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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy/Television |
Format | Box set, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Blu-ray, Subtitled, Full Screen, Dubbed, Widescreen |
Contributor | Whoopi Goldberg, LeVar Burton, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 6 |
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Product Description
Season Three of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION took televised science fiction storytelling to new heights. Now, on high definition Blu-ray, the seminal season of this beloved series is more spectacular and compelling to watch than ever.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 10655409545
- Media Format : Box set, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Blu-ray, Subtitled, Full Screen, Dubbed, Widescreen
- Run time : 19 hours and 41 minutes
- Release date : April 30, 2013
- Actors : Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Frakes
- Dubbed: : French, German, Italian, Japanese
- Subtitles: : Swedish, French, Japanese, Italian, German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish
- Studio : Paramount
- ASIN : B00B7VZN76
- Number of discs : 6
- Best Sellers Rank: #14,463 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #293 in Science Fiction Blu-ray Discs
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$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.
Don't get me wrong, the entire series IS fun and seasons 3 and beyond have their appreciable values as well; but they are a change...
Evolution: A terrific season opener that reintroduces Dr Crusher with aplomb. Wesley starting the problem is a big boost too.
The Ensigns of Command: Another home-run with this entry of Picard having his hands full; fighting a stolid species of inflexible corporate bugs while finding means to persuade a bunch of colonists to vacate the planet that the inflexible corporate bugs claim ownership too. Very good story indeed!
The Survivors: An oddball, but highly enjoyable and well cast. Especially if you've never been keen on Troi.
Who Watches the Watchers: Badly dated and preachy, but it's got enough set pieces to remain worthy.
The Bonding: I think, as with When the Bough Breaks, this one features kids on it as a result of a candy bar write-in contest... It's a bit soapy, and why the alien wants to cajole one little kid seems silly...
Booby Trap: Shades of season 2, but this one is back on form with good ideas; especially with seeding an idea to be followed up next season. Though, in reality, the ship caught in the trap would not survive a thousand years...
The Enemy: Utterly perfect, with one problem: No Vulcan, a race that is a blood-brother to the Romulans, has the blood type needed to save the captured Romulan - yet Worf, a Klingon - is the sole person who CAN save this Romulan?! Talk about shoehorning rubbish science into a scenario that's otherwise excellent, even with the silly uberdrama... Maybe he should donate some blood and have it transfused into a poodle and see if the poodle survives. That's what it boils down to.
The Price: Even today, the romance subplot is heavyhanded, but the Ferengi get just desserts with their meddling. :D
The Vengeance Factor: Well done story about blood feud.
The Defector: I used to love this one, but rewatching it reveals the uberdrama petty soap opera it sadly is. It DOES have potential and a few surprise twists, but Picard taking all that time to instill excess drama into a situation that warrants fast response? At that point I'd be cheering for the opposing team!!
The Hunted: A decent parallel to Vietnam vets; and hasn't dated much by today's standards either.
The High Ground: Whew boy. This anti-terrorism story doesn't fit well today. It's too one-sided...
Deja Q: Another Q episode. How can't it be good?! CLASSIC! Q becomes human and the interplay with the crew is classic. Especially when Guinan hears about the development... Picard saving Q's bacon by the end is to be expected, but well handled.
A Matter of Perspective: Pity we didn't have that in the terrorism story. :rolleyes: This one is far worse for having it... best left forgotten.
Yesterday's Enterprise: Classic. Nice to see Yar back. Also sets up a concept to be revived later on, which all things considered is brilliant.
The Offspring: Remake of "The Measure of a Man" and the story, much like Lal, self-destructs because it's 100% derivative.
Sins of the Father: Continues the Worf saga. Until season 6 then DS9, this saga is fun.
Allegience: Preachy and predictable, but has some nice set pieces.
Captain's Holiday: More Ferengi? A few nice set pieces and comedic moments, but naah...
Tin Man: Another classic. Reuses some f/x from Star Trek The Motion Picture, but it's easy to relate to Tam and especially To the Tin Man entity.
Hollow Pursuits: Unworthy of any spite accorded to it; and Dwight Schultz is inspired casting. great story on a man who isn't like the rest of us. Pity we don't get more background info on him, but it is highly underrated.
The Most Toys: Another well-handled gem. The toy collector getting his just desserts in the end, too... Great Data-centric story.
Sarek: A plot so good that it got reused in Deep Space 9... Sarek comes aboard and Picard mindmelds because Sarek is past his prime... also sets up for a later story too...
Menage a Troi: garbage.
Transfigurations: An anti-xenophobia story. A typical entry but has its momenets.
Best of Both Worlds: A bit soapy at times, but there's no real reason to even begin to dislike it. The Borg never improved after this story (apart from a novel released in 1991 that isn't considered canon...)
In short, the show has never looked better. The rescanning from the original 35mm film stock of the series, coupled with the computer- and manually-based retouching of that rescan has resulted in a production that you would swear you had never seen before. I’ve commented on what I call the “80’s brown” that seemed to lightly layer across the entire series when it was broadcast for the first time on TV, and that, to me, in spite of the superlative effects of ILM and the obvious work put into the art and design of every aspect of the show, almost seemed to “date” the show right as it was broadcast. Sometimes, to me, the show screamed: “This is the 1980’s!”
Well, that’s all gone now. The rescan and remastering is so good, so well executed, and so superbly crafted that the show looks like it could have been filmed just last week, as opposed to a quarter of a century ago. Uniforms jump out at you. Detail is everywhere. Blacks are deep and rich and colors pop from amongst them. Even equipment which, obviously the product of a 1980’s mindset trying to look futuristic actually do now look futuristic! And dare I repeat it: the resolution and detail is simply incredible. To watch this new release on Blu-Ray is to experience the show as never before, making it a completely new experience even for those who endlessly watched the reruns of the syndicated content in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Let’s just say this again: this is not just some slap-happy re-release on the next “fad” media: this is a complete renovation of the show’s appearance that is startlingly good.
A number of fans point to Season Three as one of the best, if not the best, season of the entire run. I’m not sure I can say that with any certainty myself, as STTNG struck me as excellently done from beginning to end. But there is no doubt that this season has some truly amazing episodes in it. There are huge surprises in store for the watcher, and threats never before introduced at any point in the Star Trek franchise to date. There is a more relaxed use of comedy, too, and characters are further extended as both the actors and the production staff and the writers more fully understand and mold what each character represents within the show. It’s a great season, one that everyone on the show was proud to produce, and it is best enjoyed only if you have been able to watch the first two seasons in order first.
The cost of these episodes, too, has come down, which makes the whole thing more feasible, and they go on sale sometimes, as well. And while I am relatively certain we are going to turn right around and see this content re-released with the 4000-line resolution technology recently introduced, this won’t be for many years, and, quite frankly, the reproduction quality is now so high that we might not want to see more resolution than what we have here. So, I can’t give this anything less than my highest recommendation. To watch it is to see it as though you never saw it before. There are some good bonus features, too, including lots of voice commentaries and so on, and these are great, but the real value is in the technical quality of the release, one that will be impossible to miss. Five stars.
As far as the DVD's go, they arrived well packaged, and in perfect condition, and it's season 3 of Star Trek TNG.... What's not to love :)
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Staffel 2 hatte keine Ton-Probleme und bessere Menüs, aber das Bild hat einen deutlichen Rückschritt gegenüber der ersten Staffel gemacht, teils auf Grund des damals gewählten Filmmaterials, teils auf Grund der schlechteren Arbeit des Remastering-Teams HTV und wegen der mangelnden Qualitätskontrolle seitens CBS.
Beide Staffeln waren inhaltlich manchmal wegweisend ("Measure of a man"), manchmal grausam schlecht ("Justice", "Up the long ladder"). Insgesamt gab es also 2 an sich tolle Produkte mit viel neuem und interessantem Bonusmaterial, die aber unbestreitbar ihre Probleme hatten.
Genau wie damals beim Dreh der Serie hat man aber nun mit Staffel 3 wirklich zum ersten Mal durch und durch erstklassige Arbeit abgeliefert!
Inhaltlich wurde die Serie mit Staffel 3 deutlich besser. Als Beispiel möchte ich hier die Folgen "The Offspring" und "Who Watches The Watchers?" erwähnen, die wirklich auf halbwegs glaubhafte und, im ersten Fall, wirklich rührende und zugleich humorvolle Art und Weise neue Möglichkeiten erforschen, also im Kern von Science-Fiction liegen. Hier wurde das "One hour morality play" zelebriert, wobei Patrick Stewart mit seinen Erfahrungen mit Shakespeare Stücken der ideale Schauspieler war. Und Humor gibt es auch in der Folge "Hollow Pursuits", welche vom "Doppelleben" des Reginald Barclays, gespielt von Dwight Schultz und natürlich berühmt durch seinen "H.M Murdock" aus "A-Team", handelt. Die Holodeck-Varianten von Picard, Data, Troi und nicht zuletzt Riker sind einfach urkomisch! Über die Cliffhanger-Folge "Best Of Both Worlds" brauche ich wohl nichts mehr schreiben. Spannend und visuell ansprechend. Kommt gut im Double-Feature mit StarTrek 8!
Insgesamt gibt es nur wenige wirklich schlechte Folgen ("Allegiance" hat mir nicht gefallen)!
Das Bild ist wahnsinnig gut! Ignoriert man einfach mal die Kritiker, die immer noch nicht verstanden haben, dass eine Breitbild-Umsetzung zu teuer und zu aufwändig (und vielleicht nicht mal möglich) ist, und eine künstliche Streckung auf 16:9 mit so gut wie jedem BluRay-Fernseher-Setup möglich ist, dann bekommt man hier ein scharfes Bild mit gut funktionierender Kompression und sehr frischen und glänzenden Farben, dass zudem noch deutlich homogener vom Rauschen bzw. Filmkorn daherkommt, als es noch in Staffel 1 und insbesondere in Staffel 2 der Fall war. Dabei fällt dann immer wieder der Produktionswert, der damals in die Serie gesteckt wurde, auf. Michael Westmores Make-up Arbeit z.B. wurde nicht umsonst schon mal mit dem Oscar (Die Maske) belohnt, und die Effekt-Arbeit kann sich dank der damaligen Modell-Technik kombiniert mit heutiger Digitaltechnik wirklich sehen lassen. Der Unterschied zwischen Season 2 und 3 ist teilweise wie Tag und Nacht, und das geradezu wörtlich. Hatte der Borg-Cube in "Q-Who?" in Staffel 2 noch einen sehr flachen Look mit recht langweiligem, recht hellem, lighting pass, so bekommt er in "Best Of Both Worlds" viel mehr Tiefe und deutlich interessantere und detailliertere Beleuchtung. Das hat insbesondere mit den unterschiedlichen Philosophien der damaligen Effekt-Leute Dan Curry ("Q-Who?") und Robert Legato ("Best Of Both Worlds") zu tun, wobei ersterer auch mit HTV am Remastering gearbeitet hat. Hätte man Legato rangelassen, hätte man schon für Season 2 die Chance genutzt, den Borg-Cube im Remastering mehr an die Variante aus "Best Of Both Worlds" anzupassen. Besonderes bildtechnisches Highlight ist die Folge "Yesterday's Enterprise". Die alte Enterprise "C" sieht unglaublich gut aus, und die kontrastreichere und insgesamt dunklere Set-Beleuchtung kommt im neuen farbkorrigierten HD-Bild einfach genial rüber.
Insgesamt kommt das Bild vielleicht nicht an neue Hochglanzproduktionen aus den letzten 3 bis 4 Jahren heran, aber Serien von 200x, insbesondere Star Trek Enterprise und dessen Blu-Ray-Veröffentlichung, werden locker in die Tasche gesteckt, und das trotz des Bildformates. So muss das sein!
Zum neuen HD 7.1 Ton wurde schon viel bei Staffel 1 und 2 geschrieben, was man eigentlich so stehen lassen kann. Selbst wenn man keine Surround-Anlage besitzt, lohnt es sich, diese Tonspur zu wählen. Sie ist zwar vom Grundniveau etwas leiser, aber deutlich klarer und dynamischer. Die Serie klingt viel frischer, insbesondere im Vergleich zum muffigen deutschen Ton. Zwar waren die Synchronsprecher damals insgesamt gut, aber es lohnt sich hier wirklich für jeden, der des Englischen mächtig ist, sich die Serie im O-Ton anzuschauen.
Abgerundet wird das Set durch das alte und neue Bonusmaterial. Leider gibt es auch in Season 3 wieder viel Redundanz zwischen Dokumentation und Audio-Kommentaren. Der Fokus liegt dabei, angesichts der damaligen Lage, verständlicherweise klar auf der Screenwriter-Fraktion Ira Steve Behr, Ron Moore und nicht zuletzt dem damals neuen Chef Michael Piller. Sind die Audiokommentare recht interessant, so wird leider vieles von dem, was die Autoren in diesen Kommentaren zum Besten geben, in dem Feature "In the writer's room" wiederholt. So ist mein persönliches Highlight bei den Audiokommentaren der von David Carson zu "Yesterday's Enterprise", obwohl der bereits 2008 auf DVD erschien. Insgesamt sind die Audiokommentare und die neuen HD-Features trotzdem ein interessanter Mehrwert für Trekkies, die man nicht verpassen sollte. Und es macht auch einfach Spaß, mit anzusehen, wie sich die Screenwriter in dem bereits angesprochenen "In the writer's room"-Feature humorvoll über ihre alte Arbeit austauschen. Rührend ist das Tribute-Feature für den 2005 verstorbenen Michael Piller, welches auch vielsagend in Hinblick auf den Vergleich mit dem neuen "JJ-Abrams-Trek" ist.
Einziger klarer Kritikpunkt: Die damaligen CG-Tests, die man im Zuge des Remasterings gefunden hat, gibt es nur als Best-Buy exclusive SD-Feature! Die Absicht dieser Politik ist klar, aber es ist einfach eine Schande, solche Aufnahmen dem Großteil der Welt nicht zur Verfügung zu stellen und denen, die Zugang haben, nur eine halbgare SD-Variante aufzutischen! Man kann nur hoffen, dass dieses Feature irgendwann noch in HD auf BluRay kommt.
Fazit: Wer hier als Trekkie mit der Möglichkeit, BluRays zu schauen, nicht zugreift, ist selbst schuld. Die HD-Umsetzung stellt im Bereich der Serien-Remasters zurzeit die absolute Referenz dar, an der sich viele zukünftige Umsetzungen alter Serien messen müssen. Über den Preis kann man natürlich diskutieren, gerade im Vergleich zu dem, was man in den USA oder in Italien für das Set bezahlen muss, aber mir ist die Box jeden Cent der 55 Euro, die ich hier bei Amazon bezahlt habe, wert. Absolute Kaufempfehlung!!!