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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
Great season, as alwaysJuly 17, 2010 J. Daniels(United States) Season 2 is one enjoyable season of shows. When TNG started I wasn't sure I would like it. Picard is no Captain Kirk. And I thought there would never be another relationship such as the one between Spock and McCoy. But I grew to love TNG, as much as, if not more than TOS. And this season has some dramatic shows as well as some funny episodes. Up the Long Ladder is one of my favorite humorus episodes. The episode where Data and Geordi visit the holodeck as Holmes and Watson is both funny and dramatic. The temporary addition of Dr. Pulaski to replace Dr. Crushers character was hard to get used to. Pulaski doesn't have the warm, friendly disposition that Crusher does. But she grew on me a little as the season progressed. I would definitely recommend getting this season. I think the actors were defining their characters in season 1. This season, they are more defined and more interesting. Enjoy it.
Star Trek at its best. As good as the Original series was, Roddenberry took it to a new level with NG.July 4, 2010 Edward C. Charbonnet(Memphis, TN) The acting, writing, directing are so exceptional. They mix excellent stories with great humor and action.
Next GenerationJune 22, 2010 Rhys M. Bartle(Sth Australia) Watched the first episode tonight, and was totally happy with it - all the right characters, and good clear pictures on my wide screen. With 6 discs and 4 x 50 minute shows per disk, that makes really good value for money.
Better than season 1....but that's not saying muchApril 16, 2010 jackbauerfan 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Season 1 of this show was a travesty. They took everything that was wrong with the original series and made a season of television based on that. This season was only slightly better (some people would even say that this season is the worst). Beverly Crusher is absent this season, and she is replaced with Dr. Pulaski, that annoying raspy-voiced harpy. Her character alone was enough to bring the season down. And she seems to have a pathological hatred for Data, demeaning him at every opportunity.
They start the season off with a Troi epsiode, which almost could have been percieved as a sign that is was going to be a bad season. A thing about Troi inexplicably having a child, who grows to boyhood in a matter of days. Then they followed it up with an episode about some wierd organism thing doing experiments on Enterprise and her crew. Then the stupid Sherlock Holmes episode, which later led to the absolutely horrible "Ship in a Bottle" episode a few years later. Then the absolutely horrible, awful, terrible "The Outrageous Okona". Probably my least favorite episode of the entire series. And I'm talking worse than "Hide and Q" or "Code of Honor." It's simply too painful for me to go into much of these episodes in detail. There were some good ones, such as "A Matter of Honor", in which Riker has to serve aboard a Klingon ship as part of an officer exchange program. It established the Klingons of TNG, and was a pretty decent episode. The episode immediately following, "The Measure of a Man, is widely considered to be one of the best of the entire series. Picard has to hold a hearing to determine whether Data is a sentient being, and if he has the right to refuse to be dismantled for research purposes. Riker is forced to prosecute, which makes it even harder for Picard to win the case. This episode was great, and it was very dramatic, even though there wasn't a single action scene.
Wow. I'm already done. That was a quick review. As I said in my season 1 review, I am astonished that this series did not get cancelled in the first season. It took until the third season to change into the great series that it would eventually be. There is no way this show could have gotten good ratings in the beginning. It was just so bad. This season is a little bit better. We are introduced to the Borg, possibly the scariest villians of Trek. At least until they introduce the Borg Queen. Then they became a joke. To wrap up, this was a pretty bad season of Star Trek. Once again, it tried to be too much like the original series, minus the beloved characters from that show.
What would life be without TrekApril 15, 2010 BrotherSpider(The Order of the Eternal Broken Nose) I guess you can call me a nerd or a geek, but life would be boring without Star Trek, either the old guys or The Nex Generation.
Seriously, we wouldn't have sliding glass doors or even cell phones without Trek. I saw an interview with the guy that created the first cell phone and he said he got his idea from trek.
Take star wars and shove it.....waaaaaaaay back on your shelf. Buy trek. it is far better
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