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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 77 : Descent, Part 2 / Liaisons [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • LeVar Burton
  • Gates McFadden
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Michael Dorn
  • Alexander Singer
  • Cliff Bole
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 1994-03-07
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.45

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 77 : Descent, Part 2 / Liaisons [1993] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 1 - The Emissary [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Siddig
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Terry Farrell
  • Avery Brooks
  • David Carson
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1993-08-02
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.94

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 1 - The Emissary [1993] / 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 The Next Generation: Unification - The Full Length TV Movie [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Cliff Bole
  • LeVar Burton
  • Michael Dorn
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Gates McFadden
  • Les Landau
Release date: 1995-02-27
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation: Unification - 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 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf - Series 3 - Episodes 4-6 [Remastered] [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Bye
  • Danny John-Jules
  • Chris Barrie
  • Norman Lovett
  • Craig Charles
Release date: 1998-04-14
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99

Review Red Dwarf - Series 3 - Episodes 4-6 [Remastered] [1988] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3 - Babel / Captive Pursuit [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Avery Brooks
  • Colm Meaney
  • Paul Lynch
  • Armin Shimerman
  • Corey Allen
  • Nana Visitor
  • Terry Farrell
Release date: 1993-09-06
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.74

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3 - Babel / Captive Pursuit [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. 3.1 - The Search Part 1 / The Search Part 2 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Kim Friedman
  • Terry Farrell
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Siddig El Fadil
  • Avery Brooks
Release date: 1995-02-06
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.95

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.1 - The Search Part 1 / The Search Part 2 [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. 3.12 (Distant Origin/Displaced) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • David Livingston
  • Robert Beltran
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Jennifer Lien
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Allan Kroeker
Release date: 1997-09-29
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.35

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.12 (Distant Origin/Displaced) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 2 - Past Prologue / A Man Alone [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Lynch
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Colm Meaney
  • Armin Shimerman
  • Avery Brooks
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Terry Farrell
Release date: 1993-08-02
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.97

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 2 - Past Prologue / A Man Alone [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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 12 - The End [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • David Duchovny
  • Gillian Anderson
  • R.W. Goodwin
Release date: 1998-07-20
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.98

Review The X Files : File 12 - The End [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 44 : Devil's Due / Clues [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Tom Benko
  • Rhonda Aldrich
  • Les Landau
  • LeVar Burton
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Pamela Winslow
Release date: 1992-04-06
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.50

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 44 : Devil's Due / Clues [1991] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 7 - Tunguska [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • David Duchovny
  • Mitch Pileggi
  • Kim Manners
  • Rob Bowman
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Nicholas Lea
Release date: 1997-02-24
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.95

Review The X Files : File 7 - Tunguska [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.11 - The Omega Directive / Unforgettable
Actors & Directors
  • Miguel Poveda
Release date: 1998-11-02
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.87

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.11 - The Omega Directive / Unforgettable / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 5 - 82517 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Mitch Pileggi
  • David Duchovny
  • Rob Bowman
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.23

Review The X Files : File 5 - 82517 [1995] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 2.3 - Unnatural Selection / A Matter of Honour / The Measure of a Man [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Robert Scheerer
  • Rob Bowman
  • Brent Spiner
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Paul Lynch
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 136 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.40

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 2.3 - Unnatural Selection / A Matter of Honour / The Measure of a Man [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 Contender Entertainment Group / The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 1 - House Of Cards / Dead Men Are Dangerous / Angels Of Death / Medium Rare
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Wilkin
  • Sidney Hayers
  • Ray Austin
  • Mike Hallett
  • Ernest Day
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Jon Finch
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.

Actors & Directors
  • Barry Warren
  • Linda Thorson
  • Don Chaffey
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Stratford Johns
  • Rio Fanning
  • Charles Crichton
Release date: 1995-04-24
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99

Review The Avengers - Vol. 22 - False Witness / Legacy Of Death [1968] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - The Harvest Of Kairos / City At The Edge Of The World - Episodes 31 And 32 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Viktors Ritelis
Release date: 1999-03-29
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £38.20

Review Blake's 7 - The Harvest Of Kairos / City At The Edge Of The World - Episodes 31 And 32 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Chris Barrie
  • Robert Llewellyn
  • Juliet May
  • Danny John-Jules
  • Craig Charles
  • Grant Naylor
  • Hattie Hayridge
Release date: 1994-08-01
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.98

Review Red Dwarf V - Quarantine / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Linda Thorson
  • Don Chaffey
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Ralph Michael
  • John Hough
  • Patrick Newell
  • William Marlowe
Release date: 1996-01-29
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Avengers - Vol. 26 - Who Was That Man I Saw You With? / Homicide And Old Lace [1968] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Orac / Redemption - Episodes 13 And 14 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Fiona Cumming
Release date: 1998-07-27
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.15

Review Blake's 7 - Orac / Redemption - Episodes 13 And 14 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


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