Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (First Contact / Generations / Insurrection / Nemesis) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Patrick StewartBrand: Paramount
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 522 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-09-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
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- Condition: New
- Format: Blu-ray
- AC-3; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; Original recording remastered; Subtitled; Widescreen; Box set
Blu-ray Reviews of Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (First Contact / Generations / Insurrection / Nemesis) [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: The theatrical voyages of The Next Generation" crew--looks really good some new extras
Summary: 4 Stars
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"Star Trek: The Next Generation" had a mixed series of films released in the wake of the end of the TV show. This terrific Blu-ray set brings us all four films looking from extremely good to terrific looking. "Star Trek Generations" acted as a transition film between the original cast and the STTNG crew.
Soren (Malcolm McDowell)hijacks material from the Romulans to cause a sun to go nova. His purpose to alter the course of an energy ribbon where one can exist in almost a fantasy world and going backward and forward in time. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart)must face off against Soren and uses the help of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) to stop Soren, save a populated planet and his own crew from death so Soren can relive his own past.
While hardly perfect, "Generations" features a complex almost sympathetic villian as portrayed by McDowell. The Blu-ray looks extremely good with nice inky blacks, solid detail and a crisp image that doesn't suffer from overprocessing like some of the original "Star Trek" films did when they came to Blu-ray.
Extras include a marvelous commentary track by co-writer Ronald Moore ("Battlestar Galatica")and Brannon Braga ("Threshold") as well as a new commentary track by "Enterprise" co-producer/writer and "Odyssey 5" creator Manny Cotot (also "24") and director David Carson. There's also deleted scenes as well as a visual dictionary giving you definitions for many of the things in the film and about the "Trek" universe.
The best film in the series "Star Trek: First Contact" allows Picard and his crew to engage the Borg the best villian introduced on "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Picard discovers that the Borg plan on assimilating humanity in the past while at their most vunerable. Picard and the Enterprise crew survive the change of the future and travel to the past to undo the damage they've done in their attempt to prevent the first flight of Zephram Cochran (James Cromwell). Data must resist the advances of the Borg Queen (Alice Krige in a brilliant performance) who tries to use him to take over the Enterprise.
Featuring exceptional direction by cast member Jonathan Frakes "First Contact" also benefits from a first rate script by Braga and Moore again. The films allow us to see a darker side to Picard's character developing a literary parallel with Melville's MOBY DICK. The entire cast does a terrific job with the material and brings humor, pathos and a stronger sense of humanity to the characters in the film.
The extras are exceptional here. It appears that the original extras have been ported over along with a new commentary track by the writer of J.J. Abrams' next "Star Trek" film Damon Lindelof ("Lost") and Anthony Pascale that compliments Brannon and Moore's insightful, trivia filled commentary track that gives us insight into the writing process for the film. We get the majority of the special features ported over from the original (many of them in SD)including the visual effects featurettes. We also get "Industrial Light and Magic-The Next Generation", "Greetings from the International Space Station", "Spaceship One's Historic Flight","Data & Beyond", "Trek Roundtable" discussing the "Next Generation" films as well as "Library Computer" and "Star Trek IQ" with the last available only via BD Live.
"Star Trek: Insurrection" the third film fell back into TV territory in terms of scope and story. That's not a bad thing but the theatrical version of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" needed to break free of its TV origins with bigger, broader stories. Where "Insurrection" falls down is a smaller character driven story the late Michael Piller ("The Dead Zone", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") and producer Rick Berman. Director Jonathan Frakes makes the best of his material and Piller's screenplay does provide us with plenty of "character" moments that stand out in the film. The terrific character actor Anthony Zerbe("The Omega Man", "Matrix Revolutions") and Oscar winning actor F. Murray Abraham ("Amadeus")make the best of their roles. Abraham tries to chew the scenery appropriate given that his villian SHOULD be larger-than-life but he just doesn't have the material here. The film looks exceptionally good with a colorful and sharp BD transfer.
While Data is away observing an alien civilization called the Ba'ku he goes bananas revealing the observation station and not responding to commands. Picard and the Enterprise are called upon to help shut him down and discover a conspiracy to remove the Ba'ku from their planet.
The extras here are feature the original DVD materials ported over along with new material as well including a goofy, endearing if hardly informative commentary by Frakes and actress Marina Sirtis. Sirtis apparently remembers very little about the shooting of the film. We also get "Trek Roundtable" again discussing "Insurrection", "Origins of the Ba'Ku and Son'a Conflict", "Marina Sirtis: The Counselor is In" and the third part of "Data and Beyond". Again, we get "Library Computer" (not my favorite special feature) and "ST:IQ" as a BD-Live extra.
I never understood the hate directed against "Star Trek: Nemesis". It's probably the second best film in the series with a strong performance by actor Tom Hardy, Ron Perlman playing a creature once again and the examination of a number of terrific themes including family, mortality and the path not taken. The transfer itself looks extremely good if a tad overprocessed--I suspect it was pulled from an earlier HD master where a large amount of noise reduction was used as detail isn't quite as sharp although it still looks better than the DVD.
I can only surmise that the sometimes generic action direction of Stuart Baird and lack of character moments (an important element to a "Trek" film)contributed to this feeling. That along with the fact that the film is a bit revisionist--there's never been a mentionof the Romulus' sister planet Remus nor of the "slaves" working there. The other sore point for some is the fact that B-4 was introduced when most fans know that Lore was Data's prototype. Baird a talented editor elected to remove most of the character moments that endear these films to Trek fans. Those scenes are included in SD in pretty bad quality in most instances. The original extra from the two disc set are included. The screenplay by "Gladiator" writer John Logan (who also wrote "The Time Machine" remake)has a number of marvelous set pieces but it fails to add up and doesn't quite hold together as well as "First Contact".
The new extras include a commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda, HD featurettes including "Reuion with The Rikers", "Today's Tech, Tomorrow's Data", the last part of "Data and Beyond" with Brent Spiner, another "Trek Roundtable" about the film, "Robot Hall of Fame" and a "Starfleet Academy" piece on "Thalaron Radiation".
As with the other "Star Trek" boxed set we get an "extra" disc with plenty of HD content including interviews with "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" & "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" director Nicholas Meyer, the writers of J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci discussing the villians in the "Trek" universe. We also get an intersting documentary on "The Evolution of The Enterprise".
Overall, this is a very good set with two exceptionally good movies, two entertaining if less than brilliant "Trek" excursions (you decide which is which), plenty of new BD high def material, a bit of BD exclusive material and the original extras ported over from the two disc DVDs from a couple of years back. The transfers look from very good to exceptional.
"Generations" 3 1/2 stars, "First Contact" 5 stars, "Insurrection" 2 1/2 stars, "Nemesis"...well you decide what you want to give it.
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Description of Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (First Contact / Generations / Insurrection / Nemesis) [Blu-ray]
First ContactAfter an epic battle against the Borg (cybernetically-enhanced life forms), Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise follow the Borg Sphere back into the 21st century to prevent the Borg from contaminating Earth?s timeline and preventing Earth?s first contact. Picard and the crew must work together to battle the Borg Queen before she assimilates all of mankind and changes history forever. Resistance is futile.
Generations
Capt. Picard, with the help of supposedly dead Capt. Kirk, must stop a madman willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix.
Insurrection
When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation plot against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Capt. Picard begins an open rebellion.
Nemesis
After the Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan planet of Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a truce, the Federation soon find out the Romulans are planning an attack on Earth.
First Contact
Even-numbered Star Trek movies tend to be better, and First Contact (#8 in the popular movie series) is no exception--an intelligently handled plot involving the galaxy-conquering Borg and their attempt to invade Earth's past, alter history, and "assimilate" the entire human race. Time travel, a dazzling new Enterprise, and capable direction by Next Generation alumnus Jonathan Frakes makes this one rank with the best of the bunch. Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his able crew travel back in time to Earth in the year 2063, where they hope to ensure that the inventor of warp drive (played by James Cromwell) will successfully carry out his pioneering warp-drive flight and precipitate Earth's "first contact" with an alien race. A seductive Borg queen (Alice Krige) holds Lt. Data (Brent Spiner) hostage in an effort to sabotage the Federation's preservation of history, and the captive android finds himself tempted by the queen's tantalizing sins of the flesh! Sharply conceived to fit snugly into the burgeoning Star Trek chronology, First Contact leads to a surprise revelation that marks an important historical chapter in the ongoing mission "to boldly go where no one has gone before." --Jeff Shannon
Generations
There were only two ways for "classic Trek" cast members to appear in a movie with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation: either Capt. Kirk and his contemporaries would have to be very, very old, or there would be some time travel involved in the plot. Since geriatric heroes aren't very exciting (despite a welcomed cameo appearance by the aged Dr. McCoy), Star Trek: Generations unites Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a time-jumping race to stop a madman's quest for heavenly contentment. When a mysterious energy coil called the Nexus nearly destroys the newly christened U.S.S. Enterprise-B, the just-retired Capt. Kirk is lost and presumed dead. But he's actually been happily trapped in the timeless purgatory of the Nexus--an idyllic state of being described by the mystical Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) as "pure joy." Picard must convince Kirk to leave this artificial comfort zone and confront Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell), the madman who will threaten billions of lives to be reunited with the addictive pleasure of the Nexus. With subplots involving the android Data's unpredictable "emotion chip" and the spectacular crash-landing of the starship Enterprise, this crossover movie not only satisfied Trek fans, but it also gave them something they'd never had to confront before: the heroic and truly final death of a beloved Star Trek character. Passing the torch to the Next Generation with dignity and entertaining adventure, the movie isn't going to please everyone with its somewhat hokey plot, but it still ranks as a worthy big-screen launch for Picard and his stalwart crew. --Jeff Shannon
Insurrection
Star Trek fans were decidedly mixed in their reactions to this, the ninth big-screen feature in Paramount's lucrative Trek franchise, but die-hard loyalists will appreciate the way this Next Generation adventure rekindles the spirit of the original Trek TV series while combining a tolerable dose of New-Agey philosophy with a lighthearted plot for the TNG cast. This time out, Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his executive crew must transport to a Shangri-la-like planet to see why their android crewmate Data (Brent Spiner) has run amuck in a village full of peaceful Ba'ku artisans who--thanks to their planet's "metaphasic radiation"--haven't aged in 309 years.
It turns out there's a conspiracy afoot, masterminded by the devious, gruesomely aged Ru'afo (F. Murray Abraham, hamming it up under makeup resembling a cosmetic surgeon's worst nightmare), who's in cahoots with a renegade Starfleet admiral (Anthony Zerbe, in one of his final screen roles). They covet the fountain-of-youth power of the Ba'ku planet, but because their takeover plan violates Starfleet's Prime Directive of noninterference, it's up to Picard and crew to stop the scheme. Along the way, they all benefit from the metaphasic effect, which manifests itself as Worf's puberty (visible as a conspicuous case of Klingon acne), Picard's youthful romance with a Ba'ku woman (the lovely Donna Murphy), the touching though temporary return of Geordi's natural eyesight, and a moment when Troi asks Dr. Crusher if she's noticed that her "boobs are firming up."
Some fans scoffed at these humorous asides, but they're what make this Trek film as entertaining as it is slightly disappointing. Without the laughs (including Data's rousing excerpt from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore), this is a pretty routine entry in the franchise, with no real surprises, a number of plot holes, and the overall appearance of a big-budget TV episode. As costar and director, Jonathan Frakes proves a capable carrier of the Star Trek flame--and it's nice to see women in their 40s portrayed as smart and sexy--but while this is surely an adequate Trek adventure, it doesn't quite rank with the best in the series. --Jeff Shannon
NemesisThe sacrifice of a beloved character is just one of many highlights in Nemesis, the 10th feature in the lucrative Star Trek franchise. Enigmatically billed as the beginning of "A Generation's Final Journey," this richly plotted Next Generation adventure maintains the "even number rule" regarding Trek's feature quality, and it's one of the best in the series. It hits its brisk stride when Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his Enterprise-E crew encounter Shinzon (Tom Hardy), a younger clone of Picard, rejected by the Romulans as the human weapon of an abandoned conspiracy. Raised on the nocturnal Romulan sister planet Remus, Shinzon now plots revenge against Romulus and Earth but needs Picard's blood to carry out his scheme. A wedding, a childlike "duplicate" Data named B-4 (Brent Spiner), spectacular space battles, and uncommon acts of valor make this a tautly-paced action thriller, poised to pass the franchise (but not quite yet) to a new generation of Starfleet personnel. Die-hard Trekkers will not be disappointed. --Jeff Shannon
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