There is one more Next Gen film -Nemesis
Added 12/31/2005
These are the first 3 "Next Gen" films, but there is a 4th: "Nemesis". I thought I would point this out since it cost me $20.00 on a bet as I couldn't remember what the 4th movie was. $20.00 later, I know. That's the problem with online searches, they're not always 100% correct. I guess I should've gone to StarTrek.com to make certain.
As I recall, Generations was the best of these because you had the 2 "generations" of captains playing off of each other which made for some great Trek moments, plus you got to see Bones one last time before his passing.
First Contact, being the first Trek film without Kirk, pretty much felt like an elongated TV episode to me. Way too much story, nowhere near enough action and special effects considering what some of the other films of the time were doing (Matrix, etc...).
Insurrection, again, an elongated TV episode which is part of why the Star Trek movies and TV series have suffered. I don't believe it's saturation as much as it's repetitiveness. After awhile, all the shows and episodes feel the same because of the Trek pattern: open with problem, fix problem (but come close to failing) and end with poignant epitaphs, mix in some story-telling and basic effects, and voila' -a Star Trek episode/movie.
You know what I think Star Trek needs? A John Woo or Peter Jackson infusion. And if Quentin Tarantino could do a movie that wasn't spattered with blood, he might make an interesting film too.
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TNG's Big Screen TV Movies
Added 11/13/2005
After The Classic Crew final bow in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country,the torch would be passed to The Next Generation crew to pick up the movie franchise.Unfortunately, after four installments,the TNG era films has yet to capture the big screen experience like the classic Trek films.
ST Generations (1994)passed the torch between the classic crew and the Next Generation.The historical meeting of Captains Kirk & Picard is what Trekkers longed for.Unfortunately,the result is a convuluted extended TV episode,a very irksome Data,an impressive yet unnessesary destruction of Enterprise D ,and a very shoddy death of our beloved Capt Kirk.Impressive at first ,but repeated veiwings makes it's flaws all the more obvious.
This special edition DVD gets points for featuring scenes cut from the original film(Kirk's orbital skydive), as well as tons of extras not featured on the first edition. The commentary is interesting as Brannon Braga and Ron D. Moore, the film's writers confess that they tried too hard too please and now can't help but cringe at certain scenes.
Of the four films,ST:First Contact(1996) is the best ,even ranking with The Wrath Of Khan,The Voyage Home,and The Undiscovered Country.Unlike the other TNG films,this is the closest to a real movie as it is fast paced,action packed and has agree of warmth and humor.
Patrick Stewart is always a commanding presence as Capt.Picard(Kirk may be the best Captain,but Stewart is the best actor to sit in the chair),and his quest for vengence against the Borg (stemming from being assimilated by the collective in TNG's Best Of Both Worlds episodes) is captivating as well as terrifying.And the rest of his crew(with the exception of Brent Spiner's Data)is not overlooked as they were in Generations.
A great battle scene with the Borg(which includes DS9's Defiant)is followed by scenes alternating between 2063 earth(which show's the first earth warp flight with Zephram Cocherane,later followed up in ST Enterprise) and a war zone with the Borg on the new Enterprise-E.Sometimes the audience feels like they're watching two different movies,and the last scene with the Borg Queen seems like an all too convienient TV ending.
Aside from these minor flaws ST:FC is a movie to be enjoyed by fans and non-fans alike.
After successful movies(which are usually even numbered)there is usually the problem of the filmakers second guessing fan expectation, injecting a bigger budget into the following movie and hoping to capture the previous film's magic.For ST Insurrection (1998), the budget was more than the average box office take of the other films.A better movie than most of the Oddies(except III),it had some very funny moments,and Patrick Stewart seems to be having fun as Picard as he turns his back on Starfleet to protect a paradise planet that the Federation wants to harvest for it's resources.The story would've been better suited for TV,and considering the great quality of episodes on the spin off series Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Dominion War),you also feel the writers should've strived for more on the big screen.
Unfortunately the Box office tally was lower than expected,despite being a very entertaining film.But it wouldn't be a box office disaster like the next movie. ST Nemesis (2002) (Which bears the burden of a knuckle-headed decision being released between a Harry Potter movie and LOTR The Two Towers)is both the most praised and harshly criticized of the ten films. The biggest problem(aside from the whole Trek franchise being at an all time low)was the story using ST II The Wrath of Khan as a template.The Next Gereration's final mission as they are led into a trap by the new leader of Romulus who has a deep connection with Capt Jean Luc Picard.The sub plot of finding yet another Soong android didn't make things any better, as well as a cheat on the fate of Data.
The belief that Romulus would be controlled by not only their sub race,The Remans,but also make the Praetor,a human clone of Capt. Picard,as well as having an agenda to destroy the Federation(A repetitive,yet empty plot device).Nemesis has many great moments as well as the most exciting ship battle scenes ever seen in a ST movie.But as much as the TNG movies try,they are still big screen TV episodes.
Despite the many gapping plot holes as well as hearing fans rip this movie to shreds(It ranks above Search for Spock and Generations),Nemesis is still an entertaining movie(How could you top the collision scene!!!).
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Good, Better, and Best.
Added 2/27/2004
Generations is what I would consider the good movie in this set. Insurrection is a little better. The best by far is First Contact. Everything about the Borg is creepy - I love them!If you are looking for a COMPLETE Star Trek movie boxset - I don't recommend this set. However if you simply want to just own the first 3 TNG movies - than this will do the trick. I do think all 3 movies are very well done, which is the reason for 5 stars.
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if and only if you are a Trekkie!
Added 6/30/2003
If you are a Trekkie and don't have these three movies yet, it would be a good idea to get this pack. fans of the original star trek series and the first 6 star trek movies (who probably don't like the next generation much anyway) might discourage you from buying the pack. however as a fan of the next generation series and the occasional reader of the books, I found these movie to be very well done and worth owning on DVD. Generations: is the perfect transition between the original Star Trek and The Next Generation. First Contact is my favorite, it has satisfied my curiosity about the Borg! Insurrection: on the outside it's about preserving a small settlement of humans on a planet that everyone have their eyes on! but if you look deeper, it's like any other episode of the TV series, it has a moral point summerised by Picard's question: who the hell are we to decide the next course of evolution for these poeple?
eventually, the choice is yours: to miss out on a great adventure or to go where no man or borg has gone before!
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Classic film making, and the Star Trek Next Generation movies are a perfect example of it. Star trek Generations, a great movie to bring in a crew with, I love it. Star trek First Contact, one word, rocks. This film blows away any of the new Star Wars movies(1 and 2). Star Trek Insurrection, it may have gotten bad reviews(go figure) but I loved it. These 3 movies never get old, I watch them over and over again. But before I stop, I would like to say that one of the reviewers said if you had all ready bought the DvDs don't get this...If someone is smart enough to like Star Trek, I don't think there so stupid that they would buy the trilogy again when they had alreay owned it.
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ONE OF THE BEST
Added 11/21/2009
This was probably the only Next Generation movie I really liked. I mean, it's awesome. I thought it was the only one that was as good as the television show. I would put this at the top tier of all Star Trek movies, just below "Wrath of Khan" and the 2009 reboot. It still remains one of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. Now the film is not perfect. There are a few problems I had with it. Most of those problems have to do with continuity issues between the movie and the TV show. I'll get into those later in the review.
The movie centers around the Borg, the half-machine, half-organic aliens from the series. Considering that they were probably the most popular villians from the series, it made sense to make them the villians of the new movie. The plot involves the Borg going back in time to the year 2063. This is supposedly the year when we first invent the warp engine and meet the Vulcans for the first time. The Borg want to stop that from happening, and they want to enslave the human race. The Enterprise follows them back through time and blow up the Borg ship. The Borg beam over to the Enterprise and begin assimilating the crew. So you've got a movie that has the Borg, and time travel. Doesn't get any better than this.
At this point the movie branches off into two plot lines. One plot involves Picard and most of the crew trying to defeat the Borg on the ship. The other involves Riker and the rest of the crew on the planet helping Zephram Cochrane, the man who is supposed to invent warp speed. He is unsure about his calling, and Riker has to convince him to go through with his flight. Both of these plots are excellent. In fact, each one by itself is good enough for a whole movie. So my question is, why didn't they make one movie about the Borg, and another movie about someone trying to screw up the timeline? Putting both these plots in one movie made the movie awesome, but it made this movie hard to top. Of the two Next Generation films that came after this movie, neither one of them measured up tp this one. Maybe for the later movies, they should have used villians from the series again. But that's a whole different review.
About halfway through the movie, the villian of the movie is introduced. The Borg queen. This is my only big problem with the movie. On the show, it is established that the Borg exist as one consciousness, entity, and there are no leaders or subordinates. So all of a sudden, they have a queen? On the behind the scenes stuff, one of the writers or producers said that not having a main villian worked on the show, but it didn't really work in a movie. I can kinda see where they were coming from, but they really needed to follow the continuity of the source material. The Borg queen just makes no sense. The fact that she exests makes no sense, and most of her dialogue makes no sense. They say that she was on the ship with Picard when he was turned into a Borg and the TV episode "Best of both Worlds". At the end of the episode, the Borg ship is destroyed. If the queen was supposedly on it, then she would have been destroyed as well. When Picard comments on this, she responds with "You think in such 3-dimensional terms". What does that mean? Is that supposed to have a meaning? Whatever.
But thankfully, the Borg Queen doesn't have all that much screen time. So if you can just get past her annoying presence and the continuity errors, you should enjoy this movie. In fact, this is one of the three Star Trek movies that I think could appeal to mainstream audiences (the other two being voyage home and the 2009 reboot). Most of the charcter development is great, the action is great, the special effects are great, almos teverything about this movie is great. If this movie had had a strongerr villian, this would probably be my favorite Star Trek movie, even better than Wrath of Khan and the 2009 reboot.
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Love the movie its excellent
Added 11/18/2009
This seller is great and the movie is even better condition than expected... thanks... Carl V. ~~~
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Great version of a great movie
Added 11/11/2009
While I was tempted to get the new box set that that was coming out of all the TNG films leading up to the new film's release on DVD, when you're on a budget you go with what you can afford. Besides I already had the first 7 films in the same style packaging so I didn't wanna mess that up. So I went the bargain route and got the original Special Editions of the TNG films to round out my collection and I couldn't be happier to finally have the full collection. Granted, the box for my copy of "Nemesis" is a little beat up, but the content plays okay, so I can't complain since it only cost me like 3 bucks plus shipping.
If you're a trek fan like me and on a budget and just can't dive into Blu-Ray yet, check out Amazon and try to get your hands on these special edition 2 disc dvds. The bonus features are great and even make re-watching Star Trek V worth it. :-)
-Eli
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