Although
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION didn’t really hit its stride until
season three, season two is the point at which the show began to really
find its voice and the actors became comfortable in their roles. I should
also note that season two produced a number of episodes that I would count
amongst my favorites, and it was during the second season that The Borg;
the ultimate Star Trek adversaries were introduced. One of the more interesting
and perhaps overlooked additions of the second season was Commander Riker’s
beard. With the beard, Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) seemed less stiff
and developed more of a roguish charm- the beard also differentiated Riker
from just about every other human male in Starfleet, all of whom are clean
shaven.
Of
course, there was some difficulties associated season two of STAR TREK:
THE NEXT GENERATION. First and foremost was the problem of a writer’s
strike that truncated the season to only twenty-two episodes, which culminated
with what many refer to as a "cheap clip show." Next was the
decision to write out the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden)
and replace her with Dr. Kate Pulaski (Diana Muldaur). For some reason
Gene Roddenberry must have thought having the ships doctor become a foil
the emotionless android Data (Brent Spiner) would have been reminiscent
of the mildly antagonist (and popular) relationship between the original
series Spock and McCoy. However, this didn’t pan out and Dr. Crusher found
herself reassigned back to the Enterprise for season three. With all that
said, Paramount Home Entertainment has brought STAR TREK: THE NEXT
GENERATION SEASON TWO ($135) to DVD in a six disc boxed set containing
all twenty-two episodes and additional supplemental materials.
Disc
one contains the episodes The Child, Where Silence
Has Lease, Elementary, Dear Data and The Outrageous
Okona. The second season opener, The Child, finds
Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) impregnated by an alien life force
and she gives birth to a son, all within a matter of hours- what does
this child want from Troi and the crew of the Enterprise? The season opener
also introduced the sage like character of Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), who
served as bartender in the Enterprise’s new lounge Ten Forward. In the
episode Where Silence Has Lease, the Enterprise becomes
trapped in an empty void and subject to an unknown entity’s experiments
with the concept of mortality. In Elementary, Dear Data,
a holodeck fantasy in which Data gets to play Sherlock Holmes has the
potential to destroy the Enterprise, when the ship’s computer creates
an adversary capable of defeating the android. The Outrageous Okona
is a roguish space trader in need of repairs that accepts the Enterprise’s
offer of help, but soon after he comes on board, factions from two rival
planets arrive- each claiming the right to arrest him. The episode also
includes a secondary story in which Data tries to cultivate a sense of
humor through the use of a holodeck-generated comedian.
Disc
two contains the episodes Loud as a Whisper, The Schizoid
Man, Unnatural Selection and A Matter of Honor.
Loud as a Whisper features a deaf and dumb mediator, who
is brought in by the Enterprise to settle a planetary civil war; however,
when the individuals through which the mediator telepathically communicates
are killed- the entire peace process is thrown into jeopardy. In The
Schizoid Man, Data begins acting strangely after encountering
dying scientist Ira Graves; however, the Enterprise crew quickly discovers
the reason- Graves transferred his intellect to the android’s body in
a bid for immortality. Unnatural Selection begins with the
Enterprise answering a distress call from another starship; however, when
they arrive they find that the entire crew of the other ship has died
of old age. Tracing the contamination back to its point of origin, Dr.
Pulaski becomes infected when she tries to help some of contamination’s
other victims. A Matter of Honor is certainly one of the
season’s highlights, with its story of Commander Riker agreeing to participate
in an officer exchange program and serving on board a Klingon vessel.
As Riker adapts to the Klingon code of honor, a situation arises that
could force a conflict between the Klingon ship and the Enterprise- one
which will test his loyalties to both ships.
Disc
three contains the episodes The Measure of a Man, The
Dauphin, Contagion and The Royale.
The Measure of a Man is another of the season’s highlights
in which Lt. Cmdr. Data’s rights of self-determination are brought into
question. Is Data the property of Starfleet and obligated to participate
in a risky experiment to create other androids, or is he an individual
and guaranteed the rights of any other federation citizen? To answer this
question, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) must turn to the local
JAG Officer, who just happens to be the woman that served as prosecutor
in his Court Martial over the loss of his previous ship the Stargazer.
The Dauphin finds Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton)
in his first romantic encounter with a young planetary leader, whom the
Enterprise is ferrying home. However, Wesley soon learns that this beautiful
girl and her overprotective bodyguard are not exactly what they appear
to be. In Contagion, the Enterprise witnesses the destruction
of its sister ship the Yamato, which became infected by a computer virus
created by a long dead alien civilization. However, before its destruction,
the Enterprise crew is able to download the Yamoto’s logs, which unfortunately
leaves the Enterprise also infected. The Royale opens with
the Enterprise encountering a piece of a spacecraft launched from Earth
in the 21st Century. Their effort to locate the rest of the craft leads
the Enterprise to a deserted planet, where several crewmembers find themselves
trapped in a recreation of a hotel that would appear to be based on a
centuries old pulp novel.
Disc
four contains the episodes Time Squared, The Icarus
Factor, Pen Pals and Q Who?. Captain
Picard meets his double in Time Squared- with the disoriented
doppelganger arriving from six hours in the future, in a shuttlecraft
whose logs indicate that the captain was the only survivor of the recently
destroyed starship Enterprise. In The Icarus Factor, Commander
Riker is offered a ship of his own and finds himself face to face with
his estranged father, a man with whom he has a deep-seated resentment.
The plot of Pen Pals finds Data unintentionally breaking
the Prime Directive by contacting a young girl on an endangered world;
however, after much debate, the crew of the Enterprise determines that
they should do what they can to help stabilize the girl’s home planet.
Q Who? is another of the second season’s standout episodes,
one in which the omnipotent Q (John de Lancie) returns and offer his services
to Captain Picard as The Enterprise’s guide to the cosmos and their protector
from things that they are ill prepared to encounter. However, when Picard
rebuffs him, Q decides to teach Picard and all of humanity a lesson it
will never forget. Transporting the Enterprise halfway across the galaxy,
Q brings about humanity’s first encounter with The Borg- an unstoppable,
unrelenting and unremorseful alien life form that expands its sphere of
influence by assimilating other species and their technology.
Disc
five contains the episodes Samaritan Snare, Up The
Long Ladder, Manhunt and The Emissary.
Samaritan Snare finds Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge (LeVar
Burton) kidnapped by the very same slow-witted aliens to whom he offered
his assistance in repairing their malfunctioning ship. Meanwhile, Captain
Picard faces life-threatening surgery when he must have his malfunctioning
artificial heart repaired. In Up The Long Ladder, the Enterprise
must rescue two diverse groups of colonists from the unstable star in
their solar system. Although starting out together, one group has returned
to an agricultural way of life, while the other has resorted to cloning
to maintain its society. Manhunt marks to return of Counselor
Troi’s mother Lwaxana (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry), who has marriage on
her mind and Captain Picard in her crosshairs. However, Picard retreats
to the holodeck, where he hides from Lwaxana Troi in the world of a Dixon
Hill adventure. In The Emissary, an all but forgotten Klingon
sleeper ship is due to emerge from hibernation. Because the crew of the
sleeper ship went into hibernation while there were still hostilities
between the Federation and The Klingon Empire, the Klingons dispatch an
emissary to the Enterprise to help deal with the ship and protect the
long-standing peace that now exists between the two powers. As fate would
have it, the emissary turns out to be an infuriating woman whom Lt. Worf
(Michael Dorn) was once romantically involved.
Disc
six contains the episodes Peak Performance and Shades
of Gray. Peak Performance finds the crew of the
Enterprise preparing for the pending Borg threat by participating in a
battle simulation with a derelict starship captained by Commander Riker.
However, the unexpected arrival of a Ferengi vessel threatens both ships,
when the Enterprise’s weaponry becomes locked in simulation mode. Closing
out season two is Shades of Gray, which has been referred
to as a "cheap clip show" by more than a few of the series’
fans. The plot concerns Commander Riker being infected by an organism
that attacks his nervous system. After much trial and error Dr. Pulaski
discovers the only effective treatment is to stimulate Riker’s memories-
hence the clips from past episodes that pad out the running time of the
season finale.
Paramount
Home Entertainment has made all of the episodes from STAR TREK: THE
NEXT GENERATION SEASON TWO available on DVD in their proper full screen
aspect ratios of their original broadcasts. Like the episodes from season
one, the presentation on DVD does improve upon how the episodes look in
syndicated broadcasts and on Laserdisc, but problems do remain. Because
the show’s special effects and post production work was completed in the
video realm and not on film, these sequences display weaknesses in the
form of video noise and shimmer in every episode. Again, the only remedy
for this situation would entail having every episode’s postproduction
work redone in high definition. Another inconsistency is the amount of
film grain that crops up from time to time in just about every episode,
but this too is a result of the show’s budgetary constraints and the show’s
postproduction work.
For
the most part the episodes look pretty darn good and do show a marginal
improvement over those from season one. The level of sharpness and detail
can fluctuate within episodes from very crisp to mildly soft, but the
image always remains highly watchable. Colors tend to be strongly rendered,
but there are some moments where the hues do appear a bit subdued. Flesh
tones usually look natural, although, like season one, they sometimes
have a propensity to come off as a bit too red. Blacks are very solid
looking and the image has pretty good contrast. Of course, there is certain
flatness to the photography of episodic television shows, which remains
evident here. Although there are four forty-six minute episodes per DVD,
clean dual layer authoring keeps digital compression artifacts from becoming
noticeable.
As
with season one, all of the episodes in the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
SEASON TWO DVD collection have been upgraded to Dolby Digital 5.1
sound mixes. The 5.1 channel sound is a definite improvement over the
standard Dolby Surround mixes that were part of the original broadcasts
and Laserdisc releases. While the forward soundstage still dominates,
channel separation is cleaner and better defined across the front. The
rear channels provide a good level of ambient sounds and musical fill.
Engine rumble and the occasional whoosh of a passing space ship are the
most effective uses of the surround channels. Dialogue reproduction is
clean and fully intelligible, which doesn’t always help with some of the
show’s techno-babble. I have to say that STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
was a well-recorded show for the late 1980s, which is evidenced in the
solid fidelity of these new sound mixes. Additionally, the bass channel
provides each show with a rather punchy bottom end- so don’t spare the
amplification while watching the episodes. English Dolby Surround soundtracks
are also encoded onto the DVDs, as are English subtitles.
Full
motion video, animation and sound serve to enhance the DVD’s interactive
menus, which utilize an interface reminiscent of the Enterprise’s computer
systems. Through the menus, one has access to individual episodes and
scene selection within the episodes, as well as each disc’s set up features.
Disc six’s menus also provide access to the set’s supplementary materials.
Under the title of Mission Logs, one will find the following
programs: Mission Overview, Selected Crew Analysis,
Starfleet Archives, Departmental Briefings: Production
and Memorable Missions. Mission Overview runs
fifteen minutes and looks at the changes the show underwent during its
second season, including cast changes and the addition of a major new
set. Running fourteen minutes is the Selected Crew Analysis,
which features interviews with the cast and creative team, who discuss
the development of the characters across the second season. Clocking in
at seventeen minutes is the Starfleet Archives section,
which is a detailed look behind the scenes at the various props and models
use in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, as well as in the theatrical
films. The Production section of Departmental Briefings
clocks in at eighteen minutes and offers a look behind-the-scenes at all
the work that went into creating the second season episodes. Memorable
Missions runs about seventeen minutes and lets the cast and crew
of the series pick out their favorite moments from the second season.
With
a larger budget and better scripts, the second season of STAR TREK:
THE NEXT GENERATION is certainly stronger than the first. Of course,
some will claim it was too short a season and the "cheap clip
show" season finale left a lot to be desired. Still, there were enough
standout episodes produced during the second season of STAR TREK: THE
NEXT GENERATION to make it clear that the show had genuinely found
its voice. Paramount’s DVD box set looks and sounds better than syndicated
broadcasts and offers fans the convenience of having the episodes available
at their fingertips. Without question, the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
SEASON TWO DVD collection is something fans of the series will definitely
want to own. Personally, I love having television shows in season-by-season
box sets, and in particular, I love Paramount’s accelerated release schedule,
which will make the entire seven-year run of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
available before the end of 2002. One final thought, watching this boxed
set has got me really psyched for season three- I can’t wait for it to
arrive!
Although
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION didn’t really hit its stride until
season three, season two is the point at which the show began to really
find its voice and the actors became comfortable in their roles. I should
also note that season two produced a number of episodes that I would count
amongst my favorites, and it was during the second season that The Borg;
the ultimate Star Trek adversaries were introduced. One of the more interesting
and perhaps overlooked additions of the second season was Commander Riker’s
beard. With the beard, Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) seemed less stiff
and developed more of a roguish charm- the beard also differentiated Riker
from just about every other human male in Starfleet, all of whom are clean
shaven.
Of
course, there was some difficulties associated season two of STAR TREK:
THE NEXT GENERATION. First and foremost was the problem of a writer’s
strike that truncated the season to only twenty-two episodes, which culminated
with what many refer to as a "cheap clip show." Next was the
decision to write out the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden)
and replace her with Dr. Kate Pulaski (Diana Muldaur). For some reason
Gene Roddenberry must have thought having the ships doctor become a foil
the emotionless android Data (Brent Spiner) would have been reminiscent
of the mildly antagonist (and popular) relationship between the original
series Spock and McCoy. However, this didn’t pan out and Dr. Crusher found
herself reassigned back to the Enterprise for season three. With all that
said, Paramount Home Entertainment has brought STAR TREK: THE NEXT
GENERATION SEASON TWO ($135) to DVD in a six disc boxed set containing
all twenty-two episodes and additional supplemental materials.
Disc
one contains the episodes The Child, Where Silence
Has Lease, Elementary, Dear Data and The Outrageous
Okona. The second season opener, The Child, finds
Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) impregnated by an alien life force
and she gives birth to a son, all within a matter of hours- what does
this child want from Troi and the crew of the Enterprise? The season opener
also introduced the sage like character of Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), who
served as bartender in the Enterprise’s new lounge Ten Forward. In the
episode Where Silence Has Lease, the Enterprise becomes
trapped in an empty void and subject to an unknown entity’s experiments
with the concept of mortality. In Elementary, Dear Data,
a holodeck fantasy in which Data gets to play Sherlock Holmes has the
potential to destroy the Enterprise, when the ship’s computer creates
an adversary capable of defeating the android. The Outrageous Okona
is a roguish space trader in need of repairs that accepts the Enterprise’s
offer of help, but soon after he comes on board, factions from two rival
planets arrive- each claiming the right to arrest him. The episode also
includes a secondary story in which Data tries to cultivate a sense of
humor through the use of a holodeck-generated comedian.
Disc
two contains the episodes Loud as a Whisper, The Schizoid
Man, Unnatural Selection and A Matter of Honor.
Loud as a Whisper features a deaf and dumb mediator, who
is brought in by the Enterprise to settle a planetary civil war; however,
when the individuals through which the mediator telepathically communicates
are killed- the entire peace process is thrown into jeopardy. In The
Schizoid Man, Data begins acting strangely after encountering
dying scientist Ira Graves; however, the Enterprise crew quickly discovers
the reason- Graves transferred his intellect to the android’s body in
a bid for immortality. Unnatural Selection begins with the
Enterprise answering a distress call from another starship; however, when
they arrive they find that the entire crew of the other ship has died
of old age. Tracing the contamination back to its point of origin, Dr.
Pulaski becomes infected when she tries to help some of contamination’s
other victims. A Matter of Honor is certainly one of the
season’s highlights, with its story of Commander Riker agreeing to participate
in an officer exchange program and serving on board a Klingon vessel.
As Riker adapts to the Klingon code of honor, a situation arises that
could force a conflict between the Klingon ship and the Enterprise- one
which will test his loyalties to both ships.
Disc
three contains the episodes The Measure of a Man, The
Dauphin, Contagion and The Royale.
The Measure of a Man is another of the season’s highlights
in which Lt. Cmdr. Data’s rights of self-determination are brought into
question. Is Data the property of Starfleet and obligated to participate
in a risky experiment to create other androids, or is he an individual
and guaranteed the rights of any other federation citizen? To answer this
question, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) must turn to the local
JAG Officer, who just happens to be the woman that served as prosecutor
in his Court Martial over the loss of his previous ship the Stargazer.
The Dauphin finds Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton)
in his first romantic encounter with a young planetary leader, whom the
Enterprise is ferrying home. However, Wesley soon learns that this beautiful
girl and her overprotective bodyguard are not exactly what they appear
to be. In Contagion, the Enterprise witnesses the destruction
of its sister ship the Yamato, which became infected by a computer virus
created by a long dead alien civilization. However, before its destruction,
the Enterprise crew is able to download the Yamoto’s logs, which unfortunately
leaves the Enterprise also infected. The Royale opens with
the Enterprise encountering a piece of a spacecraft launched from Earth
in the 21st Century. Their effort to locate the rest of the craft leads
the Enterprise to a deserted planet, where several crewmembers find themselves
trapped in a recreation of a hotel that would appear to be based on a
centuries old pulp novel.
Disc
four contains the episodes Time Squared, The Icarus
Factor, Pen Pals and Q Who?. Captain
Picard meets his double in Time Squared- with the disoriented
doppelganger arriving from six hours in the future, in a shuttlecraft
whose logs indicate that the captain was the only survivor of the recently
destroyed starship Enterprise. In The Icarus Factor, Commander
Riker is offered a ship of his own and finds himself face to face with
his estranged father, a man with whom he has a deep-seated resentment.
The plot of Pen Pals finds Data unintentionally breaking
the Prime Directive by contacting a young girl on an endangered world;
however, after much debate, the crew of the Enterprise determines that
they should do what they can to help stabilize the girl’s home planet.
Q Who? is another of the second season’s standout episodes,
one in which the omnipotent Q (John de Lancie) returns and offer his services
to Captain Picard as The Enterprise’s guide to the cosmos and their protector
from things that they are ill prepared to encounter. However, when Picard
rebuffs him, Q decides to teach Picard and all of humanity a lesson it
will never forget. Transporting the Enterprise halfway across the galaxy,
Q brings about humanity’s first encounter with The Borg- an unstoppable,
unrelenting and unremorseful alien life form that expands its sphere of
influence by assimilating other species and their technology.
Disc
five contains the episodes Samaritan Snare, Up The
Long Ladder, Manhunt and The Emissary.
Samaritan Snare finds Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge (LeVar
Burton) kidnapped by the very same slow-witted aliens to whom he offered
his assistance in repairing their malfunctioning ship. Meanwhile, Captain
Picard faces life-threatening surgery when he must have his malfunctioning
artificial heart repaired. In Up The Long Ladder, the Enterprise
must rescue two diverse groups of colonists from the unstable star in
their solar system. Although starting out together, one group has returned
to an agricultural way of life, while the other has resorted to cloning
to maintain its society. Manhunt marks to return of Counselor
Troi’s mother Lwaxana (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry), who has marriage on
her mind and Captain Picard in her crosshairs. However, Picard retreats
to the holodeck, where he hides from Lwaxana Troi in the world of a Dixon
Hill adventure. In The Emissary, an all but forgotten Klingon
sleeper ship is due to emerge from hibernation. Because the crew of the
sleeper ship went into hibernation while there were still hostilities
between the Federation and The Klingon Empire, the Klingons dispatch an
emissary to the Enterprise to help deal with the ship and protect the
long-standing peace that now exists between the two powers. As fate would
have it, the emissary turns out to be an infuriating woman whom Lt. Worf
(Michael Dorn) was once romantically involved.
Disc
six contains the episodes Peak Performance and Shades
of Gray. Peak Performance finds the crew of the
Enterprise preparing for the pending Borg threat by participating in a
battle simulation with a derelict starship captained by Commander Riker.
However, the unexpected arrival of a Ferengi vessel threatens both ships,
when the Enterprise’s weaponry becomes locked in simulation mode. Closing
out season two is Shades of Gray, which has been referred
to as a "cheap clip show" by more than a few of the series’
fans. The plot concerns Commander Riker being infected by an organism
that attacks his nervous system. After much trial and error Dr. Pulaski
discovers the only effective treatment is to stimulate Riker’s memories-
hence the clips from past episodes that pad out the running time of the
season finale.
Paramount
Home Entertainment has made all of the episodes from STAR TREK: THE
NEXT GENERATION SEASON TWO available on DVD in their proper full screen
aspect ratios of their original broadcasts. Like the episodes from season
one, the presentation on DVD does improve upon how the episodes look in
syndicated broadcasts and on Laserdisc, but problems do remain. Because
the show’s special effects and post production work was completed in the
video realm and not on film, these sequences display weaknesses in the
form of video noise and shimmer in every episode. Again, the only remedy
for this situation would entail having every episode’s postproduction
work redone in high definition. Another inconsistency is the amount of
film grain that crops up from time to time in just about every episode,
but this too is a result of the show’s budgetary constraints and the show’s
postproduction work.
For
the most part the episodes look pretty darn good and do show a marginal
improvement over those from season one. The level of sharpness and detail
can fluctuate within episodes from very crisp to mildly soft, but the
image always remains highly watchable. Colors tend to be strongly rendered,
but there are some moments where the hues do appear a bit subdued. Flesh
tones usually look natural, although, like season one, they sometimes
have a propensity to come off as a bit too red. Blacks are very solid
looking and the image has pretty good contrast. Of course, there is certain
flatness to the photography of episodic television shows, which remains
evident here. Although there are four forty-six minute episodes per DVD,
clean dual layer authoring keeps digital compression artifacts from becoming
noticeable.
As
with season one, all of the episodes in the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
SEASON TWO DVD collection have been upgraded to Dolby Digital 5.1
sound mixes. The 5.1 channel sound is a definite improvement over the
standard Dolby Surround mixes that were part of the original broadcasts
and Laserdisc releases. While the forward soundstage still dominates,
channel separation is cleaner and better defined across the front. The
rear channels provide a good level of ambient sounds and musical fill.
Engine rumble and the occasional whoosh of a passing space ship are the
most effective uses of the surround channels. Dialogue reproduction is
clean and fully intelligible, which doesn’t always help with some of the
show’s techno-babble. I have to say that STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
was a well-recorded show for the late 1980s, which is evidenced in the
solid fidelity of these new sound mixes. Additionally, the bass channel
provides each show with a rather punchy bottom end- so don’t spare the
amplification while watching the episodes. English Dolby Surround soundtracks
are also encoded onto the DVDs, as are English subtitles.
Full
motion video, animation and sound serve to enhance the DVD’s interactive
menus, which utilize an interface reminiscent of the Enterprise’s computer
systems. Through the menus, one has access to individual episodes and
scene selection within the episodes, as well as each disc’s set up features.
Disc six’s menus also provide access to the set’s supplementary materials.
Under the title of Mission Logs, one will find the following
programs: Mission Overview, Selected Crew Analysis,
Starfleet Archives, Departmental Briefings: Production
and Memorable Missions. Mission Overview runs
fifteen minutes and looks at the changes the show underwent during its
second season, including cast changes and the addition of a major new
set. Running fourteen minutes is the Selected Crew Analysis,
which features interviews with the cast and creative team, who discuss
the development of the characters across the second season. Clocking in
at seventeen minutes is the Starfleet Archives section,
which is a detailed look behind the scenes at the various props and models
use in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, as well as in the theatrical
films. The Production section of Departmental Briefings
clocks in at eighteen minutes and offers a look behind-the-scenes at all
the work that went into creating the second season episodes. Memorable
Missions runs about seventeen minutes and lets the cast and crew
of the series pick out their favorite moments from the second season.
With
a larger budget and better scripts, the second season of STAR TREK:
THE NEXT GENERATION is certainly stronger than the first. Of course,
some will claim it was too short a season and the "cheap clip
show" season finale left a lot to be desired. Still, there were enough
standout episodes produced during the second season of STAR TREK: THE
NEXT GENERATION to make it clear that the show had genuinely found
its voice. Paramount’s DVD box set looks and sounds better than syndicated
broadcasts and offers fans the convenience of having the episodes available
at their fingertips. Without question, the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
SEASON TWO DVD collection is something fans of the series will definitely
want to own. Personally, I love having television shows in season-by-season
box sets, and in particular, I love Paramount’s accelerated release schedule,
which will make the entire seven-year run of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
available before the end of 2002. One final thought, watching this boxed
set has got me really psyched for season three- I can’t wait for it to
arrive!
