Star Trek TNG; 7 seasons, which 1 to get?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, March 31, 2005 17:29
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CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:20 PM

I did pick up the Jean- Luc Picard collection, 7 really good (and great) eps from all seasons, and while the shows are top notch, it seems to me the transfers are somewhat, I dunno...they look soft, as if the series was shot on film, then transferred to video for editing and effects, and the dvd is using that video, not film, master.
Is this the case?
Does anyone else have any problem with TNG on dvd?
This is the first time I've seen the series on dvd, however, the movies look fabulous...(especially First Contact)

I wouldn't even think of shelling out a C-note for a whole season if it's the same quality as the Picard Collection, but for $22 I won't complain about that one.

Live Long and Keep Shiny

Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:26 PM

Hey, don't say anything bad about ENTERPRISE, it's not a bad show, it just has totally the wrong look for a series that predates the original, and tends to ignore the Trek timeline, and tells stories that are derivitive, and...

okay. it's not so good....

But Scott is cool!

Chrisisall

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:44 PM

2 and 3 are the only seasons I really like, and I felt it went downhill after that. Not the popular opinion, I know, but it seems like they took more risks in the early episodes and were experimenting with arc-building. From season 4 on, I felt all serious attempts at developing characters were abandoned in favor of stand-alone stories. Many of those stand-alone episodes were very good, but ultimately left me thinking "so what?" at the end.

"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb

EMBERS

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I did pick up the Jean- Luc Picard collection,

oh, do they have a Data Collection?
because I really want to own the episode when Data
creates his daughter...

TODDAS

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:47 PM

I'm a trekker first, and a browncoat only somewhere thereafter.

I could probably find a lot more flaws with trek than with ff, but also a lot more things that I like better. Though I don't really like to compare them seeing how they are so different.

DS9 is my fave trek.

HJERMSTED

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by spikeandjezebel:
2 and 3 are the only seasons I really like ... it seems like they took more risks in the early episodes and were experimenting with arc-building.

That makes sense. Season 2 happened during a TV writer's strike. Scab writers were brought in to crank out episodes so there may have been a less rigid environment in the interest of getting screenplays before the camera. Halting production wasn't an option for I believe it would have voided the seven year contracts the key actors had signed.

mattro

CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:29 PM

Oh, eventually they'll have a Wesley Crusher collection, it's all a matter of time.
I'm lookin' foward to a Borg collection myself...

Chrisisall

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