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In Theaters : 1993
DVD Release : 03 December, 2002 |
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Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Sixth Season description
As the sixth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation went into production, everyone knew that attentions would soon be permanently divided by the debut of Deep Space Nine. Sure enough, that meant crossovers ("Birthright"), guest stars, and references back and forth. The sense of baton-passing drew the TNG family closer, however. Directorial debuts begun in season 5 allowed for repeat group-huddle ownership of several shows. Jonathan Frakes bettered "The Quality of Life" by "The Chase," which finally offered an explanation why most races in the Trek universe are humanoid with knobbly foreheads. Patrick Stewart crowbarred a Western into the franchise in "A Fistful of Datas." LeVar Burton introduced the far more exciting Riker clone Thomas in "Second Chances." But here we still find an inability to follow through a good idea, since it was intended for the clone Tom to replace the real Will. Barclay outstayed his welcome with a lackluster "Ship in a Bottle" (despite a hammy cameo from Stephanie Beacham) after he'd injected creepiness into "Realm of Fear." The same happened with Q and the painfully weak "True Q" contrasted by the philosophically challenging "Tapestry," in which Picard faced the decisions of his youth. Yet ultimately the year provided more memorable moments than either year 5 did or year 7 would. There was the fun of a pint-sized Starfleet in "Rascals," the shocking comment on political torture in "Chain of Command," the endless Matrix-like guessing game of reality in "Frame of Mind," and even a jokey genre nod often called "Die Hard Picard" instead of its official title, "Starship Mine." The two biggest attention-drawing moments came via stellar cameos. There was the bittersweet sight of James Doohan revisiting the original Enterprise bridge on "Relics," then a quick contribution by Stephen Hawking in the cliffhanger "Descent." Both were attempts at keeping TNG the connoisseur's Trek incarnation of choice. --Paul Tonks |
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Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Sixth Season Customer Reviews
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The Season of the Mind Benders
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The season really tests the intelligence of the audience by taking risks unheard of in a science fiction series. There are a few clunkers in this season ("Rascals" comes to mind), but overall, it really played with the format and took off in some bold new directions. Here are some highlights:
"Schisms"- A kind of UFO abduction episode, in which the crew members try to piece together missing gaps in time caused by clicking insect-like aliens who are taking away Enterprise crew members into another dimension.
"Chain of Command" is brilliant not just for Patrick Stewart's harrowing performance as a torture victim, but also for Ronnie Cox as the hard-nosed substitute Captain Jellico. Not since William Windom's Matt Decker have we seen such a plausible Federation captain who does things a different way.
"Face of the Enemy" is eminently re-watchable for Carolyn Seymour's brilliant performance as the cunning Romulan Commander Toreth. You can actually see how she thinks through every move on the tense attack on the Enterprise. With smart characters like these, it's really hard to hate the Romulans. Actually, you walk away respecting them even more the Federation crew.
We have two Klingon "cultural pride" episode with "Birthright" and its companion piece, the fascinating "Rightful Heir" with Kevin Conway (the unforgettable Doctor Haber from the old PBS miniseries "Lathe of Heaven" for those of you who grew up in the 70s) miniseries playing a Klingon version of Jesus, who fufills the prophecy a Second Coming. The episode explores the role of religion and mythology in a civilization.
Jonathan Frakes shines in "Frame of Mind," another mind-bender who has Riker questioning his own sanity as he tries to wade through levels of reality, in another UFO-abduction style episode.
The interview with Levar Burton on the "making of" CD sent chills up my spine. Here is a fan of the old series who got to connect with the Star Trek universe in a way few of us ever could.
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