Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fifth Season
by Jonathan Frakes, Chip Chalmers, Cliff Bole, Corey Allen, David Carson
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Actor: Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Patrick StewartDirector: Chip Chalmers, Cliff Bole, Corey Allen, David Carson, Jonathan Frakes
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1183 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fifth Season
DVD Review: The downfall begins; gets worse later on too...
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVDs themselves are of good quality; I've rented many seasons' worth and reminded myself which stories throughout the run were good and which were not...
$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.
Season 5 really hits home with its depletion of cool sci-fi concepts, in lieu of more drivel drama, preachy society-parallels, and stereotypes. And technobabble to make everybody think the show is sci-fi anyway. And then there's the music. Interesting music scores are replaced by what sounds like near-identical stock music for every single episode!!! It grated very quickly and did NOTHING to help the quality of ANY of the stories... it's dated badly too.
Redemption II: Data seems to react very angrily toward prejudice aimed at him... and by 1992, making a 2D tachyon web is asinine when the Romulans can see the thing - and conceivable use WARP DRIVE AND GO AROUND IT IN A MATTER OF SECONDS. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Darmok: Ignore that the alien language is just a mucked-up Yodafied English and the premise is noble.
Ensign Ro: The producers finally figure it out that some friction on the Enterprise may be a good thing after all. But the subplot is about as trite as anything they could find; occuptation of a malignant enemy. Ro is a Bajoran and her enemy are the Cardassians... Ro has potential...
Silicon Avatar: Let's shatter the crystal for good; complete with huge tear-shedding subplot over the mother of a victim of the Silicon Entity that Lore used to destroy the Omicron colony... (Datalore) She transposes Lore for Data and just doesn't seem to get it. And while the story is uber-preachy and far-fetched in its bubble-like dreamland, her decision to destroy the wretched crystal was the correct one.
Disaster: More scientific inaccuracies and lamentable drivel-laden dialogue make this a disaster. Movin' on. (Ds9 has a similarly themed story too...)
The Game: Wesley's first reappearance is well handled. A stock "Wesley saves the day because Riker got it on with an alien babe of the week" plot, it's well handled - and a better anti-drug message to boot. (they seem to do better when they DON'T try.)
Unification: Part 1 is overly long; part 2 is the entertaining part. Especially with "cowboy diplomacy" that made it clear Berman and his production team were never keen on Kirk's era. (so why they had to bring back Kirk-era aliens, ideas, and crewmembers to bring in ratings remains a mystery... well, not really...)
A Matter of Time: Matt Frewer hams it up in a half-decent use of time travel. Unfortunately, the gibber about CO2 is as ridiculous as it gets... and it's a core element to the story. Ugh.
New Ground: Worf subplot continues, though at this point it probably shouldn't have.
Hero Worship: Candy bar winner of the year, come on down and pretend to be like Data!
Violations: A GREAT story; the second I can properly recommend, apart from The Game. Very well done. Even the music isn't as annoying as it should be.
The Masterpiece Society: Uberpreachy and ridiculous to the core; sometimes people HAVE to change in order to survive. It seems our oh-so-noble Picard would rather have let the people die, saying "Waaah, we shouldn't have broken the prime directive"?! What a steaming pile this waste of celluloid is.
Conundrum: Well, it tries. An alien manipulates the Enterprise crew in an attempt to wipe out an enemy. (with mental powers so great, why involve anyone else at all?)
Power Play: Bad music hampers what is actually a decent action-based plot, particularly given the low nature of season 5; incorporeal aliens taking over bodies as they desire escape from a situation they're trapped in.
Ethics: UGH! As usual, when logic and the reality of risk-taking doesn't work, make stupid adjustments and contrivances to have it your way because your point of view is so much better, no thought is allowed... Apparently, Worf has two brains too. :rolleyes:
The Outcast Society: Hmmm, the "bold" attempt at a pro-GLBT story has a bunch of sexless nitwits wanting to act like... HETEROSEXUALS?! Even Jonathan Frakes has said he'd have preferred the androgynous person being "male" instead of "female". (right on!!) As usual, TNG does it best when they don't try to make social parallels: Picard in "Encounter at Farpoint" gets it right when saying "If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." Besides, Berman never realized that Trek was about the human condition. Not being preachy to an audience that obviously can't handle the topic as they had to go so far out of their way to make the topic as shrouded in as much abject doublespeak inanity as possible.
Cause and Effect: Another time travel type plot, this one takes us inside the bottle. A+++ for perspective. C- for being repetitive; it is not enough material for 44 minutes; most of us had figured it out by act 2 anyway.
The First Duty: Another moral piece; but Wesley is true to form. I have a soft spot for it, however.
Cost of Living: I dunno if I should laugh or cry... Lwaxana introduced Alexander to the wild side of life and Worf thinks that she's got no business in dealing with Alexander. Whatever, I may as well tune into a 2PM soap opera and get the same drivel...
The Perfect Mate: I don't recall it, except it's got a love interest for Picard that wasn't to be his... somewhat fun as I recall...
Imaginary Friend: Another candy bar promotion winner? Either way, this one is fun and I don't know why. Others may or may not. Kids will love it, regardless.
I, Borg: Oh good. Have even Guinan shed a tear for these Borg monsters... the net result of which being a bigger embarrassment, but that's next season... "Vendetta" (the non-canon book) did a great job at continuing the Borg saga. But I, Borg onward... puerile preachy garbage.
The Next Phase: Sci-fi concepts, action, Romulan trechary? yeah, there are some science logic gaffes but they're easy to ignore because this one is such a breath of fresh air! The Geordi/Ro interaction is terrific too. Highly underrated!
The Inner Light: Overrated; I never saw what's so great about this... of course, if it's the life Picard wanted to have instead then I can see the merit... it's just not my thing.
Time's Arrow: I don't remember this one; except thinking it was all uneventful and uninspired.
All in all, the show has clearly gone downhill; but a few gems still remain. Does the trend continue? And will it turn around?
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