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Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Second Season
Description:
To the delight of Star Trek fans everywhere, the stellar second
season of The Next Generation (1988-89) belonged to Lieutenant Commander
Data. As the Enterprise-D's resident android, Data (in the Emmy-worthy
hands of Brent Spiner) would gain legal sentience in the season
highlight "The Measure of a Man," and his increasingly
"human" personality would refine itself in such diverse
episodes as "Elementary, Dear Data" (Data as Sherlock
Holmes), "The Outrageous Okona" (a misfire, but worthy
from the Data perspective), and "Pen Pals." While Gates
McFadden (Dr. Crusher) took a sabbatical of then-unknown duration
(gracefully replaced by original Trek guest star Diana Muldaur as
Dr. Pulaski), the remaining bridge crew would match Data's vitality:
Riker grew a handsome beard and proved his command potential; Worf
became richly nuanced in "The Icarus Factor," and met
his match (and mate) in guest Suzie Plakson's fiercely Klingon sexpot
K'Ehleyr; Wesley matured admirably, despite continuing fan disapproval;
Betazed culture emerged as Troi locked horns with her eccentric
mother, Lwaxana (Majel Barrett, in a recurring role); and La Forge
made good on his promotion to chief engineer while Chief O'Brien
(Colm Meaney) flawlessly rode on Geordi's coattails.
In a crucial series development, Guinan (special guest Whoopi Goldberg)
revealed a connection to Q in her helpful capacity as Ten-Forward's
enigmatic host, while Q himself (John DeLancie) precipitated the
Enterprise's first, fateful encounter with the Borg (in the suspenseful
"Q Who?"). Through it all, Patrick Stewart brilliantly
intensified all of Picard's renaissance qualities (especially in
the dazzling "Time Squared"), exploring the captain's
facets with equal measures of curiosity, fascination, amusement,
courage, and philosophical insight. Despite its lame finale with
the money-saving clip-show "Shades of Gray," season 2
charted a warp-nine course to the even better season 3. --Jeff
Shannon
Product Details:
Starring: Patrick Stewart
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Box set, Dolby
Rated: NR
Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Features:
Broadcast episodes of the entire second season (1988-89)
17 hours on 6 DVDs
Over one hour of new exclusive featurettes: Mission Overview: Year
Two (cast & crew discuss the major changes in season two; includes
interviews with Gene Roddenberry), Selected Crew Analysis: Year
Two (an in-depth look at the growth of continuing characters, plus
a look at new crew members), Departmental Briefing, Year Two: Production
(behind-the-scenes look at specific key episodes, including interviews
with production staff), Departmental Briefing, Year Two: Memorable
Missions (second-season episode discussions with production crew,
including Rick Berman), Inside Starfleet Archives (an exclusive
tour of an extraordinary array of Star Trek sets, props, and much
more)
Number of discs: 6
From IMDb: Quotes & Trivia
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