![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Vol. 4.11 - The Muse / For The Cause [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519VB6AHN8L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Terry Farrell
- Avery Brooks
- Rene Auberjonois
- James L. Conway
- David Livingston
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.95
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 Contender Entertainment Group / Avenging The Avengers [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J94APPQYL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- James Hill
- Diana Rigg
- Dean Stockton
- Linda Thorson
- Patrick Macnee
- Paul Madden
- Honor Blackman
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £9.99
Review Avenging The Avengers [2000] / Contender Entertainment Group:
Actors & Directors
- Linda Thorson
- Patrick Macnee
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.50
Review The Avengers - Vol. 2 - The Cybernauts / Return Of The Cybernauts / Lumiere Pictures:
Release date: 1996-02-26
Price: £10.99
Review The New Avengers - To Catch A Rat / Cat Among The Pigeons [1976] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 and 2 - Midnight On The Firing Line / Soul Hunter [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51REFCSZD4L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Morgan Furlan
- Jim Johnston
- Claudia Christian
- Richard Compton
- Michael O'Hare
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:
Actors & Directors
- LeVar Burton
- Jonathan Frakes
- Gabrielle Beaumont
- Robert Wiemer
- Winrich Kolbe
- Brent Spiner
- Michael Dorn
- Patrick Stewart
Run time: 131 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.89
Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 3.2 - Who Watches the Watchers / The Bonding / Booby Trap / 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.
Actors & Directors
- John Carson
- Robert Fuest
- Patrick Macnee
- Ed Devereaux
- Gareth Hunt
- Joanna Lumley
- Ray Austin
Price: £10.99
Review The New Avengers - The Midas Touch / House Of Cards [1976] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.12 - Family Business / Shakaar [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514NT0K5WQL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rene Auberjonois
- Jonathan West
- Rene Auberjonois
- Cirroc Lofton
- Terry Farrell
- Siddig El Fadil
- Avery Brooks
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.39
Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.12 - Family Business / Shakaar [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 Voyager - Vol. 3.5 (Future's End Part II/Warlord) [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B789Z67FL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1997-04-07
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.5 (Future's End Part II/Warlord) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Annette Kerr
- Jonathan Alwyn
- Richard Pescud
- Honor Blackman
- Patrick Macnee
- Richmond Harding
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.98
Review The Avengers - Cathy Gale - Vol. 4 - Death On The Rocks / Traitor In Zebra [1962] / Lumiere Pictures:
Release date: 1995-04-24
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.89
Review The Avengers - A Retrospective / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation: All Good Things - The Full Length TV Movie [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41H85HM1D1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Gates McFadden
- LeVar Burton
- Jonathan Frakes
- Michael Dorn
- Patrick Stewart
- Winrich Kolbe
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99
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.
Release date: 2001-05-14
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 21 And 22 [1965] / ITV DVD:
Actors & Directors
- Steven Berkoff
- Michael Dorn
- Rene Auberjonois
- Avery Brooks
- Cirroc Lofton
- Avery Brooks
- Terry Farrell
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99
Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.10 - Ties of Blood and Water / Ferengi Love Songs / 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. 2.2 (Partrurition/Persitence of Vision) [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MCSR27KZL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jonathan Frakes
- James L. Conway
- Robert Picardo
- Jennifer Lien
- Kate Mulgrew
- Ethan Phillips
- Robert Beltran
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.98
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 2.2 (Partrurition/Persitence of Vision) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Patrick Macnee
- Honor Blackman
- Tenniel Evans
- Jonathan Alwyn
- Walter Hudd
- Kim Mills
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.99
Review The Avengers - Cathy Gale - Vol. 5 - The Big Thinker / Intercrime [1962] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 11 : Symbiosis / Conspiracy [1988]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CPCEW56BL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Marina Sirtis
- Les Landau
- Michael Dorn
- Jonathan Frakes
- Patrick Stewart
- Wil Wheaton
- Win Phelps
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.49
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 11 : Symbiosis / Conspiracy [1988] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers Kinky Boots Collection - Vol. 3 [1962]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RQH6FS1ML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kim Mills
- John Lucarotti
- Jonathan Alwyn
- Patrick Macnee
- Honor Blackman
Run time: 202 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.99
Review The Avengers Kinky Boots Collection - Vol. 3 [1962] / Contender Entertainment Group:
Actors & Directors
- Diana Rigg
- Nigel Davenport
- Douglas Wilmer
- Robert Asher
- Charles Crichton
- Patrick Macnee
- Warren Mitchell
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £10.99
Review The Avengers - Vol. 7 - The Danger Makers / The See- Through Man [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers - Parallel Lines Collection - Volume 1 Of 6 [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TQZZK16WL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Fenella Fielding
- Warren Mitchell
- Charles Crichton
- Tara King
- Roy Ward Baker
- Cathy Gale
- Diana Rigg
- Bill Bain
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £12.99
Review The Avengers - Parallel Lines Collection - Volume 1 Of 6 [1964] / Contender Entertainment Group:With 136 surviving episodes (1962-8), The Avengers is the most successful British action-adventure series ever. Developed from Police Surgeon (1960), itself an ancestor of The Fugitive (1963-6), Patrick MacNee was the debonair secret agent John Steed. He shared his increasingly fantastical missions with three lady Avengers, Cathy Gale, (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) and Tara King (Linda Thorson). The idea behind the six Parallel Lines videos is to present one episode with each heroine in thematically similar storylines. The 1964 Cathy Gale "The Charmers" is a black and white tale of doppelganger double-agents, with a guest appearance by Warren Mitchell. 1967's Emma Peel adventure, "The Correct Way to Kill", is a colour remake of "The Charmers" (parts of the script are identical), produced with a little more money, style and humour. Tara King's "Split" (1968) revolves around an "impossible" murder, seemingly committed by an enemy Steed himself killed many years ago, and is distinguished by the appearance of Nigel Davenport. These are good, not great Avengers episodes, offering the serious fan the opportunity to trace the development of the show's style. However, casual fans might be better off with the more diverse volumes of the M. Appeal Collection or even splashing-out on the splendid The Avengers Science-Fiction and Fantasy Collection box set. [+]-Gary S. Dalkin.
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