Star Trek The Next Generation – The Complete Second Season
Sep/095
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22 episodes on 6 discs: The Child, Where Silence Has Lease, Elementary Dear Data, The Outrageous Okona, Loud as a Whisper, The Schizoid Man, Unnatural Selection, A Matter of Honor, The Measure of a Man, The Dauphin, Contagion, The Royale, Time Squared, The Icarus Factor, Pen Pals, Q Who?, Samaritan Snare, Up the Long Ladder, Manhunt, The Emissary, Peak Performance, Shades of Gray.Amazon.com
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
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10:01 am on September 26th, 2009
My question for the Morons at Paramount is why do possibly glue the sticker seals the container with such strong stuff that you cannot avoid ruining the container when you remove it. May I remind that this a COLLETOR’S ITEM!!!!! Therefore if you damage it is WORTHLESS.
Rating: 1 / 5
12:23 pm on September 26th, 2009
If you love Star Trek then you like this and anything else StarTrek ,except the movie Insurrection which is the only thing Star Trek that SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 4 / 5
2:09 pm on September 26th, 2009
If there is any season of TNG that is worse than the first, it is the 2nd. They still have the stupid tight uniforms, the ridiculous and corny plots and storylines, and they also have one of the worst characters ever in Dr. Pulaski. I really cannot stand her at all. The only real improvement over the first season is the fact that Tasha Yar is now gone. If Pulaski was the worst character, than Yar was the 2nd worst. There a few good episodes interspersed throughout the season, but for the most part, I still can’t watch the show at this point. the next season is when Star Trek actually got good. If I end up buying this season (and I am a completist, so i may end up doing so eventually) I will probably never even watch the episodes.
Rating: 2 / 5
4:07 pm on September 26th, 2009
This season is better than the first, but TNG shines over all other Star Trek sagas. Character development is better, so are storylines (especially the more sciency ones) and even effects. Bring it On! And now on to Season 3…
Rating: 5 / 5
6:38 pm on September 26th, 2009
Season 2 worked out most of the kinks and began to settle in and establish itself as something unique not just a copy of the original series.You also see alot of background for the characters.
Rating: 5 / 5