moments were it is very obvious that parts of the original 2. 74:1 picture have been cropped at the sides. [+]
The mono sound is powerful with no hint of distortion. Extras are the original trailer, galleries of behind the scenes photos and promotional artwork, though the highlight is the highly informative commentary by Sylvia Anderson and director David Lane where they note how they made this film and worked on Captain Scarlet simultaneously. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 17 : Unnatural Selection / A Matter Of Honour [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Sergio Cabrera
  • Frank Ramírez
  • Florina Lemaitre
  • Humberto Dorado
  • Kepa Amuchastegui
  • Vicky Hernández
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.96

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 17 : Unnatural Selection / A Matter Of Honour [1988] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.9 - A Simple Investigation / Business As Usual
Actors & Directors
  • Avery Brooks
  • Michael Dorn
  • John T. Kretchmer
  • Terry Farrell
  • Steven Berkoff
  • Rene Auberjonois
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 Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 20 - Blood Oath / The Maquis Part 1 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Farrell
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Siddig El Fadil
  • Colm Meaney
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • David Livingston
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.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.8 - By Inferno's Light / Doctor Bashir, I Presume
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Dorn
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Terry Farrell
  • David Livingston
  • Robert Picardo
  • Les Landau
Release date: 1997-06-23
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.8 - By Inferno's Light / Doctor Bashir, I Presume / 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. 5.6 - Darkness and Light / The Begotten
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Dorn
  • Terry Farrell
  • Michael Vejar
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Avery Brooks
Release date: 1997-05-05
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.65

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.6 - Darkness and Light / The Begotten / 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 8 : 11001001 / Too Short A Season [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Paul Lynch
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Gates McFadden
  • Michael Vejar
  • Michael Dorn
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 1991-01-07
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.00

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 8 : 11001001 / Too Short A Season [1987] / 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
  • Robert Becker
  • Cliff Bole
  • James L. Conway
  • LeVar Burton
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Rod Loomis
  • Joseph L. Scanlan
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49

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 Voyager - Vol. 3.6 (Macrocosm/The Q and the Grey) [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Nunneley
  • Perry Benson
  • Benedict Wong
  • Sean Lock
Release date: 1997-05-05
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.40

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.6 (Macrocosm/The Q and the Grey) [2002] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 23 - A Day In The Strife / Passing Through Gethsemane [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Adam Nimoy
  • Peter Jurasik
  • Jerry Doyle
  • Claudia Christian
  • Andreas Katsulas
  • David J. Eagle
  • Bruce Boxleitner
Release date: 1997-06-30
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.99

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 23 - A Day In The Strife / Passing Through Gethsemane [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 7 : Datalore / Angel One [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Wil Wheaton
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Michael Ray Rhodes
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Rob Bowman
  • Gates McFadden
Release date: 1990-11-05
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.00

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 7 : Datalore / Angel One [1987] / Paramount 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
  • Joseph Pevney
  • Mark Lenard
  • Jane Wyatt
  • Ralph Senensky
  • William Shatner
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • DeForest Kelley
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.

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