Звездный путь. Следующее поколение. Сезоны 1-7 (США / 1987)
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Seasons 1-7
В ролях:
Марк Ленард,
Никки Кокс,
Марина Сиртис,
Гейтс МакФадден,
Майкл Дорн,
ЛеВар Бертон,
Брент Спайнер,
Джонатан Фрэйкс,
Уил Уитон,
Мэдхен Эмик,
Рэй Уайз,
Шона ОБрайен,
Теодор Байкель,
Пол Сорвино,
Макс Гроденчик,
Маккой Мэтт,
Стивен Хокинг,
Брайан Бонсолл,
Дуайт Шульц,
Армин Шимерман,
Цзи Ма,
Дайана Малдор,
Бэзил Уоллес,
Джон Де Лансье,
Сьюзи Плаксон,
Карел Стрюйкен,
Пол Уинфилд,
Кэри-Хироюки Тагава,
Биби Нойвирт,
Брайан Томпсон,
Лиза Уилкокс,
Винсент Скиавелли,
Патрик Стюарт,
Эд Лотер,
Вупи Голдберг,
Иэн Аберкромби,
Сеймур Кассел,
Ронни Кокс,
Леон Риппи,
Фамке Янссен,
Билл Кэмпбелл,
Тери Хэтчер,
Вито Ругинис,
Ричард Линч,
Колм Мини,
Эшли Джадд,
Джули Уорнер,
Дениз Кросби,
Трэйси Уолтер,
Кирстен Данст,
Ноубл Уиллингем,
Оливия ДАбо,
Андреас Кацулас,
Джеймс Кромвелл,
Кен Дженкинс,
Брэд Дуриф,
Тони Тодд
After Star Wars and the successful big-screen Star Trek adventures, it's perhaps not so surprising that Gene Roddenberry managed to convince purse string-wielding studio heads in the 1980s that a Next Generation would be both possible and profitable. But the political climate had changed considerably since the 1960s, the Cold War had wound down, and we were now living in the Age of Greed. To be successful a second time, Star Trek had to change too.
A writer's guide was composed with which to sell and define where the Trek universe was in the 24th Century. The United Federation of Planets was a more appealing ideology to an America keen to see where the Reagan/Gorbachev faceoff was taking them. Starfleet's meritocratic philosophy had always embraced all races and species. Now Earth's utopian history, featuring the abolishment of poverty, was brandished prominently and proudly. The new Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, was no longer a ship of war but an exploration vessel carrying families. The ethical and ethnical flagship also carried a former enemy , and its Chief Engineer was blind and black. From every politically correct viewpoint, Paramount executives thought the future looked just swell!
Roddenberry's feminism now contrasted a pilot episode featuring ship's Counsellor Troi in a mini-skirt with her ongoing inner strengths and also those of Dr. Crusher and the short-lived Tasha Yar . The arrival of Whoopi Goldberg in season 2 as mystic barkeep Guinan is a great example of the good the original Trek did for racial groups Goldberg has stated that she was inspired to become an actress in large part through seeing Nichelle Nichols' Uhura. Her credibility as an actress helped enormously alongside the strong central performances of Patrick Stewart , Jonathan Frakes , and Brent Spiner in defining another wholly believable environment once again populated with well-defined characters. Star Trek, it turned out, did not depend for its success on any single group of actors.
Like its predecessor in the 1960s, TNG pioneered visual effects on TV, making it an increasingly jaw-dropping show to look at. And thanks also to the enduring success of the original show, phasers, tricorders, communicators and even phase inverters were already familiar to most viewers. But while technology was a useful tool in most crises, it now frequently seemed to be the cause of them too, as the show's writers continually warned about the dangers of over-reliance on technology . The word "technobabble" came to describe a weakness in many TNG scripts, which sacrificed the social and political allegories of the original and relied instead upon invented technological faults and their equally fictitious resolutions to provide drama within the Enterprise's self-contained society. This emphasis on scientific jargon appealed strongly to an audience who were growing up for the first time in the late 1980s with the home computer and gave rise to the cliched image of the nerdy Trek fan.
Like in the original Trek, it was in the stories themselves that much of the show's success is to be found. That pesky Prime Directive kept moral dilemmas afloat . More "what if" scenarios came out of time-travel episodes . And there were some episodes that touched on the political world, such as "The Arsenal of Freedom" questioning the supply of arms, "Chain of Command" decrying the torture of political prisoners and "The Defector", which was called "The Cuban Missile Crisis of The Neutral Zone" by its writer. The show ran for more than twice as many episodes as its progenitor and therefore had more time to explore wider ranging issues. But the choice of issues illustrates the change in the social climate that had occurred with the passing of a couple of decades. "Angel One" covered sexism; "The Outcast" was about homosexuality; "Symbiosis" - drug addiction; "The High Ground" - terrorism; "Ethics" - euthanasia; "Darmok" - language barriers; and "Journey's End" - displacement of Indians from their homeland. It would have been unthinkable for the original series to have tackled most of these.
TNG could so easily have been a failure, but it wasn't. It survived a writer's strike in its second year, the tragic death of Roddenberry just after Trek's 25th anniversary in 1991, and plenty of competition from would-be rival franchises. Yes, its maintenance of an optimistic future was appealing, but the strong stories and readily identifiable characters ensured the viewers' continuing loyalty.
177 episodes on 48 discs:
Season 1
01. Encounter at Farpoint
02. The Naked Now
03. Code of Honor
04. The Last Outpost
05. Where No One Has Gone Before
06. Lonely Among Us
07. Justice
08. The Battle
09. Hide and Q
10. Haven
11. The Big Goodbye
12. Datalore
13. Angel One
14. 11001001
15. Too Short a Season
16. When the Bough Breaks
17. Home Soil
18. Coming of Age
19. Heart of Glory
20. The Arsenal of Freedom
21. Symbiosis
22. Skin of Evil
23. We'll Always Have Paris
24. Conspiracy
25. The Neutral Zone
Season 2
26. The Child
27. Where Silence Has Lease
28. Elementary Dear Data
29. The Outrageous Okona
30. Loud as a Whisper
31. The Schizoid Man
32. Unnatural Selection
33. A Matter of Honor
34. The Measure of a Man
35. The Dauphin
36. Contagion
37. The Royale
38. Time Squared
39. The Icarus Factor
40. Pen Pals
41. Q Who?
42. Samaritan Snare
43. Up the Long Ladder
44. Manhunt
45. The Emissary
46. Peak Performance
47. Shades of Gray
Season 3
48. Evolution
49. The Ensigns of Command
50. The Survivors
51. Who Watches the Watchers
52. The Bonding
53. Booby Trap
54. The Enemy
55. The Price
56. The Vengeance Factor
57. The Defector
58. The Hunted
59. The High Ground
60. Deja Q
61. A Matter of Perspective
62. Yesterday's Enterprise
63. The Offspring
64. Sins of the Father
65. Allegiance
66. Captain's Holiday
67. Tin Man
68. Hollow Pursuits
69. The Most Toys
70. Sarek
71. Menage a Troi
72. Transfigurations
73. The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1
Season 4
74. The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2
75. Family
76. Brothers
77. Suddenly Human
78. Remember Me
79. Legacy
80. Reunion
81. Future Imperfect
82. Final Mission
83. The Loss
84. Data's Day
85. The Wounded
86. Devil's Due
87. Clues
88. First Contact
89. Galaxy's Child
90. Night Terrors
91. Identity Crisis
92. The Nth Degree
93. Qpid
94. The Drumhead
95. Half a Life
96. The Host
97. The Mind's Eye
98. In Theory
99. Redemption: Part 1
Season 5
100. Redemption: Part 2
101. Darmok
102. Ensign Ro
103. Silicon Avatar
104. Disaster
105. The Game
106. Unification Part: Part 1
107. Unification Part: Part 2
108. A Matter of Time
109. New Ground
110. Hero Worship
111. Violations
112. The Masterpiece Society
113. Conundrum
114. Power Play
115. Ethics
116. The Outcast
117. Cause and Effect
118. The First Duty
119. Cost of Living
120. The Perfect Mate
121. Imaginary Friend
122. I, Borg
123. The Next Phase
124. The Inner Light
125. Time's Arrow: Part 1
Season 6
126. Time's Arrow: Part 2
127. Realm of Fear
128. Man of the People
129. Relics
130. Schisms
131. True-Q
132. Rascals
133. A Fistful of Datas
134. The Quality of Life
135. Chain of Command: Part 1
136. Chain of Command: Part 2
137. Ship in a Bottle
138. Aquiel
139. Face of the Enemy
140. Tapestry
141. Birthright: Part 1
142. Birthright: Part 2
143. Starship Mine
144. Lessons
145. The Chase
146. Frame of Mind
147. Suspicions
148. Rightful Heir
149. Second Chances
150. Timescape
151. Descent: Part 1
Season 7
152. Descent: Part 2
153. Liaisons
154. Interface
155. Gambit: Part 1
156. Gambit: Part 2
157. Phantasms
158. Dark Page
159. Attached
160. Force of Nature
161. Inheritance
162. Parallels
163. The Pegasus
164. Homeward
165. Sub Rosa
166. Lower Decks
167. Thine Own Self
168. Masks
169. Eye of the Beholder
170. Genesis
171. Journey's End
172. Firstborn
173. Bloodlines
174. Emergence
175. Preemptive Strike
176. All Good Things...: Part 1
177. All Good Things...: Part 2