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Warping into syndication in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation successfully launched its seven-season "continuing mission" of the starship Enterprise, and this classy DVD boxed set gathers the show's inaugural season in crisp picture clarity and dazzling 5.1-channel sound. A ratings leader with a sharp ensemble cast, this revamped Trek honored series creator Gene Roddenberry's original Trek concept, nurtured by returning veterans like producer Robert H. Justman and writers D.C. Fontana and David Gerrold. Several first-season episodes have original-series counterparts, and while the season was awkwardly inconsistent for all involved (including Roddenberry's heir apparent, producer Rick Berman), in retrospect the series began on remarkably solid footing. (official distributor synopsis)
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The best section of the Star Trek cult, probably because it is our "contemporary". In 40 years, viewers will probably laugh at it the way we laugh at the original series today, but still, I’ve grown to like the big family under the command of the charismatic "skinhead" Jean-Luc Picard. Thanks to The Next Generation, Star Trek has become a massive fiction world with incredible sophistication. The entire Star Trek series is a celebration of human imagination and often a treasure trove of great craftsmanship (some of the works are among the best that the series has produced as a genre). It is also gratifying to incorporate literary classics into an otherwise hi-tech storyline. In short, thanks to the Enterprise of any series, we can go where no one has gone before.
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I don't know if it's because I was at the ideal age and mindset when this series was aired, but it's precisely this series of Star Trek stories that I like the most. The optimal casting, the star fleet, and the crew of the Enterprise made me identify with Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes. There are decent scripts for each episode, which are in some cases borrowed from the original TV series from the '60s. Overall impression: 65%. Later mutations, especially Voyager, seemed somewhat cliché with the constant presentation of the same schemes and also with a certain studio "sterility."
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