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Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7 & All Good Things Blu-rays
Posted September 5, 2014 02:46 PM by
Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment have announced the Blu-ray releases of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, the fan-favorite series' final season. Also revealed: All Good Things..., a standalone release of the ST:TNG series finale. Like previous seasons, the Blu-ray editions of Season 7 and All Good Things... will feature newly remastered 1080p video presentations, visual effects rebuilt from the original elements, DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround tracks and a variety of extras. Street date is December 2nd.
Season 7 Synopsis: In this Emmy-nominated final season, Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) confronts an alliance between his sinister duplicate and the unstoppable Borg, Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) guides his son in becoming a warrior, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) faces a time-shattering confrontation with the mysterious, god-like Q in a landmark finale that won science fiction's prestigious Hugo Award.
Fans will be able to discover unexpected secrets of the Star Trek universe with a rich array of special features. The final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation arrives in a 6-disc set that includes all 25 episodes remastered in high definition, as well as exclusive, brand new, never before seen bonus content. Season 7 also features many noteworthy episodes: the 2-part "Gambit," the series finale "All Good Things," and episodes directed by cast members Levar Burton, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, and Patrick Stewart.
Also, available separately, is the series finale: All Good Things..., in which Q informs Captain Picard he is to be the cause of the annihilation of Humanity. An incredible journey through time follows, from the present to the past, when Picard first took command of the Enterprise, to twenty-five years into the future. The single-disc Blu-ray comes with exclusive, brand new special features that won't be available on the Season 7 Blu-ray set.
All Good Things... Bonus Content
Audio Commentary By Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga
The Unknown Possibilities of Existence: Making "All Good Things…" (HD)
Episodic Promos (Parts 1 and 2)
Deleted Scenes (x6) (HD)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7 Bonus Content
The Sky's the Limit: The Eclipse of Star Trek: The Next Generation (HD)
In Conversation: Lensing Star Trek: The Next Generation (HD)
In Conversation: The Directors (HD)
Audio Commentary By Brannon Braga (2008)
Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation (SD)
Closed Set: A Tour of the Real Enterprise (SD)
Archival Mission Log: A Captain's Tribute (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Starfleet Moments and Memories (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Special Profiles (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Mission Overview Year Seven (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Inside Starfleet Archives: Dressing The Future (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Departmental Briefing Year Seven: Production (SD)
Archival Mission Log: The Making of "All Good Things..." (SD)
These sets have been great! My only complaint is that two part episodes that have been released in full length versions should be available on the season sets with all the extras. A minor quibble for otherwise stellar releases.
They should have done a stand-alone for Descent or Gambit instead of All Good Things, and just included the extras for AGT on the season set. There is no benefit here of making a 2 part episode into a movie. So a true double dip just for a few extras this time.
However, "All Good Things..." was initially written and broadcast as a feature-length, two-hour movie the night of the 1994 finale, so this is one TNG episode that actually DIDN'T have to undergo re-editing in order to merge two separate, discrete installments together into one (the other being "Encounter at Farpoint").
Also, this one regularly ties or tops the list of "Most Cinematic Star Trek Episode Ever Made" (its opponent usually being "The Best of Both Worlds" two-parter), which makes a standalone movie-only release very (pardon pun) logical.
And from what sources inside CBS are saying, between the original DVD extras and the newly-created VAM, the Season 7 discs are full to bursting -- apparently there's no more room for anything else. Having some of that additional content on the "All Good Things..." movie-release is definitely going to ease some of that burden (separate project-budgets for both notwithstanding).
The more I watch TNG the more I appreciate how good it was/is. We've lost a lot. TOS might have more fans but TNG brought Roddenberry's vision of an optimistic future to its zenith. The down side is that the more I watch TNG the more I realize how downhill the franchise has gone from its intellectual and aesthetic roots with the Abrams' reboot. The names may not change but there's no comparison.
(Having said that I would add that the reboot still has more "meat" and thought to it than most of the other sci-fi CGI special effects bloated megahits of today).
@BluBonnet According to Their (Star Trek) Official? Youtube Channel "TrekCore"...."At the moment, neither series has been green-lit for HD remastering. DS9 would be next if there is an approval given."-September 4th
@reidw : I don't know if I'd agree with that. I think that TNG became the great show it is when Roddenberry died and therefore writers were free to create characters with flaws, characters who made complex moral decisions and didn't always do the right thing. When Roddenberry had his hold over the franchise it was really too safe and too sterile. There are Star Trek writers who would agree with me, see the infamous City on the Edge of Forever controversy.
I certainly agree with you on Abrams' Trek though. The original Star Trek movies weren't all perfect but at least they could merge big budget special effects with good sci-fi ideas, they gave you something to think about. Abrams' Star Trek films are just a bunch of dumb, formulaic action movies like Hollywood are so fond of making these days. Like a lot of Kurtzman and Orci related projects they're using the consumers nostalgia to sell tepid and rather bland media.
It was really back at the start of Season 3 (Roddenberry passed away during the production of Season 5), when Michael Piller took over the writer's room, that the show shifted in the new direction that you mention; Gene basically relinquished creative control at that point to Piller and Berman, and only occasionally gave the infrequent note to the writing staff (also, Season 3 is approximately when his health started a precipitous downward turn).
I am happy with the standard DVD of Star Trek: The Next Generation so will not buy the blu-rays. However, I will buy Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in blu-ray to replace the standard DVDs.
only one commentary in the season set? hrm. given all the cast-directed episodes, it would have been a great opportunity to have commentaries with the cast member/director and writer.
I personally don't mind paying for the extra 2-part 'feature' disc, so long as they expand the video bitrates to take advantage of the extra space. Even the apologist reviewers on this site note that the bitrates on the regular season sets are pretty anemic even for a 1.33:1 presentation. 7.1 surround was definitely overkill, even 6.1 would have sufficed given the elements and to help give the video more space.
even so, season 7 will still be a great value if it drops to ~$70 like previous seasons, and I'll be picking it up on day 1 from my local target or best buy.
we are BEYOND excited for Deep Space 9 to come to bluray. The TNG episodes that had HD footage of the exterior and interior were a revelation! let's just hope those DS9 sets stick with 6.1 surround and have packaging that allows for an extra disc per season. Given the darker, more nuanced lighting in DS9, the extra bits will be needed to avoid crush and the need for crazy noise reduction.
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