Star Trek The Next Generation — The Complete Sixth Season
January 6, 2010 by Coupon Source
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26 episodes on 7 discs: Time’s Arrow Part II, Realm of Fear, Man of the People, Relics, Schisms, True-Q, Rascals, A Fistful of Datas, The Quality of Life, Chain of Command Part I, Chain of Command Part II, Ship in a Bottle, Aquiel, Face of the Enemy, Tapestry, Birthright Part I, Birthright Part II, Starship Mine, Lessons, The Chase, Frame of Mind, Suspicions, Rightful Heir, Second Chances, Timescape, Descent Part I. Amazon.com
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Star Trek The Next Generation — The Complete Sixth Season
Wesley Crusher was the best character on any Star Trek series. Since his departure TNG hasnt been the same. He was the ultimate SciFi hero.
Rating: 2 / 5
The DVDs themselves are of good quality; I’ve rented many seasons’ worth and reminded myself which stories throughout the run were good and which were not…
$50 per season is on par and is a good price. (So what’s coming soon that’s compelling people to buy these current sets?)
Wish I could afford it; thanks to the prices of necessities gone up so much (food, shelter, and distilled petroleum products being slightly more important than Captain Picard standing around as if he hasn’t spent a penny in decades…), $50 is still an effective $100 out of my pocket in the end.
Season 6 continues the inane preachy banality introduced big-time for season 5. The music continues to degenerate; and another composer with the same garish yet banal style only makes things even less interesting. I’d say that, by this point when I first saw these in 1992–3, I was begging to see season 1 reruns as they were far more interesting (and still are)…
Times Arrow II: It’s dealt with, Data survives.
Realm of Fear: Worst Barclay story; he’s scared of transporters because he sees big centipedes in them. Nice to see the ‘effect’ of teleportation, but the story is crackers.
Man of the People: A trite concept, but reasonably well handled. not a classic by any measure, but it is watchable.
Relics: Dig into the vast well of Classic Trek to bring in the viewers for some reason; and we get James Doohan’s best performance ever as Scotty. Well written, well acted, nice sci-fi concept (Dyson sphere, even if improbable), there are no downsides here. (unfortunately, the same people involved in making this story totally forget about it when writing the movie “Generations”…)
Schisms: Paying homage to “alien abductions” in general isn’t very bright, but in a sci-fi show where you’re travelling the galaxy in a starship, it’s definitely scraping bottoms of barrels for plot ideas.
True-Q: Gee, a gay themed story that never meant to be! And it’s so much better than “The Outcast”! A niche piece, I have a soft spot for it, and Q turning Crusher into a dog is priceless.
Rascals: Underrated and fun. I’m not sure why as it’s easy to tear this one apart. But the Guinan/Ro discussion alone makes it worth watching; the talk of re-living a past to make up for its down sides was really good. Gotta like this one too.
A Fistful of Datas: I don’t recall, but it’s a holodeck story that makes Data a villain.
The Quality of Life: Yet another “is a machine sentient” story, as if all the others we had before weren’t enough, this one outdoes all the others in terms of inane, pointless rehashing of old ideas. And it’s so shamelessly one-sided that I had to throw up.
Chain of Command: Replace the Borg with the Cardassians and it’s 90% the same. There are 4 lights, we know… David Warner makes for a cool villain, however. And his quality of acting would make “there are 5 lights” believeable. It’s a mixed bag, this one…
Ship in a Bottle: Nice continuation/conclusion to Moriarity except they didn’t include the continuity from the first story; Moriarity knowing quite well about the Enterprise… still, it’s great fun — with a terrific ending to boot. A far better Barclay story!
Aquiel — filler.
Face of the Enemy: Empty “Underground Railroad in space”. Troi is irritating, to say the least. More concerned about being kidnapped, it’s amazing she got the job done at all.
Tapestry: CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC! Best season 6 story BY FAR. (well, Relics comes close…) Picard dies in an explosion and Q intercedes to give Picard a second chance… And Picard learns a lesson about living in fear or having the guts to try to get ahead… highly refreshing in a season of drivel that redefines the word to new lows.
Birthright: More waffle in what seems to be a parallel to America regarding part 2 with Worf… pt 1 is centric to Data.
Starship Mine: Typically banal music hinders what is a decent action plot. Though Picard being butch does stretch credibility; it’s passable and there are some terrific set-pieces.
Lessons: Wow, Picard falls in love again — but has to send her to a possible death. (hmmm, and we have entire families on this ship again for what reason? To off them all as entire families?)
The Chase: Interesting attempt to show why every critter in Star Trek lore looks like a human with an overcooked omelet glued to its head. Lame music hampers the story, and is poorly paced (what else is new), but the core idea alone makes it worth a glance!
Frame of Mind: Riker in a mental asylum? Partly bland, but passable. Great f/x are unexpected and highly enjoyed too.
Suspicions: UGH! More one-sided preach-a-thon pablum
Rightful Heir: More Worf subplot. (gee, Crusher, Troi, and Riker have no past lives worthy of exploitation anymore?!)
Second Chances: A doppelganger episode. Not bad… but surprisingly underwhelming.
Timespace: Another refreshing story using science as a backdrop to some very surreal and frightening events. Definitely a must-see.
Descent pt1: Oh dear. The Borg. Again. But these aren’t ordinary Borg… and all due to Picard’s meddling? And Lore is back too, feeling the Borg’s pain!!
yeah, the show is rock bottom and the show managed to get renewed; the original finale was to see the ship crashed (the Generations DVD commentary goes into this further… or was it the “All Good Things” season 7 bonus material?)
So, how does the final season fare? Much better than one would think…
Rating: 1 / 5
My question for the Morons at Paramount is why do possibly glue the sticker seals the container with such strong stuff that you cannot avoid ruining the container when you remove it. May I remind that this a COLLETOR’S ITEM!!!!! Therefore if you damage it is WORTHLESS.
Rating: 1 / 5
Over all, I am satisified with season 6. I would have given it a higher rating but the boxed set I purchased has two DISC 5 in it and no DISC 6.
Rating: 3 / 5
Star Trek TNG is the Best!
Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner are brilliant. Even though this DVD has not yet been released, I have seen all the episodes on it and I love them all!
Rating: 5 / 5