TV Special: Star Trek: The Next Generation at 30

A little over thirty years ago, on September 28th 1987, a re-booted Star Trek series aired its premiere episode, Encounter at Farpoint. Set almost a century after the original series ended, with a whole new crew looking to explore strange new worlds, a new ship (The Enterprise-D) and shock – a Klingon in Starfleet! Like…

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DVD Review | Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Full Journey [Disc 2]

From this point on, I am likely to review the show as I complete each disc of the box set. With that in mind, here’s what I thought of disc two, which contained: The Last Outpost, Where No One Has Gone Before, Lonely Among Us and Justice. ____________________________________________________ 1.05    The Last Outpost ____________________________________________________ Series…

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DVD Review | Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Full Journey [Part 3: ‘Code of Honor’]

Rounding out the first disc of series one, let’s hope Code of Honor is better than The Naked Now. ____________________________________________________ 1.04    Code of Honor ____________________________________________________ Whereas previous episode The Naked Now was a (pretty poor) sequel/re-telling of a classic Original Series story, Code of Honor sees the Next Gen gang dropped into an episode that feels…

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DVD Review | Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Full Journey [Part 2: ‘The Naked Now’]

Following on from the decent, but flawed pilot episode, The Next Generation crew boldly went… back to Season 1 and Episode 4 of The Original Series. Or, at least, the plot did. ____________________________________________________ 1.03    The Naked Now ____________________________________________________ The Naked Now was written as a sort of spiritual sequel or homage to one of the more memorable episodes…